Category Archives: Linux

Debian's poor OpenSSL Randomness

Posted on 16. Mai 2008 by jplasser

This is worth reading. Update: The Debian people created a website with instructions to rollover keys. And there’s also a Perl script for testing SSH servers an other packages for vulnerabilities. Update 2: Bruce Schneier jumped in. And here is … Continue reading →

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bind9 performance

Posted on 29. Februar 2008 by jplasser

This is not really suprising: Server capacity at breaking point OS Queries/second Linux Gentoo 2.6.20.7 93,000 Linux Fedora Core 2.6.20.7 87,000 FreeBSD-7-CURRENT 200708 84,000 FreeBSD-6-stable 200708 55,000 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE 51,000 Solaris-10 DevelExpr 5/07 50,000 NetBSD-4.0-Beta 200708 42,000 OpenBSD 4.1-snap-20070427 35,000 … Continue reading →

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Asterisk VoIP server talking to Inode SIP gateway

Posted on 26. Februar 2008 by jplasser

After some problems to get an Asterisk server talking to an Inode Telenode gateway (incoming calls did not work) I tried the following configuration for sip.conf and it worked like a charm: context=default allowoverlap=no bindport=5060 bindaddr=0.0.0.0 srvlookup=yes nat=yes allow=all externip=81.223.xxx.yyy … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu: Firefox freezing on popup – solved!

Posted on 27. November 2007 by admin

After some testing I have discovered the reason why Firefox on my Ubuntu Linux box was frequently freezing when I tried to open a popup window: The Google toolbar. After removing this extension everything works fine now!

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Installation of The Latest Firefox Release On OpenSUSE 10.2

Posted on 21. Dezember 2006 by admin

When you try to install the latest firefox release on openSUSE 10.2 (before openSUSE offers one), firefox will throw an error like “Installlocation has no properties” in the javascript console. Because of that it is kimpossible to use the installed … Continue reading →

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Trying OpenSUSE 10.2

Posted on 11. Dezember 2006 by admin

After I killed my SuSE 10.1 installation on my good old IBM Thinkpad yesterday (I tried to upgrade to the latest Gnome release without success), I installed openSUSE 10.2 today. The installation worked like a charme and the system installed … Continue reading →

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Weg mit CapsLock!

Posted on 4. Dezember 2006 by admin

Fastjack und Joern und Andreas haben vollkommen Recht! Die CapsLock-Taste macht absolut keinen Sinn und ist überflüssig. Davon abgesehen, tendiere ich generell dazu, diese Taste auf meinem Thinkpad immer unabsichtlich zu berühren, und das verursacht nervige und zusätzliche Tipparbeit. Unter … Continue reading →

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Aptana: The Web IDE

Posted on 13. September 2006 by admin

Aptana ist keine Babynahrung, sondern eine – trotz Beta (na klar!) – sehr ausgereifte IDE für Javascript, HTML, XML und CSS.  Nachdem ich das heute bei Markus gesehen hatte, musste ich es sogleich testen. Unter Windows XP verlief die Installation … Continue reading →

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IE for Linux

Posted on 4. Januar 2006 by admin

Sometimes I need IE for testing web applications and today I found IEs 4 Linux, a great resource if you want to run IE (5, 5.5 and 6) on linux. And besides that, it is really easy, download IEs4Linux, start … Continue reading →

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Adobe Reader 7 für Linux

Posted on 14. März 2005 by admin

Endlich gibt es den 7er-Reader auch für Linux. Gut so! Die letzte Version (5.0.10) war schrecklich … Update Das war wohl doch nicht die final, es dürfte sich um die Beta handeln, genaueres findet sich hier. Links heise online – … Continue reading →

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