Luckely I am not the only one facing troubles with Windows Vista:

During looking for the Knoppixremaster howto… I read somewhere about QEMU. So I start playing around with QEMU… and guess what… at a certain moment I had running:Gentoo (Host-system)Knoppix 5.1.1FreeBSD 6.1Windows XP SP2 installationsSo this…

Herakles is currently running for 6 days… so it is time to get a review of the bandwith consuming of the script. Down here you find the upstream graph with the total amount of gigabytes a day.The yellow bars are the days when we still used the o…

Yesterday evening I added some new features, so version 0.0.2 is born (still beta): STDIN output 1 & 2 are put into the $LOG_FILERegister the PID of the script in $LOCKFILEWhen script started, check if it is not already running by checking the…

The last time I am working on another way of making my backups. The current procedure is time-consuming and bandwith-eating. Today I wrote the first version of the script. From this point it is a proof of concept using Rsync over SSH.When I have s…

There are different tools to make a forensic copy of a harddrive. So you have RDD, LinEn. LinEn is a tool written by Guidance to make images on a Linux system using EnCase. But to compare the stuff I did some testing stuff with a USB Memorystick o…

On one of the networks I maintain, I had to roll-out a new SSL-certificate for the IMAP-SSL Services. The old certificate would expire within a few days. On this network the most users, uses MS Windows XP in combination with a samba-fileserver.Som…

Today I was working on a Windows system and on that windows system I wanted to connect via a SSH-tunnel to a RDP-server (another Windows system at my parents place). So I started putty with the command:

putty -L 3389:10.0.0.113:3389 [email protected]

And after that… I want to ‘Start‘ -> ‘Run…‘ -> ‘mstsc.exe‘ -> ‘OK‘ Connect to 127.0.0.1 And guess what… the client refuses:

So after some Google work I found that I have to change the ‘Compatibility mode‘ for mstsc.exe into ‘Windows 98 / Windows ME‘.

So I went to c:windowssystem32mstsc.exe and guess what:

But after some other search work, I found that you have to copy mstsc.exe and mstscax.dll to some other path, after that you can change the compatibility modus:

The tool I wrote (SIS) was a sort of closed-source, but last night I rewrote a major part of the code (about 95%) so I decided to release it under the GPLv2 license. (I wrote the new code in my own time with own resources)I also renamed the tool i…

On the 1st of april I will not be longer an employee of PwC FTS. I will gonna work as an UNIX Specialist for the company Snow.