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Archive for July, 2006

Heute im IRC…

Friday, July 28th, 2006

11:32 * mikap geht mittagessen… cul
[....]
11:36 * vk hat Hunger und wartet schon auf mikap …
11:36 < wuehlmaus> das hoert sich irgendwie kannibalistisch an
[...]
12:46 * vk ist satt. mikap wird wohl jetzt einige Zeit nicht mehr hier mittippen … <rülps>

System Administrator Appreciation Day

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Don’t forget – today (on 28th of july) we have the System Administrator Appreciation Day!
Thanks for reminder, koki

Linux Symposium 2006

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Because it’s definitely worth a read: the proceedings of the Linux Symposium 2006 are now available for download (direct links: Volume 1, Volume 2 – PDF). Have a nice week reading them.

Steirische Software

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Wo ist jetzt nur “mei” Schlüsselverwaltung?

Debian on UltraSparc II

Monday, July 17th, 2006

We already have one Sun Sparc running at Robocup @ TUG:

mika@robosparc ~ % cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire)
fpu : UltraSparc I integrated FPU
promlib [...]

IRC- und irssi-Workshop

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Gentoo-Entwickler Wernfried ‘amne’ Haas hat für Leute vom Security Treff Graz und grml-Entwickler einen Workshop zu IRC und dem Konsolenclient irssi gehalten.

22:27 < amnemobil> 20:28:02 up 78 days, 18:41, 58 users, load average: 2.83, 1.85, 1.69
22:27 < amnemobil> /exec -o uptime
22:27 < mika_fh> 22:27:43 up 4:17, 0 users, load [...]

Wikipedia via fuse – wikipediafs

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Run ‘apt-get install wikipediafs‘ on your Debian/grml-box.
% cat ~/.wikipediafs/config.xml
<wfs-config>
<general>
<article-cache-time>300</article-cache-time>
</general>
<sites>
<site>
<dirname>wikipedia-de</dirname>
<host>de.wikipedia.org</host>
[...]

mrxvt – multi-tabbed X Terminal Emulator

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

mrxvt ist ein auf rxvt und aterm basierender multi-tabbed X Terminal Emulator. Laut der Projekt-Homepage bietet mrxvt folgende Features:

multi-tab support
runtime dynamic tab title
session support for each tab
input broadcasting for all tabs
user configurable keyboard shortcuts
translucent window support
pseudo-transparent background per terminal
pseudo-transparent scrollbar/menubar/tabbar
background color tinting
color text shadow
off-focus background fading
NeXT/rxvt/xterm/SGI/plain style scrollbar
user supplied background image per terminal (jpeg/png/xpm)
user supplied [...]

Thinkpad T60 laptop with Debian/grml Linux

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

First of all: thanks a lot to IBM/Lenovo! Michael Gebetsroither and me were working on the ‘Trusted Live Linux’ project at IAIK @ TUG. IBM/Lenovo kindly provided us a Thinkpad T60 1951-44G laptop so we were able to test and work with a TPM v1.2 chip. The results of the project will be available within [...]