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# ps 1>/dev/null
# uname -srv
Linux 2.4.25-grsec #1 Sam Apr 24 11:49:51 CEST 2004
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It’s running… I’m just thinking of a (smart and hidden) lart for the guys who pulled the power plug… Any ideas?

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245718
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245849

No, that’s not funny:

# ps 1>/dev/null
{ide_get_best_pio_mode} {GPLONLY_ide_get_best_pio_mode}
Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.22-ow1 does not match kernel data.
# hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.23 seconds =556.52 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.78 seconds = 35.96 MB/sec
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And it’s a productive machine running with RAID. No option for remote-reboot. Compiling [...]

No – it’s not really a rant. I just installed Opera 7.50 B1 on my laptop. The DNS-confirmation and the close-transfer-window have been fixed in the Preview-4-version. Due to the changelog Opera now supports ‘Auto-detection of RSS file (link rel=”alternate”) displayed in navigation bar’. Ok, so I added such a header to my webpage. What [...]

Remember my rant about the mailinglist of securityfocus? More than 80 mails in my spam_securityfocus-folder ;-(
I unsubscribed multiple times but still receive newsletters – grml. So I tried to unsubscribe via webpage for another time. Have a look:

An unsubscribe request has been sent for «censored»michael-prokop.at to the following mailing lists:

sf-news
ms-secnews
linux-secnews
Hint: notice the position of the [...]

Maybe my KMail-rant was a little bit polemic (hey – it costs time! 8-)) [I'll have a look at the source], but what really sucks is Outlook. Am I telling news? )
At work we still have two persons using Outlook. One at it’s own risk and the other one because importing in thunderbird didn’t [...]

Laserprinter at work is now not only available through IPX/Novell-crap but also via plain TCP/IP, especially via remote-CUPS. Together with the new fileserver running Samba 3 instead of Windows NT4 a main reason why I could switch to Linux on my Desktop *happy*
Because I think KDE is a really great desktop for using it at [...]

Found A, B, C, … D! The Programming Language on osnews.com (an online-ressource I really like btw).
A Comparison – D vs Other Languages.
I don’t know whether ‘D’ is interesting enough (I hope that’s not a new version of ‘640kb are enough’ 8-)), but I’ll add it to the quite long list of programming-languages I’ll have [...]

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\prokop.UFO.000\Desktop>type “office-update.cmd”
@echo off
REM Filename: office-update.cmd
REM Purpose: run office-update as root/administrator
REM Author: Michael Prokop / www.michael-prokop.at / www.grml.org
REM Latest change: Mo Apr 19 00 2004
REM #####################################################################################
ECHO Starting office-update as Administrator
runas /profile /user:%COMPUTERNAME%\Administrator “C:\Programme\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE \
http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/”
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\prokop.UFO.000\Desktop>
Yes – this should work. Should. Because it does not work – the following line is [...]

A Taste of Qt 4 – by Jasmin Blanchette

Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development

http://a9.com/grazer%20linuxtage – it seems to work
Some more details on a9 is available at John Battelle’s Searchblog

References in Major Papers to Weblogs and Blogs

While searching for interesting facts about Windows Longhorn I found the following (IMO funny) blog entry in the longhorn-blog:

There’s some interesting commentary going on over at OSNews.com in response to my Chronicles of
a WinFX Developer article.

There’s a post in their comparing the new features of Longhorn and C# to existing open source technologies.
Sounds interesting, but [...]

Today I wrote a small german webpage about BSD. Work is still in progress, but any feedback (especially of bsd-geeks 8-)) is welcome!

Rapid Application Development with Mozilla – zipped PDF

Starting slrn with newsserver news.gmane.org brings more than 150 new mailinglists – pfuh. And which one is on top of it? gmane.linux.debian.devel.custom – a sign from heaven?
Ok, in the next days I’ll continue my work on grml (besides working at university and writing slides for GLT04).
My question to the audience: which texttool(s) would [...]

History of Unix – as a graphical historical timeline, printable as PDF and other formats – taken from Tim Pritlove

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/klee/misc/slashdot.html (pointer by Martin Piskernig)