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Yesterday evening I was (together with Sven Guckes) at JazzerSommerGraz where Chick Corea was playing a really great concert. Some pics are available online. There was – as usual – free entrance and I think some people didn’t know what kind of music Chick Corea and his Electric Band are playing because they left concert […]

Just found on planet.debian.net: mailto:de_DE@euro.UTF-8 — http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/2004/07/27#locales

My Kanotix/Knoppix-installation on my Sony-Laptop sucked. Hotplugging was quite crappy and using WLAN-card with WEP at IPICS04 did not work. So it was time for testing the Debian/Sarge-DVD I got by Fred Andresen from Linux-New-Media. Installation of Debian/Sarge was quite comfortable. No (obvious) bugs in the installer, no loss of data and a fast way […]

A cronjob sends me a daily output of my calendar for the next 20 days (pal -r 20). What I also like is ‘at’ as a reminder: echo “mail -s ‘check TODO-list’ your@address.invalid < /dev/null” | at 23:42 Of course this can be used also with other programs like osdsh, [kgX]dialog,… What’s your favourite way […]

Let me show the power of zargs. First of all let’s see wheter both commands do the same: $ find /usr/include -name \*.h -exec grep printf /dev/null {} \; | wc -l 389 $ zargs /usr/include/**/*.h — grep printf /dev/null | wc -l 389 Yes, seems so – so let’s compare them via ‘time’: $ […]

Now I was searching for other zsh-addicts via Feedster. I couldn’t find really interesting blogs but what I could find is ZWS. ZWS is a simple web server written in ZSH. ZWS uses zsh/stat, zsh/datetime, zsh/net/tcp and tcp_proxy. IMO it’s just something like a prototype – but at least it demonstrates the power of zsh. […]

Because I’m having internet-access while sitting at IPICS04@TUG I will give a short overview over the last week. Tuesday (20th of July): Ahmed Patel from Ireland was talking about ‘Investigative Computing’. Main topics were comparison of existing models (Interpol, Casey, DRWS,…) and some main parts of computer forensic. Günther Pernul from University of Regensburg took […]

If you don’t read Andi Krennmair’s (AK) weblog you might be interested in being pointed to his tool tpp. tpp is a tool for presenting “slides” on a textconsole. It works like a charme and Andi already implemented some of my suggested features. What you need is Ruby 1.8, a recent version of ncurses and […]

I wanted to have this feature for quite some time. Today I realized it with osdsh. osdsh in combination with osdctl now displays a blue text in the centre and top of X (when it’s running) on every virtual desktop. So I don’t have to check for new messages such often (centericq is running inside […]

178 slides, 5 units in >7 hours (including pauses) – first day of IPICS04 has taken place. Prof. Karl C. Posch gave us an ‘Introduction to Information and Communication Security and Secure Embedded Systems’. Steven Furnell of University of Plymouth (UK) was talking about cyber crime. 35 participants from all over the world are here […]

I just found a perl module for gmail via Planet Debian. This perl module uses objects to make it easy to interface with Gmail. I eventually hope to implement all of the functionality of the Gmail website, plus additional features. Anyone writing an extension/wrapper for mutt? 8-)

Opera’s look and feel can be changed with one-click setups. These setup files bundle popular browser settings so you can select a style that suits you best. Setups can change Opera’s skin, toolbars, menus, keyboard shortcuts, and mouse gestures. — www.opera.com/startup/customize/ I really like those setups. The Safari look and feel (skin) together with the […]

If you are zsh-user you probably know the german “zsh-liebhaber-seite” of Matthias Kopfermann. Because the webserver of the old and original webpage is often under high load we (Matthias and me) decided to overwork the webpage and locate it on my website. So if you are interested in zsh and are capable of reading german […]

Groups Google 2 Beta is online. It’s interface is quite similiar to the one of gmail. Check out the new interface via going through some postings. One of the new features I could find is the option “Recent groups” on the left side of the panel, displaying recently viewed newsgroups. It’s also possible to “Clear […]

As you maybe know I’m currently working on the book about texttools. I’d like to include a chapter with some details on terminals. But documentation about raw-, cooked-queue and so on sucks^Wdoesn’t really exist ;-(. The only useful documentation I could find is the Single UNIX © Specification on “General Terminal Interface” and of course […]

Since Wednesday 16:00 I’m at holidays 8-). No work, no university – at least not official ;-). Now I’m listening to Nils Landgren’s Funk Unit at Jazz Baltica on tv (3sat). Today I met Sven Guckes at Kunsthaus in Graz. Sven is in Graz for the next three months. Together with Sven I’m writing a […]

Legende: T = Türkenkind M = Mika (ich ;-)) T 02.07 23:56 * The user has added you to his/her contact list T 02.07 23:57 hi bist du der von http://www.michael-prokop.at/person/#real M 02.07 23:57 wieso? T 02.07 23:57 wenn ja dan wollte ich dich was fragen M 02.07 23:58 ja, bin ich T 02.07 23:58 […]