mikas blog

If you don’t read Andi Krennmair’s (AK) weblog you might be interested in being pointed to his tool tpp. tpp is a tool for presenting “slides” on a textconsole. It works like a charme and Andi already implemented some of my suggested features. What you need is Ruby 1.8, a recent version of ncurses and […]

I wanted to have this feature for quite some time. Today I realized it with osdsh. osdsh in combination with osdctl now displays a blue text in the centre and top of X (when it’s running) on every virtual desktop. So I don’t have to check for new messages such often (centericq is running inside […]

I just found a perl module for gmail via Planet Debian. This perl module uses objects to make it easy to interface with Gmail. I eventually hope to implement all of the functionality of the Gmail website, plus additional features. Anyone writing an extension/wrapper for mutt? 8-)

Opera’s look and feel can be changed with one-click setups. These setup files bundle popular browser settings so you can select a style that suits you best. Setups can change Opera’s skin, toolbars, menus, keyboard shortcuts, and mouse gestures. — www.opera.com/startup/customize/ I really like those setups. The Safari look and feel (skin) together with the […]

If you are zsh-user you probably know the german “zsh-liebhaber-seite” of Matthias Kopfermann. Because the webserver of the old and original webpage is often under high load we (Matthias and me) decided to overwork the webpage and locate it on my website. So if you are interested in zsh and are capable of reading german […]

Groups Google 2 Beta is online. It’s interface is quite similiar to the one of gmail. Check out the new interface via going through some postings. One of the new features I could find is the option “Recent groups” on the left side of the panel, displaying recently viewed newsgroups. It’s also possible to “Clear […]

In den letzten Wochen habe ich viel für das Projekt LaTeX@TUG getan. Heute ist das Projekt offiziell online gegangen, mal schauen wie das Feedback ausfällt. Zitat von der Homepage: Das Projekt LaTeX@TUG soll Anfängern beim Einstieg in das Thema LaTeX helfen, typische Fragen in einer Sammlung (FAQ) beantworten, Vorlagen zum Arbeiten mit LaTeX zur Verfügung […]

Today I attended at a lecture of Bart Preneel at university. Bart Preneel was talking about Cryptology and it was a quite interesting lecture. Bart Preneel is a professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Together with Prof. J. Vandewalle, he is heading the research group COSIC at the K.U.Leuven, which […]

Today I did some zsh-hacking. I was sick of sourcing special files in my ~/.zsh/ to change my prompt – which is quite essential for me to change between a comfortable prompt for working and one for copy/pasting. So I wrote my own prompt-functions. Some predefined prompt functions are located in $ZSHDIR/functions/Prompts/. I named my […]

Have you heard of NoMachine NX before? You are not alone ;-). I was mailing with Kurt Pfeifle (you might know him e.g. by his CUPS-HowTos) because of Ludwigsburg and he mentioned NX. I was interested in it and at the weekend Kurt provided me a test-account. NX is a technology to make X connections […]

Yes – now I have an account at gmail. I’ve been invited by a friend of mine from california. What are my first impressions? First of all opera doesn’t seem to be compatible. Shouldn’t be a problem – just go on via ‘click here to use your unsupported browser’. I had to set some values […]

As it seems I am going to be a trainer at ‘2004 KDE Community World Summit’ in Ludwigsburg/Germany on 25th of august together with Sven Guckes. We are holding a workshop about “Überleben auf dem Terminal”. Would be nice if it worked out!

Today I took a look at mstmp: “msmtp is an SMTP client that can be used as an “SMTP plugin” for Mutt and probably other MUAs (mail user agents). It forwards mails to an SMTP server (for example at a free mail provider) which does the delivery. To use this program, create a configuration file […]

Due to I missed the lecture of Daniel K. Gebhart on linuxdays in vienna I had to have a look at the window manager ion on my own. I think KDE is a really great desktop environment for computers with enough power, but what I was searching for is an alternative which is fast, small, […]

Due to I don’t like the program overview on the official WLT04-website I created my own one. What I would like to see is an at.linux-meeting at WLT04. Even if it’s “just unofficial”. Interested?

In the next few weeks I’ll have to check old hardware at work and I assume there will be about 2-3 computers available for experiments 8-). Currently I’m running a QNX-box for fun, now I have to choose which operating system/distribution should get a chance for running on one of the new^Wold boxes. FreeBSD? NetBSD? […]

I bought a Samsung ML-1510 Laserjet for 157 Euros a few days ago. Installing it via CUPS was no problem but I had problems with the margins. Changing the options in the ppd-file did the job: $ grep ‘ImageableArea A4’ /usr/share/cups/model/samsung.ppd *ImageableArea A4/A4: “14 20 581 822” $ Yeah, absolutely great – now printing is […]

First day of GLT04 was nice. Interesting talks, no serious incidents and social event at Brot&Spiele was fun. Pictures are online. Now I am going to sleep due to I have a workshop together with Sven Guckes early in the morning – at 10:00 ;-)

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Yes! I am one of the 5 students at TU Graz who can take part in IPICS04 – Intensive Program on Information and Communication Security: Secure Embedded Systems – in July 2004. Absolutely great!