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FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick N v2 on openSUSE Leap 42.1

I recently had to deal with a freshly bought HP laptop (called “HP 15-BA030NG”), a basically nice piece of hardware, nothing fancy but doing its job under openSUSE Leap 42.1. We moved the laptop to a location where it had … Continue reading

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Installing openSUSE Leap 42.1 on bcache root FS

Now that openSUSE Leap has been around for some time, I wanted to give it a try on one of our test SAN/NAS servers. One of the most basic elements of these SAN/NAS servers is using bcache to employ transparent … Continue reading

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Details on switching from mod_ssl to mod_nss, with FakeBasicAuth

The Internet is safe & secure, if you use encryption. At least that’s what we believed, before all these attacks on ciphers and their implementation. And since attacks like “Poodle” and “LogJam”, it’s time to upgrade to the most recent … Continue reading

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