mikas blog

I like using del.icio.us. You too? Want to backup your entries? $ curl –user username:password -o myDelicious.xml \ -O ‘http://del.icio.us/api/posts/recent?count=10000′ Found on rentzsch.com. If you don’t have curl use the wget solution of blog.var.cc: $ wget –http-user=delicious-user –http-passwd=delicious-pass \ -O delicious-bkp.xml http://del.icio.us/api/posts/recent?count=10000 And another option is to bookmark http://del.icio.us/api/posts/recent?count=10000. Mac OSX users can use a […]

wordcount.org has an archive of the most frequently used english words. Look at some words I was searching for (1st: rank, 2nd: word): 1073 michael (hey, I’m the winner) 8-) 1169 windows (d’oh) 3474 apple (next to wanting) 3822 opera (next to alarm) 3952 shell (next to climb and humour) 7172 mac (next to moor) […]

Yesterday our cat Rubeo had great action fun. A bird lost it’s way and was jailed in our flat. My girlfriend and I heard strange noises in the living room and when we went there we found Rubeo fighting with a bird. Rubeo lost the bird and the sparrow flew in my working room. Our […]

Enter ‘cat en-de’ in the google searching field and have a go. It’s the shortform for ‘cat englisch-deutsch’ and you will get a link to leo.org. I couldn’t find this feature on the englisch webpage of google, neither on the italian nor the french one but only on the german features webpage of google.

I’m back in Graz since Monday. I had to do a big update on my workstation (besides the regular security-updates). Running with kernel 2.6.2 as my server for 87 days uptime without any problems *knock on wood* I updated to 2.6.8.1. With Jimmy’s ATI-Howto and debian-packages from Flavio Stanchi 3D-acceleration with my “ATI Technologies Inc […]

Because I don’t have to administrate any windows-clients during my holidays I didn’t read that many stuff/news related to M$. While searching for some interesting blogs I stumbled across Jason Nadal’s blog covering Monad. Monad is the codename (from greek philosophy meaning “indivisible unit”/german: Einheit, Unteilbares) for the new command shell msh.exe shipped with Windows […]

Running mkisofs and create_compressed_fs resulted in [ 9] Block# 22409 size 65536 -> 63066 [compression ratio 96%, overall: 36%] Getötet Huh?! Ok, give it another try: [ 9] Block# 22470 size 65536 -> 45476 [compression ratio 69%, overall: 36%] Getoetet So not a problem of grml but running out of swap *dang*. Running mkisofs and […]