Archive for the 'Computer' Category
Friday, August 11th, 2006
Want to install Debian etch? But the Debian etch-ISO does not detect all the necessary hardware? Or it even does not boot at all? Or you just can’t find your Debian etch CD-ROM? Or having $ANOTHER_PROBLEM? Use grml. :-) Take a look at my Debian etch via grml Howto. You can get this tip via […]
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
A RedHat 9 server had problems with its rpm database. Running strace showed that it’s hanging when accessing /var/lib/rpm/Packages (a Berkeley DB, wondering?). No rpm actions were possible anymore. Solution: # cd /var/lib # cp -a rpm rpm.backup # rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* # rpm -vv –rebuilddb
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Yes, online resizing isn’t possible just with xfs but starting with Linux kernel 2.6.10 you can do it with ext3 as well. With e2fsprogs >=1.39-1 new filesystems are created with directory indexing and on-line resizing enabled by default (see /etc/mke2fs.conf). A short demo how online-resizing running on top of LVM works: cfdisk /dev/hda # create […]
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Just feeding google and interested readers. DRI worked with X.org 6.9 but with version 7.0 it’s failing? % LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxgears libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 1.5.1 i915 (screen 0) libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) libGL error: unable to find driver: i915_dri.so Ok, missing […]
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
Don’t forget – today (on 28th of july) we have the System Administrator Appreciation Day! Thanks for reminder, koki :)
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Because it’s definitely worth a read: the proceedings of the Linux Symposium 2006 are now available for download (direct links: Volume 1, Volume 2 – PDF). Have a nice week reading them. :-)
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Wo ist jetzt nur “mei” Schlüsselverwaltung?
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
We already have one Sun Sparc running at Robocup @ TUG: mika@robosparc ~ % cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire) fpu : UltraSparc I integrated FPU promlib : Version 3 Revision 1 prom : 3.1.3 type : sun4u ncpus probed : 1 ncpus active : 1 Cpu0Bogo : 397.31 Cpu0ClkTck : 000000000bebc200 MMU […]
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Gentoo-Entwickler Wernfried ‘amne’ Haas hat für Leute vom Security Treff Graz und grml-Entwickler einen Workshop zu IRC und dem Konsolenclient irssi gehalten. 22:27 < amnemobil> 20:28:02 up 78 days, 18:41, 58 users, load average: 2.83, 1.85, 1.69 22:27 < amnemobil> /exec -o uptime 22:27 < mika_fh> 22:27:43 up 4:17, 0 users, load average: 0.32, 0.08, […]
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Thursday, July 6th, 2006
Run ‘apt-get install wikipediafs‘ on your Debian/grml-box. % cat ~/.wikipediafs/config.xml <wfs-config> <general> <article-cache-time>300</article-cache-time> </general> <sites> <site> <dirname>wikipedia-de</dirname> <host>de.wikipedia.org</host> <basename>/w/index.php</basename> </site> <site> <dirname>wikipedia-en</dirname> <host>en.wikipedia.org</host> <basename>/w/index.php</basename> </site> </sites> </wfs-config> % mount.wikipediafs /wiki % cat /wiki/wikipedia-en/Cat
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
mrxvt ist ein auf rxvt und aterm basierender multi-tabbed X Terminal Emulator. Laut der Projekt-Homepage bietet mrxvt folgende Features: multi-tab support runtime dynamic tab title session support for each tab input broadcasting for all tabs user configurable keyboard shortcuts translucent window support pseudo-transparent background per terminal pseudo-transparent scrollbar/menubar/tabbar background color tinting color text shadow off-focus […]
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
First of all: thanks a lot to IBM/Lenovo! Michael Gebetsroither and me were working on the ‘Trusted Live Linux’ project at IAIK @ TUG. IBM/Lenovo kindly provided us a Thinkpad T60 1951-44G laptop so we were able to test and work with a TPM v1.2 chip. The results of the project will be available within […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2006
# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 -253298818094k 1.0k 0.0k 73% / /dev/hda1 -25520091066k 1.0k 0.0k 5% /boot # df –version df (fileutils) 4.1 […] Upgrade auf aktuellere coreutils (5.2.1) bewirkt Wunder. ;-)
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Zurück in Graz. Robocup war anstrengend aber durchaus interessant und lehrreich. Und weitere “Lessons learnt”: WLAN auf persischem SuSE debuggen ist not-amusing (aber am Schluss hab ich es für die Jungs doch noch hinbekommen, hehe) wenn ein bestimmter Modus im WLAN verboten ist (in unserem Falle “G”), sucht man “iwpriv $DEVICE set_mode $NUM” durch Glastüren […]
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Seit Sonntag bin ich mit anderen Mitgliedern des Robocup-Teams der TUG bei der Robocup-Weltmeisterschaft 2006 in Bremen. Ich kümmere mich hier um die IT und EDV-Infrastruktur, auf den Robotern kommt natürlich ein angepasstes grml zum Einsatz. 8-) Lange Tage, wenig Schlaf, und wieder was dazugelernt: Extrawurst ist hier unbekannt (das Problem betrifft mich zum Glück […]
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
Ja, die Linuxwochen Wien 2006 sind vorbei. Nachdem ich jetzt aber nichts doppelt schreiben will und mich schon mehrere Personen auf einen Bericht angesprochen haben, verweise ich an dieser Stelle einfach auf das grml-develblog – dort habe ich dazu einen ausführlicheren Artikel geschrieben. Have fun. :-)
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006
omni/intellisense completion: use CTRL-X CTRL-O in insert mode to start it [:he compl-omni] internal grep: vimgrep foo bar [:he vimgrep] tab pages: vim -p file1 file2 – then use the :tab command [:he tabpage] gt -> next tab gT -> previous tab undo branches: :undolist / :earlier 2h / :later 2h instead of using u […]
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Sunday, May 14th, 2006
Was ich in Vodafone 3G Datacard mit Linux (UMTS) bezüglich der Messung der Brauchbarkeit von einer UMTS/Vodafone-Karte auf einer Autofahrt von Graz zur deutschen Grenze versprochen habe, möchte ich jetzt einlösen. Eigentlich wollte ich ein selbst aufgebohrtes fping zur Datenauswertung verwenden, das hat sich dann aus Zeitgründen aber von selbst erledigt. Meine Fallbacklösung war smokeping, […]
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Sunday, May 14th, 2006
Jimmy and me bought a “Targus Wireless Multimedia Presenter” and tried to use it with Linux. It works absolutely perfect – at least using grml. :-) As we couldn’t find any docs how to set it up we decided to document what you should know about it – regardless which distribution you use. Basically there […]
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Saturday, May 13th, 2006
23:14 < harnir > mikap: I think I should warn you 23:14 < mikap > hm? :) 23:14 < harnir> it’s usually one way trip :-) harnin ist der Autor von fvwm-crystal und war vor ein paar Wochen in #grml zu Besuch. Es ging um die Verwendung seiner Software, ich kann nur sagen, wie verflucht […]
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