mikas blog

My girlfriend wants to buy a mp3-player. Of course I’m the one who evaluates which one she should buy. I didn’t have any experience with that stuff (I’m proud owner of a minidisc-player since many years) so I posted to the TUG-newsgroup tu-graz.hardware and got great feedback. The requirements are: * linux compatible * good […]

My new blogsystem provides feeds (RSS .91, 2.0 and Atom 0.3) which can be parsed by aKregator without any problems. So I wanted to import all the snownews-URLs without doing too much 8-) See the power of DCOP: $ sed ‘s/(.*)||(.*)|/dcop akregator-1808 aKregatorIface addFeedToGroup 1 2/’ urls >| /tmp/cmd $ chmod 700 /tmp/cmd && /tmp/cmd […]

In November 2003 I was inspired by Andi Krennmair (AK) to do some blogging. At that time AK used b2 so I also installed b2. b2 was ok but a few month later it began to suck. First of all development ended due to it was published as a merge of b2 and cafelog under […]

This might have become a rant too. First of all because it’s not possible to log the “apt-get upgrade”-process in detail with (on-board) debian-tools. What IMO sucks too is the missing documentation for some tools like apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs. So I tried to figure it out via manpage in combination with the provided example-scripts of […]

Currently I’m building my own chroot-environment. Now I’ve a static zsh from cvs-tree: [mika@tweety(519): ~/Source/zsh-cvs-040803/zsh]$ ldd Src/zsh not a dynamic executable 1 [mika@tweety(520): ~/Source/zsh-cvs-040803/zsh]$ Now I’m trying to modify my zsh-setup so it works without any more modifications out of the box in the chroot-environment. In a chroot you’ll probably find no GNU-date so I […]

I relaxed at the weekend without touching any computers (expect for about 20 minutes on saturday). Quite uncommon feeling ;-). What I’ve done on friday before driving back to Klagenfurt was setting up chroot on two of my linux-boxes. Based on the work of Wolfgang Fuschlberger and hisssh-scp-chroot-jail-script (thanks Wolfgang!) I tried to set it […]

Second week of IPICS04 has been done too. Monday (26th of July): Bart Preneel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) was giving “An introduction to cryptology, Part II” in 5 units. Main topics were MAC, PKI and GSM-security. Herbert Leitold (Secure Information Technology Center, Austria) was talking about ‘Electronic voting in Europe’ and it’s main problems. Afterswards […]