mikas blog

Today I installed the dvorak keyboard layout on my happy hacking keyboard, and I am feeling like a small boy who has never seen a keyboard in his life before but I am getting faster and faster. Of course I am using a special Xmodmap. Check out the abcd-dvorak-tutorial (thanks for the URL [...]

As I’ve said some days ago I want to set up ipv6 at home. Now I am running an ipv6-tunnel on my workstation via freenet6.net. I had to change tspc host_type to “router” in /etc/freenet6-client/tspc.conf and due to a bug in the freenet-client I had to restart the tunnel with if_tunnel=sit0 and again with sit1. [...]

In centericq 4.9.10 german umlauts don’t work for many people, also my box had problems. Now I could figure out (with a hint of Marc Thoben – thx!) the problem. Have a look at my mail to the centericq-mailinglist. Short version: don’t use POSIX for LC/locale-settings but use something like that:
[mika@grml: ~]% locale
LANG=de_AT@euro
LC_CTYPE=de_AT
LC_NUMERIC=”de_AT@euro”
LC_TIME=”de_AT@euro”
LC_COLLATE=”de_AT@euro”
LC_MONETARY=”de_AT@euro”
LC_MESSAGES=en_US
LC_PAPER=”de_AT@euro”
LC_NAME=”de_AT@euro”
LC_ADDRESS=”de_AT@euro”
LC_TELEPHONE=”de_AT@euro”
LC_MEASUREMENT=”de_AT@euro”
LC_IDENTIFICATION=”de_AT@euro”
LC_ALL=
[mika@grml: ~]%

As you might have mentioned I really like the firewire-stuff on linux, today I captured 5GiB of movies – sucessful and on my workstation . But due to some problems with the dv1394-module (which couldn’t be loaded via insmod after compiling) I wanted to upgrade from kernel 2.6.2 to 2.6.3. I already tried 2.6.3-rc2 [...]

No, at home I don’t use KDE 3.2 as a desktop environment due to pekwm is really great , but I configured kicker (the KDE-taskbar) and I really like it because it has some really nice features as kweather (weather reports), klipper (clipboard-manager), kdict (a dictionary, I am using it with dict.tugraz.at), the color [...]

http://kai.iks-jena.de/miniwahr/darmstadt-griesheim.html – ECHELON-Station Griesheim bei Darmstadt

As I already wrote firewire works really great with linux. Today I created 124MiB of divx-movies with kino and mencoder:

[mika@tweety: ~/Video]% mencoder -ovc divx4 -o stuff.avi -oac lavc export014.dv
Works like a charme – just the filesize-limit of my system as user mika sucked:

[mika@tweety: ~/Video]% limit | grep filesize
filesize [...]

Some days ago I installed KDE 3.2 on the computer of my girlfriend. Today I installed KDE 3.2 on my box at work and I really enjoy it. It’s fast enough for my system, it’s definitive an eye candy, the kicker-applets (klipper, dictionary, knewsticker, kmix, kscd, kweather and so on) are useful, the KDE Wallet [...]

Today my brother gave me the digital videocamera from my father and because we would like to create some movies about our cat Rubeo I tried to use the camera with linux. Some weeks ago I bought a firewire-cable and so I connected the camera with my laptop, loaded the kernelmodules dv1394, ohci1394, raw1394, ieee1394 [...]

Ok, now I used some options from the X-config from my debian-installation and X is working on freebsd. But: it just works if I call “startx” as root, neither gdm nor startx running as user work as they should, and calling “X” as user mika results in a freeze. Grml!

Ok, because I should learn for university I installed FreeBSD on my laptop ;o). Installing FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC was no problem, but booting it via Grub was tricky . But finally I got it working:

root@tweety:/home/mika# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38760 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = [...]

Because I try to find out the best features from all the existing distributions for my own one (called grml), today I tried to run phlak (0.2.1) [a derivative of Morphix] and fire (0.4a) [Forensic and Incident Response Environment]. While phlak tried to access the CD-ROM for more than 5 minutes without doing anything (hanging [...]

http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-February/017613.html
http://www.macmerc.com/news/archives/1270
http://heise.de/newsticker/meldung/44853 (german)

www.flickr.com – share pictures in real time – pointer by Enki Boehm on internetz(at)vibe.at.

Since today the new and updated website for Grazer LinuxTage 2004 is online. Oliver Jusinger did a great job with webprogramming.
More than 20 lectures and about 8 workshops are registered nowadays, call for papers is till 10th of march. There’s still a lot to do but organisational stuff is working quite well. I assume and [...]

Opera 7.50 Preview 2 is available for different platforms (as usual). Get it from snapshot.opera.com. For me there aren’t any obvious changes besides better panels-handling. But fullscreen-mode still does not save the toolbar settings – grml. I use the fullscreen-mode (F11) because there does not exist any advertisements in this mode and place is used [...]

Ok, maybe you noticed (anyone reading this blog out there? ) that I changed the layout of the blog a little bit. Well, I removed the TrackBack and PingBack stuff a few days ago, today I (again) changed some CSS-stuff – hope it looks ok for you . Ok, now I have to [...]

[mika@bufo: ~/Source]% uptime
12:02AM up 12 days, 9:51, 1 user, load averages: 0.14, 0.08, 0.03
[mika@bufo: ~/Source]%
Still running and I tried to compile some small c-programs for the university-lecture “datastructures and algorithms” on the BSD-box – worked of course .
What was curious and new for me is the fact that I had to change [...]

http://selinux.lemuria.org/install-2.6.html – SELinux on Debian/Sid with Kernel 2.6

https://solarflux.org/pf/pf+IPv6.php – Firewalling IPv6 with OpenBSD’s pf (packet filter)