Run GParted on Fedora26

GParted and other GUI tools requiring root privileges didn't work on my Fedora 26. After the login window, nothing happend. On console I received gpartedbin:5029): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0. To solve the issue, run following command in console or command prompt to open to allow local root gui applications: xhost local:root Above change...

Create a movie harddisk for old car dvd player

Old video-players, like those to be installed in cars, are mostly not state of the art and missing support for newer codecs and newer filesystems (like ntfs) and having problems with subdirectories.   Codec not supported Download the movie again or convert your movie.   Filesystem not supported The device reports that either no disk...

Expose Port 8333 on your existing bitcoin docker-container

My first steps using Bitcoin and Docker (killing two birds with one stone) were not that easy. I used the docker image and howto from https://github.com/amacneil/docker-bitcoin and startet my local Bitcoin Full Node with the suggested command docker run --name some-bitcoin amacneil/bitcoin After some time the local copy of the blockchain became bigger and I...

PHP Shell error: ls: illegal option — v

After installing phpshell on my webhosting (only temporarily), I could not use the general command ls. It always printed this error: $ ls ls: illegal option -- v usage: ls [-ABCFGHILPRSTUWZabcdfghiklmnopqrstuwxy1,] [-D format] [file ...]   It took a few tests until I found the error in the config.php of phpshell, where following lines are...

Piwik 2.17.1 produces many 500 errors

On a freshly installed Piwik 2.17.1 instance, we always got 500 errors from time to time. There was no real logic and no error message anywhere. Even in the logs, we only got mod_fcgid: read data timeout in 40 seconds and Premature end of script headers: index.php in the apache error-log. But no message in php-errorlog, screen or related....

Uncaught TYPO3 Exception: #1314085990: Desired storage is not in the list of available storages

In TYPO3 version 6.2.29 I wanted to launch in menu Install->Upgrade Wizard the action [Optional] Update sys_file_processedfile records to match new checksum calculation. As you can foresee (else this post wouldn't exist), it didn't work. I got following error message (shorted): Uncaught TYPO3 Exception #1314085990: Desired storage is not in the list of available storages....

openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64.iso hangs in virtual machine

Lately I wanted to install a new virtual machine with openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64.iso using VMware Player. Starting the ISO, The message Starting udev... stayed a very long time, high CPU usage and after the graphical terminal (GUI) was initialized, it hanged - no reaction anymore. After trying a few tricks (noapic, nomodeset, disabling vm features, memory) it...

DNSSEC auf hosttech einrichten

Der Hoster hosstech unterstützt seit neustem DNSSEC. DNSSEC lässt sich auch relativ leicht einrichten. Trotzdem ist natürlich aller Anfang schwer. Zuerst sollte man sich zB über den Heise-Artikel zum Thema DNSSEC informieren, um was es eigentlich geht. Anschliessend kann folgende Anleitung dazu dienen, die notwendigen Schritte durchzuführen. DNSSEC muss zuerst auf dem Nameserver und dann...

Windows error #80070005 (Zugriff verweigert) occured at error check, file E:\Siedler3\Win32\Registry.cpp, line 48

To play the game Siedler 3 on your Microsoft Windows 7, you need the patches from here: http://webgnom.de/siedler-3-unter-windows-7-vista-xp-installieren. Still, you have to launch Siedler 3 (s3.exe) with admin rights. Otherwise you get following error message (and the game crashs) after you entered the serial numer: Windows error #80070005 (Zugriff verweigert) occured at error check, file...

Easily disable SSLv3 in Debian Apache webserver

The easiest way to disable SSLv3 in Debian Apache webserver is following: Open the SSL configuration file for Apache: vi /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ssl.conf Goto Line 63, and expand the line as following: SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3 Syntax check your configuration: apache2ctl configtest Reload configuration: apache2ctl graceful Test it: openssl s_client -connect <IPADRESS/HOSTNAME>:443 -ssl3 Done! This simply prevents possible...