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Archive for 2010

Open Source Projektmanagement

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Seit Ende September gibt es das Resultat von rund 3 Jahren Arbeit in Buchform im Handel. "Open Source Projektmanagement – Softwareentwicklung von der Idee zur Marktreife" ist mein literarischer Beitrag rund um das Management von Open-Source-Projekten. Dass das Buch so lange auf sich warten hat lassen, liegt – entgegen anders lautender Gerüchte – nicht an […]

Event: Vorträge “Internet und Recht” und “Privatsphäre im Internet” am 18.11. in Graz

Monday, November 8th, 2010

via Peter Kuhm: Am Donnerstag, den 18. November 2010 finden um 18:30 Uhr die Vorträge * Internet und Recht – Stolpersteine und Wegmarken * Privatsphäre im Internet – Facebook, Xing, Twitter und Co statt. Wo: TU Graz, HS E, Kopernikusgasse 24/1, 8010 Graz. Vortragende: MMag. Dr. Albrecht HALLER, Rechtsanwalt, Wien Mag. Markus KLEMEN, Geschäftsführer SBA […]

LART of the day – the solution

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

Remember my LART of the day? It looked like: % cat foo.c int main() { return 0; } % gcc foo.c foo.c:1: fatal error: can’t open /tmp/ccxgyEhb.s for writing: Permission denied compilation terminated. Congratulations to sunckell and Bernd for guessing the right answer. Additionally to the blog comments (which I delayed through moderation to give […]

LART of the day – guess what’s wrong

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Update: see LART of the day – the solution for the solution. % cat foo.c int main() { return 0; } % gcc foo.c foo.c:1: fatal error: can’t open /tmp/ccxgyEhb.s for writing: Permission denied compilation terminated. Uh?! Ok, does the file exist? Do I have write permissions? gcc ok? % pwd /tmp % ls -lad […]

Vortrag “Gute Open-Source-Projekte bestehen aus mehr als nur Code”

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Auf der FrOSCon (Free and Open Source Software Conference) habe ich am letzten Wochenende einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Gute Open-Source-Projekte bestehen aus mehr als nur Code" gehalten. Das Videoteam war heuer schnell (danke!) und daher gibt es für Interessierte zu meinen Vortragsfolien (PDF, 10MB) auch bereits das Video zum Vortrag: h264-Format, 118MB theora-Format, 290MB

DebConf10: done

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Finally I’m back from DebConf10 in New York. It was the first DebConf I attended and it was just great. Thanks a lot to all involved people for making DebConf such a great event. I had a big todo list for DebCamp and DebConf and managed to get a bunch of work done. Besides several […]

Event: System Administrator Appreciation Day 2010 in New York

Friday, July 30th, 2010

On each last Friday of July the annual System Administrator Appreciation Day is taking place. Matt Simmons organized a SysAdmin Day Meetup to celebrate this event in New York. If you’re in New York on 30th of July consider registering yourself (it’s free and takes just a few seconds). If you are participant of the […]

Report from FAI developer workshop 07/2010

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Last weekend (2010-07-02 – 2010-07-04) nine people met at the FAI developer workshop at Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany. If you can’t remember: FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to large-scale infrastructures and clusters. The […]

FAI Developer Workshop 2010

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

From 2nd to 4th of July 2010 the FAI developer workshop will take place at the Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany. FAI? FAI is the abbreviation for Fully Automatic Installation. It’s a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks […]

Vortragsfolien zu “Grml Live-Linux für Deployment und Desaster-Recovery”

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Auf den Grazer Linuxtagen und den Linuxwochen Wien habe ich jeweils einen Vortrag über “Grml Live-Linux für Deployment und Desaster-Recovery” gehalten, die Folien zum Vortrag gibts online (PDF – 1,6MB).

EtherPad.com gone – long live TitanPad.com!

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

I love EtherPad for online collaboration in real-time. By today (14th of April 2010) new pad creation will be disabled at EtherPad.com. Being aware of that in advance and as the EtherPad software was open sourced recently friends of mine and I were working on providing a dedicated EtherPad setup. TitanPad was born! Quoting our […]

Rest in Peace, Maxi

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Fsck you, FIP.

Remote Console feature through Java applet failing?

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

I’m working for a customer who’s using IBM blades. Remote access isn’t limited to e.g. SoL but also possible through a Remote Console feature using a Java applet. After migrating one of my 32bit systems to a fresh 64bit system I suddenly couldn’t use this Remote Console feature any longer. The error message was (leaving […]

Fun in the Linux kernel source

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

void die_if_kernel(char *str, struct pt_regs *regs) { static int die_counter; int count = 0; /* Amuse the user. */ printk( ” \\|/ ____ \\|/\n” ” \”@’/ .. \\`@\”\n” ” /_| \\__/ |_\\\n” ” \\__U_/\n”);   — arch/sparc/kernel/traps_64.c

I am going to DebConf 10

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

Just booked my ticket for DebConf10. See you in New York.

Event: Blender 3D UserDay 2010 in Graz

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Via flo: Wir möchten Euch auf eine Veranstaltung am 20. März 2010 im Medienkunstlabor Graz (im Kunsthaus) hinweisen: Blender 3D UserDay 2010 Weitere Informationen auf www.blenderusers.at.

Grazer Linuxtage 2010: Call for Lectures / Projects

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Die Grazer Linuxtage (GLT) finden heuer am Samstag, dem 24. April 2010 auf der FH Joanneum statt. Wir – das Organisationsteam der GLT – suchen auch heuer wieder gute Vorträge. Vor Kurzem ist Call for Lectures online gegangen. Du willst deine Software unter die Leute bringen? Es gibt ein gutes Projekt das unbedingt vorgestellt gehört? […]

The mysterious 8MB block device on Linux

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

If you ever notice a device like that on your Linux system: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 8 MB, 8388608 bytes 8 heads, 32 sectors/track, 64 cylinders Units = cylinders of 256 * 512 = 131072 bytes Disk /dev/sda doesn’t contain a valid partition table … then the scsi_debug kernel driver is present. To get […]