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fsck on truecrypt

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it’s high time to move away from truecrypt [ which i’m doing by moving to luks and btrfs on the top of it for extra thrills ], but i still have bunch of places that were not moved to the alternative full disk encryption. what do do when after unclean shutdown this happens: ?

vectorizing text in pdf – the cheap way

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we were getting some logo printed and the print shop was not happy with the pdf we’ve provided – they had some problem with the embedded font and asked us to provide another pdf with vectorized curves instead of text. based on this – although the first method with gsview did not work for me ... Read More

OVH, failover IPs, IPv6, VMs

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at work we rent a dedicated server from OVH; except unexplained openvpn throttling all is working pretty well for the price we pay. besides primary IPv4 address OVH can provide few additional ‘failover’ IPv4 addresses and /64 IPv6 subnet. in our setup some of IPv4s and IPv6s are routed to a KVM VM. below – ... Read More

Jeczmyk – Idee za wielkie pieniądze

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zPdd1adl-A cos czuje ze bedzie kolejny keyword do wyszukiwania i sluchania. dobrze prawi, nawet jest o moim ulubionym ‘kongresie futurologicznym’ lema.

idrac7 + ipmitool stopped working with firmware 1.56.55

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i use ipmitool to check health of the poweredge servers from nagios. in essence i execute: and alert if the exist code is non-zero, then i execute and again – i alert on non-zero exit code, i also grep the file in search of lines not containing ok/ns. this was working fine for DRAC 5 ... Read More

Samsung CLX-4195FW – displaying only samsung logo on the front screen

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newly arrived Samsung CLX-4195FW greeted me with just blue samsung’s logo on the white background presented on the front LCD screen; at the same time printer correctly acquired IP via DHCP and i could access the management interface via the network. i’ve called Samsung 3x and luckily enough at the 3rd attempt i spoke with ... Read More

mac changing on DW1501 wifi card

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in dell’s e6220 that i use for work travels i have dw1501 wifi card. in theory it’s possible to change card’s MAC address in the control panel > network and sharing center > change adapter settings > wireless network connection > properties configure > advanced > locally administered MAC address. problem is the values i’ve ... Read More

Dell PowerEdge T20

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i’ve bought 2x Dell PowerEdge t20 – they’ll serve as HA pair of routers/vpn endpoints/file servers for a new office. it was the first time i played with intel amt. it’s not bad but neither perfect.

around Gran Canaria

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i’ve spent 2 weeks at the beginning of March at Gran Canaria. below – list of the more interesting walking trails we’ve taken.

open maps + own routes

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over time open street maps got better and better; i started to rely on them more than on google maps when hiking around – osm gave me more detailed maps of hiking trails in Barcelona and Singapore, Las Palmas and Slovenia. i wanted to share some of the interesting paths here; the best i could ... Read More

sphinx text search – sorting the results by relevancy

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a while ago i helped a colleague with moving away from mysql-based text search based on MATCH .. AGAINST to sphinxsearch to improve the performance. without much surprise this helped a lot to improve the response time. recently i was asked to take a look at the setup again and see if we can do ... Read More

openvpn throttled from ovh’s bhs datacenter?

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for work we rent a dedicated server from OVH. it’s been 5 months now and i’m pretty satisfied with the service provided. at the initial stage we’ve bumped into a problem that was never really solved; i cannot be even 100% sure if it’s OVH’s fault. UDP-based OpenVPN connection established from OVH’s BHS datacenter to ... Read More

wordpress hangs when uploading an image

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i’ve moved my wordpress to a new server few weeks ago. all appeared to work fine but i forgot changing the configuration and providing new upload dir path. result? the media page [ wp-admin/upload.php ] did not open and apache2 appeared to be hanged using 100% cpu. i could not add any media in the ... Read More

hk, mc, sg, my

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some walking trails i’ve taken during my last trip to Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia.

clipboard service, rdp

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did the clipboard suddenly stopped passing text between your local computer and the remote desktop session? the first thing i do in such case is: start the task manager on the remote host go to processes, find rdpclip.exe and kill it start again rdpclip.exe on the remote host and try copy and paste again

30c3

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talks from 30c3 that i’ve found interesting: technical and political https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTVgPw7TR_k – Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txRdOjgokQ4 – Backdoors, Government Hacking and The Next Crypto Wars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMwPe2KqYn4 – Through a PRISM, Darkly – Everything we know about NSA spying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vILAlhwUgIU – Jacob Applebaum: To Protect And Infect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HXLaRWk1SM – CounterStrike – Lawful Interception ... Read More