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Laserprinter at work is now not only available through IPX/Novell-crap but also via plain TCP/IP, especially via remote-CUPS. Together with the new fileserver running Samba 3 instead of Windows NT4 a main reason why I could switch to Linux on my Desktop *happy* Because I think KDE is a really great desktop for using it […]

Found A, B, C, … D! The Programming Language on osnews.com (an online-ressource I really like btw). A Comparison – D vs Other Languages. I don’t know whether ‘D’ is interesting enough (I hope that’s not a new version of ‘640kb are enough’ 8-)), but I’ll add it to the quite long list of programming-languages […]

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\prokop.UFO.000\Desktop>type “office-update.cmd” @echo off REM Filename: office-update.cmd REM Purpose: run office-update as root/administrator REM Author: Michael Prokop / www.michael-prokop.at / www.grml.org REM Latest change: Mo Apr 19 00 2004 REM ##################################################################################### ECHO Starting office-update as Administrator runas /profile /user:%COMPUTERNAME%\Administrator “C:\Programme\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE \ http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/” C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\prokop.UFO.000\Desktop> Yes – this should work. Should. Because […]

A Taste of Qt 4 – by Jasmin Blanchette

Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development

http://a9.com/grazer%20linuxtage – it seems to work ;) Some more details on a9 is available at John Battelle’s Searchblog

References in Major Papers to Weblogs and Blogs

While searching for interesting facts about Windows Longhorn I found the following (IMO funny) blog entry in the longhorn-blog: There’s some interesting commentary going on over at OSNews.com in response to my Chronicles of a WinFX Developer article. There’s a post in their comparing the new features of Longhorn and C# to existing open source […]

Today I wrote a small german webpage about BSD. Work is still in progress, but any feedback (especially of bsd-geeks 8-)) is welcome!

Rapid Application Development with Mozilla – zipped PDF

Starting slrn with newsserver news.gmane.org brings more than 150 new mailinglists – pfuh. And which one is on top of it? gmane.linux.debian.devel.custom – a sign from heaven? 8-) Ok, in the next days I’ll continue my work on grml (besides working at university and writing slides for GLT04). My question to the audience: which texttool(s) […]

History of Unix – as a graphical historical timeline, printable as PDF and other formats – taken from Tim Pritlove

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/klee/misc/slashdot.html (pointer by Martin Piskernig)

Currently I’m checking out some nice features of vim for my workshop at GLT04. By accident I found this short but informative webpage about vimdiff. Of course I kn[e|o]w vimdiff, but the following hints were quite useful at least for me: Re-diffing :diffupdate Moving between diffs [c ]c Synchronizing :diffget :diffput Especially diffget und diffput […]

Currently I’m working on the first ISO of grml and because I’m missing some debian-packages of nice tools I created a first deb (others will follow) and try to automatize this process as much as possible. I also set up an online-debian-directory (http) and it works like a charme. First release of grml is coming […]

More than 20 stupid “Out of Office AutoReply”, “MailServer Notification” and similiar crapmails within a few minutes via sf-news-euro@securityfocus.com in my inbox. argl! *creating_procmail_rule_and_unsubcribing* Update: 48 mails and still “running”… *anybody* is able to send mails unchecked(!) through sf-news-euro@securityfocus.com – argl!

“Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor” – grml. “The 5.x bootable install CDs no longer use floppy-emulation mode. The change was made because some newer machines do not support this emulation mode. However, older machines may not be able to boot CDs in “native” (non-emulation) mode. We can’t support everybody, so we support the new […]

“Seit heute 12:00 Uhr können IDN Domains unter .at, .co.at und .or.at registriert werden.” So zu lesen auf nic.at – aja. Auch zu lesen ist “Um die Technischen Systeme zu entlasten wird zudem in den ersten Tage keine Whois-Abfrage für diese Domains zur Verfügung stehen.” Hm: [mika@grml: ~]% whois bücher.at % Copyright (c)2003 by NIC.AT […]

Today I wrote a german webpage about zsh. zsh is really great and via stepping through $ZSH-SOURCE/Etc/FEATURES, Changelogs and using google I discovered many not so well known features.