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While my cat Rubeo enjoys sunday I am planning the program of Grazer LinuxTage 2004. Currently we have 29(!) lectures and 3-4 workshops available in the 2 days.

Project Looking Glass

Because I really like playing with live-cds I created a Windows Live-CD with help of
BartPE. It’s seems to a really nice system because you have access to the NTFS-partitions with write-access – very useful for debugging and repairing windows-systems. What I’d like to do is create a Windows-CD with many useful and useable programs like [...]

Today I borrowed the “Java Desktop System”-Live-Demo-CD (Version 2003) from a friend of mine:

-bash-2.05b# uname -a
Linux Morphix 2.4.21-xfs #13 SMP Tue Aug 26 01:46:14 CEST 2003 i686 unknown
-bash-2.05b#
The package-management ist rpm-based and uses Yast2 ). Other stuff is very gnome-like (gedit, nautilus,…) and the webbrowser is Mozilla.
Due to the system lacks of an utility [...]

jeffdav’s WebLog – XP SP2 RC1

KDE/Qt – Common Programming Mistakes

The “Avalon” Input System

Yes, I can’t believe it – but FreeBSD is running *with* X on my laptop Uncommenting some lines in /etc/X11/XFConfig did the trick:

#Load “glx”
#Load “dri”
#Load “record”

Sorry for writing german, but otherwise it wouldn’t make any sense
Standart, compilieren, funzen, 3 Euros, Newsgroup’s,… – die heutige Sprache im Usenet.
Für jene, die der deutschen Sprache noch etwas Gutes tun wollen ein paar Lesetipps:
de.etc.sprache: FAQ
Ãœbersetzungsfallen
Interpunktion
Agopunktion
Offline-Lesetipp: isbn://3446224726

Tom Rizzo – Introducing the New Windows File System
Introducing “Longhorn” for Developers

Diebold’s bancomat running Windows XP @ Carnegie Mellon University

Yes – zsh version 4.2.0 is available. Check out the Release Notes for new features. What’s new? Suffix aliases allow the shell to run a command on a file by suffix:

[mika@grml: ~]% grep ‘alias.*tex’ .zshrc
alias -s tex=vim
[mika@grml: ~]%
Now a ‘$ file.tex’ calls vim with file.tex . Nice modules/functions are especially [...]

matheklausur
rice
istmiregal
unfall/accident
cat-thin

The harddisc on the FreeBSD-machine is much to small (<2 GiB) for having fun. I tried to install FreeBSD on a harddisc with 40 GiB but installation did not work (freeze on calling installation-routine), argl! So I’m falling back to QNX:

qnx% uname -a
QNX qnx 6.2.1 2003/01/18-02:12:22est x86pc x86
qnx%
FreeBSD does not want to work on my [...]

I bought one of the Linksys WPC11 (11Mbps 802.11b) WLAN-cards. The card works fine on linux-systems with the following settings in /etc/pcmcia/config:

card “Linksys WPC11 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card”
manfid 0×0274, 0×1612
bind “orinoco_cs”
Hint: notice the 0×1612 – especially if your are using debian . With the orinoco-0.13e-patch from http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html you are cabable [...]

Today we (some guys of Security Treff Graz) made a hacking session at competence centre of mur.at. We had some WLAN network-cards and used kismet for wlan-sniffing. Well, mur.at has it’s centre beneath a street where GVB’s trams are driving, have a look: screenshot ;o)

Very fast reply by abuse@aon:
Der Account des Kunden, von dessen Rechner diese Virenmails versandt wurden, wurde gesperrt.

English information: the account of the telekom-customer has been disabled

I received 12 spammails with the “Dear user of “Michael-prokop.at” mailing system, [...] Kind regards, The Michael-prokop.at team” from host n632p031.adsl.highway.telekom.at (62.47.22.255). So I sent a mail to abuse@aon.at and today I got the following response:
From: Abuse Intern [schnipp]
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:07:58 +0100
Subject: AW: Abuse-Meldung

[...]
Um den/die tatsächlichen Verursacher dieser Mails eruieren [...]

Now I was very creative and created a new 404-page ;o)

I just found palcal, a “calendar with events” for the commandline. It looks quite very nice and seems to be the best available calendar-tool for the commandline. Now I’ll create an at.pal-file .
Update: at.pal is online – improvements/feedback is welcome