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Ok, now I used some options from the X-config from my debian-installation and X is working on freebsd. But: it just works if I call “startx” as root, neither gdm nor startx running as user work as they should, and calling “X” as user mika results in a freeze. Grml!

Ok, because I should learn for university I installed FreeBSD on my laptop ;o). Installing FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC was no problem, but booting it via Grub was tricky ;-). But finally I got it working:

root@tweety:/home/mika# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38760 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1       13212     6658816+  a5  FreeBSD
/dev/hda2           13213       23460     5164897+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3           23461       37852     7253347+  83  Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda4           37852       38760      457852+  82  Linux swap
root@tweety:/home/mika# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst | sed -ne "/FreeBSD/,/^$/p"
title FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

root@tweety:/home/mika#

Local network (but currently without the VPN/PPTP-stuff) seems to work fine. When configuring and then starting X FreeBSD freezed – huh?! Ok, now I am booting Linux and taking the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as a template. Let’s have a look ;-).

Because I try to find out the best features from all the existing distributions for my own one (called grml), today I tried to run phlak (0.2.1) [a derivative of Morphix] and fire (0.4a) [Forensic and Incident Response Environment]. While phlak tried to access the CD-ROM for more than 5 minutes without doing anything (hanging at PCMCIA-initialization), fire had problems with it’s own init-system. So I rebooted my box, maybe I’ll have more success with both distributions when using a non-laptop-system ;o).

http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-February/017613.html
http://www.macmerc.com/news/archives/1270
http://heise.de/newsticker/meldung/44853 (german)

www.flickr.com – share pictures in real time – pointer by Enki Boehm on internetz(at)vibe.at.

Since today the new and updated website for Grazer LinuxTage 2004 is online. Oliver Jusinger did a great job with webprogramming.

More than 20 lectures and about 8 workshops are registered nowadays, call for papers is till 10th of march. There’s still a lot to do but organisational stuff is working quite well. I assume and hope the event will be as great as last year (or even better ;-)), hope to see you there!

Opera 7.50 Preview 2 is available for different platforms (as usual). Get it from snapshot.opera.com. For me there aren’t any obvious changes besides better panels-handling. But fullscreen-mode still does not save the toolbar settings – grml. I use the fullscreen-mode (F11) because there does not exist any advertisements in this mode and place is used much more efficient. But because I still need some toolbars (page, address, status) I mapped them:

[mika@grml: ~/.opera/keyboard]% cat standard_keyboard\ \(1\).ini
[...]
[Browser Window]
F7 ctrl=View page bar,0 | View page bar, 1
F8 ctrl=View address bar,0 | View address bar, 7
F9 ctrl=View status bar,0 | View status bar, 4

For more details check out the changelog.

Ok, maybe you noticed (anyone reading this blog out there? ;-)) that I changed the layout of the blog a little bit. Well, I removed the TrackBack and PingBack stuff a few days ago, today I (again) changed some CSS-stuff – hope it looks ok for you :-). Ok, now I have to study… for university of course ;-)…

[mika@bufo: ~/Source]% uptime
12:02AM  up 12 days,  9:51, 1 user, load averages: 0.14, 0.08, 0.03
[mika@bufo: ~/Source]%

Still running and I tried to compile some small c-programs for the university-lecture “datastructures and algorithms” on the BSD-box – worked of course ;-).

What was curious and new for me is the fact that I had to change the “Release Name” from 5.2.1-RC to 5.2.1-RC2 via sysinstall to be able to install wget via “sysinstall configPackages” and URL ftp://ftp.tugraz.at/mirror/FreeBSD-i386/5.2.1-RC2/ – doh! Ok, no wget works like a charme ;-)

http://selinux.lemuria.org/install-2.6.html – SELinux on Debian/Sid with Kernel 2.6

https://solarflux.org/pf/pf+IPv6.php – Firewalling IPv6 with OpenBSD’s pf (packet filter)

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795 – We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source

Today I set up Fedora-Linux on my box at work on the new harddisc. Setting up was quite easy, but I have to become used to the rpm-stuff ;). Looks like it would work fine, but some things didn’t work as they should (Printer-Setup via SMB-Share, there was no ntfs-module available for mounting NTFS-partitions – argl!). Ok, I will check it out in the next few days and will see whether it persists against a waiting debian/knoppix ;).

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.

http://www.dfn-cert.de/events/ws/2004/ – Vortragsfolien

http://farrokhi.net/blog/archives/000235.html

http://www.fingerworks.com/MacNTouch_product.html (thx for the pointer karl!)

http://www.foebud.org/texte/aktion/rfid/positionspapier.pdf – Informationspaper des FoeBuD (Verein zur Förderung des öffentlichen bewegten und unbewegten Datenverkehrs e.V) zum Thema RFID

I wrote down my opion on orkut: http://michael-prokop.at/orkut/. Yes, I really (at least till now) like orkut.

I wrote down my opinion on blogs: http://michael-prokop.at/blog/comment.html