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Groundhog Day 2018 – Feb. 2

Live from Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney Pennsylvania at about. 7:20 a.m. eastern time  (13:20 CET). Will Punxsutawney Phil, the “Prognosticator of Prognosticators,” see his own shadow? Live feed starts 12:00 CET. http://visitpa.com/groundhog-day-live-stream/  Update 13:26 CET: Phil could see his own shadow, so we are going to have a long winter, 6 more weeks :/ Same …

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The coming crisis

Back in 2013 I wrote some articles about a new financial crisis that are on its way. A crisis that is going to be worse than the global finance crisis we experienced in 2007-2008. Now it looks like it’s very close. It’s hard to time these collapses, but it is coming for sure. The common …

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Xbox Call of duty WWII videos

Call of duty WWII

Call of duty World War II videos  

The value of bitcoins

I think the idea behind crypto currencies and blockchain technology is great, and I’m a big fan. Remove the need for central banks and intermediaries, and move power from governments to the people. Regards to Bitcoins, I do not believe this will end well. I’m pretty sure that the value will go to zero and …

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Ringshaugbukta, Tønsberg

This is a picture from last spring that I have edited in Adobe Photoshop. I tried to stretch the adjustments to the border of the absurd. Still like the colors and contrasts though, and it’s not supposed to be 100% natural.

FreeNAS storage system

I have finally started my home storage system project in-between some renovation work at home. I want a central storage solution for home computers, mobile phones and other devices. I really do not want to store private stuff in the cloud. As a fan of the FreeBSD operating system, the obvious solution is to install …

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Certificates and pfSense, how to sign cert requests

pfSense is a neat firewall based on the FreeBSD operating system. The firewall will by default act as a CA (Certificate Authority) issuing certificates to firewall users and services. Certificates typically used by “internal” VPN clients and for running a secure https management session to the firewall. But you may have external boxes that needs certificates too. …

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Dynamic DNS and pfSense

This post describes the basics concepts, and I have tried to make it as short and non-technical as possible. IP addresses Computers address each other using IP addresses. IP addresses of the form 172.16.16.100 (IPv4 dotted-decimal notation defined by the TCP/IP protocol).  When a computer sends a “data packet” to another computer, it´s labelling the packet with a …

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Skatteetaten og innkalling til selvangivelsen

Meldingen under slapp gjennom spamfilteret. Ha Ha 🙂 E-posten stammer fra en server lokalisert hos en leverandør av skytjenester i Texas. Det er sannsynligvis en kunde som har satt opp en server som ikke er sikret godt nok og som har blitt kompromitert. Bandittene har sannsynligvis forsøkt å benytte google translate e.l. med mindre hell.

Xbox UDP & TCP portlist

This is a brief list of the Xbox´s port usage: Xbox Live ports Protocol Soure addreess Source port Destination address Destination Port Service UDP Internet/any IP * Xbox IP 88 Xbox Live UDP Internet/any IP * Xbox IP 3074 Xbox Live TCP Internet/any IP * Xbox IP 3074 Xbox Live UDP Xbox IP * Internet/any …

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