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PS4 controller in a PC
Lately, I've been playing Mudrunner: Spintires a lot. That's a really weird game about logging machinery and mud. For some strange reason I find hauling logs from a lake through mud really...
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Windows 10 with Microsoft's OpenSSH
Without thinking it too much, I just went for a SSH-connection on a Windows 10 box with the way it's typically done:ssh -i .ssh/id_nistp521 user@linux-boxWhen the result was not a private key...
View ArticleFedora dhclient broken
I'm not a huge fan of NetworkManager. Since I am a fan of many RedHat products, it creates a nice conflict. They develop it, so it is pre-installed in all of RedHat's Linuxes. Luckily its very easy to...
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Blog software update
Some of you may have noticed I've been busy doing everything else but blogging.There were number of reasons:No shoes -phenomenonWhat I do for living (and past-time) is build/maintain/hack systems. Some...
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Blog improvement: Responsive theme
Going back in the memory lane, back in 2009 Mr. Wroblewski coined up a term "mobile first". At the time pocket computers, or not-so smart phones where a new thing, but booming heavily. First iPad...
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StackExchange flair received
Whoa! I finally hit the long awaited 200 point mark in Stack Overflow. The good part about that is, Stack Exchange starts publishing a public badge they'll call "flair". They do this to make it...
View ArticleGRID 2 Logitech G29 support
Humble Bundle was giving away GRID 2 for free: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/grid-2. Price was right and me, as a greedy bastard, of course leeched the ware.GRID 2 is an arcade racer. It has some...
View ArticleAzure support for cloud-dyndns Python-script
Last year I wrote a tool to keep a server having dynamic IP-address updated into Rackspace DNS (that's free-of-charge!). See the article DynDNS updates to your Cloud DNS for details. Since the software...
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Breaking the paywall
Newspaper media and magazines have been suffering from digitalization for two decades. Quite few of the traditional publishers have been struggling to keep their revenue stream flowing.Back in the 90s...
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Going beyond recovery on a hard drive
This is where an angle grinder meets aluminium.Angle grinding through a 3.5" hard drive case, spinning platter and controller electronic circuitry will produce enough heat and metal scraps to produce...
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Ransom email scam - How to mass extort bitcoins via spam campaign
I've been receiving couple of these already:Hello! This is important information for you! Some months ago I hacked your OS and got full access to your account one-of-my-emails@redacted On day of hack...
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What's inside a credit card
Most of us have a credit card (or debit) for payment purposes. As I love tech, technically speaking, it is laminated polyvinyl chloride acetate (PVCA) piece of plastic conforming to ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1....
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Let's Encrypt Transitioning to ISRG's Root
Over an year ago, I posted a piece regarding Let's Encrypt and specifically me starting to use their TLS certificates. This certificate operation they're running is bit weird, but since their price for...
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Setting up Azure AD Application from Azure DevOps pipeline Powershell task,...
This one is about Microsoft Azure Cloud platform. Specifically about Azure DevOps Services. And specifically about accessing Azure Active Directory with appropriate permissions and changing settings...
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Setting up Azure AD Application from Azure DevOps pipeline Powershell task,...
This one is about Microsoft Azure Cloud platform. Specifically about Azure DevOps Services. And specifically about accessing Azure Active Directory with appropriate permissions and changing settings...
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The trouble with a HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 530T Adapter
A while back I got my hands on a nice PCIe 2.0 network interface card.The thing looks like this:In theory, that's an extremely cool piece to run in one of my Linuxes. Two 10 gig ethernet ports!...
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Steam stats
One day I was just browsing my Steam client (in case you're not a gamer, see https://store.steampowered.com/ for more). In my profile settings, I can choose what to display there. I seem to have a...
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Apple iOS device reset - Dismantling an old phone to be sold
Every one of use will eventually end up in a situation where old mobile device is upgraded to a new one. Most of us can manage getting the new one working without problems. There are backups somewhere...
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Bacula 9 vchanger: Tape count fix
One of the first ever blog posts I've written here is about Bacula, the open-source backup software (more at https://www.bacula.org/). I published Fedora 17 binaries for the virtual tape changer...
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Adding a source of randomness to a Linux
Randomness in computersYou don't need to know much about computers to understand, that computers cannot do random things. Yes, all programming languages and libraries do offer you a rand()-function to...
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