Since I am fed up with licensing costs for some TeamViewer solution or any awkward or even complicated VPN stuff I did dig into x2go, a neat solution for sharing some beloved apps on various machines. After all the whole system works until I started to use more of its potential: file and printer sharing. That’s where I […]
What did the LinkedIn Hack mean for end users?
Thinking back of the year 2012, the 5th of july I have to think of the hack that happened against LinkedIn. For anyone who missed the big news, feel free to catch up on Wikipedia. But why am I thinking of that stuff today? Well, today, five years after the security breach I do feel its consequences. Spam. […]
A bit of a nerdish review
The LinuxDay in Dornbirn is over now. Last weekend to be correct. And I was there, part of the insane NOC team. But what does it mean to deal with such networks? Sure, there’s a lot of theoretical stuff what you could do. But there’s such an insane thing like ‘time’. Such convention networks are usually there for […]
An open Letter to VMware, Inc
Dear Sir or Madam, This is an open letter to you. Once again your website brings the joy of being unable to download the files I need in a timely fashion started by a redesign making it horrible to find anything again as it is in a new place. For the sake of modern web, I do understand […]
Return to Stock – Nexus 5x
It’s not a secret that I was running Cyanogenmod on my Nexus 5X, but I have to admit, it’s time to revert to stock due to various random issues which are getting me mad. So here’s a small howto to do so. First of all, get the Factory Images for Nexus Devices from Google, available at https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images and the […]
Show the TCP connections made
This is a small snippet which has helped me on my server; showing you the top tcp connections made: netstat -atun | awk ‘{print $5}’ | cut -d: -f1 | tail -n+3 | sed -e ‘/^$/d’ |sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r Nothing funky, but a life saver sometimes ;)