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Administrivia 2022-09-06

Posted on 6. September 2022 by #!/bin/blog

binblog.info is now co-hosted here on binblog.de A few old posts are already public again Hit me up via Mastodon etc if you miss something: @unixtippse@mastodon.online

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Too good to #0001

Posted on 5. September 2022 by #!/bin/blog

Set X11 keyboard layout manually and temporarily (e.g. in i3 if I need to test exotic window managers for my users) Speaking of which, set keyboard layout permanently in Gnome Check if Gnome Screensaver is active (I use this for … Continue reading →

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Phönix aus dem mysqldump

Posted on 5. September 2022 by #!/bin/blog

“Haltet die Fresse! Glotzt mehr TV!”, das wählte ich im Sommer 2007 als Überschrift, irgendwie ganz und gar nicht im Verfolgungswahn, unter dem Eindruck des damals bereits nicht mehr ganz so frischen Landgerichts Hamburg, der noch etwas neueren Impressumpflicht, TKÜV, Mediendienstestaatsvertrag … Continue reading →

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Ab jetzt offiziell alt

Posted on 14. April 2020 by #!/bin/blog

Da ich mit meinen 48 Jahren seit kurzem Hörgeräte trage und immer wieder die selben Fragen und Geschichten höre, will ich mal aufschreiben, wie das so gelaufen ist. Prolog Im Jahr 2004 operierte ich im Alter von 32 Jahren am … Continue reading →

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Aggressive NTP configuration on Windows 10

Posted on 28. November 2019 by #!/bin/blog

While clicking around on time.is, which has a nice Esperanto translation that you may want to to check out, I kept running into large-ish time offsets of at least several tenths of a second on a Windows 10 machine. As … Continue reading →

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3 Monate Alienware m15

Posted on 4. May 2019 by #!/bin/blog

Nachdem mein Macbook Pro auch schon wieder mehr als 4 Jahre auf dem Buckel hatte, musste ich langsam akzeptieren, dass das nächste kein Macbook mehr sein konnte. Ungelöste Mechanikprobleme an den aktuellen Tastaturen, fehlende Esc-Taste, und das ganze, da es … Continue reading →

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“Commands that show your Wifi passwords” roundup

Posted on 3. October 2017 by #!/bin/blog

With a hint of sensationalism, @DynamicWebPaige asks: Did you know that “netsh wlan show profile” shows every network your computer has ever connected to? And “key=clear” shows the *passwords*? No, I didn’t, and to be frank, I don’t care. But … Continue reading →

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IPv6 Privacy Stable Addressing Roundup

Posted on 21. September 2017 by #!/bin/blog

“Okay, let’s see whether we can reach your Macbook externally via IPv6. What’s the address?” Sure, let’s have a look. $ ifconfig … inet6 2a03:2260:a:b:8aa:22bf:7190:ef36 prefixlen 64 autoconf secured inet6 2a03:2260:a:b:b962:5127:c7ec:d2df prefixlen 64 autoconf temporary … Everybody knows that one … Continue reading →

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Debian /boot old kernel images

Posted on 29. July 2017 by #!/bin/blog

So I was looking at yet another failed apt-get upgrade because /boot was full. After my initial whining on Twitter, I immediately received a hint towards /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove-kernels, which gets generated from /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal after the installation of new kernel images. The … Continue reading →

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How expiration dates in the shadow file really work

Posted on 7. July 2017 by #!/bin/blog

tl;dr: Accounts expire as soon as UTC reaches the expiration date. In today‘s installment of my classic shame-inducing series “UNIX basics for UNIX professionals”, I want to talk about account (and password) expiration in /etc/shadow on Linux. The expiration time … Continue reading →

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