mikas blog

In centericq 4.9.10 german umlauts don’t work for many people, also my box had problems. Now I could figure out (with a hint of Marc Thoben – thx!) the problem. Have a look at my mail to the centericq-mailinglist. Short version: don’t use POSIX for LC/locale-settings but use something like that: [mika@grml: ~]% locale LANG=de_AT@euro […]

As you might have mentioned I really like the firewire-stuff on linux, today I captured 5GiB of movies – sucessful and on my workstation :). But due to some problems with the dv1394-module (which couldn’t be loaded via insmod after compiling) I wanted to upgrade from kernel 2.6.2 to 2.6.3. I already tried 2.6.3-rc2 but […]

No, at home I don’t use KDE 3.2 as a desktop environment due to pekwm is really great ;-), but I configured kicker (the KDE-taskbar) and I really like it because it has some really nice features as kweather (weather reports), klipper (clipboard-manager), kdict (a dictionary, I am using it with dict.tugraz.at), the color picker […]

http://kai.iks-jena.de/miniwahr/darmstadt-griesheim.html – ECHELON-Station Griesheim bei Darmstadt

As I already wrote firewire works really great with linux. Today I created 124MiB of divx-movies with kino and mencoder: [mika@tweety: ~/Video]% mencoder -ovc divx4 -o stuff.avi -oac lavc export014.dv Works like a charme – just the filesize-limit of my system as user mika sucked: [mika@tweety: ~/Video]% limit | grep filesize filesize 244MB [mika@tweety: ~/Video]%

Some days ago I installed KDE 3.2 on the computer of my girlfriend. Today I installed KDE 3.2 on my box at work and I really enjoy it. It’s fast enough for my system, it’s definitive an eye candy, the kicker-applets (klipper, dictionary, knewsticker, kmix, kscd, kweather and so on) are useful, the KDE Wallet […]

Today my brother gave me the digital videocamera from my father and because we would like to create some movies about our cat Rubeo I tried to use the camera with linux. Some weeks ago I bought a firewire-cable and so I connected the camera with my laptop, loaded the kernelmodules dv1394, ohci1394, raw1394, ieee1394 […]

Ok, now I used some options from the X-config from my debian-installation and X is working on freebsd. But: it just works if I call “startx” as root, neither gdm nor startx running as user work as they should, and calling “X” as user mika results in a freeze. Grml!

Ok, because I should learn for university I installed FreeBSD on my laptop ;o). Installing FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC was no problem, but booting it via Grub was tricky ;-). But finally I got it working: root@tweety:/home/mika# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38760 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 […]

Because I try to find out the best features from all the existing distributions for my own one (called grml), today I tried to run phlak (0.2.1) [a derivative of Morphix] and fire (0.4a) [Forensic and Incident Response Environment]. While phlak tried to access the CD-ROM for more than 5 minutes without doing anything (hanging […]

http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-February/017613.html http://www.macmerc.com/news/archives/1270 http://heise.de/newsticker/meldung/44853 (german)

www.flickr.com – share pictures in real time – pointer by Enki Boehm on internetz(at)vibe.at.

Since today the new and updated website for Grazer LinuxTage 2004 is online. Oliver Jusinger did a great job with webprogramming. More than 20 lectures and about 8 workshops are registered nowadays, call for papers is till 10th of march. There’s still a lot to do but organisational stuff is working quite well. I assume […]

Opera 7.50 Preview 2 is available for different platforms (as usual). Get it from snapshot.opera.com. For me there aren’t any obvious changes besides better panels-handling. But fullscreen-mode still does not save the toolbar settings – grml. I use the fullscreen-mode (F11) because there does not exist any advertisements in this mode and place is used […]

Ok, maybe you noticed (anyone reading this blog out there? ;-)) that I changed the layout of the blog a little bit. Well, I removed the TrackBack and PingBack stuff a few days ago, today I (again) changed some CSS-stuff – hope it looks ok for you :-). Ok, now I have to study… for […]

[mika@bufo: ~/Source]% uptime 12:02AM up 12 days, 9:51, 1 user, load averages: 0.14, 0.08, 0.03 [mika@bufo: ~/Source]% Still running and I tried to compile some small c-programs for the university-lecture “datastructures and algorithms” on the BSD-box – worked of course ;-). What was curious and new for me is the fact that I had to […]

http://selinux.lemuria.org/install-2.6.html – SELinux on Debian/Sid with Kernel 2.6

https://solarflux.org/pf/pf+IPv6.php – Firewalling IPv6 with OpenBSD’s pf (packet filter)

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795 – We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source

Today I set up Fedora-Linux on my box at work on the new harddisc. Setting up was quite easy, but I have to become used to the rpm-stuff ;). Looks like it would work fine, but some things didn’t work as they should (Printer-Setup via SMB-Share, there was no ntfs-module available for mounting NTFS-partitions – […]