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No, that’s not funny: # ps 1>/dev/null {ide_get_best_pio_mode} {GPLONLY_ide_get_best_pio_mode} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.22-ow1 does not match kernel data. # hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.23 seconds =556.52 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.78 seconds = 35.96 MB/sec # And it’s a productive machine running with RAID. No option for […]

No – it’s not really a rant. I just installed Opera 7.50 B1 on my laptop. The DNS-confirmation and the close-transfer-window have been fixed in the Preview-4-version. Due to the changelog Opera now supports ‘Auto-detection of RSS file (link rel=”alternate”) displayed in navigation bar’. Ok, so I added such a header to my webpage. What […]

Remember my rant about the mailinglist of securityfocus? More than 80 mails in my spam_securityfocus-folder ;-( I unsubscribed multiple times but still receive newsletters – grml. So I tried to unsubscribe via webpage for another time. Have a look: An unsubscribe request has been sent for «censored»michael-prokop.at to the following mailing lists: sf-news ms-secnews linux-secnews […]

Maybe my KMail-rant was a little bit polemic (hey – it costs time! 8-)) [I’ll have a look at the source], but what really sucks is Outlook. Am I telling news? :o) At work we still have two persons using Outlook. One at it’s own risk and the other one because importing in thunderbird didn’t […]

Laserprinter at work is now not only available through IPX/Novell-crap but also via plain TCP/IP, especially via remote-CUPS. Together with the new fileserver running Samba 3 instead of Windows NT4 a main reason why I could switch to Linux on my Desktop *happy* Because I think KDE is a really great desktop for using it […]

Found A, B, C, … D! The Programming Language on osnews.com (an online-ressource I really like btw). A Comparison – D vs Other Languages. I don’t know whether ‘D’ is interesting enough (I hope that’s not a new version of ‘640kb are enough’ 8-)), but I’ll add it to the quite long list of programming-languages […]

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\prokop.UFO.000\Desktop>type “office-update.cmd” @echo off REM Filename: office-update.cmd REM Purpose: run office-update as root/administrator REM Author: Michael Prokop / www.michael-prokop.at / www.grml.org REM Latest change: Mo Apr 19 00 2004 REM ##################################################################################### ECHO Starting office-update as Administrator runas /profile /user:%COMPUTERNAME%\Administrator “C:\Programme\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE \ http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/” C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\prokop.UFO.000\Desktop> Yes – this should work. Should. Because […]

A Taste of Qt 4 – by Jasmin Blanchette

Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development

http://a9.com/grazer%20linuxtage – it seems to work ;) Some more details on a9 is available at John Battelle’s Searchblog

References in Major Papers to Weblogs and Blogs

While searching for interesting facts about Windows Longhorn I found the following (IMO funny) blog entry in the longhorn-blog: There’s some interesting commentary going on over at OSNews.com in response to my Chronicles of a WinFX Developer article. There’s a post in their comparing the new features of Longhorn and C# to existing open source […]

Today I wrote a small german webpage about BSD. Work is still in progress, but any feedback (especially of bsd-geeks 8-)) is welcome!

Rapid Application Development with Mozilla – zipped PDF

Starting slrn with newsserver news.gmane.org brings more than 150 new mailinglists – pfuh. And which one is on top of it? gmane.linux.debian.devel.custom – a sign from heaven? 8-) Ok, in the next days I’ll continue my work on grml (besides working at university and writing slides for GLT04). My question to the audience: which texttool(s) […]

History of Unix – as a graphical historical timeline, printable as PDF and other formats – taken from Tim Pritlove

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/klee/misc/slashdot.html (pointer by Martin Piskernig)

Currently I’m checking out some nice features of vim for my workshop at GLT04. By accident I found this short but informative webpage about vimdiff. Of course I kn[e|o]w vimdiff, but the following hints were quite useful at least for me: Re-diffing :diffupdate Moving between diffs [c ]c Synchronizing :diffget :diffput Especially diffget und diffput […]

Currently I’m working on the first ISO of grml and because I’m missing some debian-packages of nice tools I created a first deb (others will follow) and try to automatize this process as much as possible. I also set up an online-debian-directory (http) and it works like a charme. First release of grml is coming […]

More than 20 stupid “Out of Office AutoReply”, “MailServer Notification” and similiar crapmails within a few minutes via sf-news-euro@securityfocus.com in my inbox. argl! *creating_procmail_rule_and_unsubcribing* Update: 48 mails and still “running”… *anybody* is able to send mails unchecked(!) through sf-news-euro@securityfocus.com – argl!