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Archive for April, 2004

A Glance At Garbage Collection In Object-Oriented Languages

Wednesday, April 28th, 2004

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6864

Problems on server… update

Monday, April 26th, 2004

# ps 1>/dev/null # uname -srv Linux 2.4.25-grsec #1 Sam Apr 24 11:49:51 CEST 2004 # It’s running… I’m just thinking of a (smart and hidden) lart for the guys who pulled the power plug… Any ideas?

Debian – not funny

Monday, April 26th, 2004

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245718 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245849

Problems on server…

Saturday, April 24th, 2004

No, that’s not funny: # ps 1>/dev/null {ide_get_best_pio_mode} {GPLONLY_ide_get_best_pio_mode} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.22-ow1 does not match kernel data. # hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.23 seconds =556.52 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.78 seconds = 35.96 MB/sec # And it’s a productive machine running with RAID. No option for […]

Opera

Thursday, April 22nd, 2004

No – it’s not really a rant. I just installed Opera 7.50 B1 on my laptop. The DNS-confirmation and the close-transfer-window have been fixed in the Preview-4-version. Due to the changelog Opera now supports ‘Auto-detection of RSS file (link rel=”alternate”) displayed in navigation bar’. Ok, so I added such a header to my webpage. What […]

Securityfocus…

Tuesday, April 20th, 2004

Remember my rant about the mailinglist of securityfocus? More than 80 mails in my spam_securityfocus-folder ;-( I unsubscribed multiple times but still receive newsletters – grml. So I tried to unsubscribe via webpage for another time. Have a look: An unsubscribe request has been sent for «censored»michael-prokop.at to the following mailing lists: sf-news ms-secnews linux-secnews […]

Outlook sucks…

Tuesday, April 20th, 2004

Maybe my KMail-rant was a little bit polemic (hey – it costs time! 8-)) [I’ll have a look at the source], but what really sucks is Outlook. Am I telling news? :o) At work we still have two persons using Outlook. One at it’s own risk and the other one because importing in thunderbird didn’t […]

KMail sucks…

Tuesday, April 20th, 2004

Laserprinter at work is now not only available through IPX/Novell-crap but also via plain TCP/IP, especially via remote-CUPS. Together with the new fileserver running Samba 3 instead of Windows NT4 a main reason why I could switch to Linux on my Desktop *happy* Because I think KDE is a really great desktop for using it […]

A, B, C, … D! The Programming Language

Monday, April 19th, 2004

Found A, B, C, … D! The Programming Language on osnews.com (an online-ressource I really like btw). A Comparison – D vs Other Languages. I don’t know whether ‘D’ is interesting enough (I hope that’s not a new version of ‘640kb are enough’ 8-)), but I’ll add it to the quite long list of programming-languages […]

Why Windows sucks another time…

Monday, April 19th, 2004

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\prokop.UFO.000\Desktop>type “office-update.cmd” @echo off REM Filename: office-update.cmd REM Purpose: run office-update as root/administrator REM Author: Michael Prokop / www.michael-prokop.at / www.grml.org REM Latest change: Mo Apr 19 00 2004 REM ##################################################################################### ECHO Starting office-update as Administrator runas /profile /user:%COMPUTERNAME%\Administrator “C:\Programme\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE \ http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/” C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\prokop.UFO.000\Desktop> Yes – this should work. Should. Because […]

A Taste of Qt 4 – Preview

Monday, April 19th, 2004

A Taste of Qt 4 – by Jasmin Blanchette

Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development

Friday, April 16th, 2004

Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development

Amazon’s Searchengine

Thursday, April 15th, 2004

http://a9.com/grazer%20linuxtage – it seems to work ;) Some more details on a9 is available at John Battelle’s Searchblog

References in Major Papers to Weblogs and Blogs

Thursday, April 15th, 2004

References in Major Papers to Weblogs and Blogs

Windows Longhorn (funny)

Thursday, April 15th, 2004

While searching for interesting facts about Windows Longhorn I found the following (IMO funny) blog entry in the longhorn-blog: There’s some interesting commentary going on over at OSNews.com in response to my Chronicles of a WinFX Developer article. There’s a post in their comparing the new features of Longhorn and C# to existing open source […]

BSD-Webpage

Wednesday, April 14th, 2004

Today I wrote a small german webpage about BSD. Work is still in progress, but any feedback (especially of bsd-geeks 8-)) is welcome!

Rapid Application Development with Mozilla

Tuesday, April 13th, 2004

Rapid Application Development with Mozilla – zipped PDF

grml

Tuesday, April 13th, 2004

Starting slrn with newsserver news.gmane.org brings more than 150 new mailinglists – pfuh. And which one is on top of it? gmane.linux.debian.devel.custom – a sign from heaven? 8-) Ok, in the next days I’ll continue my work on grml (besides working at university and writing slides for GLT04). My question to the audience: which texttool(s) […]

History of Unix

Tuesday, April 13th, 2004

History of Unix – as a graphical historical timeline, printable as PDF and other formats – taken from Tim Pritlove

Quit Slashdot.org Today!

Monday, April 12th, 2004

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/klee/misc/slashdot.html (pointer by Martin Piskernig)