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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 at work, I set up KMail (together with ‘kontact’). IMAP-Setup was done in about 2 minutes – great. Setting up GPG-stuff worked fine with kgpg. Sending signed and encrypted mail to my private mailaccount (using mutt as a client) works. But: KMail can’t handle my MIME-GPG-stuff. Inline-GPG works of course. grml. According to this howto inline and MIME should work, but it does not. Even compiling the libs as mentioned in the howto did not help – grml. Any ideas except using mutt?

But what really sucks: I wanted to add the contacts from LDAP-server to my addressbook. LDAP-search, add entry. Ok. I had to send a mail to 5 people. First of all I couldn’t figure out how to create a group (send a mail to many persons with ‘a single click’) – huh? So I had to choose the 5 entries manuallly, then sent mail. But only 1 of the 4 persons received the mail – huh? So let’s have a look at the addressbook: KMail added a blank/space at the end of the e-mail addresses. Instead of using e.g. ‘<michael.prokop@tugraz.at>’ KMail stored ‘<michael.prokop@tugraz.at >’. Argl!

Just for checking out:

[mika@dufo: ~]% ldapsearch -x -b "OU=Bedienstete,O=tug" -h ldap.tugraz.at sn=prokop | cat -e | grep TUG
mail: michael.prokop@TUGraz.at$
[mika@dufo: ~]%

So it’s not the fault of the LDAP-server. And even if it would – why can’t KMail recognize (and then store) what’s a valid mailadress? grml.

Found A, B, C, … D! The Programming Language on osnews.com (an online-ressource I really like btw).

A Comparison – D vs Other Languages.

I don’t know whether ‘D’ is interesting enough (I hope that’s not a new version of ‘640kb are enough’ 8-)), but I’ll add it to the quite long list of programming-languages I’ll have a look at ;-).

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 it does not work – the following line is the content of the address-bar:

http://explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE%20http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/

It really sucks!

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

References in Major Papers to Weblogs and Blogs

While searching for interesting facts about Windows Longhorn I found the following (IMO funny) blog entry in the longhorn-blog:

There's some interesting commentary going on over at OSNews.com in response to my Chronicles of
a WinFX Developer article.

There's a post in their comparing the new features of Longhorn and C# to existing open source technologies.
Sounds interesting, but I can't comment too much as I am not totally familiar with the technologies
mentioned. I plan on comparing them, though, as I am suspicious to see how they really compare.

With comments like:

5) WinFS: Databases are not new. Database filesystems are not new (old BeFS).
What's new about WinFS again?

I wonder how much they have actually looked into Longhorn…

The reply:

re: Commentary on the first Chronicles article
"I wonder how much they have actually looked into Longhorn…"
As much as or more than you have looked into BFS... 
Hypocrite

Today I wrote a small german webpage about BSD. Work is still in progress, but any feedback (especially of bsd-geeks 8-)) is welcome!

Rapid Application Development with Mozilla – zipped PDF

Starting slrn with newsserver news.gmane.org brings more than 150 new mailinglists – pfuh. And which one is on top of it? gmane.linux.debian.devel.custom – a sign from heaven? 8-)

Ok, in the next days I’ll continue my work on grml (besides working at university and writing slides for GLT04).

My question to the audience: which texttool(s) would like to see in grml? Of course vim, mutt, slrn, zsh and tools like netcat, awk, grep, sed are included in grml. But which ones would you like to see? A diff between a knoppix’ ‘dpkg –get-selections’ and a grml’s one is quite long, but I want to avoid forgetting nice tools ;-) Your input is welcome!

History of Unix – as a graphical historical timeline, printable as PDF and other formats – taken from Tim Pritlove

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/klee/misc/slashdot.html (pointer by Martin Piskernig)

Currently I’m checking out some nice features of vim for my workshop at GLT04. By accident I found this short but informative webpage about vimdiff. Of course I kn[e|o]w vimdiff, but the following hints were quite useful at least for me:

Re-diffing
:diffupdate

Moving between diffs
[c
]c

Synchronizing
:diffget
:diffput

Especially diffget und diffput are quity handy. And I still don’t understand why there doesn’t exist a reference to ‘vim -c “:he vimdiff”‘ in ‘man 1 vimdiff’

Currently I’m working on the first ISO of grml and because I’m missing some debian-packages of nice tools I created a first deb (others will follow) and try to automatize this process as much as possible. I also set up an online-debian-directory (http) and it works like a charme. First release of grml is coming closer ;-)

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 machines.” — http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-March/024505.html

Also QNX does not work on this computer… grml!

“Seit heute 12:00 Uhr können IDN Domains unter .at, .co.at und .or.at registriert werden.” So zu lesen auf nic.at – aja. Auch zu lesen ist “Um die Technischen Systeme zu entlasten wird zudem in den ersten Tage keine Whois-Abfrage für diese Domains zur Verfügung stehen.” Hm:

[mika@grml: ~]% whois bücher.at
% Copyright (c)2003 by NIC.AT
%
% Restricted rights.
%
% Except for agreed Internet operational purposes, no part of this
% information may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
% transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
% recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of the NIC.AT
% on behalf of itself and/or the copyright holders. Any use of this
% material to target advertising or similar activities are explicitly
% forbidden and can be prosecuted. 

xn--bcher-kva.at IS NOT available

[mika@grml: ~]%

Aber die Spammer schlagen laut de.admin.net-abuse.mail bereits fest auf IDN-Domains an.
Sind die Mailclients schon alle IDN-ready?

Mutt ist ja seit 2003-03-03 (Version 1.5.4) mit der libidn und mit ‘–with-idn=/usr/local/lib/’ IDN-ready. Und tatsächlich, scheint zu klappen:

mutt -F /dev/null diesemailsendeichnicht@müller.de

Today I wrote a german webpage about zsh. zsh is really great and via stepping through $ZSH-SOURCE/Etc/FEATURES, Changelogs and using google I discovered many not so well known features.