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Book review: FreeBSD Device Drivers
In mid-April a woman from the marketing department of No Starch Press contacted me and asked if I am interested to do a public review of the FreeBSD Device Drivers book by Joseph Kong (no link to a...
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ICS on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
Last week I had a look if there are some news for an official update of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 to ICS. To my surprise there is one at least in Italy. The one I found to download was marked more or less...
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Incompatible WP plugins
The geosmart plugin is incompatible with the one-time-password (OTP) plugin of WordPress. The problem is that the OTP plugin does not display the challenge on the login page anymore when the geosmart...
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Dear script-kiddy coming in via 5.39.218.138
After 84 lockouts from your IP address for your tries to guess the password of just one account (not counting your attempts to login to the other accounts were you received just one lockout) I changed...
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Hats off to the people handling the recent security incident
I pull my hat to the people handling the recent security incident on the FreeBSD infrastructure. Guys: Thanks a lot for the countless hours you invested to find and close the initial attack vector....
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Which crypto card to use with FreeBSD (ssh/gpg)
The recent security incident triggered a discussion how to secure ssh/gpg keys. One way I want to focus on here (because it is the way I want to use at home), is to store the keys on a crypto card. I...
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Calculating the target size of H264 videos
From time to time I convert videos to H264. When I do this I want to get the best quality out of a give filesize. This means I create VBR videos. The question here is, how big the target video file...
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OpenPGP crypto cards ordered
I wrote in a previous blog post that I want to switch to crypto cards for use with ssh and GnuPG. After some research I settled on the OpenPGP cryto cards. I ordered them from kernelconcepts. As soon...
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Status crypto cards HOWTO: problems with the card reader (support could be...
After hours (spread over weeks) I come to the conclusion that there is a lot of potential to improve the documentation of card readers (but I doubt the card reader vendors will do it) and of the pcsc...
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Updating FreeBSD 8.2 (or 9.x) to 10 (beta4)
This is a little description how I remotely (no console, booted into multi-user during update, no external services like jails/httpd/… running) updated a FreeBSD 8.2 to 10 (beta4) from source. This...
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