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Seit Ende September gibt es das Resultat von rund 3 Jahren Arbeit in Buchform im Handel. "Open Source Projektmanagement – Softwareentwicklung von der Idee zur Marktreife" ist mein literarischer Beitrag rund um das Management von Open-Source-Projekten. Dass das Buch so lange auf sich warten hat lassen, liegt – entgegen anders lautender Gerüchte – nicht an […]

via Peter Kuhm: Am Donnerstag, den 18. November 2010 finden um 18:30 Uhr die Vorträge * Internet und Recht – Stolpersteine und Wegmarken * Privatsphäre im Internet – Facebook, Xing, Twitter und Co statt. Wo: TU Graz, HS E, Kopernikusgasse 24/1, 8010 Graz. Vortragende: MMag. Dr. Albrecht HALLER, Rechtsanwalt, Wien Mag. Markus KLEMEN, Geschäftsführer SBA […]

Remember my LART of the day? It looked like: % cat foo.c int main() { return 0; } % gcc foo.c foo.c:1: fatal error: can’t open /tmp/ccxgyEhb.s for writing: Permission denied compilation terminated. Congratulations to sunckell and Bernd for guessing the right answer. Additionally to the blog comments (which I delayed through moderation to give […]

Update: see LART of the day – the solution for the solution. % cat foo.c int main() { return 0; } % gcc foo.c foo.c:1: fatal error: can’t open /tmp/ccxgyEhb.s for writing: Permission denied compilation terminated. Uh?! Ok, does the file exist? Do I have write permissions? gcc ok? % pwd /tmp % ls -lad […]

Auf der FrOSCon (Free and Open Source Software Conference) habe ich am letzten Wochenende einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Gute Open-Source-Projekte bestehen aus mehr als nur Code" gehalten. Das Videoteam war heuer schnell (danke!) und daher gibt es für Interessierte zu meinen Vortragsfolien (PDF, 10MB) auch bereits das Video zum Vortrag: h264-Format, 118MB theora-Format, 290MB

Finally I’m back from DebConf10 in New York. It was the first DebConf I attended and it was just great. Thanks a lot to all involved people for making DebConf such a great event. I had a big todo list for DebCamp and DebConf and managed to get a bunch of work done. Besides several […]

On each last Friday of July the annual System Administrator Appreciation Day is taking place. Matt Simmons organized a SysAdmin Day Meetup to celebrate this event in New York. If you’re in New York on 30th of July consider registering yourself (it’s free and takes just a few seconds). If you are participant of the […]

Last weekend (2010-07-02 – 2010-07-04) nine people met at the FAI developer workshop at Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany. If you can’t remember: FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to large-scale infrastructures and clusters. The […]

From 2nd to 4th of July 2010 the FAI developer workshop will take place at the Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany. FAI? FAI is the abbreviation for Fully Automatic Installation. It’s a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks […]

Auf den Grazer Linuxtagen und den Linuxwochen Wien habe ich jeweils einen Vortrag über “Grml Live-Linux für Deployment und Desaster-Recovery” gehalten, die Folien zum Vortrag gibts online (PDF – 1,6MB).

I love EtherPad for online collaboration in real-time. By today (14th of April 2010) new pad creation will be disabled at EtherPad.com. Being aware of that in advance and as the EtherPad software was open sourced recently friends of mine and I were working on providing a dedicated EtherPad setup. TitanPad was born! Quoting our […]

Fsck you, FIP.

I’m working for a customer who’s using IBM blades. Remote access isn’t limited to e.g. SoL but also possible through a Remote Console feature using a Java applet. After migrating one of my 32bit systems to a fresh 64bit system I suddenly couldn’t use this Remote Console feature any longer. The error message was (leaving […]

void die_if_kernel(char *str, struct pt_regs *regs) { static int die_counter; int count = 0; /* Amuse the user. */ printk( ” \\|/ ____ \\|/\n” ” \”@’/ .. \\`@\”\n” ” /_| \\__/ |_\\\n” ” \\__U_/\n”);   — arch/sparc/kernel/traps_64.c

Just booked my ticket for DebConf10. See you in New York.

Via flo: Wir möchten Euch auf eine Veranstaltung am 20. März 2010 im Medienkunstlabor Graz (im Kunsthaus) hinweisen: Blender 3D UserDay 2010 Weitere Informationen auf www.blenderusers.at.

Die Grazer Linuxtage (GLT) finden heuer am Samstag, dem 24. April 2010 auf der FH Joanneum statt. Wir – das Organisationsteam der GLT – suchen auch heuer wieder gute Vorträge. Vor Kurzem ist Call for Lectures online gegangen. Du willst deine Software unter die Leute bringen? Es gibt ein gutes Projekt das unbedingt vorgestellt gehört? […]

If you ever notice a device like that on your Linux system: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 8 MB, 8388608 bytes 8 heads, 32 sectors/track, 64 cylinders Units = cylinders of 256 * 512 = 131072 bytes Disk /dev/sda doesn’t contain a valid partition table … then the scsi_debug kernel driver is present. To get […]