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Yesterday I’ve been at the cinema. My girlfriend and me were watching the german version of ‘The phantom of the Opera’. The pictures are impressive, the sound is great. What we didn’t like was the voice of Uwe Kröger for the phantom because the actor of the phantom didn’t look like Uwe. ;-) Conclusion: A […]

Today I discovered the useful tool tcprobe. Till today I used mplayer and GNU strings for getting details on movie files. tcprobe is part of the transcode package and provides detailed information on files: $ tcprobe -i test.avi [tcprobe] RIFF data, AVI video [avilib] V: 25.002 fps, codec=DX50, frames=1597, width=352, height=288 [avilib] A: 32000 Hz, […]

Linux Server Hacks by Rob Flickenger (ISBN: 0-596-00461-3) is a collection of 100 tips and tricks for servers running linux. I read the german version (ISBN: 3897213613) and enjoyed it. First of all I like the short “stories” because it’s possible to savour the book when you’ve just a few minutes of spare time. About […]

echo ‘Du gruenst nicht nur zur Sommers zeit, nein auch im Winter, wenn es schne it. O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum, wie gruen sind deeeeine Blaetter’ | festival –tts

While preparing and testing the Linux kernel 2.6.9 for the grml-system I noticed problems with loading the reiser4-module: # modprobe reiser4 FATAL: Error inserting reiser4 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-grml/kernel/fs/reiser4/reiser4.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) # dmesg | tail -1 reiser4: Unknown symbol find_get_pages_tag Google does not know the problem (yet ;-)) and taking a […]

While checking for new magazines at the bookstore I discovered Software 2.0 Extra. The magazine is published by Software Wydawnictwo. That’s the company you might know from their other magazines like Linux+, Hakin9 or PHP Solutions. AFAICS there have been already two releases of the german version of “Software 2.0 Extra”, the current one covers […]

As you can see in the screenshot I’m using 2.6.9 for the current devel-release of grml. It was hard work to set it up due to problems with cloop in the initrd (thanks to Worf for his help!) but now it works like a charme on my laptop. Now I’ve to add some more modules […]

You still don’t have a computer on your toilet? Well, make a hardcopy then. ;-) My prefered way of making sourcecode more readable: $ which makereadable makereadable() { output=$1 shift a2ps –medium A4dj -E -o $output $* ps2pdf $output } Together with my a2psrc it provides a readable output. Take a look at my pdf-files […]

Opensource-CD is a german project which provides several open source programs for windows. Version 1.1 provides 70 up2date programs. I just downloaded the ISO and took a look at it. I think I don’t have to build my own ISOs anymore, because most programs I usually need when sitting in front of a windows box […]

At the end of december I would like to release grml version 0.2. Many new packages will be available, some more scripts which should make life easier and a first public version of grml2hd by Jimmy should be available too. Today I installed grml to harddisk with a first version of grml2hd: grml@grml ~ $ […]