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OS04 has been done.[tm] IMO it was an great event. I met many friends and could talk to interesting people. The talks I’ve seen were great too. My pics are available online. Now I’m trying to catch up >2700 unread rss-feed entries. Reading >100 feeds is quite hard if you can’t read them every single […]

Yesterday evening I had lunch with John “maddogâ€� Hall. Today I’ll meet many other nice guys at OS04 too. Hurray!

I’m that happy. Many weeks with lots of work but now it’s done: grml 0.1 is finished. I burnt the master CD in the morning and brought it to the producer who will create 100 copies which will be available at OS04. I went there by bike and there does not exist a Triesterstraße only […]

Till yesterday (18th of october) I had to finish my essay on stream ciphers for IPICS04. It is available online (PDF, 141kb) . It has been the first time I was using BibTex “productive”. Whereas I was using Vim for editing literature.bib in the beginning I took a short look at gBibg (thanks for the […]

$ irssi /server VCG /join #vc-graz .. and you can talk on Worfs IRC server in VC Graz. Of course some other IRC servers are available too. Or run: $ VPNUSERNAME=123 VPNPASSWORD=abc grml-pptp-vcgraz and you have a PPTP connection in VC Graz. Run: $ grml-x =wmi and you’ll get a XF86Config-4 and WMI starts up. […]

No, I’m not dead. I’ve had a high load in the last few days, especially because of the upcoming grml-release 0.1. The todo list was quite long and most of it has been done now. Just some annoying bugs are left and I’ll try to fix them till monday (then the CD for OS04 will […]

Martin started showing his wallpaper in his blog, AK, Niko and Thomas already replied so it’s time for me. My current wallpaper isn’t very spectacular but I like it. It’s the grml-wallpaper created by Wolfgang Scheicher and me. Of course it’s included in the grml-release. When I’m searching for new eye candies I usually take […]

Fans of the Simpsons might have noticed already that Season 4 DVD-Collection (amazon.de) is available. But I have to rant: the epsiode running on PRO7 in the afternoon today was bad, really bad. It was ‘The Regina Monologues (#EABF17 / SI-1417)’ of season fifteen and the episode was pure nonsense. Nothing compared to the funny […]

Wenn ein Schizophrener mit Selbstmord droht – ist das dann eine Geiselnahme? English version: If a schizophrenic person threatens with suicide – is this a hostage-taking? — my brother Alex while watching the Gilmore Girls

Yesterday I finished the devel-release of grml called “0.09 Bughunter”. In the evening we’ve had the burning session at Kunstlabor Graz. Two people of the grml-team have been there – Jimmy and me. I hold a presentation on grml, about 10-20 people attended it. Everything went fine so far *knock_on_wood*, feedback was very well and […]

Do you know how every monday morning should start? Read “Lustiges Taschenbuch” and find a story where Donald wins against Dagobert. :-)

Greylisting sucks. Downtimes suck too. Maybe you noticed that my website (including the blog) and grml.org have been offline for some hours. It’s a problem at my hoster (not pronet.at but the provider behind them) due to an “amalgamation of business”. Yes – this sucks. It doesn’t only suck because web isn’t available and I […]

While setting up PPTP and the TV-Card on my brothers computer I downloaded Monado – the Microsoft Shell [MSH]. And I had to use the Internet Exploder because of the great (haha) “Microsoft File Transfer Manager”-feature. No chance to download the .exe with Opera, Firefox or Konqueror – you just don’t get a connection to […]

Goal: replace files in /etc/zsh from package zsh with files from package grml-etc. Store original files via dpkg-divert and when purging grml-etc restore them. Ok: use debian/preinst with dpkg-divert and don’t put the config files in the file ‘conffiles’. And wonder why it doesn’t work as it maybe should. Why? Files are put into ‘conffiles’ […]

My load is quite high. I’m working for OS04 (Open Source Event on 22th of october in Graz) and therefor miss the Gilmore Girls in the afternoon (*grml*). I should study for an exam and grml takes the rest of my time. And of course I should prepare my slides for my lecture on grml […]

Number 32 in my spamcatcher-trap. It looks like this in the webserver log: 62.178.201.106 – – [26/Sep/2004:02:38:24 +0200] “GET /suche/ HTTP/1.1” 200 – “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; CHWIE_AT71; SV1)” And it’s not just one entry: $ grep 62.178.201.106 log/access_log | wc -l 204 $ Of course I’ve sent an abuse mail […]

Murphy won. At least for all the people who don’t have a 24/7 connection to our gateway in Virtual Campus Graz. The gateway (handling stuff like PPTP/VPN, HTTP/FTP and SMTP) does not work anymore as it should. My PPTP-tunnel is still alive *knock on wood* and Martin provided me a ssh-tunnel for sending mails. Thanks, […]

Suckers. More than 20 spam comments within a few hours. Using the antispam feature of wordpress – which requests for approval – didn’t help. First of all I still get mails requesting for approval (you can turn off this feature but I don’t want that). What sucks more is that the comments including the common […]

Tomorrow (thursday) is the devel-day for grml. Inspired by SuSE’s sitar I wrote a small shellscript named ‘grml-hwinfo‘. It just prints out some hardware information which should help us (the grml-team) to fix bugs in hardware-detection and/or software. Please test it on your Debian system and report bugs and additional ideas!

KDE has a lot going for it. It’s attractive and powerful. Its breadth of functionality is inspiring. Where it could benefit most is a consistent eye toward usability, particularly in not overwhelming new users with its capabilities. Easing new users into KDE, rather than throwing everyone into the deep end of the pool, would broaden […]