Info: After having performed the pfSense upgrade from version 2.1.5 to 2.2 I am no longer able to connect with iPhones to the VPN endpoint. I cannot say what exactly the issue is right now. But as the pfSense people have switched from racoon to strongSwan, there seem to be some significant changes under the…
Introduction Sonic Ether’s Unbelievable Shaders is an awesome shader pack which adds dynamics and realism to your minecraft world, such animated leaves on trees, ultra-realistic water textures and animations, environmental effects and dynamic lighting. It is truly amazing, what this pack offers. This short tutorial shall help you getting Sonic Ether’s shaders to work with…
Introduction Crypto is a book aimend at readers, who want to get an overview on the origin of public key cryptography. Back in the Seventies, researches such as Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman solved some fundamental problems of cryptography, such as key exchange. Later on, public key cryptography was invented. Contents The book begins at…
After having spent endless hours on trying to get TIGCC on Linux to work, I finally gave up and tried, as a last resort, to setup a working development environment on Windows 7. In this rather short tutorial I am going to explain how you can setup a working development environment on your machine, compiler…
Now, as Microsoft has released their source code for MS-DOS [1] and Word for Windows [2], I had a quick look at the Word for Windows Source Code and I found a funny statement in an assembler file:
[1] http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/microsoft-research-license-agreement-msdos-v1-1-v2-0/
[2] http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/microsoft-word-for-windows-1-1a-source-code/agreement/
For many people, Tor is a doubtful tool used mainly by people consuming and distributing child porn or conducting crimes of any kind, like dealing drugs and weapons and so on. Although Tor is truly used by such people (as you’ve probably read in the media), Tor is a typical dual-use technology which serves a…
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I have found this in the Swiss Coop Zeitung. You’re gonna like it. Enjoy!
I decided to create this post in order to collect articles and statemens from people regarding privacy. The aim is, to raise awareness on this topic to all the people who think, that privacy doesn’t matter. Collected Articles Date Published Title 16.06.2015 “Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, ist ein langweiliger Mensch” (Tages Anzeiger) LinkAm Mittwoch…
I came across a good introductory video on NoSQL database systems. In about 55 minutes, Martin Fowler talks about the rise of the NoSQL databases, the different types of NoSQL databases and their usage scenarios. For further study, I can recommend his book “NoSQL Distilled”.
Are you also sick of attending meetings every day? Are you also tired of not being able to WORK actually? Welcome to the club. Actually, a friend of mine sent me this pic. Hope you find it as amusing as i did.