Archive for January, 2007
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Was mögen grml-User eigentlich an grml? Stimmt die Richtung die grml geht? Was machen grml-User eigentlich mit grml? Das und einiges mehr möchten wir herausfinden. Genau darum gibt es die grml user survey. Und ich möchte all jene unter euch, die ebenfalls grml verwenden bitten, daran teilzunehmen!
Einfach grml.org/user-survey/grml.txt runterladen, ausfüllen und per Mail an mich. [...]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Die Chemnitzer LinuxTage finden heuer am 3. und 4. März statt. Das Vortrags-Programm ist soeben online gegangen. Ich bin heuer mit dem Vortrag "Erfolgreiche OpenSource Projekt-Maintenance" vertreten (der auf der Idee meines Blog-Artikels ‘Die Gesetze von OpenSource‘ basiert). Ich hoffe die Zusage für den grml-Stand trudelt auch noch ein.
Auf alle Fälle freue ich mich schon [...]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Zim ist ein Desktop-Wiki. Man braucht also keinen Webserver um sich eine "wiki-ähnliche Todo-Liste" auf den Desktop zu holen. Ein einfaches ‘aptitude install zim’ reicht auf Debian. So schaut das im Einsatz z.B. aus:
Das originale gtk-Theme gefällt mir übrigens kein bisschen *grusel*. Deshalb habe ich das Look’n’Feel jenem auf der Screenshot-Seite des Projektes angepasst. Dazu [...]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
advchk ist ein Tool, das anhand einer definierten Software-Liste diverse (konfigurierbare) Security-Feeds (RSS/RDF/XML) abklappert und dann meldet, falls die installierte Softwareversion laut der bekannten Lücken verwundbar ist. Der Autor beschreibt es wie folgt:
Advchk (Advisory Check) reads security advisories so you don’t have to.
advchk is a tool for monitoring the security of [...]
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
As my ppc-based efika system is quite slow at building kernel packages I decided to cross compile the kernel on my x86 box. JFTR the necessary steps on a Debian system:
Adjust $KERNELSOURCE/Makefile to:
ARCH = powerpc
CROSS_COMPILE = powerpc-linux-gnu-
Thanks to the Embedded Debian project [...]
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
I received an efika board at the end of 2006. Now I had some time to investigate on that. I want to use Debian on the board of course to be able to work on grml-ppc.
My setup involves the following hardware:
the efika board
a 2.5" western digital harddisk
an ATX power supply
a nullmodem cable
an USB [...]
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Friday, January 12th, 2007
At last meeting of Security Treff Graz I brought up the question whether rsync is capable of handling extended ACLs (the Access Control Lists you handle with setfacl and getfacl on your Linux system). That’s very important for me when backing up running systems because I’m using ACLs on some systems but only a few [...]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Get Google Suggest on the commandline:
cd /tmp
dh-make-perl –cpan WebService::Google::Suggest –build
sudo dpkg -i libwebservice-google-suggest-perl_0.01-1_all.deb
wget http://hg.grml.org/grml-scripts/raw-file/tip/usr_bin/gsuggest.pl
chmod +x ./gsuggest.pl
% ./gsuggest grml
grml: 175000 results
grmlins: 286 results
grmlin: 816 results
grml linux: 76200 results
grmls: 566 results
grmln: 192 results
grml.ca: 57 results
grmlive: 7 results
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Thanks to maxx and oliver for reporting a problem with the feed of my blog. rss2email displayed the following warning:
% e2run
W: looks like HTML http://michael-prokop.at/blog/feed/
and whereas bloglines.com, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Awasu and even dog and wget worked without any noticeable problems there also was a problem with rss-reader akregator.
Finally I could track down the problem [...]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Thanks to Michael Hammer I had the possibility to test grml on a HP Compaq dc7700 Convertible Minitower today. As the box seems to be widely used at TU Graz and there’s not that much information available yet I’m feeding google.
My testing system was of course the grml live-cd using the current stable version grml [...]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
Thanks to schula for writing down the necessary steps how to set up a router with grml in less than 1 minute. JFTR the steps in english (will become part of grml-tips as well):
Execute ‘grml-router’
Install dnsmasq if not already present: apt-get update ; apt-get install dnsmasq
Adjust /etc/dnsmasq.conf according to your needs:
domain-needed
bogus-priv
dhcp-range=192.168.0.124,192.168.0.254,1m # dhcp range
dhcp-option=3,192.168.0.1 [...]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
As I usually forgot how to do it JFTR a cmdline to reset the password of a user in dokuwiki:
# usr=’myuser’; passwd=’secret_password’
# sed -i “s#$usr:[[:alnum:]$]*:#$usr:`printf ${passwd} | md5`:#” /var/lib/dokuwiki/acl/users.auth.php
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
So, nachdem ich netterweise von Thomas Quaritsch darauf hingewiesen wurde, dass die Software von pokerstars.de durch den Einsatz von Wine auch unter Linux zum Laufen zu bringen ist, habe ich das mal schnell probiert und es tut ohne große Hexerei:
Tipp: in der user.ini (hier in ‘~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/PokerStars.NET/user.ini’) unter dem Punkt [Options] ein "f5redrawtable=1" hinzufügen, dann [...]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Seit Weihnachten bin ich stolzer Besitzer eines Poker-Koffers. Und vor Kurzem ist in Debian unstable pokerth aufgetaucht:
PokerTH is a single-player poker game written in C++/QT4. You can play the popular “Texas Hold’em” poker variant against up to four computer-opponents. This poker engine is open-source and available for Linux and Windows.
Nachdem ich selbst auch Texas Hold’em [...]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Es ist gar nicht so einfach, für die Playstation 2 Spiele zu finden, die a) kein Shooter, b) kein Kinderspiel und c) für mehrere Personen (Multiplayer) sind. Für den Fall, dass jemand den gleichen Geschmack wie meine Freundin und ich haben sollte, werde ich jetzt mal Google füttern. (Disclaimer: ich spiele Shooter durchaus, [...]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
You might know of moreutils’s existence already, but in case you do not use them so far please give it a try as it’s definitely worth a look:
Description: additional unix utilities
This is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought
to write thirty years ago.
.
So far, it includes the following [...]
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