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Futter verweigern (“das schmeckt mir nicht mehr”) und nachdem eine andere Marke hingestellt wurde nach der Ruhepause eine Doppelration einstecken, denn plötzlich schmeckt die alte Marke auch wieder.

Ich war am Überlegen ob ich mein Blog auf deutsch oder englisch weiterführen soll. Martin hat(te) ja diese Überlegung ebenfalls. ;-) Und ich glaube ich werde die deutsche Variante nehmen. Das grml-Relevante findet sich mittlerweile eh in einem eigenen Blog. Last(?) english notice: I decided to write my blog in german/austrian. ;-)

As you maybe noticed Martin Pool got hired by Canonical (the company sponsoring Ubuntu-Linux) for developing a new version control system. The new system is known as bazaar-ng and “The charter is to build a distributed version-control system that open-source hackers will love to use.” I just read Martin’s version control section in his blog […]

Today I decided to set up a devel-blog for grml to [b]log my activities on grml and keep people up2date what’s going on. The grml-devel-blog @ grml.supersized.org

Gegen 10:30 Uhr stürmen Feuerwehrmänner mit Atemschutzmasken in mein Institut auf der TU Graz. Wir müssen unseren Arbeitsplatz rasch verlassen denn im Keller des Gebäudes brennt es. Ok, Handy, Geldbörse und Schlüssel wandern in Richtung Rucksack. Arbeitsplatz noch schnell sperren und die Backup-DVDs gehen auch noch mit. Die 4 Stockwerke zu Fuss runter (Lift ist […]

Klagenfurter Linuxday 2005 was nice. Some guys (including grml-developers) drove from Graz to Klagenfurt. Starting with the talk “Software-Entwicklungstools unter Linux” (software development tool @ linux) August Hörandl mentioned the tool scons: SCons is an Open Source software construction tool – that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute […]

Effective from April 1st, 2005, use of News.Individual.NET will not be free of charge anymore. The news service will continue as a fee-based service. The fee for an account for News.Individual.NET is 10 EUR per year (annual payment), that converts to only 0.84 EUR per month. — http://news.individual.net/ Bad news IMO. :-( It’s not the […]

ak’s mutt-ng project is in the news: german article in the Linux User magazine 2005/03. Great! mutt-ng is a fork of the well-known email client mutt with the goal to both incorporate all the patches that are floating around in the web, and to fix all the other little annoyances of mutt. I’m mentioning mutt-ng […]

Yes, no joke. I was offline and did not touch computers for 7 days – whooo! :-) I was on holidays: skiing at Nassfeld (Carinthia/Austria) with my girlfriend and her family. Weather was perfect (expect for half a day on wednesday), ski piste and snow were great. We went skiing for about 6 hours a […]

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced hotplug-ng which replaces the existing linux-hotplug package with very tiny, compiled executable programs, instead of the existing bash scripts. Great news IMO! Marco d’Itri will probably maintain this package in debian (see his ITP). Marco is also maintainer of the udev-package so I’m expecting good integration.

I’m using the pgp-autosign-feature of mutt since ages. I usually disabled it in the pgp-menu (via pressing ‘p+f’) when writing with users of Microsoft Outlook Express (AKA OjE). Now I improved my mutt(-ng) setup so I don’t lose the autosign-feature but don’t have to disable it manually when mailing with OjE-users: message-hook ~A “set pgp_autosign” […]

Sometimes sysadmins have to debug a computer running with (too) high load. I usually used free(1), cat /proc/interrupts, vmstat(8) [-s, -m,…] and top(1) to debug such situations. Today I stumbled upon ‘dstat’. It produces some important stats in realtime with (IMO) readable output. Check it out! And please let me know if you know of […]