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As you maybe remember I was searching for a mp3player for my girlfriend. Finally we bought one dnt Fun256 for my girlfriend and another one for her brother. The funny thing: one of my brothers also bought a mp3player a few months ago and he has the same one but only with 128MB of memory. […]

No – that’s not another rant. 8-) I did some work on grml. Today I created a bootable version of grml based on Knoppix 3.6. Of course there’s still a lot of work to do but I expect a first official version in september/october. People who want to do some beta-testing will obtain a non-public-version […]

No foreign cables on the switch so it’s time for do some blogging. 8-) The last few days have been great. On wednesday we (Sven and me) had our tutorial on texttools. One whole day just covering Vim, screen and zsh 8-). But there was not really much time left for some other nice utilities […]

Sorry for the delay but I’ve been busy in the last 2 days. On sunday some nice talks took place, check out planetkde.org for opinions of other people ;-). In the kdewiki you will find many more links to picture-galleries, streaming-server and documentation. On monday I attended to Klaus Knopper’s tutorial “Knoppix remastering” which was […]

$ svn update svn: XML parser failed in ” svn: Date conversion failed $ strace gives me: open(“.svn/entries”, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 read(3, “< ?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”ut”…, 8192) = 4849 read(3, “”, 3343) = 0 brk(0) = 0x80b9000 brk(0x80dc000) = 0x80dc000 brk(0) = 0x80dc000 brk(0) = 0x80dc000 brk(0x80d4000) = 0x80d4000 brk(0) = 0x80d4000 write(2, “svn: XML […]

Today we (Sven Guckes and me) arrived at Airport Stuttgart, went to Ludwigsburg by “S-Bahn” and checked in at aKademy. Now we are sitting at Hermann Thomas’ home. Hermann is a very nice guy who rescued us before a night under a bridge ;-) due to there was no space left in the youth hostel […]

In a few hours I’m flying with Sven Guckes to Stuttgart (Germany) from Klagenfurt Airport. Today KDE Community World Summit 2004 “aKademy” starts in Ludwigsburg. I’ll stay there till 28th of August. I don’t know whether I’ll have a good internet-connection via WLAN or not, so don’t expect to meet me in realtime in ICQ/Jabber […]

I wanted to know which (rss)readers people use for reading my blog. I created some stats based on logs from 26 july to 20th of august: RSS-Reader | Counts ======================================== “blogg.de-Crawler” | 8 “BlogPulse | 123 “centericq/4.10.0” | 16408 “centericq/4.10.1” | 4962 “centericq/4.11.0” | 495 “centericq/4.9.10” | 4308 “centericq/4.9.12” | 18436 “Feedreader” | 27055 “Feedster […]

Toogle is a Text version of Googles Image Search. Currently it creates images out of the very term that was used to fetch those images, later we will endeavour to create images out of the search terms entered by users past and present. But for now please, go play.   — http://c6.org/toogle/about.php Have a look at […]

An absolutely great zsh-tip by Jesper Holmberg I would like to share with you because I find it very useful. The motivation for the following snippet is the fact that I often do a ‘find’ or a ‘locate’ to find some files I’m interested in, and then want to do some action on one of […]

$ dpkg-buildpackage zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) dpkg-buildpackage $ dpkg-buildpackage –version zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) dpkg-buildpackage –version $ Same version of dpkg-buildpackage of course works on my laptop. Argl. Update: The solution to fix this problem is to change the shebang-line of the shellscript dpkg-buildpackage from /bin/sh (which is a symlink to zsh on […]

$ svn up svn: Working copy ‘.’ locked svn: run ‘svn cleanup’ to remove locks (type ‘svn help cleanup’ for details) $ svn cleanup svn: XML parser failed in ‘.zsh’ svn: Date conversion failed $ mv .zsh .zsh.old $ svn cleanup svn: Can’t open directory ‘.procmail/.svn/tmp/svn_io_remove_dir’: No such file or directory $ mkdir .procmail/.svn/tmp/svn_io_remove_dir $ […]

I can’t believe it – but S4 is running (using linux-kernel 2.6.8.1) on my Sony VAIO FX602! Disassembling the AML into an ASL-file with Intel’s IASL-compiler (part of the ACPI CA – Unix Build Environment), creating the AML in a c-hex-table and patching the linux-kernel did the trick. I’ve documented the essential steps on my […]

Lout is a document formatting system designed and implemented by Jeffrey Kingston at the Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia.    — http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/lout.html If you are interested in it also check out the project’s homepage @ sf.net. Credits for the pointer goes to the faboulus Karl Voit, a friend of mine who […]

Absolutely great. Jerry Peek (you might know him from the absolutely great book Unix Power Tools), Oliver Kiddle (a well known zsh-geek) and Stephenson Peter (author of the well known zsh-users-guide) have written a book on zsh named “From Bash to Z Shell: Conquering the Command Line” (book@amazon.at). It will be available in November 2004. […]

I wanted to take a closer look inside the current debian-installer of Sarge. I checked out the current svn-trunk and for fun (and inspired by Debian’s newsletter) I ran David A. Wheeler’s ‘SLOCCount’ for getting some stats. Have a look: Totals grouped by language (dominant language first): ansic: 30452 (59.93%) sh: 16674 (32.82%) perl: 2739 […]

While being in city yesterday afternoon I went to the IMO best bookshop in Klagenfurt called ‘Heyn’. There I again met my “old schoolfriend” Michael and his girlfriend (I have been in city because I met them and another friend before the unofficial meeting at Heyn ;-)). Michael isn’t a computer geek and I too […]

At the weekend I recorded Rubeo and Petzi with the digital videocam of my father. About 1,5 hours of video – resulting in ~16 GiB capturing-data. I don’t have that much free space on my laptop so I had to work on the windows computer of my brother. In the semiprofessional area of movie-editing it’s […]

As you maybe know I’m running Debian unstable (with 2.6.8-rc3) on my laptop. X11 is working and I even have support for XVideo. Now I wanted to add 3d acceleration (the gatos-drivers don’t provide 3d acc.). Ok, first of all I tried to use the debian package of the mach64-CVS-branch by Michel Dänzer. cd /usr/src/modules/drm-mach64 […]

Yes, Apple seems to hunt me ;-). As you can read in my last blog-entry I evaluate(d) iPods. Today Karl Voit pointed me to the baghira-look’n feel for KDE which tries to simulate Apple-feelings. And hey – it works! I really like it. (Take a look at the screenshot.) Jimmy (who set up his weblog […]