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I’m reading RSS-feeds of interesting del.icio.us-tags (for example del.icio.us/tags/grml 8-)). It seems that since a few days spammers are using del.icio.us for their needs. Take a look for example at del.icio.us/mark5v2. :-( Is this related to the availability of the new mozilla-based browser flock which provides integration of del.icio.us right out-of-the-box? del.icio.us isn’t just a […]

Many of you might know the emulator QEMU. This emulator converts each target CPU instruction into host instructions so you can boot another OS without leaving your current running system. Wernfried ‘amne’ Haas tested the current development ISO of grml snapshot with QEMU and he mentioned some features which let me take a closer look […]

The nepenthes team has build a map showing in real time the guessed location of a computer who sent a virus to one of the reporting nodes. Take a look at it: nepenthes.sourceforge.net/visualisation Pointer via disLEXia 3000 blog.

“Grab an entire CD and compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format.” I just had to grab a single track from a CD and as abcde is soooo easy to use I just wanted to make sure you also know this piece software. If not: take a look at it!

I just stumbled over gems at debaday: mika@grml ~ % apt-cache show gems | sed -ne “/^Description/,/^$/p” Description: Shows a console session in several terminals The gems system is a client/server application that allows to show a single console session in different computers or terminals in real time. It can also be used to transmit […]

On my happy hacking keyboard the control-key is located where you “usually” find the caps-lock key. My new laptop (Samsung X20) has a function-key at the left side and next to it (on the right side of it) the control-key. I often misplaced my fingers and as I like the caps-lock-is-control-key-setup I modified the setup […]

Stephen ‘caphuso’ Rueger gave an irctalk about the zsh on 10th of september. As I forgot to mention it in my blog and missed the talk itself I now read the log. It’s a nice introduction to the zsh and covers interesting topics of the zsh – read yourself why you should use the zsh. […]