How starting to use MacOS changed my perception of Apple things

After having used MacOS for some while now my perception of it being entirely unusable and just annoying changed and I started to also see it as what it is. Just another OS.

Counting in Japanese

Because it was surprisingly complicated to google for this piece of information I'm going to note it down in my public 'journal' aka. notebook aka. blog aka. whatever page.

How to modify openssl CSR before signing

Some commands to change a Certificate Signing Request (CSR, or sometimes req) before signing it. Sometimes appliances generate a CSR but we do not want to sign it with the options ...

Fix Loud Fan Win10 Dell Notebook

My Dell notebook was making very loud fan noises as soon as it was connected to the dock. I already suspected the windows powerplan settings from the start, but MS decided to clear ...

Merging dictionaries within powershell

I needed to join dictionaries from within a list together, so that they become one whole dictionary. First I thought it may be a trivial task. Than I used google and realized, that ...

Odd dream

Had a very odd dream today. Was out with my dad, were going to fetch something from the store and while on the way I demanded him to go to a small amusement park. When going throug...

Twitter hack lessons learned

I'm not an twitter employee, but the recent "twitter hack" has shown some valuable lessons that everybody can learn from it. It is funny (and shocking) to read about how bad twit...

Oneline backup

tar -PcJf - /home | pv -s $(du -sb /home/user | awk '{print $?}') | xz -z -T0 -1 - > /mnt/backupTarget/home.tar.xz

MSSQL on kubernetes (non azure)

Copy the code below into a file named mssql.yaml Apply the deployment file to your kubernetes cluster using:sed -i s/TXlDMG05bCZ4UEBzc3cwcmQ=/$(pwgen -s 120 1 | base64 -w 0)/...

shadow compile error

when compiling shadow there is an error in the cross linux from scratch documentation. instead of echo "#define ENABLE_SUBUIDS 1" >> config.h one has to run echo "#defi...

gcc compile error

when compiling gcc 4.8 for cross linux from scratch it throws this error: gcc-4.8.2/gcc/doc/gcc.texi:88: warning: @tex should only appear at the beginning of a line gcc-4.8.2/gcc/...

ncurses5.9 compile error

When building cross linux from scratch ncurses 5.9 does fail to compile with: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I. -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -I. -I../include -I/foo/include/ncurses ...

m4 1.4.17 fails to compile

While following the cross linux from scratch instructions over here I ran into this issue: freadahead.c: In function 'freadahead': freadahead.c:91:3:error: #error "Please port gnu...

Compile Linux Kernel for UBNT UNIFI

Download Cavium Open Source Distributions Octeaon SDK Former: https://web.archive.org/web/20190215075110/https://github.com/Cavium-Open-Source-Distributions/OCTEON-SDK ...

Wordpress nginx config

server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; root "/var/www/vHOST"; server_name vHOST; index index.html index.php; client_max_body_size 2G; rewrite ^/wp-json/.*$ index.php$uri last; ...

Profiling Python

Install Selenium

Install Selenium: function Install-PSArchive { param() $null = Install-PackageProvider -Name PowerShellGet -Force -Scope CurrentUser Install-Module -Name 'Microsoft.PowerShell.Ar...

Bypass chrome tls security checks

Normally things like invalid certificates throw an error within google chrome, and if the page has HSTS in place, there is no way to bypass that error. For normal users this is a goo...

Windows protocols

Technical Documents All pdf protocol documentations Name: Windows_Protocols.zip Size: 595648189 Bytes (568 MB) SHA256: 35E049A3AE9C6A32B1E3446018C0DFA916E18EADF319D97567F6CB7FE6...

Using Amazon Windows Images

If you tried to use some windows images on aws, you may have noticed, that they have no password specified. In fact, there agent fails to set one. I've tried multiple ways to reset t...

Add chapters to mp4

Get the frame rate of your source video (assuming you have 30fps and the video is called input.mp4 for later steps) Calculate Timebase value Timestamp fps*1000 =...

Hacking an SQL-Server

Basically if you're admin you own everything. So how would you access an SQL-Server if you don't have SQL-Permissions but you're administrator on the system the SQL-server is running...

MMC and ServerManager is dead

This year on the Microsoft Ignite conference Microsoft announced the modern replacement for MMC and ServerManager. It is called Honolulu: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...

Encrypted LVM remote unlock

Sometimes you want to have a strong Disk encryption but be still able to unlock it remotely. Sure, this is a compromise between security and usability, but here is what I come up wit...

Install a VMWare ESXi 6.0 Hypervisor in a Hyper-V VM

Commenting on my journey on:Recently I’ve been playing around with the new Hyper-V Nested Virtualization feature within Windows 10 (build 10565 and greater) and Windows Server 2...