mikas blog

Uhm yeah, so this shirt didn’t age well. :) Mainly to recall what happened, I’m once again revisiting my previous year (previous edition: 2020). 2021 was quite challenging overall. It started with four weeks of distance learning at school. Luckily at least at school things got back to "some kind of normal" afterwards. The lockdowns […]

Mainly to recall what happened last year and to give thoughts and plan for the upcoming year(s) I’m once again revisiting my previous year (previous editions: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 + 2012). Due to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020 was special™ for several reasons, but overall I consider myself and my […]

Mainly to recall what happened last year and to give thoughts and to plan for the upcoming year(s) I’m once again revisiting my previous year (previous editions: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 + 2012). In terms of IT events, I attended Grazer Linuxdays 2019 and gave a talk (Best Practices in der IT-Administration, Version […]

Mainly to recall what happened last year and to give thoughts and planning for upcoming year(s) I usually revisit the last year (previous years: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 + 2012). But the end of 2018 and beginning of 2019 were quite stressful (mainly business wise) and I was lacking time and motivation to actually […]

Mainly to recall what happened last year and to give thoughts and planning for upcoming year(s) I’m once again revisiting the last year (previous years: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 + 2012). Here we go: Events: none (not even Grazer Linuxdays), on purpose Technology / Open Source: lots of work around Proxmox + Ceph finally released […]

Mainly to recall what happened last year and to give thoughts and planning for upcoming year(s) I’m once again revisiting the last year (previous years: 2015, 2014, 2013 + 2012). Here we go: Events: attended three conferences (OSDC in Germany, Linuxdays Graz + Debconf16 in Capetown) invited panel participant at Digitaldialog Privacy Technology / Open […]

Business: Attended four conferences (FOSDEM, cfgmgmtcamp, Linuxdays Graz and Debconf) Second year of business with SynPro Solutions, very happy with what we achieved Very intense working year (Grml Solutions, SynPro Solutions, Grml-Forensic), I worked way more than anticipated and planned but am very glad that I’ve such wonderful business partners and colleagues Technology / Open […]

On 10th of May 2015 my lovely wife has made me a lovely present again: welcome to our family, Johanna.

Business: Attended only four conferences (FOSDEM, Linuxdays Graz, DebConf and Flowcon) due to taking care of my child each Tuesday and Friday (so it wasn’t easy to attend conferences during the week, and weekends are usually family time for me nowadays) Home office/remote work: this year was very remote work and home office focused because […]

2013 was a fantastic year for me. Following the real-life fork it was the first year of my daughter’s life. Whenever I heard people saying “oh, children are growing sooooo fast” in the past it felt like a lie for me, but seeing your own child grow I can just sign that, and it’s fantastic. […]

2012 was a very special year for me, so it’s worth some words. In April the Grazer Linuxtage event took place, being one of the major IT events in Austria nowadays. I’m one of its original founders and after being part of the main organisation team for ten times I decided to leave the organisation […]

On 31st of December 2012 my lovely wife has made ​​me the gift of my life: welcome to the world, Verena.

4489 days later we did it, on 21st of May Marianne and I got married. Turned out it became a pretty geeky marriage, as Grml 2011.05-rc1 with codename “Just Mari” was released during the ceremony (thanks guys!), I had to solve a nice groom quiz and our event had its own hashtag on twitter. Thanks […]

Fsck you, FIP.

% cd /grml/git/linux-2.6/ % cd .git/objects/pack % file * | grep -v data pack-0c3a88aa2f3c6b5cfea224b66906fa0cf07bc7fc.pack: Quake I or II world or extension pack-3ebc40fbd41ac05dbfa05f20aaa99169d71fdef7.pack: Quake I or II world or extension pack-42664a36f606adcf0698aa649a5d6d34ddab3c94.pack: Quake I or II world or extension […]

Ein bisschen etwas in eigener Sache, was schon länger in den Drafts liegt: Nach über 5 Jahren als Sysadmin am Institut für Unternehmungsführung und -organisation an der TU Graz ist es Zeit für einen Tapetenwechsel. Am 14. Jänner habe ich meinem Chef meine Entscheidung mitgeteilt und mit Ende Juni 2008 läuft mein aktueller Arbeitsvertrag aus. […]

Kleiner Reminder: Am Samstag, dem 19. April findet der Grazer LinuxTag 2008 an der FH Joanneum statt! Vortragende aus dem In- und Ausland werden in einem breit gefächertem Programm in insgesamt 28 Vorträgen versuchen, die Neugierde und den Wissensdurst der Besucher zu befriedigen. Es besteht die Möglichkeit zur Absolvierung von LPI-Prüfungen zu besonders günstigen Konditionen. […]

Martin, sorry for calling you Madduck on the debian.ch-mailinglist. Luckily I didn’t use that name during our meeting in Zurich last week. *pfuh* ;) To take part in the pdo-game with my own name (being Michael Prokop ;-)): as many of you might know I’m known as Mika in the community. The name was invented […]

Aufklärung startet im Kleinen, im Bekannten- und Verwandtenkreis. In einer Diskussion rund um die Vorratsdatenspeicherung und die immer verstärkter aufkommende Videoüberwachung habe ich verschiedene Szenarien aufgezeigt. Ein Szenario davon war, dass man durch Data-Mining und diverse Web 2.0-Dienste immer gläserner wird. Und zwar muss man dafür gar nicht erst seine eigene Homepage ins Web stellen. […]