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Archive for September, 2008

Linuxweekend 2008 in Vienna: Lessons learnt

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Last weekend Linuxweekend 2008 took place at the Metalab in Vienna. Lessons learnt: ooo_as_text from the OOoPy suite (modify OpenOffice.org documents in Python) for getting the text from an OOo-File is nice (thanks to Rene and Ralf) Mserv (a jukebox-style music server designed to play mp3, ogg, etc. files (configurable) based on ratings of users […]

Event: Software Freedom Concert 2008

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Wer den Samstag vom Linuxwochenende 2008 (20.09.) abseits vom Metalab ausklingen lassen will, der kann das beim ‘Software Freedom Concert 2008’ der FSFE tun: Am 20. September 2008, ab 20 Uhr feiert die Wiener Fellowship Gruppe der Free Software Foundation Europe den alljährlichen “Software Freedom Day” im Pint Pub in Wien. Höhepunkt der Feierlichkeiten sind […]

Linux is just a game

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

% cd /grml/git/linux-2.6/ % cd .git/objects/pack % file * | grep -v data pack-0c3a88aa2f3c6b5cfea224b66906fa0cf07bc7fc.pack: Quake I or II world or extension pack-3ebc40fbd41ac05dbfa05f20aaa99169d71fdef7.pack: Quake I or II world or extension pack-42664a36f606adcf0698aa649a5d6d34ddab3c94.pack: Quake I or II world or extension […]

FAI developer meeting in Extremadura/Spain

Monday, September 8th, 2008

For the last few days I’ve been in the city Badajoz in region Extremadura of Spain at the FAI developer meeting. Check out the Linex Euronews Video at youtube to get a short impression of Linux in the region. Lessions learnt: debcommit is great, it generates a commit message based on new text in debian/changelog […]