mikas blog

Konq Rellinks is a very nice addon for konqueror, you can use document relations with this plugin in konqueror as in opera and mozilla. Due to that Kevin Krammer is one of the developer of the program he was the one who pointed my to it :-) Have a look at it: screenshot

Today I installed the dvorak keyboard layout on my happy hacking keyboard, and I am feeling like a small boy who has never seen a keyboard in his life before :-) but I am getting faster and faster. Of course I am using a special Xmodmap. Check out the abcd-dvorak-tutorial (thanks for the URL Thomas […]

As I’ve said some days ago I want to set up ipv6 at home. Now I am running an ipv6-tunnel on my workstation via freenet6.net. I had to change tspc host_type to “router” in /etc/freenet6-client/tspc.conf and due to a bug in the freenet-client I had to restart the tunnel with if_tunnel=sit0 and again with sit1. […]

In centericq 4.9.10 german umlauts don’t work for many people, also my box had problems. Now I could figure out (with a hint of Marc Thoben – thx!) the problem. Have a look at my mail to the centericq-mailinglist. Short version: don’t use POSIX for LC/locale-settings but use something like that: [mika@grml: ~]% locale LANG=de_AT@euro […]

No, at home I don’t use KDE 3.2 as a desktop environment due to pekwm is really great ;-), but I configured kicker (the KDE-taskbar) and I really like it because it has some really nice features as kweather (weather reports), klipper (clipboard-manager), kdict (a dictionary, I am using it with dict.tugraz.at), the color picker […]

As I already wrote firewire works really great with linux. Today I created 124MiB of divx-movies with kino and mencoder: [mika@tweety: ~/Video]% mencoder -ovc divx4 -o stuff.avi -oac lavc export014.dv Works like a charme – just the filesize-limit of my system as user mika sucked: [mika@tweety: ~/Video]% limit | grep filesize filesize 244MB [mika@tweety: ~/Video]%

Some days ago I installed KDE 3.2 on the computer of my girlfriend. Today I installed KDE 3.2 on my box at work and I really enjoy it. It’s fast enough for my system, it’s definitive an eye candy, the kicker-applets (klipper, dictionary, knewsticker, kmix, kscd, kweather and so on) are useful, the KDE Wallet […]

Today my brother gave me the digital videocamera from my father and because we would like to create some movies about our cat Rubeo I tried to use the camera with linux. Some weeks ago I bought a firewire-cable and so I connected the camera with my laptop, loaded the kernelmodules dv1394, ohci1394, raw1394, ieee1394 […]

Ok, now I used some options from the X-config from my debian-installation and X is working on freebsd. But: it just works if I call “startx” as root, neither gdm nor startx running as user work as they should, and calling “X” as user mika results in a freeze. Grml!

Ok, because I should learn for university I installed FreeBSD on my laptop ;o). Installing FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC was no problem, but booting it via Grub was tricky ;-). But finally I got it working: root@tweety:/home/mika# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38760 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 […]

Because I try to find out the best features from all the existing distributions for my own one (called grml), today I tried to run phlak (0.2.1) [a derivative of Morphix] and fire (0.4a) [Forensic and Incident Response Environment]. While phlak tried to access the CD-ROM for more than 5 minutes without doing anything (hanging […]

Since today the new and updated website for Grazer LinuxTage 2004 is online. Oliver Jusinger did a great job with webprogramming. More than 20 lectures and about 8 workshops are registered nowadays, call for papers is till 10th of march. There’s still a lot to do but organisational stuff is working quite well. I assume […]

Opera 7.50 Preview 2 is available for different platforms (as usual). Get it from snapshot.opera.com. For me there aren’t any obvious changes besides better panels-handling. But fullscreen-mode still does not save the toolbar settings – grml. I use the fullscreen-mode (F11) because there does not exist any advertisements in this mode and place is used […]

Today I set up Fedora-Linux on my box at work on the new harddisc. Setting up was quite easy, but I have to become used to the rpm-stuff ;). Looks like it would work fine, but some things didn’t work as they should (Printer-Setup via SMB-Share, there was no ntfs-module available for mounting NTFS-partitions – […]

Today I set up a FreeBSD-box at work. It was hard work because FreeBSD needed the disk-values from BIOS but with activated harddisk it did not boot from CD-ROM. Ok, finally it worked and now it’s running: [mika@bufo: ~]% uname -imrs FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC i386 GENERIC [mika@bufo: ~]% df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted […]

Well, I was using pekwm already for some months, but I wanted to improve look and feel, so I tried to install current pekwm-source from CVS. I fixed one bug with headerfiles (otherwise it won’t compile on debian unstable) and after mentioning this on irc.pekwm.org (#pekwm) I got an URL to current debian-packages from pekwm. […]

Yesterday I worked on some stuff for grml and created some static binaries: [mika@grml: /data/Source/static-binaries/done]% ls -lah * -rwxr-xr-x 1 mika mika 696K Feb 1 00:22 grep-2.5.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mika mika 812K Jan 31 23:01 mutt-1.5.5.1i -rwxr-xr-x 1 mika mika 1.3M Jan 31 23:43 slrn-0.9.8.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mika mika 1.6M Jan 31 23:56 vim-6.2.214 -rwxr-xr-x […]

Setting up lm-sensors on my P4-system (Intel Corp. 82875P) really sucks. Now I tried xmbmon and what should I say? Yes, it works! It works out of box (./configure && make) on my workstation and on my laptop, very nice :) My laptop (fan-rotation does not work): [mika@tweety: ~]% mbmon Temp.= 22.9, 22.9, 27.3; Rot.= […]

Ok, today I had some minutes for grmling. I made some details for design-goals of grml and requirements for it. Currently our biggest problem is which installation-system we should use, Anaconda is at least our favourite.

Organization of Grazer LinuxTage 2004 (GLT04) is going very well, a lot of lectures (currently more than 20!) and workshops (currently about 8) will be held. Today is meeting of the people organizating this event. GLT04 will take place on FH-Joanneum in Graz on 7th and 8th May, I have to quite a lot of […]