How the NSA could save billions of dollars
How you save the NSA and other similarly inclined organization billions of dollars in hardware using only a decent operating system: tail -f /dev/person/to/track #unix #linux #surveillance #privacy
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Bredband2 och avgifter (för att skicka faktura med e-post)
Det här är helt underbart. Bredband2 har lyckats med konststycket att ta 19kr betalt för att skicka ut en faktura, som ett PDF-dokument via e-post. Ursäkta språket, men vad i helvete är det för fel på er, Bredband2? Har ni så dålig infrastruktur och administrativa …
Life free of digital footprints should be a human right
The feeling that somehow, somewhere, someone connected the dots between your recent live chat session with your online florist and your Facebook account, or Google, or some other service or site that makes billions of dollars on selling your personal Internet usage data. That feeling. …
The DrayTek Vigor 3900 isn’t bad, just very confusing
The DrayTek Vigor 3900 has been around for some time now. Sadly, this isn’t exactly mirrored on the world wide web. The amount of documentation, samples, and FAQs is sparse; guides, and discussions are few. For a product in this class. And that’s not very …
IP-Only, NOC, customer service, support, and network loops
IP-Only often boasts about being “the man” when it comes to Swedish Internet infrastructure and their competence in networks. Customer service and fast response to serious network issues such as routing loops seems to be of … less importance to IP-Only. It’s fascinating how “big …
SSH keys are no longer working after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04.LTS – Help!
I recently upgraded one of my laptops to Ubuntu 16.04.LTS (going from 14.04.LTS). The upgrade went very smooth and I have no issues with the resulting operating environment 🙂 Having said that, I quickly discovered a quite serious issue for me when I attempted connecting …
wget segfault | wget segmentation fault
We mirror the Webmin website to bring it somewhat closer to Sweden, and recently I had to move the hosted mirror to another of our servers running Debian 8. All of a sudden, a cron job that had been working for many years went tits …
Using Shared Resources from your Linux workstation in your RemoteDesktop (RDP) environment and Windows Server
If you, like me, are using Ubuntu – or similar – for your daily stuff and need to connect to a Windows Server by using RemoteDesktop (RDP) / TerminalServer, you may find that local (Linux) resources are not made available to you on the Windows …
Making SimpleXML truly simple using JSON in PHP
So using SimpleXML in PHP is possibly one of the worst hells of typecasting and data extraction procedures one can encounter, or close to it 🙂 But more the point, you don’t need to walk down that road alone, enter JSON. In the simplest of …
Eat your Cancer, now with every Lenovo sleeve
It seems like Lenovo (and most likely others) have their own Volkswagen Gate to deal with. I don’t know if this warning has been on all their sleeves or if this is a recent addition. Perhaps the US State of California has threatened to sue …