Today I have rediscovered the vmware player for me. The idea itself is pretty old school, but always nice to have. The problem: Testing a livecd without a reboot to be able to continue working. A preconfigured VM does the trick as you just launch the player which will boot the iso. No CD wasted, no reboot – […]
Category: IT Related stuff
That’s where logic ends
Testing filesystems
I know – never touch a running system… but it’s fun still doin it. This time I am at testing filesystems for my system. But how should I do it? On my gentoo notebook, the portage is located on its own partition – not only due to fragmentation reasons. This partition does not contain files worth a backup. […]
WordPress vs FeedBurner
Bugs are those random developed features of software, letting it become alive and unsympathic. Bugs always hit you, where and when it really hurts. And so does a bug in WordPress – Everything started with a message at FeedBurner, that they cannot read my feed: Your server disconnected us before sending the full source feed content. If your […]
Which GCC version did I use?
Compiling can be magic somehow. Especially if you try to reconstruct strange behaviour of a special binary. The interesting question in that case is, which gcc version was used for a particiular binary. As GCC writes its version information, we can find it out with a simple command chain: strings -a /path/to/binary-file | grep “GCC:” | sort -u
Taming the beast
The Microsoft Internet Explorer wants to be nice to webservers and refuses to download more than two files at once, which can be quite annoying. If an alternative browser is not an acceptable alternative, you have to tame the beast by editing the registry. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings This entry found in your registry is the key for success. If […]
SPF made easy
42 is one of the wrong answers if you are dealing with spam. SPF, which means Sender Policy Framework seems to be a better solution. SPF is a list of authorized mail sending hosts for your domain. But how does it work? The implementation takes place at your nameserver by adding a TXT entry to an existing domain. […]