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I’ve installed python-2.5.1.msi on Windows using power user rights (in german: Hauptbenutzerrechte) and it works fine: Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information. >>> Ok, let’s take a look at Twisted (an event-driven networking engine written in Python). There […]

It’s done. grml 1.0 is available. New features? Tons of them. 8-) Just check out the official release notes for grml 1.0. Need grml for a x86_64 system? No problem, grml64 0.1 is waiting for you. You are used to grml-small? Check out grml-small 0.4. You want to know what are my favourite features of […]

docbook2odf is a toolkit that automatically converts DocBook to OASIS OpenDocument (ODF, the ISO standardized format used for texts, spreadsheets and presentations). Conversion is based on a XSLT which makes it easy to convert DocBook->ODF, ODT, ODS and ODP as all these documents are XML based. This piece of software is pretty rocking for example […]

Im Zuge der Lehrveranstaltung AK IT-Sicherheit 1 / Trusted Computing (LV-Nummer 705.052) an der TU Graz gibt sich David Grawrock (Security Architect bei Intel) die Ehre. Und zwar laut TUGonline zu folgenden Terminen: Di, 22.5.2007, 09:00-12:00 [SIEMENS TS Hörsaal (HS i11)]: History of TC and TCG, TPM details, Attestation Di, 22.5.2007, 13:00-16:00 [KNAPP Logistik Hörsaal […]

Ich hätte es vor lauter Stress ja fast vergessen, in meinem Blog noch mal anzukündigen. Also: am Samstag, dem 19. Mai gehen die Grazer LinuxTage (GLT07) auf der FH Joanneum über die Bühne. Über 30 Vorträge und Workshops finden sich im Programm, es gibt eine Keysigning-Party und das Linux Professional Institute (LPI) bietet auf den […]

As formorer mentioned already we have new release candidates of grml: grml 1.0-rc1 with codename Meilenschwein is available as well as grml-small 0.4-rc1 with codename Springinkerl. We are proud to be able to present a 64bit version of grml as well: grml 64 0.1-rc1 with codename LiveShell which is based on the amd64 port of […]

I got ‘remote: abort: No space left on device:’ when running ‘hg push’ via ssh during a repository migration (from subversion to mercurial). Huh?! The partition with all the repositories on it has enough free space, so what? Ah, wait a second. When pushing data via ssh, mercurial does a ‘ssh $HOST hg -R /path/to/repos […]