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baumi's personal blog … Linux, OS X, Windows, Random things, …

Software i’m using under GNU/Linux – Personal shortlist

Personal Shortlist: – Thunderbird (+ Calendar Addon) with TT DeepDark skin and Enigmail for Encryption – KeepNote … for taking notes – Chromium + Firefox … webbrowser – KeePassX … i like the UI more than KeePass2, and it’s open. A nice closed source alternative would be https://www.enpass.io/ … (basically a cross platform 1password clone) […]

gdb cheat sheet

This is just a small list i’ve collected for myself. Not meant to be complete … set disassembly-flavor intel …. obligatory life saver 😉 x/100bs $rsp ……. ASCII dump stack (byte-wise) x/100ws $rsp ……. ASCII dump stack (lower word-bytes only) x/80x $rsp ………. HEX dump stack x/80xb 0x7fffffffd880 ….. HEX dump memory address xxd from […]

LENOVO Thinkpad X1 T450s X250: BIOS update with GNU/Linux – create bootable USB drive (create bootable USB drive with geteltorito)

—– NEW METHOD —– sudo fwupdmgr refresh sudo fwupdmgr get-updates sudo fwupdmgr update Im BIOS muss “Windows BIOS/UEFI Update” aktiviert sein … —– OLD METHOD —– GUI Alternativen: “Laufwerke” von Linux -> (rechts oben im Menü) Laufwerksabbild Wiederherstellen und .img oder .iso aussuchen https://www.fossmint.com/woeusb-create-bootable-windows-usb-sticks-from-linux/ balenaEtcher: https://www.balena.io/etcher/ CLI: 1. Download bootable “BIOS Update (bootable CD)” from […]

Elementary OS: disable ecryptfs home folder encryption, or: manually mounting ecryptfs encrypted homedir (e.g. from backup)

UPDATE – Better, easier way taken from http://askubuntu.com/questions/4950/how-to-stop-using-built-in-home-directory-encryption 1 .Backup the home directory while you are logged in sudo cp -rp /home/user /home/user.backup 1.1. Check that your home backup has everything!!! 2. reboot into single user mode via grub (shift during boot, edit, add “single” as a parameter. for details see https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-boot-into-single-user-mode/) 3. Delete your […]

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