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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
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 […]
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Thursday, June 7th, 2007
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 […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
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 […]
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
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 […]
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
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 […]
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Friday, May 18th, 2007
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 […]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
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 […]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
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 […]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
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 […]
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
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 […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
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 […]
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
As grml supports booting from usb devices (harddisk installation via grml2hd as well as booting from usb pens via grml2usb) and I helped many people at debugging booting problems I think I stumbled upon every existing pitfall. 8-) There are several situations where booting might fail. So here we go with a summary of the […]
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
Ich bin gerade vom Workshop zur Mikroprozessor-Programmierung zurückgekommen. Peter Brugger hat uns anhand eines Atmel ATmega8 die Programmierung eines Mikroprozessors praxisorientiert näher gebracht. Sehr schön erklärt, viel gelernt. Danke! Kennengelernt habe ich heute auch Arduino: "an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board and a development environment that implements the Processing/Wiring language." […]
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Sunday, April 8th, 2007
Was: Mikroprozessor-Programmierung, eine Einführung Wo: im Spektral (Lendkai 45 in Graz) Wann: Donnerstag, 12. April 2007, 19:00 Uhr Mit Peter Brugger (Elektrotechnik). Mit Mikroprozessoren kann man Elektronik steuern, oder Input in Installationen und Objekte einfließen lassen – und das mit Bauteilen um wenige Euro. Alle benötigten Teile werden vorgestellt (Breadboard, Programmieradapter, Prozessor und Entwicklungsumgebung) und […]
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Do you already know crm114? Taking quotes of the crm114 book: What is this? Some kind of grep bitten by a radioactive spider? — apocryphal CRM114 isn’t ugly like PERL. It’s a whole different kind of ugly. — John Bowker Want to get a calculator using crm114? No problem: % cat > calc << EOF […]
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Erstellen Sie eine System.Threading.WaitCallback-Delegateninstanz, die die Methode referenziert. Rufen Sie die statische Methode QueueUserWorkItem der System.Threading.ThreadPool-Klasse auf, und übergeben Sie die Delegateninstanz als Parameter. Die Laufzeit reiht dann die Delegateninstanz ein und führt sie aus, sobald ein Thread-Pool-Thread verfügbar wird. Quelle: "C# Tipps, Teil 1 – Threads, Prozesse und Synchronisierung" @ MSDN Setzt Microsoft BWL-er […]
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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
I just had the annoying problem, that the AltGr key did not work in VMware Server on my 64bit system via SSH whereas it worked fine within the 32bit local system. xev, ‘cat /dev/input/event0’ & CO verified that not a single keystroke reached my client system within VMware. Solution? Add the following line to /etc/vmware/config: […]
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Es ist also soweit: eine Windows-Benutzerin aus meinem Arbeitsumfeld ist bei mir angetanzt und wollte Vista durch XP ersetzt haben. Grund? Diverse Spiele – die ihr Freund zocken will – funktionieren nicht mehr. Und “es schaut alles so anders aus und nichts findet man mehr”. Ah, das ist also dieses WOW. OK, sollte ja nebenbei […]
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Nein, es reicht ja nicht, dass einem die Platte stirbt. Man holt Ersatz in Form einer 120GB 2.5"-Festplatte, weil man damit auch genug Platz fürs Entwickeln hätte. Dann aber lässt mich OpenFirmware vom Efika-Board nicht von der Platte booten: channel 0 unit 0 : ata | SAMSUNG HM120JC | YL100-19 ATA device not present or […]
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