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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 […]

This is UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE of CyberTAN Inc. the contents of this file may not be disclosed to third parties, copied or duplicated in any form without the prior written permission of CyberTAN Inc. This software should be used as a reference only, and it not intended for production use! Found in HTML source […]

Quoting the project homepage: Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s). It really rocks, especially as it works for Linux/Unix […]

Am 28.01.2007 habe ich eine grml-Userbefragung ausgeschrieben. Am 9. Juni habe ich dann die Evaluierung abgeschlossen und Mails an alle Teilnehmer geschickt. Die detaillierte Auswertung zur grml-Benutzerumfrage findet man im grml-Wiki. Warum ich das jetzt eigentlich schreibe? Weil es eine sehr interessante Erfahrung war. Aber mal von Anfang an…. Die erste Version von grml gab […]

Die PDF-Spamwelle dieser Tage hat wohl jeder Mailserver-Admin mitbekommen (siehe Heise: "Nach Bild-Spam nun PDF-Spam"). Ich habe das zum Glück sehr zeitnahe bemerkt und die Welle schon direkt am Mailserver unterbunden. Die Zahlen für die letzten 2 Tage auf einem einzelnen Mailserver sprechen für sich selbst: # grep -c ‘PDF-Spam detected’ /var/log/mail.log* /var/log/mail.log:1006 /var/log/mail.log.0:1272 Dieses […]

Mein Internetzugang über den Virtuellen Campus Graz (VCG) stinkt dank der Einführung eines Intrustion Prevention Systems (IPS) von McAfee seitens der TU Graz ohne Ende. Nicht nur diverse Ports, sondern auch jeglicher Bittorrent-Traffic und sogar das Tor-Netzwerk werden gefiltert. Das betrifft übrigens nicht nur den VCG, sondern (teilweise) auch die TU Graz als Ganzes. Man […]

Hopefully fuzz testing is well known nowadays, right? But did you check how smart your software can handle ENOSPC – the ‘No space left on device’ error? I like stress testing software (to be honest: no, not really). Yesterday I debugged a problem regarding zsh history writing on ENOSPC. Usually I use the grml Linux […]

I wrote a small python webpage for the grml-wiki to provide some information regarding Python-development on grml. I just upgraded Vim on my main system to version 7.1 and omnicompletion with vim-python became better once more. So time for a short demo of ctrl-x-o: I also very much like ‘%ed’ within ipython using the following […]

Linuxdays in vienna were fun (as usual). Lessons learnt: stfl (Structured Terminal Forms Language/Library) is definitely worth a look (thanks for the great talk and the nice discussions at the grml booth, clifford!) thanks to the inclusion of grml-x in rocklinux now zsh will become part of rocklinux (yeah!) the filter language feature of the […]

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 […]

Ein Tag ORF und schon sind die Gender gemainstreamed. Heute in ‘WIE BITTE?‘ auf ORF1 gehört. Äh, wie bitte?! Hab ich mich verhört? Passt aber zum ORF. Oder wie es Michael Niavarani bei der Romy 2007 mit einem Seitenhieb auf die neue ORF-Serie namens ‘Mitten im Achten’ treffend formulierte: Mitten im Achten ist der teuerste […]