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As you maybe know I’m running Debian unstable (with 2.6.8-rc3) on my laptop. X11 is working and I even have support for XVideo. Now I wanted to add 3d acceleration (the gatos-drivers don’t provide 3d acc.). Ok, first of all I tried to use the debian package of the mach64-CVS-branch by Michel Dänzer. cd /usr/src/modules/drm-mach64 […]

As you maybe know I’m currently working on the book about texttools. I’d like to include a chapter with some details on terminals. But documentation about raw-, cooked-queue and so on sucks^Wdoesn’t really exist ;-(. The only useful documentation I could find is the Single UNIX © Specification on “General Terminal Interface” and of course […]

# ps 1>/dev/null # uname -srv Linux 2.4.25-grsec #1 Sam Apr 24 11:49:51 CEST 2004 # It’s running… I’m just thinking of a (smart and hidden) lart for the guys who pulled the power plug… Any ideas?

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245718 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245849

No, that’s not funny: # ps 1>/dev/null {ide_get_best_pio_mode} {GPLONLY_ide_get_best_pio_mode} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.22-ow1 does not match kernel data. # hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.23 seconds =556.52 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.78 seconds = 35.96 MB/sec # And it’s a productive machine running with RAID. No option for […]

No – it’s not really a rant. I just installed Opera 7.50 B1 on my laptop. The DNS-confirmation and the close-transfer-window have been fixed in the Preview-4-version. Due to the changelog Opera now supports ‘Auto-detection of RSS file (link rel=”alternate”) displayed in navigation bar’. Ok, so I added such a header to my webpage. What […]

Remember my rant about the mailinglist of securityfocus? More than 80 mails in my spam_securityfocus-folder ;-( I unsubscribed multiple times but still receive newsletters – grml. So I tried to unsubscribe via webpage for another time. Have a look: An unsubscribe request has been sent for «censored»michael-prokop.at to the following mailing lists: sf-news ms-secnews linux-secnews […]

Maybe my KMail-rant was a little bit polemic (hey – it costs time! 8-)) [I’ll have a look at the source], but what really sucks is Outlook. Am I telling news? :o) At work we still have two persons using Outlook. One at it’s own risk and the other one because importing in thunderbird didn’t […]

Laserprinter at work is now not only available through IPX/Novell-crap but also via plain TCP/IP, especially via remote-CUPS. Together with the new fileserver running Samba 3 instead of Windows NT4 a main reason why I could switch to Linux on my Desktop *happy* Because I think KDE is a really great desktop for using it […]

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\prokop.UFO.000\Desktop>type “office-update.cmd” @echo off REM Filename: office-update.cmd REM Purpose: run office-update as root/administrator REM Author: Michael Prokop / www.michael-prokop.at / www.grml.org REM Latest change: Mo Apr 19 00 2004 REM ##################################################################################### ECHO Starting office-update as Administrator runas /profile /user:%COMPUTERNAME%\Administrator “C:\Programme\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE \ http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/” C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\prokop.UFO.000\Desktop> Yes – this should work. Should. Because […]

More than 20 stupid “Out of Office AutoReply”, “MailServer Notification” and similiar crapmails within a few minutes via sf-news-euro@securityfocus.com in my inbox. argl! *creating_procmail_rule_and_unsubcribing* Update: 48 mails and still “running”… *anybody* is able to send mails unchecked(!) through sf-news-euro@securityfocus.com – argl!

“Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor” – grml. “The 5.x bootable install CDs no longer use floppy-emulation mode. The change was made because some newer machines do not support this emulation mode. However, older machines may not be able to boot CDs in “native” (non-emulation) mode. We can’t support everybody, so we support the new […]

Sorry for writing german, but otherwise it wouldn’t make any sense ;) Standart, compilieren, funzen, 3 Euros, Newsgroup’s,… – die heutige Sprache im Usenet. Für jene, die der deutschen Sprache noch etwas Gutes tun wollen ein paar Lesetipps: de.etc.sprache: FAQ Ãœbersetzungsfallen Interpunktion Agopunktion Offline-Lesetipp: isbn://3446224726

Very fast reply by abuse@aon: Der Account des Kunden, von dessen Rechner diese Virenmails versandt wurden, wurde gesperrt. English information: the account of the telekom-customer has been disabled

I received 12 spammails with the “Dear user of “Michael-prokop.at” mailing system, […] Kind regards, The Michael-prokop.at team” from host n632p031.adsl.highway.telekom.at (62.47.22.255). So I sent a mail to abuse@aon.at and today I got the following response: From: Abuse Intern [schnipp] Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:07:58 +0100 Subject: AW: Abuse-Meldung […] Um den/die tatsächlichen Verursacher […]

Due to the fact that I received more and more spammails in my personal inbox in the last few days (even spamassassin and some procmail-rules couldn’t catch them) and because the schema is always the same I created a new procmail-rule: :0 BD * http://www.(affiliatedrugs)|(moderndrugstore).biz { :0 fwh | formail -i “X-Caught-by: biz-spam” :0 $MAILDIR/spam_drugstore/ […]

70% of network traffic is produced by IPX! 497 IPX-packets within 3 minutes doing nothing related to networking on the box. Argl!

As you might have mentioned I really like the firewire-stuff on linux, today I captured 5GiB of movies – sucessful and on my workstation :). But due to some problems with the dv1394-module (which couldn’t be loaded via insmod after compiling) I wanted to upgrade from kernel 2.6.2 to 2.6.3. I already tried 2.6.3-rc2 but […]

Sorry, but spamarrest really sucks. I hate this procedure of whitelisting to be able to send people mails because they use this kind of crap.

I updated Thunderbird at work from 0.4 to 0.5 and now “Use secure authentication” does not work anymore (but “Use secure connection” works still – puh). And the windows-Enigmail-Plugin did not work so I had to install the “general” one. Argl! At least Firefox (AKA Firebird 0.8 – I hate this renaming stuff!) works as […]