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I’m back in Graz since Monday. I had to do a big update on my workstation (besides the regular security-updates). Running with kernel 2.6.2 as my server for 87 days uptime without any problems *knock on wood* I updated to 2.6.8.1. With Jimmy’s ATI-Howto and debian-packages from Flavio Stanchi 3D-acceleration with my “ATI Technologies Inc […]

Because I don’t have to administrate any windows-clients during my holidays I didn’t read that many stuff/news related to M$. While searching for some interesting blogs I stumbled across Jason Nadal’s blog covering Monad. Monad is the codename (from greek philosophy meaning “indivisible unit”/german: Einheit, Unteilbares) for the new command shell msh.exe shipped with Windows […]

Running mkisofs and create_compressed_fs resulted in [ 9] Block# 22409 size 65536 -> 63066 [compression ratio 96%, overall: 36%] Getötet Huh?! Ok, give it another try: [ 9] Block# 22470 size 65536 -> 45476 [compression ratio 69%, overall: 36%] Getoetet So not a problem of grml but running out of swap *dang*. Running mkisofs and […]

As you maybe remember I was searching for a mp3player for my girlfriend. Finally we bought one dnt Fun256 for my girlfriend and another one for her brother. The funny thing: one of my brothers also bought a mp3player a few months ago and he has the same one but only with 128MB of memory. […]

No – that’s not another rant. 8-) I did some work on grml. Today I created a bootable version of grml based on Knoppix 3.6. Of course there’s still a lot of work to do but I expect a first official version in september/october. People who want to do some beta-testing will obtain a non-public-version […]

Toogle is a Text version of Googles Image Search. Currently it creates images out of the very term that was used to fetch those images, later we will endeavour to create images out of the search terms entered by users past and present. But for now please, go play.   — http://c6.org/toogle/about.php Have a look at […]

An absolutely great zsh-tip by Jesper Holmberg I would like to share with you because I find it very useful. The motivation for the following snippet is the fact that I often do a ‘find’ or a ‘locate’ to find some files I’m interested in, and then want to do some action on one of […]

I can’t believe it – but S4 is running (using linux-kernel 2.6.8.1) on my Sony VAIO FX602! Disassembling the AML into an ASL-file with Intel’s IASL-compiler (part of the ACPI CA – Unix Build Environment), creating the AML in a c-hex-table and patching the linux-kernel did the trick. I’ve documented the essential steps on my […]

Lout is a document formatting system designed and implemented by Jeffrey Kingston at the Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia.    — http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/lout.html If you are interested in it also check out the project’s homepage @ sf.net. Credits for the pointer goes to the faboulus Karl Voit, a friend of mine who […]

Absolutely great. Jerry Peek (you might know him from the absolutely great book Unix Power Tools), Oliver Kiddle (a well known zsh-geek) and Stephenson Peter (author of the well known zsh-users-guide) have written a book on zsh named “From Bash to Z Shell: Conquering the Command Line” (book@amazon.at). It will be available in November 2004. […]

I wanted to take a closer look inside the current debian-installer of Sarge. I checked out the current svn-trunk and for fun (and inspired by Debian’s newsletter) I ran David A. Wheeler’s ‘SLOCCount’ for getting some stats. Have a look: Totals grouped by language (dominant language first): ansic: 30452 (59.93%) sh: 16674 (32.82%) perl: 2739 […]

Yes, Apple seems to hunt me ;-). As you can read in my last blog-entry I evaluate(d) iPods. Today Karl Voit pointed me to the baghira-look’n feel for KDE which tries to simulate Apple-feelings. And hey – it works! I really like it. (Take a look at the screenshot.) Jimmy (who set up his weblog […]

My new blogsystem provides feeds (RSS .91, 2.0 and Atom 0.3) which can be parsed by aKregator without any problems. So I wanted to import all the snownews-URLs without doing too much 8-) See the power of DCOP: $ sed ‘s/(.*)||(.*)|/dcop akregator-1808 aKregatorIface addFeedToGroup 1 2/’ urls >| /tmp/cmd $ chmod 700 /tmp/cmd && /tmp/cmd […]

This might have become a rant too. First of all because it’s not possible to log the “apt-get upgrade”-process in detail with (on-board) debian-tools. What IMO sucks too is the missing documentation for some tools like apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs. So I tried to figure it out via manpage in combination with the provided example-scripts of […]

Currently I’m building my own chroot-environment. Now I’ve a static zsh from cvs-tree: [mika@tweety(519): ~/Source/zsh-cvs-040803/zsh]$ ldd Src/zsh not a dynamic executable 1 [mika@tweety(520): ~/Source/zsh-cvs-040803/zsh]$ Now I’m trying to modify my zsh-setup so it works without any more modifications out of the box in the chroot-environment. In a chroot you’ll probably find no GNU-date so I […]

I relaxed at the weekend without touching any computers (expect for about 20 minutes on saturday). Quite uncommon feeling ;-). What I’ve done on friday before driving back to Klagenfurt was setting up chroot on two of my linux-boxes. Based on the work of Wolfgang Fuschlberger and hisssh-scp-chroot-jail-script (thanks Wolfgang!) I tried to set it […]

My Kanotix/Knoppix-installation on my Sony-Laptop sucked. Hotplugging was quite crappy and using WLAN-card with WEP at IPICS04 did not work. So it was time for testing the Debian/Sarge-DVD I got by Fred Andresen from Linux-New-Media. Installation of Debian/Sarge was quite comfortable. No (obvious) bugs in the installer, no loss of data and a fast way […]

A cronjob sends me a daily output of my calendar for the next 20 days (pal -r 20). What I also like is ‘at’ as a reminder: echo “mail -s ‘check TODO-list’ your@address.invalid < /dev/null” | at 23:42 Of course this can be used also with other programs like osdsh, [kgX]dialog,… What’s your favourite way […]

Let me show the power of zargs. First of all let’s see wheter both commands do the same: $ find /usr/include -name \*.h -exec grep printf /dev/null {} \; | wc -l 389 $ zargs /usr/include/**/*.h — grep printf /dev/null | wc -l 389 Yes, seems so – so let’s compare them via ‘time’: $ […]

Now I was searching for other zsh-addicts via Feedster. I couldn’t find really interesting blogs but what I could find is ZWS. ZWS is a simple web server written in ZSH. ZWS uses zsh/stat, zsh/datetime, zsh/net/tcp and tcp_proxy. IMO it’s just something like a prototype – but at least it demonstrates the power of zsh. […]