new stuff @ soundcloud
I just added a long overdue remix of Arcana Moon’s “Sturm der Ewigkeit” on my soundcloud account: Maybe you like it. Downloads are enabled. Enjoy!
TR-069 Angriff: FritzBox teilweise DOCH betroffen
Laut AVM wären die aktuellen FritzBox Modelle vom kürzlich stattgefundenen TR-069 Angriff nicht betroffen. Dies scheint aber wohl nur dann zu stimmen, wenn der jeweilige Anbieter das Profil auch entsprechend abgesichert hat. Mein Anschluss (KielNET/Versatel, FritzBox 7390) zeigte am 02.12.2016…
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Using VST MIDI plugins in Cakewalk Sonar
About: As you may know, one can’t use VST-M plugins in Sonar nativly since the inbuild wrapper only supports VST effect und VSTi plugins, no MIDI (effect) plugins.There are very few MFX (DirectX MIDI effect) plugins out there that could…
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get YYYYMMDD formatted date string in javascript
Since decent formatting methods for free date formats are missing in JS, we have to do it manually: var newdate = new Date(); var datestring = newdate.getFullYear().toString() + (’00’ + (newdate.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) + (’00’ + newdate.getDate()).slice(-2); “datestring” now contains…
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Getting Winhlp32 work on Windows 10
If you came here directly, you probably already google’d quite a while to find a solution for the sad fact that Windows 10 lets you run many old apps, but without letting you use the included HLP-files. The problem itself…
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How to start Windows System Apps from commandline
I was trying to add the edge browser to my RocketDock-bar I still use and had to find out that the system apps seem to use a quite differnt approach to start than normal applications do. Simply linking direktly to…
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Remove obsolete *.log-files from openLDAP DB-folder
If you use the openLDAP-server you will probably run into the problem that the *.log-files located in the DB’s folder will comsume more and more free space. It seems that the automatic maintenance service that should clean up no longer…
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The movement to rid the world of the Flash Player plugin
Flash Player is dead. Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn’t work on most mobile devices. It’s a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate…
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Invalidate all nscd caches at once
If you ever need to invalidate all chached object of the nscd-daemon at once, you could try this one-liner: for f in /var/db/nscd/*; do nscd -i $(basename $f); done
The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded
I recently got the problem with Virtualbox on Debian Jessie that vbox’s kernel modules were not loaded after updating my system. Every vbox-related command gave the following error output: WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is…
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