Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/24
Apparently, this is not just a joke, but a real problem:
This morning, a popular Stack Overflow question hit a major milestone:
There is an in depth analysis at [WayBack] Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim – Stack Overflow Blog
Via: [WayBack] Fabian S. Biehn – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/24
Cool: someone made a CheatSheet for Readline keyboard shortcuts for bash, bc, ftp, gnuplot, gpg, ksh, mysql, psql, python, smbclient, xmllint and zsh [WayBack] of the GNU Readline library [WayBack].
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/23
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/23
Reminder to self: document what I change, and borrow some from this interesting thread:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/22
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/22
I’ve mounted nearly everything with noatime, doesn’t make sense most of the time to have atime updated.
Source: “BTRFS and find considered harmful?” Thats the headline a colleaqe suggested -…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/19
Over 98 percent of the passwords were cracked, thanks to the site’s poor password security.
No this isn’t just the hacked font…
Source: [WayBack] Font sharing site DaFont has been hacked, exposing thousands of accounts | ZDNet
via: [Archive.is] Font Sharing Site DaFont Has Been Hacked, Exposing Thousands of Accounts – Slashdot
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/19
[Archive.is] Working Windows XP & 7 demos. #FRENCHMAFIA: WannaCry — Decrypting files with WanaKiwi + Demos – Comae Technologies:
TL;DR;
DO NOT REBOOT your infected machines and TRY wanakiwi ASAP*!
*ASAP because prime numbers may be over written in memory after a while.
Via:[WayBack] A French researcher says he’s found a tool that could help some fraction of victims running that older Windows version. Just don’t reboot! WannaCry Ransomware Victims Might Have Some Hope–If They’re on Windows XP | WIRED
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/19
An interesting discussion on Xeon based 2nd hand systems that are way cheaper than new ones:
[WayBack] People have been asking about the fact I use old Xeon boxes for my development platforms (and indeed more). I want to cover what I use, why I use them, … – Alan Cox – Google+
I still run a couple of HP XW6600 workstations with [WayBack] E5420 processors (of the [WayBack] Harpertown family) to host VMs on. Works splendid.
–jeroen
Source: [People have been asking about the fact I use old Xeon boxes for my developmen…1919
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/19
Boy, I totally forgot to post this. It runs also ESXi 5.x; I’ve not tried more recent ESXi versions as they just run fine.
As a follow-up on [WayBack] VMware Communities: ESX 3.5 Whitebox on HP xw6600 …, I have installed ESXi 4.0.0.Update01-208167 on a HP XW6600 workstation.
Good news: the generic ESXi 4 installation works, whereas the HP specific ESXi 4 fails (you get a nice purple screen of death).
[WayBack] http://www.vm-help.com//esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php
–jeroen
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