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2 Monate Arte-Magazin (gratis)

ra — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:16:18 +0000

Einfach bei arte-magazin.de bestellen. (:

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Firefox extensions

ra — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:23:50 +0000

These are the firefox extensions I use today. I hope some of them are as useful for you as they are for me. If you know any extensions I should not have left out or think that one of the below is outdated just leave a comment..

adblock plus: ad blocker
cookiesafe: control cookie persmissions from within the statusbar.
customizegoogle: enhance google search results by adding extra information and remove ads and spam.
download statusbar: nice download manager
tagsifter: tag your bookmarks. finally bookmarks become useable..
update scanner: monitors webpages for updates which still don’t provide rss feeds
mitm me: bypass the very annoying ssl errors introduced in firefox3 with a single click.
gtranslate: translates the selected text via google translate
keyconfig: nice key configuration. Personally I use it to configure the forward and back keys.
noscript: allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by web sites of your choice.
fasterfox: performance and network tweaks for firefox
unplug: download flash movies easily (for firefox3 there is no “official” but a “modded” version which just alters the version check).
add n edit cookies: cookie editor that allows you add and edit session and saved cookies
bugmenot: bypass annoying web registrations with the context menu (input from ).
refcontrol: control what gets sent as http referer on per-site basis.
tab mix plus: has a very rich (not to say bloated) feature set. Currently I use the multi row tab feature and the closed tabs icon (which is way better than the default one).
firebug: edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live
safecache: defends against cache-based tracking techniques but is currently only available for firefox2.
safehistory: defends against visited-link-based tracking techniques but is also only available for firefox2.

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Google proxy

ra — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:44:20 +0000

Some time ago I had the idea to write a google proxy which implements the features of the customizegoogle extension for firefox but should be browser and operating system independent. Today I stumbled across scroogle which apparently does implement some of the features (and uses ssl).
If you want to use it as default search engine in firefox, enter “about:config” in the location bar, search for “keyword.url” and change the value to “https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=”.
There are also search engine plugins available.

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Google Earth

ra — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:09:48 +0000

I experienced Google Earth being really slow after updating it to version 4.3. Disabling atmosphere in the view menu made it work again.

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NetworkManager applet for KDE

ra — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:59:52 +0000

A few days ago I figured out that the NetworkManager applet for Gnome is also working in KDE. I use it because it has less bugs, compiles against the current svn of NetworkManager and works more reliable in general then the KNetworkManager. Someone should have told me before that this works. (:

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Seitan

ra — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:35:41 +0000

Den Freunden der guten Küche kann ich Seitan nur ans Herz legen. Er ist gesund und ausgesprochen lecker.
Informationen:

Mittlerweile ist Seitan auch in diversen Großmärkten erhältlich (Rewe und andere, für die man keine Werbung machen sollte). Empfehlenswert ist allerdings Reinberger Naturküche für Seitan in Österreich.

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konq-pdf (various PDF service menus for KDE)

ra — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:20:47 +0000

A few weeks ago I stumbled accross konq-pdf which offers various PDF related service (“right click”) menus for konqueror. These menus contain joining/adding files, changing pages per sheet, rotating, converting to other formats, extracting images, .. in a few words: it’s very handy if you don’t want to remember all the command line parameters for pdftk/pdfjam you just need once in a while. (:

There are just two things I found in the software:
The kde submenu text in pdfnup.desktop “X-KDE-Submenu=Paginate” is not
very clear. “X-KDE-Submenu=Pages per sheet” would be better imho.

A small bug in pdfjoin.desktop makes it always display the italian kde
submenu: “X-KDE-Submenu=Unisci o aggiungi” should be replaced by
“X-KDE-Submenu[it]=Unisci o aggiungi”.

I just wrote the author Giuseppe Benigno an email, so these “bugs” probably get fixed soon.

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bugmenot firefox extension

ra — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:02:43 +0000

The firefox extension for bugmenot is still working (at least for firefox 2.0.0.6)

Source: http://roachfiend.com/archives/2005/02/07/bugmenot/
Direct installation link: http://extensions.roachfiend.com/bugmenot.xpi

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Linux Power Saving Projects

ra — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:46:51 +0000

Even more linux power saving information from intel on LessWatts.org.

Source: http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Power_Saving_Projects

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uswsusp

ra — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:01:59 +0000

Ich habe eigentlich die letzten Jahre auf suspend2/tuxonice gesetzt, nun aber uswsusp ausprobiert, da hier mittlerweile auch compression und splash funktioniert, und bin begeistert: selbe Funktionalität und stabiler. (:

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LCD-Display Reinigen

ra — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:57:57 +0000

Lt IBM-Handbuch nimmt man dazu am besten eine 1:1-Mischung Wasser:Isopropylalkohol. Funktioniert einwandfrei (auch für die Tasten – da allerdings 1:4)

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Firefox “restore dialog”-patch

ra — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:41:08 +0000

If browser.startup.page is set to 3 (“When firefox starts” -> “Show my windows and tabs from last time”) firefox should always restore automatically the browsing session (but after a crash).
Each time after logging out (at least from kde) the restore dialog appears (“Restore session” / “Start new session”).
This is quite annoying for me since I never pressed “Start new session”, but by mistake.

The ideal solution is that logging out will not result in an improper shutdown of firefox, but I wrote a small patch that introduces the browser.sessionstore.resume_session_always setting which works for me.

I also updated Gentoo’s ebuild for firefox 2.0.0.6 to use this patch (just extract it to your /usr/local/portage directory).

Update: The above bug is fixed in firefox3. As a work around, you can create a new string preference “browser.sessionstore.restore_prompt_uri” and set it to “javascript:window.close();” (without the quotes).
Unfortunately I could not find a way to make this work with NoScript (yet).

Update #2:
Good news (:
Giorgio Maone kindly updated the NoScript plugin to allow the trick above. You currently have to use the development version (1.1.6.18).

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OpenWRT: 802.1x WPA2 TLS

ra — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:26:55 +0000

Ein nettes Howto wie man unter OpenWRT WPA2 TLS lauffähig bekommt. Auch nützlich, wenn man kein OpenWRT nutzt (im speziellen die Zertifikatgenerierung für Windows Clients).

http://www.schrankmonster.de/PermaLink,guid,9c689944-a7ee-4952-9b1f-300017922b71.aspx

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How to fold a t-shirt?

ra — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:08:42 +0000

Did you ever get angry about folding t-shirts?
Try this! (:

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Chaos Communication Camp 2007

ra — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:30:29 +0000

The Chaos Communication Camp is an international, five-day open-air event for hackers and associated life-forms.
The Camp features two conference tracks with interesting lectures, workshops and other stuff.
It will take place from August 8th to 12th 2007 in Finowfurt near Berlin.

The Metalab crew organizes flight & shuttle from vienna to the camp and back: http://campflug.at/

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Arte-Themenabend: “Überwachungsstaat”

ra — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:04:31 +0000

Dienstag 19.06 ab 20:40
http://www.arte.tv/de/programm/242,day=4,week=25,year=2007.html

Quelle: http://netzpolitik.org/2007/arte-themenabend-ueberwachungsstaat/

Update:
Mittlerweile auch schon im Netz gelandet:
http://netzpolitik.org/2007/aufzeichung-des-arte-themenabend-zum-ueberwachungsstaat/
http://www2.htl-donaustadt.at/~ange/bigbrother.avi
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3719239

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Im Sommer kostenlos nach Deutschland, USA, Grossbritannien, Italien, Schweiz und Polen telefonieren

ra — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:22:41 +0000

Ist doch mal was. (:
http://telgo.cc/special/wb/summer_special1.php

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Seedcamp Festival

ra — Sun, 20 May 2007 09:00:24 +0000

Vom 8.-10. Juni findet dieses Jahr wieder ein Seedcamp Festival statt!

See you there! (:

Festival: http://www.seedcamp.at/festival/
Programm: http://www.seedcamp.at/festival/programm/
Webseite: http://www.seedcamp.at/

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Understanding Power Consumption

ra — Wed, 16 May 2007 07:50:06 +0000

Intel released a utility “powertop” for detecting what Linux programs and kernel tunables are resulting in the most power consumption.

Source: http://kerneltrap.org/node/8207

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Who can you trust?

ra — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:28:23 +0000

is the title of the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress which will take place from 27th to 30th december in Berlin.

See you there! (:

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Teegeschäft in Wien

ra — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:42:00 +0000

Wer in Wien auf der Suche nach einem guten Teegeschäft ist, dem kann ich das Tastea ans Herz legen.

Sehr gute Auswahl, sehr freundlich, gute Lage (altes AKH). (:

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Google code search

ra — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:59:00 +0000

Now google offers the possibility to search in public source code with regular expressions and limit the results depending on the license used.

http://www.google.com/codesearch

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Six Tips to Protect Your Online Search Privacy

ra — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:13:20 +0000

Summary:
1. Don’t put personally identifying information in your search terms (easy)
2. Don’t use your ISP’s search engine (easy)
3. Don’t login to your search engine or related tools (intermediate)
4. Block “cookies” from your search engine (intermediate)
5. Vary your IP address (intermediate)
6. Use web proxies and anonymizing software like Tor (advanced)

WTH & 22C3 Videos

ra — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:38:00 +0000

Beside from the lock bumping video I enjoyed this WTH & 22C3 videos most (every video is several 100Mb in size):
http://rehash.xs4all.nl/wth/rawtapes/wth-quantum-cryptography-an-introduction/wth-quantum-cryptography-an-introduction-50.mp4
http://rehash.whatthehack.org/wth/rawtapes/wth_do_we_run_out_of_oil/wth_do_we_run_out_of_oil_27.mp4
http://rehash.whatthehack.org/wth/rawtapes/wth_politics_of_psychedelic_research/wth_politics_of_psychedelic_research_35.mp4
http://rehash.whatthehack.org/wth/rawtapes/wth-digital-identities-and-the-power-of-hacking/wth-digital-identities-and-the-power-of-hacking-62.mp4

ftp://ftp.ccc.de/congress/22c3/lectures/video/mp4/720×576/22C3-408-en-private_investigations_in_searching.mp4 (this one’s really great!)
ftp://ftp.ccc.de/congress/22c3/lectures/video/mp4/720×576/22C3-426-de-entschwoerungstheorie.mp4

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