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Currently I’m checking out some nice features of vim for my workshop at GLT04. By accident I found this short but informative webpage about vimdiff. Of course I kn[e|o]w vimdiff, but the following hints were quite useful at least for me: Re-diffing :diffupdate Moving between diffs [c ]c Synchronizing :diffget :diffput Especially diffget und diffput […]

Currently I’m working on the first ISO of grml and because I’m missing some debian-packages of nice tools I created a first deb (others will follow) and try to automatize this process as much as possible. I also set up an online-debian-directory (http) and it works like a charme. First release of grml is coming […]

More than 20 stupid “Out of Office AutoReply”, “MailServer Notification” and similiar crapmails within a few minutes via sf-news-euro@securityfocus.com in my inbox. argl! *creating_procmail_rule_and_unsubcribing* Update: 48 mails and still “running”… *anybody* is able to send mails unchecked(!) through sf-news-euro@securityfocus.com – argl!

“Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor” – grml. “The 5.x bootable install CDs no longer use floppy-emulation mode. The change was made because some newer machines do not support this emulation mode. However, older machines may not be able to boot CDs in “native” (non-emulation) mode. We can’t support everybody, so we support the new […]

“Seit heute 12:00 Uhr können IDN Domains unter .at, .co.at und .or.at registriert werden.” So zu lesen auf nic.at – aja. Auch zu lesen ist “Um die Technischen Systeme zu entlasten wird zudem in den ersten Tage keine Whois-Abfrage für diese Domains zur Verfügung stehen.” Hm: [mika@grml: ~]% whois bücher.at % Copyright (c)2003 by NIC.AT […]

Today I wrote a german webpage about zsh. zsh is really great and via stepping through $ZSH-SOURCE/Etc/FEATURES, Changelogs and using google I discovered many not so well known features.

UFO is the institut at technical university graz where I am working since more than 2 years. Yesterday (friday) and today (saturday) the 25-years-ufo-“party” took place. All the “old” assistants came together in Graz. All of them are quite important people in big companies like Roland Berger, Mobilkom, Porsche USA, Steweag-Steg, AVL, Magna-Steyr, Kearney and […]

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