Wednesday, December 18, 2019 •
When using public wifis, they are often “protected” by a so-called captive portal. They redirect you to a page, where you need to login or at least accept the conditions of the network, you are going to use. Before you have agreed, all your network traffic is blocked which leads to timeouts.
Sunday, November 17, 2019 •
This is an update to the previous article Switching Java versions.
Friday, October 25, 2019 •
You have installed your linux using reasonable defaults. This means, you might have a EFI partition, a boot partition and all the remaining space is used for a big encrypted partition (LUKS - Linux Unified Key Setup), which hosts a physical volume to be used by LVM (logical volume manager). Since you need to be able to unlock this encrypted partition before using, this is done in the initial ram disk stored on the boot partition, which is not encrypted.
Sunday, September 22, 2019 •
If you want to install Debian on a new computer, you
will need to boot the installer first. A convenient way is to download a CD image
and write it to the flash drive, as described in Debian’s FAQ How do I write a CD/DVD/BD image to a USB flash drive. Usually a simple copy (sudo cp debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso /dev/sda) will do.
Saturday, August 17, 2019 •
It seems to be common practice, that the hardware router, that you get from your ISP runs a branded firmware which restricts certain configuration options - most important, you can’t simply configure your VoIP phone connection. This is probably, because the ISP offers you also phone services and he wants to ensure, that you his and only his phone service.
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