mikas blog

As I wrote a few monce ago I’m owner of a NSLU2 device powered by Debian. Now I had to install another device (using di-nslu2-etch-4.0r0.bin – md5: db8e8ec3571aff8fb2132479f860f16b this time) and I wanted to change the setup from using /dev/sda2 to a UUID based one – to get a stable root device. Nothing really tricky […]

Since about two days I’m proud owner of a Lenovo X61s notebook. It will become my main and new developer box for grml, featuring all that nifty stuff like 64bit support, hardware virtualization and so on… I managed to use all the important features with a very current version of grml. I’m using kernel 2.6.22-grml […]

It was on my todo list since ages, finally I took some minutes to set up my own jabber server (reach me at mika@jabber.grml.org). I’m using ejabberd, a free and open source instant messaging server written in Erlang. Reference system: Debian etch (current stable), ejabberd version 1.1.2-6, installed via a simple: # aptitude install ejabberd […]

Die FrOSCon ist eine zweitägige Konferenz rund um die Themen Freie Software und Open Source, die am 25. und 26. August 2007 bereits zum zweiten Mal an der Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin bei Bonn in Deutschland stattfindet. Meine eingereichten Vorträge wurden angenommen und somit halte ich auf der FrOSCon einen Vortrag über grml – […]

One of the coolest features of grml IMO is grml-tips. grml-tips is a collection of tips you can request via a keyword. For example if you want to know how to use grml-x just run ‘grml-tips grml-x’: mika@meilenschwein ~ % grml-tips grml-x Start X window system (XFree86 / Xorg / X.org): % grml-x $WINDOWMANAGER Usage […]

Gefunden im Zuge der Cisco VPN Client-Installation auf Windows XP:

Running hot off the press 2.6.22-grml I took a look at the current version of VirtualBox. And I’m really amazed how responsive it is. Not only booting grml is rocking fast but also typing on the console is reaaaally fast – much more responsive than with VMware. (I took a look at VirtualBox several months […]

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