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My girlfriend wants to buy a mp3-player. Of course I’m the one who evaluates which one she should buy. I didn’t have any experience with that stuff (I’m proud owner of a minidisc-player since many years) so I posted to the TUG-newsgroup tu-graz.hardware and got great feedback. The requirements are: * linux compatible * good […]

My new blogsystem provides feeds (RSS .91, 2.0 and Atom 0.3) which can be parsed by aKregator without any problems. So I wanted to import all the snownews-URLs without doing too much 8-) See the power of DCOP: $ sed ‘s/(.*)||(.*)|/dcop akregator-1808 aKregatorIface addFeedToGroup 1 2/’ urls >| /tmp/cmd $ chmod 700 /tmp/cmd && /tmp/cmd […]

In November 2003 I was inspired by Andi Krennmair (AK) to do some blogging. At that time AK used b2 so I also installed b2. b2 was ok but a few month later it began to suck. First of all development ended due to it was published as a merge of b2 and cafelog under […]

This might have become a rant too. First of all because it’s not possible to log the “apt-get upgrade”-process in detail with (on-board) debian-tools. What IMO sucks too is the missing documentation for some tools like apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs. So I tried to figure it out via manpage in combination with the provided example-scripts of […]

Currently I’m building my own chroot-environment. Now I’ve a static zsh from cvs-tree: [mika@tweety(519): ~/Source/zsh-cvs-040803/zsh]$ ldd Src/zsh not a dynamic executable 1 [mika@tweety(520): ~/Source/zsh-cvs-040803/zsh]$ Now I’m trying to modify my zsh-setup so it works without any more modifications out of the box in the chroot-environment. In a chroot you’ll probably find no GNU-date so I […]

I relaxed at the weekend without touching any computers (expect for about 20 minutes on saturday). Quite uncommon feeling ;-). What I’ve done on friday before driving back to Klagenfurt was setting up chroot on two of my linux-boxes. Based on the work of Wolfgang Fuschlberger and hisssh-scp-chroot-jail-script (thanks Wolfgang!) I tried to set it […]

Second week of IPICS04 has been done too. Monday (26th of July): Bart Preneel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) was giving “An introduction to cryptology, Part II” in 5 units. Main topics were MAC, PKI and GSM-security. Herbert Leitold (Secure Information Technology Center, Austria) was talking about ‘Electronic voting in Europe’ and it’s main problems. Afterswards […]

Yesterday evening I was (together with Sven Guckes) at JazzerSommerGraz where Chick Corea was playing a really great concert. Some pics are available online. There was – as usual – free entrance and I think some people didn’t know what kind of music Chick Corea and his Electric Band are playing because they left concert […]

Just found on planet.debian.net: mailto:de_DE@euro.UTF-8 — http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/2004/07/27#locales

My Kanotix/Knoppix-installation on my Sony-Laptop sucked. Hotplugging was quite crappy and using WLAN-card with WEP at IPICS04 did not work. So it was time for testing the Debian/Sarge-DVD I got by Fred Andresen from Linux-New-Media. Installation of Debian/Sarge was quite comfortable. No (obvious) bugs in the installer, no loss of data and a fast way […]

A cronjob sends me a daily output of my calendar for the next 20 days (pal -r 20). What I also like is ‘at’ as a reminder: echo “mail -s ‘check TODO-list’ your@address.invalid < /dev/null” | at 23:42 Of course this can be used also with other programs like osdsh, [kgX]dialog,… What’s your favourite way […]

Let me show the power of zargs. First of all let’s see wheter both commands do the same: $ find /usr/include -name \*.h -exec grep printf /dev/null {} \; | wc -l 389 $ zargs /usr/include/**/*.h — grep printf /dev/null | wc -l 389 Yes, seems so – so let’s compare them via ‘time’: $ […]

Now I was searching for other zsh-addicts via Feedster. I couldn’t find really interesting blogs but what I could find is ZWS. ZWS is a simple web server written in ZSH. ZWS uses zsh/stat, zsh/datetime, zsh/net/tcp and tcp_proxy. IMO it’s just something like a prototype – but at least it demonstrates the power of zsh. […]

Because I’m having internet-access while sitting at IPICS04@TUG I will give a short overview over the last week. Tuesday (20th of July): Ahmed Patel from Ireland was talking about ‘Investigative Computing’. Main topics were comparison of existing models (Interpol, Casey, DRWS,…) and some main parts of computer forensic. Günther Pernul from University of Regensburg took […]

If you don’t read Andi Krennmair’s (AK) weblog you might be interested in being pointed to his tool tpp. tpp is a tool for presenting “slides” on a textconsole. It works like a charme and Andi already implemented some of my suggested features. What you need is Ruby 1.8, a recent version of ncurses and […]

I wanted to have this feature for quite some time. Today I realized it with osdsh. osdsh in combination with osdctl now displays a blue text in the centre and top of X (when it’s running) on every virtual desktop. So I don’t have to check for new messages such often (centericq is running inside […]

178 slides, 5 units in >7 hours (including pauses) – first day of IPICS04 has taken place. Prof. Karl C. Posch gave us an ‘Introduction to Information and Communication Security and Secure Embedded Systems’. Steven Furnell of University of Plymouth (UK) was talking about cyber crime. 35 participants from all over the world are here […]

I just found a perl module for gmail via Planet Debian. This perl module uses objects to make it easy to interface with Gmail. I eventually hope to implement all of the functionality of the Gmail website, plus additional features. Anyone writing an extension/wrapper for mutt? 8-)

Opera’s look and feel can be changed with one-click setups. These setup files bundle popular browser settings so you can select a style that suits you best. Setups can change Opera’s skin, toolbars, menus, keyboard shortcuts, and mouse gestures. — www.opera.com/startup/customize/ I really like those setups. The Safari look and feel (skin) together with the […]

If you are zsh-user you probably know the german “zsh-liebhaber-seite” of Matthias Kopfermann. Because the webserver of the old and original webpage is often under high load we (Matthias and me) decided to overwork the webpage and locate it on my website. So if you are interested in zsh and are capable of reading german […]