mikas blog

Today I took a look at mstmp:

“msmtp is an SMTP client that can be used as an “SMTP plugin” for Mutt and probably other MUAs (mail user agents).
It forwards mails to an SMTP server (for example at a free mail provider) which does the delivery.
To use this program, create a configuration file with your mail account(s) and tell your MUA to call msmtp instead of /usr/sbin/sendmail.”

msmtp is useful on hosts where doesn’t exist a working mailsetup or if you often have to change your setup [e.g. laptop]. msmtp provides a user-specific configuration instead of a host-based one.

“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/

Due to I missed the lecture of Daniel K. Gebhart on linuxdays in vienna I had to have a look at the window manager ion on my own. I think KDE is a really great desktop environment for computers with enough power, but what I was searching for is an alternative which is fast, small, keyboard-friendly and stable. Pekwm was the less sucking one but changing from stable to cvs version was pain, documentation is not really great and there still exist some unfixed bugs ;-(. So I’ll give ion a chance and after fixing some problems [euro- and umlaut-support in xterm, use $XBROWSER menu] it seems to work quite well.

The ressources of ion I used for checking out:
homepage of ion
ion-slides of dkg
ion-wiki

At least I’ll give ion a chance 8-)

So, I’m back again. I was staying in Vienna (at the linuxdays) for about 4 days and afterwards 2 days in my hometown Klagenfurt. Today I had to went back to Graz. Now I’m checking my mailbox, newsgroups and other stuff you know ;-).

Now I finished my gallery for linuxdays in vienna 2004 and noticed that it was linked on wien.linuxochen.at even before I mentioned it 8-).

Another online-gallery is available on the website of Christoph Siess.

As you maybe know since today the “Linuxwochen Wien” are running. Tomorrow [thursday] I’ll drive to vienna early in the morning. I’ll stay in vienna till sonday so don’t expect daily blogging ;-)

Again a quite “funny spammer” who trapped into spamcatcher (check out the spelling error “whilte addtess list”):

From: Ranjith Eyacheruvatt <ranjithepost @yahoo.co.in>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 08:12:45 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Spamcatcher-Blacklist
To: spamcatcher-24.05.2004-08.52.11-61.11.41.110@michael-prokop.at
Message-ID: <20040524071245.73763.qmail@web8303.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Hello,
Sub:Antispam Software
We are US based company and searching for a leading and better anti-spam software to suggest for our clients(2000 more).
I visit your your website and saw product features. But I could not
find that how I can add the nonspam address (whilte addtess list) in your companies address list.
for eg visit here:- http://rating.cloudmark.com/
If you can help me, please let me know about its link or procedure for this.
Anticipatting an early reply.
Thanks in advance
Regards
[...]

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

Due to I don’t like the program overview on the official WLT04-website I created my own one.

What I would like to see is an at.linux-meeting at WLT04. Even if it’s “just unofficial”. Interested?

As you should know Symantec has a really good reputation 8-) – the following mail made my day:

From: support@symantec.com
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:33:00 +0200
Subject: Re: Virus Sample
To: faqbot@michael-prokop.at

The sample file you sent contains a new virus version of mydoom.j.
Please clean your system with the attached signature.

Sincerly,
 Robert Ferrew

(Yes, I do know the current mailvirus-crap ;-))

In the next few weeks I’ll have to check old hardware at work and I assume there will be about 2-3 computers available for experiments 8-). Currently I’m running a QNX-box for fun, now I have to choose which operating system/distribution should get a chance for running on one of the new^Wold boxes. FreeBSD? NetBSD? OpenBSD? LFS? Or even Plan9?

Yesterday I went to Kunsthaus Graz and got my shirt. A shirt by Sven Guckes he put up on one of the server-racks – have a look at the GLT04-Pics, especially this one – see the yellow shirt? Yes, now that’s my one :-)

And because I’m against software patents I reactivated my petition-webpage and took a picture of myself 8-).

Currently I’m trying to check out vservers at linux.

[mika@tweety(500): ~]% uname -a
Linux tweety 2.6.6-vs1.9.0 #1 Wed May 12 00:00:04 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
[mika@tweety(501): ~]%

I’m reading the following guide: Virtual private servers and security contexts – thanks for the pointer – Michael Gebetsroither.

Anyone here also using vservers? If so: any other ressources I should know of? ;) And for which purpose are you using vservers?

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

I bought a Samsung ML-1510 Laserjet for 157 Euros a few days ago. Installing it via CUPS was no problem but I had problems with the margins. Changing the options in the ppd-file did the job:

$ grep 'ImageableArea A4' /usr/share/cups/model/samsung.ppd
*ImageableArea A4/A4: "14 20 581 822"
$

Yeah, absolutely great – now printing is fun 8-)

First day of GLT04 was nice. Interesting talks, no serious incidents and social event at Brot&Spiele was fun. Pictures are online. Now I am going to sleep due to I have a workshop together with Sven Guckes early in the morning – at 10:00 ;-)

From: Garry Mahoney <vmtnw@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 01:33:55 -0200
Subject: Vim this size gets anyone
To: vim[at]michael-prokop.at
Message-Id: <jwkgfovivofnufxstxgpkctmt@hotmail.com>
X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=17.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_99,CLICK_BELOW_CAPS,[...]

Yes! I am one of the 5 students at TU Graz who can take part in IPICS04 – Intensive Program on Information and Communication Security: Secure Embedded Systems – in July 2004. Absolutely great!

No – it’s not a rant cause it’s quite funny 8-). Today an icq-spammer named ‘Andrea’ with UIN 234701251 wrote me. Have a look to the log:

02.05 03:11 Hi, what You do?
02.05 03:11 * Authorization request : Empty authorization request message
02.05 03:11 * Authorization request : Empty authorization request message
02.05 03:11 Has found you in the ICQ... I think you can help me...
02.05 03:11 I can not send you the information, it is not sent... Add in contact list please

Ok, I just wrote some lines and regardless of what I now write and send I get the following reply-message(s):

02.05 23:50 You can advise as to fix this site? http://info.url.biz.ua/

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

# 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?