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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.

I am trying to speed up my daily backups. Last monday Raimond Kollman suggested to use rsync. So the last days I started playing with rsync… and it looks very nice So the steps I want to take is: Do every hour a rsync (incremental) of the files …

Recently I offered my sister to build a website for her Dance-Company M’aM. Though it must be a little creative… and they also had a professional photoshoot… so I started looking around through the pictures which were made to get inspired… …

Hi All,Friday evening at 23.57h is our little daughter born! Her name is JorinaMore pictures can be found on her website

Since a long time I was searching for a way to encrypt my data on a USB-stick. But one of the attention points is, it must be used within a Linux and Windows environment. After reading an article in the Linux Journal I found TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt i…

To speed up the backup-scripts I tried two different ways of transfering the data… I tried tar -cjvf test-1.tar.bz2 data/* scp test-1.tar.bz2 backup@remote:/home/backup/or tar -cjvf – | ssh backup@remote dd of=/home/backup/test-2.tar.bz2And …