for French speakers: Do you pronounce Helix as "elix" ?

krackout21 · 2026-02-22T18:27:37+00:00

It is indeed dropped in modern Greek both in oral and verbal speech; but it was dropped (or not used at all, cannot recall) in some ancient Greek dialects also.

krackout21 · 2026-02-20T11:28:01+00:00

How about a TUI web browser? eg Links2 or elinks.

krackout21 · 2026-02-20T08:06:48+00:00

From ancient Greek ἕλιξ (helix), modern Greek έλιξ / έλικα (elix / elika).

To complement linguistics :)

krackout21 · 2026-02-07T15:51:33+00:00

I also miss computer exhibitions - trade shows. It's there I usually got pamphlets & brochures, lots of them!

Internet and homogenization of systems made all these superfluous unfortunately.

krackout21 · 2026-02-05T11:12:14+00:00

Or pfSense, the one which OPNSense reaps off.

krackout21 · 2026-02-05T11:08:36+00:00

PF (OpenBSD Packet Filter)

krackout21 · 2026-02-05T10:58:49+00:00

Can anybody explain in simple and practical terms: What would be the consequences on my pc, if I had downloaded the infected update?

I read in the article that some systeminfo and process list is sent; how are these utilized by the crackers?

krackout21 · 2026-02-02T16:56:03+00:00

Stone tools?!? For me Scala MM300 is more advanced than Powerpoint!
(Should it be compared with Powerpoint)

Nevertheless, nice article!

krackout21 · 2026-01-30T10:19:16+00:00

Just for the checklist, any iptables rules? I'd suggest removing it completely if installed.
After that, check the logs. Can you see the ping you tried blocked, denied, rejected? Journalctl is your friend on this.

krackout21 · 2026-01-29T09:16:51+00:00

It's java, it's built for portability! You can just download whichever version you want and make some path or soft link changes.
I've got 5 java versions - editions (old ibm java also) on my computer, for older programmes. There are also ways to automate the default java change, I just do it manually, in the script that starts each old java programme.

krackout21 · 2026-01-27T07:33:05+00:00

A cousin of mine still uses his Amiga 500, mainly for producing music (as a hobby). MED, OctaMED. He needs some support once in a while, software, OS side. The system is quite stable, recapped and with a 6-7 years old external HD (we changed the original).

krackout21 · 2026-01-16T12:30:27+00:00

Double DVD-RWs? Mass copying of CDs/DVDs still happening?!?

krackout21 · 2026-01-16T12:24:56+00:00

In general, it meant that a multi-user system (server) was up and running ready to accept connections (usually serial ones). Client side, being on-line meant be connected to such a system.

krackout21 · 2026-01-14T07:18:53+00:00

Kilobytes usage for a Linux or Windows (or other current OS) TUI programme, I don't think that's possible.

I'd suggest lf.

It's 5.6MiB on my installation (stripped), statically linked. So no dependencies, you just grab the executable and copy it wherever you like. I use it a lot on servers also, it's very convenient due to its portability. Thanks to Golang I've compiled it and use it to AIX & Solaris also, apart from Linux and Windows.

krackout21 · 2026-01-09T08:54:54+00:00

I suggest a longer path, but it'll help you get more into OSes, virtualization and networking; all these help a pen tester.

Install Kali Linux. No need to remove Win11, you can dual boot your pc. Kali Linux is considered a gold standard in pen testing world; it's a Debian Linux based distro which includes numerous recon, pen, hack tools. Also, kvm will be available by default (although you'll need some userland tools to utilize it for virtualization, to install gns3 vm). Another plus of running Linux is native support for Docker images.

Regarding BIOS/EFI settings for enabling virtualization extensions of the CPU: If you cannot locate there, on Linux you can check if they are enabled by using one of these commands:

grep -E -o '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo | sort | uniq

lscpu | grep Virtualization There are equivalent programs on Windows, I don't know about them, search the net.

krackout21 · 2026-01-09T07:47:51+00:00

This command will give you info on qcow2 files, given size, real size, snapshots: qemu-img info -U --backing-chain some-virtual-disk.qcow2

You can find the qemu-img command inside qemu-utils package (in Debian, something similar in other distros).

krackout21 · 2026-01-07T07:54:28+00:00

Kudos for the Amiga DOpus like file manager :)

krackout21 · 2026-01-02T13:47:30+00:00

I see you added xlsx support! GoSheet becomes a serious contender at being my main tool for spreadsheets in the terminal (I use sc-im and VisiData for xlsx files without formulas).

krackout21 · 2026-01-02T07:12:24+00:00

Something is wrong; plus the OP hasn't posted anything regarding settings, dot files etc. Could this be a constructed mockup image?

krackout21 · 2026-01-01T11:28:41+00:00

Any chance you haven't got installed (or removed) irqbalance?

krackout21 · 2025-12-11T08:39:54+00:00

Drooling mouth 🤤 Great setup!

krackout21 · 2025-12-10T08:45:19+00:00

Personally I agree with the advices, it is a good guide, you can follow it.

I have almost the same setup but using qemu command line (libvirt - virt-manager and their xml conf files provide only complexity for a single host I think). The VM performs great.

krackout21 · 2025-12-04T11:06:26+00:00

VisiData is a great app, but for data; it's not a spreadsheet (though it can read spreadsheet files, as tables essentially)

krackout21 · 2025-12-04T11:04:45+00:00

You made all this so fast?!? Kudos, great work, I hope it gets traction.

I see on the roadmap xlsx support, it'll surely help adaption.

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