mikas blog

Your buddy list in ICQ (especially when using centericq/centerim) seems to be shorter than usual since a few days? Check bug 39 in centerim’s bug tracking system. Ok, just another chance to get rid of the centericq/centerim stuff, right? One option is to use the IRC instant messaging gateway BitlBee (especially if you are used […]

# getSystemId Libsmbios: 0.12.1 Error getting the System ID : Service Tag: XschnippX Express Service Code: XschnippX Product Name: IBM System x3250 -[4364K1G]- BIOS Version: IBM BIOS Version 1.35-[XschnippX]- Vendor: IBM Is Dell: 0 disclaimer

Just a short notice: if you have to deal with the IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter (RSA) under Linux and it does not work with Firefox: use Opera instead. In Firefox the keyboard inside the remote console java applet does not work (at least on several boxes I’ve being working on) whereas it does in Opera. […]

Experienced on a grml-developer meeting by gebi: Stupid 32 vs. 64bit problem. See unison’s FAQ and #404697 for more information. Workaround: just use the 32bit binary on the 64bit system. The real solution would be to use a current version of unison (>=2.27) – though the latest stable release of unison is still version 2.13 […]

No, not running out of coffee (well, maybe) – but: # ifup wlan=mika […] No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database. Exiting. Failed to bring up mika. :grin:

Looks like many people didn’t manage to solve this problem, so let’s feed google… If you notice the following error message when running apt-get: # apt-get update […] 98% [Working]FATAL -> Could not set non-blocking flag Bad file descriptor E: Method http has died unexpectedly! # echo $? 100 … you forgot to mount the […]

To work around a fscking annoying behaviour of MS Office 2007 regarding files on network shares you might want to use something like the following inside your smb.conf: create mask = 0660 force create mode = 0660 directory mask = 0770 directory security mask = 0777 security mask = 0660 force security mode = 0660 […]

This file exists because you want to avoid downtime caused by WTF-of-the-day-stuff like: % ls ~/bin/ foo bar baz % cat > ~/bin/cronjob << EOF #!/bin/sh for file in ~/bin/* ; do $file ; done EOF % ~/bin/cronjob Wuups.

[Gnaaaaa, sorry Planet Debian for sending a german article to you a few hours ago. I just chose the wrong category for the article. I removed the tag already and the article disappeared from Planet Debian right now; so if you don’t know what I’m talking about just don’t care. ;-) To the german readers: […]

I was working on the integration of live-initramfs for grml in the last few days. As the Debian maintainers of live-initramfs switched from svn to git and I contributed several patches I had to deal with git as well. Thanks to my personal VCS hero gebi I learned some cute tricks for working with git. […]

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The power fail at home in Graz some weeks ago was a good chance to continue with migration of my setup. So far my main working system was a gateway/server system at home, but as soon as I’m not at home anymore (like sitting at a much more rocking place) murphy hits me and I […]

Froscon rocks! explored some more software in more detail, including op, dconf, dstat, unoconf, dwscan, ikiwiki, openQRM, Pentabarf, sl it was great to meet so many people (some of them for the first time in RL), including Alexander ‘formorer’ Wirt, Timo ‘Spida’ Boettcher, Marc ‘HE’ Brockschmidt, Bernd Zeimetz, Thomas ‘MrFai’ Lange, Sebastian Harl, Elmar Hoffmann, […]

The Debian-Team at the Debian-booth of Froscon 2007: Standing (from left): Bernd Zeimetz, Thomas ‘MrFai’ Lange, Sebastian Harl, Elmar Hoffmann, Martin Zobel-Helas, Luk Claes; Sitting in the middle: Christoph ‘myon’ Berg

JFYI: The computer is my 12″ Lenovo X61s laptop. Disclaimer: no, that’s not my own 50" monitor. ;-)

No, that’s not a joke. Today I had to (hard-)reboot one of my servers because the console newsreader slrn produced such a high load on the system that it was everything but responsive as a consequence. Huh. What? Yes, right. It was the fault of slrn. I had not set up any default limits on […]

Sitting at Wörthersee (Klagenfurt/Austria):

As I wrote a few monce ago I’m owner of a NSLU2 device powered by Debian. Now I had to install another device (using di-nslu2-etch-4.0r0.bin – md5: db8e8ec3571aff8fb2132479f860f16b this time) and I wanted to change the setup from using /dev/sda2 to a UUID based one – to get a stable root device. Nothing really tricky […]

Since about two days I’m proud owner of a Lenovo X61s notebook. It will become my main and new developer box for grml, featuring all that nifty stuff like 64bit support, hardware virtualization and so on… I managed to use all the important features with a very current version of grml. I’m using kernel 2.6.22-grml […]

It was on my todo list since ages, finally I took some minutes to set up my own jabber server (reach me at mika@jabber.grml.org). I’m using ejabberd, a free and open source instant messaging server written in Erlang. Reference system: Debian etch (current stable), ejabberd version 1.1.2-6, installed via a simple: # aptitude install ejabberd […]