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 […]
Impression of the last days
The year changed without that much snow – but it was a wonderful time.
Whack-A-Rat
I have stopped counting the number of times I have played that game: Removing malware on a windows box without killing the system. The first step is identifying the malware. This is normally done by a virus scanner. If there is none avaliable, you might try some online scanner. If this is not possible or the scanner fails, […]
No matter of east or west…
…in your own bed, you sleep best. This old and roughly translated proverb has something true in it.