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I used a self compiled version of mutt for a long time with a lot of patches. Debian’s mutt-package includes also some useful patches so I wanted to switch to debian’s version. First of all I installed the latest version of debian’s mutt. And it sucked. Debians /etc/Muttrc unsets the variable ‘use_from’! :-( That’s awfull […]

netsh is available on Windows systems since Windows 2000. I noticed that even many windows-sysadmins don’t know of it’s existence. ;-( But netsh is really useful if you have to debug network problems on windows boxes or want to set up network without clicking through lots of menus. Using netsh you can configure and display […]

My blog looked like dead in the last few days, I know. Sorry for that, but my load was and still is quite high again. ;-( In the last few days I set up my own rootserver. Apache, Apache-SSL, MySQL, Courier and Postfix are doing their job now. If you can read this message it […]

amaroK seems to rock. I don’t like xmms because it’s just a very bad winamp-clone without an useful file-dialog. xmms is useful for me when I want to use a static playlist and jump to a specific file via ‘j’, but that’s it. A few days ago I tried Muine because Thomas Themel mentioned it […]

Together with jimmy I ordered a Linksys WRT54G router, and got it yesterday . Why I bought the WRT54G is the fact that it’s quite cheap (~70 Euro), you can get the firmware’s sourcecode and it’s running on Linux: $ telnet 192.168.1.1 5431 Trying 192.168.1.1… Connected to 192.168.1.1. Escape character is ‘^]’. help HTTP/1.1 400 […]

Yesterday the admins of the mailserver in VC-Graz activated authentication. I was using exim because setting it up via debian’s eximconfig using a smarthost was quite trivial. Now it was time for changing to Postfix. Setting up postfix was done in a few minutes and I wrote down the required steps. Since a few weeks […]

Is anyone out there who has not installed Ubuntu yet? Ok, one person less out there because I installed it on my workstation at work. :-) Ubuntu is a Linux distribution that starts with the breadth of Debian and adds regular releases (every six months), a clear focus on the user and usability (it should […]

DeMuDi is part of AGNULA: AGNULA (acronym for «A GNU/Linux Audio distribution», pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded by the European Commission (number of contract: IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical mass). After the end of the funded period, AGNULA is continuing as a volunteer based […]

No, that’s not a joke. Using the file dsl-embedded-0.8.3.zip from the DSL-project (Damn Small Linux) let’s you run Linux on your Windows box: It’s running via qemu (QEMU CPU Emulator): START qemu.exe -L . -m 128 -hda harddisk -cdrom dsl.iso -boot d -enable-audio -user-net -localtime It’s not very fast (because of running in an emulation) […]

I just discovered another useful feature of convert (part of imagemagick). Run: $ convert ‘vid:*.jpg’ thumbnails.jpg .. and you’ll get an overview of your jpgs in the file thumbnails.jpg. Also take a look at the examples-section of the convert manual page.

Happy birthday to my blog. One year of blogging is 250 postings (~0.68/day) and 127 comments by 39 different nicknames. The most commented posting was grml (6 comments). Most comments (besides myself ;-)) have been written by mp (16 comments) and ak (15 comments). Quoting ak writing about his blog’s birthday: “(mostly) useless information that […]

I’m at home in Klagenfurt for the weekend. I haven’t been here for about one and a half month because I had too much to do. I’m enjoying these days a lot because it’s not everyday’s life. In the mornings I’m working on grml. In the afternoons I’m playing with my brothers. They have Windows […]

I just installed kcheckgmail. kcheckgmail is a KDE systray application to check GMail accounts. It’s useful for me because I don’t check my gmail-account that often due to it doesn’t work neither with opera nor with konqueror. A nice KDE-addon. :-)

Today it was time to implement an automatic backup solution at work. I was searching for the right tool quite long but there were several problems. First of all I don’t like commercial software on my systems. I also don’t like bloat software which requires as much or even more harddisc space than my whole […]

OS04 has been done.[tm] IMO it was an great event. I met many friends and could talk to interesting people. The talks I’ve seen were great too. My pics are available online. Now I’m trying to catch up >2700 unread rss-feed entries. Reading >100 feeds is quite hard if you can’t read them every single […]

I’m that happy. Many weeks with lots of work but now it’s done: grml 0.1 is finished. I burnt the master CD in the morning and brought it to the producer who will create 100 copies which will be available at OS04. I went there by bike and there does not exist a Triesterstraße only […]

Till yesterday (18th of october) I had to finish my essay on stream ciphers for IPICS04. It is available online (PDF, 141kb) . It has been the first time I was using BibTex “productive”. Whereas I was using Vim for editing literature.bib in the beginning I took a short look at gBibg (thanks for the […]

$ irssi /server VCG /join #vc-graz .. and you can talk on Worfs IRC server in VC Graz. Of course some other IRC servers are available too. Or run: $ VPNUSERNAME=123 VPNPASSWORD=abc grml-pptp-vcgraz and you have a PPTP connection in VC Graz. Run: $ grml-x =wmi and you’ll get a XF86Config-4 and WMI starts up. […]

No, I’m not dead. I’ve had a high load in the last few days, especially because of the upcoming grml-release 0.1. The todo list was quite long and most of it has been done now. Just some annoying bugs are left and I’ll try to fix them till monday (then the CD for OS04 will […]

Martin started showing his wallpaper in his blog, AK, Niko and Thomas already replied so it’s time for me. My current wallpaper isn’t very spectacular but I like it. It’s the grml-wallpaper created by Wolfgang Scheicher and me. Of course it’s included in the grml-release. When I’m searching for new eye candies I usually take […]