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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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 ;-)

Again a quite “funny spammer” who trapped into spamcatcher (check out the spelling error “whilte addtess list”): From: Ranjith Eyacheruvatt <ranjithepost @yahoo.co.in> Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 08:12:45 +0100 (BST) Subject: Spamcatcher-Blacklist To: spamcatcher-24.05.2004-08.52.11-61.11.41.110@michael-prokop.at Message-ID: <20040524071245.73763.qmail@web8303.mail.in.yahoo.com> Hello, Sub:Antispam Software We are US based company and searching for a leading and better anti-spam software to suggest […]

As you should know Symantec has a really good reputation 8-) – the following mail made my day: From: support@symantec.com Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:33:00 +0200 Subject: Re: Virus Sample To: faqbot@michael-prokop.at The sample file you sent contains a new virus version of mydoom.j. Please clean your system with the attached signature. Sincerly, Robert […]

Yesterday I went to Kunsthaus Graz and got my shirt. A shirt by Sven Guckes he put up on one of the server-racks – have a look at the GLT04-Pics, especially this one – see the yellow shirt? Yes, now that’s my one :-) And because I’m against software patents I reactivated my petition-webpage and […]

Currently I’m trying to check out vservers at linux. [mika@tweety(500): ~]% uname -a Linux tweety 2.6.6-vs1.9.0 #1 Wed May 12 00:00:04 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux [mika@tweety(501): ~]% I’m reading the following guide: Virtual private servers and security contexts – thanks for the pointer – Michael Gebetsroither. Anyone here also using vservers? If so: any other […]

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 […]

UFO is the institut at technical university graz where I am working since more than 2 years. Yesterday (friday) and today (saturday) the 25-years-ufo-“party” took place. All the “old” assistants came together in Graz. All of them are quite important people in big companies like Roland Berger, Mobilkom, Porsche USA, Steweag-Steg, AVL, Magna-Steyr, Kearney and […]

Now I was very creative and created a new 404-page ;o)

I am considering to change my writings from english to german in my weblog. But I am not sure whether I should. Any pros and cons?

I am at home again since one hour past midnight. Chemnitzer LinuxTag was really great and together with Thorsten and Jimmy it was fun :-). I’ll write a (german) report in the next few days. Mails, newsgroups, university, work and projects are calling for me ;-) Update: The (german) CLT2004-Report is online: http://www.michael-prokop.at/sonstiges/clt-2004-report.txt 2nd Update: […]