mikas blog

Today I decided to set up a devel-blog for grml to [b]log my activities on grml and keep people up2date what’s going on. The grml-devel-blog @ grml.supersized.org

Effective from April 1st, 2005, use of News.Individual.NET will not be free of charge anymore. The news service will continue as a fee-based service. The fee for an account for News.Individual.NET is 10 EUR per year (annual payment), that converts to only 0.84 EUR per month. — http://news.individual.net/ Bad news IMO. :-( It’s not the […]

ak’s mutt-ng project is in the news: german article in the Linux User magazine 2005/03. Great! mutt-ng is a fork of the well-known email client mutt with the goal to both incorporate all the patches that are floating around in the web, and to fix all the other little annoyances of mutt. I’m mentioning mutt-ng […]

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced hotplug-ng which replaces the existing linux-hotplug package with very tiny, compiled executable programs, instead of the existing bash scripts. Great news IMO! Marco d’Itri will probably maintain this package in debian (see his ITP). Marco is also maintainer of the udev-package so I’m expecting good integration.

Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 800 million messages dating back to 1981. This is by far the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account. […] Enjoy your trip back to the golden […]

Free Software Magazine is a free magazine for the free software world, available on paper and in electronic format. (pointer by Emanuele Rocca)

I just found out that “Linux Treiber entwickeln – Eine systematische Einführung in Gerätetreiber für den Kernel 2.6” by Jürgen Quade and Eva-Katharina Kunst (ISBN://3-89864-238-0) is available online. You might know parts of it from the german version of Linux Magazin. Have fun and enjoy reading it! :-)

Opensource-CD is a german project which provides several open source programs for windows. Version 1.1 provides 70 up2date programs. I just downloaded the ISO and took a look at it. I think I don’t have to build my own ISOs anymore, because most programs I usually need when sitting in front of a windows box […]

KDE has a lot going for it. It’s attractive and powerful. Its breadth of functionality is inspiring. Where it could benefit most is a consistent eye toward usability, particularly in not overwhelming new users with its capabilities. Easing new users into KDE, rather than throwing everyone into the deep end of the pool, would broaden […]

The binichsexy.de version for geeks is ratemynetworkdiagram.com. :-) Pointer by Kristian Köhntopp

Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music v2 [requires flash-plugin] Network Monitoring Tools Running VAX/VMS Under Linux Using SIMH Default Password List Janee’s Photoshop Tutorials GIMP-Workshop kleine GIMP FAQ [german] Linux kernel swear counts

Wikipedia:WikiReader/Freie Software und Freie Inhalte

http://dufo.tugraz.at/~prokop/parken/

“OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services, originally funded through a Mellon grant (see the final report). Our goal is to create a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources (what are digital resources?) that are easily searchable by anyone.” — http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/

Some Notes on the “Who wrote Linux” Kerfuffle by Andy Tanenbaum and a followup.

http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i11_weber.html (pointer by Sigi Herzog on luga-ML)

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6864

A Taste of Qt 4 – by Jasmin Blanchette

Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development

http://a9.com/grazer%20linuxtage – it seems to work ;) Some more details on a9 is available at John Battelle’s Searchblog