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Goal: replace files in /etc/zsh from package zsh with files from package grml-etc. Store original files via dpkg-divert and when purging grml-etc restore them.
Ok: use debian/preinst with dpkg-divert and don’t put the config files in the file ‘conffiles’. And wonder why it doesn’t work as it maybe should. Why? Files are put into ‘conffiles’ on [...]

My load is quite high. I’m working for OS04 (Open Source Event on 22th of october in Graz) and therefor miss the Gilmore Girls in the afternoon (*grml*). I should study for an exam and grml takes the rest of my time. And of course I should prepare my slides for my lecture on grml [...]

Number 32 in my spamcatcher-trap.
It looks like this in the webserver log:

62.178.201.106 – - [26/Sep/2004:02:38:24 +0200] “GET /suche/ HTTP/1.1″
200 – “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; CHWIE_AT71; SV1)”
And it’s not just one entry:

$ grep 62.178.201.106 log/access_log | wc -l
204
$
Of course I’ve sent an abuse mail to chello.

Murphy won. At least for all the people who don’t have a 24/7 connection to our gateway in Virtual Campus Graz. The gateway (handling stuff like PPTP/VPN, HTTP/FTP and SMTP) does not work anymore as it should. My PPTP-tunnel is still alive *knock on wood* and Martin provided me a ssh-tunnel for sending mails. Thanks, [...]

Suckers. More than 20 spam comments within a few hours. Using the antispam feature of wordpress – which requests for approval – didn’t help. First of all I still get mails requesting for approval (you can turn off this feature but I don’t want that). What sucks more is that the comments including the common [...]

Tomorrow (thursday) is the devel-day for grml. Inspired by SuSE’s sitar I wrote a small shellscript named ‘grml-hwinfo‘. It just prints out some hardware information which should help us (the grml-team) to fix bugs in hardware-detection and/or software.
Please test it on your Debian system and report bugs and additional ideas!

KDE has a lot going for it. It’s attractive and powerful. Its breadth of functionality is inspiring. Where it could benefit most is a consistent eye toward usability, particularly in not overwhelming new users with its capabilities. Easing new users into KDE, rather than throwing everyone into the deep end of the pool, would broaden [...]

Yesterday I’ve been at my dentist in Klagenfurt. Now I’ve one tooth less and I’m feeling really bad. The procedure of removing the tooth itself was “ok” (not recovery but fast and no real pains) but afterwards it was horrible. Abdominal pain, ague (Schüttelfrost), headache, sore throat,… Being back to Graz I even [...]

Man nenne mich ignorant oder auch Bernhard-Nichtkenner. “Der Untergeher” von Thomas Bernhard ware ein Versuch von mir, wieder mal österr. Literatur zu schnuppern. Die Geschichte dreht sich um drei Pianisten die nur das Höchste als die wahre Kunst gelten lassen.
Eine nette Geschichte, dachte ich mir beim Buchkauf. Bei ungefähr der Hälfte des schmalen Buches [...]

My wisdom teeth are growing since months. It seems that I don’t have such a bigbeautiful mouth such as Julia Roberts. So some teeth are hurting now.
Because I still don’t know a reliable dentist in Graz I think I’ll have a one-day trip to my familiy and my dentist to Klagenfurt next week. [...]

Oh man, I’ve been soooo angry. After being at a meeting at the end of the world Graz my bicycle had no air in one of it’s wheel (aka “I hob an Platten”). Damn. I went to a friend of mine (living behind the end of the world ) to get a script for [...]

“grml 0.06 unofficial” is ready. It’s booting up with kernel 2.4.27 and 2.6.7 on my laptop within 1 minute and 25 seconds. Suggestions of Sven Guckes and Gerfried ‘Alfie’ Fuchs have been integrated. I’ve to do some bugfixing of course and someone[tm] has to write a lot of documentation. But it’s going on (a newer [...]

I’m the one who is responsible for internet-access (nowadays VPN and PPTP) in the dormitory WIST-Wienerstrasse for now almost 5 years. Besides the usual stuff (people forgetting to plug in the network cable) there has been quite a lot of “intersting” stuff. Some funny situations I can remember have been:
* windows running under “uncommon” locales: [...]

[Hyperthreading and Windows...] For Windows NT and Windows 2000, the answer is “It doesn’t even know.” These operating systems are not hyperthreading-aware because they were written before hyperthreading was invented. If you enable hyperthreading, then each of your CPUs looks like two separate CPUs to these operating systems. (And will get charged as two [...]

Linux Kernel 2.6.8.1 (aka Zonked Quokka) seems to have problems with USB.
First of all I had (again) problems with one of my USB-sticks – the superfloppy one. See the log:

usb #-x.y: can’t connect bus-powered hub to this port
If you see something like that you might be using a usb keyboard port. Just try [...]

Do you know Opera’s mouse-gesture which tries to guess what’s the next page/picture? Go into a directory-listing with many files (for example pictures) and click on the first link. Now use the same gesture as for switching forward: press right mouse-button and move it the the right . You will see the next file [...]

zsh-users out there: please use the zsh as your /bin/sh! Use /bin/zsh not only as the shell for your user(s) in /etc/passwd but also do a ‘ln -s /bin/zsh /bin/sh’! Why? For me there are two major reasons:
* find unportable shellscripts
* find bugs of zsh
grml uses zsh as the default shell. I don’t know many [...]

The binichsexy.de version for geeks is ratemynetworkdiagram.com.
Pointer by Kristian Köhntopp

If you are searching for implementations of the Towers of Hanoi problem take a look at Hanoimania. The webpage is really great and provides (IMHO) impressive solutions (YMMV).
Some versions I like:
* awk
* ICMP
* sed
* zsh
* ZSH Dynamically Loadable Builtin

One thing that annoyed me at my selfcompiled zsh-binary was that zsh changed path to ‘/’ when starting up. Now I could fix that behaviour:

$ echo $CFLAGS
-O9 -funroll-loops -ffast-math -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 \
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -malign-double
$ ls -lah Src/zsh| awk ‘{print $5}’
566K
$ ./Src/zsh -f -c pwd
/
[...]
$ echo $CFLAGS
-O9 -funroll-loops -ffast-math -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 \
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions
$ ls -lah [...]