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Groups Google 2 Beta is online. It’s interface is quite similiar to the one of gmail. Check out the new interface via going through some postings. One of the new features I could find is the option “Recent groups” on the left side of the panel, displaying recently viewed newsgroups. It’s also possible to “Clear […]

As you maybe know I’m currently working on the book about texttools. I’d like to include a chapter with some details on terminals. But documentation about raw-, cooked-queue and so on sucks^Wdoesn’t really exist ;-(. The only useful documentation I could find is the Single UNIX © Specification on “General Terminal Interface” and of course […]

Since Wednesday 16:00 I’m at holidays 8-). No work, no university – at least not official ;-). Now I’m listening to Nils Landgren’s Funk Unit at Jazz Baltica on tv (3sat). Today I met Sven Guckes at Kunsthaus in Graz. Sven is in Graz for the next three months. Together with Sven I’m writing a […]

Legende: T = Türkenkind M = Mika (ich ;-)) T 02.07 23:56 * The user has added you to his/her contact list T 02.07 23:57 hi bist du der von http://www.michael-prokop.at/person/#real M 02.07 23:57 wieso? T 02.07 23:57 wenn ja dan wollte ich dich was fragen M 02.07 23:58 ja, bin ich T 02.07 23:58 […]

In den letzten Wochen habe ich viel für das Projekt LaTeX@TUG getan. Heute ist das Projekt offiziell online gegangen, mal schauen wie das Feedback ausfällt. Zitat von der Homepage: Das Projekt LaTeX@TUG soll Anfängern beim Einstieg in das Thema LaTeX helfen, typische Fragen in einer Sammlung (FAQ) beantworten, Vorlagen zum Arbeiten mit LaTeX zur Verfügung […]

Today I attended at a lecture of Bart Preneel at university. Bart Preneel was talking about Cryptology and it was a quite interesting lecture. Bart Preneel is a professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Together with Prof. J. Vandewalle, he is heading the research group COSIC at the K.U.Leuven, which […]

Today I did some zsh-hacking. I was sick of sourcing special files in my ~/.zsh/ to change my prompt – which is quite essential for me to change between a comfortable prompt for working and one for copy/pasting. So I wrote my own prompt-functions. Some predefined prompt functions are located in $ZSHDIR/functions/Prompts/. I named my […]

Have you heard of NoMachine NX before? You are not alone ;-). I was mailing with Kurt Pfeifle (you might know him e.g. by his CUPS-HowTos) because of Ludwigsburg and he mentioned NX. I was interested in it and at the weekend Kurt provided me a test-account. NX is a technology to make X connections […]

Yes – now I have an account at gmail. I’ve been invited by a friend of mine from california. What are my first impressions? First of all opera doesn’t seem to be compatible. Shouldn’t be a problem – just go on via ‘click here to use your unsupported browser’. I had to set some values […]

As it seems I am going to be a trainer at ‘2004 KDE Community World Summit’ in Ludwigsburg/Germany on 25th of august together with Sven Guckes. We are holding a workshop about “Überleben auf dem Terminal”. Would be nice if it worked out!

Someone was asking for help in the newsgroup de.alt.music.jazz related to jazz workshops taking place in europe. Due to I’ve been on some workshops (my main instruments are drums and percussion) I tried to remember myself… Well – now I’m feeling sad, I’m missing all the music stuff. All the playing in orchestra, jamming in […]

Quite interessting. Look at my posting’s headers [hint: timestamp] – in the postings I mentioned dufo.tugraz.at/~prokop/parken/: From: Michael Prokop <devnull@michael-prokop.at> Newsgroups: at.region.graz Subject: Re: Graz: Neue Parkplätze in TU-Nähe… Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 20:00:02 +0200 Message-ID: <2004-06-04T19-59-40@netz.michael-prokop.at> From: Michael Prokop <devnull@michael-prokop.at> Subject: Re: Neue Parkplätze am Campus der TUG Neue Technik ;-) Newsgroups: tu-graz.diverses […]

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Today I took a look at mstmp: “msmtp is an SMTP client that can be used as an “SMTP plugin” for Mutt and probably other MUAs (mail user agents). It forwards mails to an SMTP server (for example at a free mail provider) which does the delivery. To use this program, create a configuration file […]

“OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services, originally funded through a Mellon grant (see the final report). Our goal is to create a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources (what are digital resources?) that are easily searchable by anyone.” — http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/

Due to I missed the lecture of Daniel K. Gebhart on linuxdays in vienna I had to have a look at the window manager ion on my own. I think KDE is a really great desktop environment for computers with enough power, but what I was searching for is an alternative which is fast, small, […]

So, I’m back again. I was staying in Vienna (at the linuxdays) for about 4 days and afterwards 2 days in my hometown Klagenfurt. Today I had to went back to Graz. Now I’m checking my mailbox, newsgroups and other stuff you know ;-). Now I finished my gallery for linuxdays in vienna 2004 and […]

As you maybe know since today the “Linuxwochen Wien” are running. Tomorrow [thursday] I’ll drive to vienna early in the morning. I’ll stay in vienna till sonday so don’t expect daily blogging ;-)