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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

http://www-student.cs.uni-bonn.de/~hillenko/geschwindigkeitsuebertretung.pdf – german only

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 it should…

Ok, today I got my order from rotation.at with a Samsung harddisc (for backups at work), a papst-cooler and a northbridge cooler (ZM-NB47J). First of all I could not remove the existing cooling element on the active northbridge-cooler from the motherboard, at least I could remove the active cooler and I placed the papst-cooler in front of it. I hope there are no problems with temperature ;-(. But: the noise is still present. I would like to have a more quiet PC and now I compile 2.6.3-rc2 with cpufreq enabled. I hope my computer will be more quiet then. If it does not help I think I must buy a zalman-cooler and a cooling element for my P4. grml, f****** noises!
Uodate: 2.6.3-rc2 seems to have a problem with e1000, so I changed to 2.6.2 and it works fine. But cpudyn does not work:

grml:/home/mika# modprobe acpi
FATAL: Error inserting acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.2/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi.ko): No such device
grml:/home/mika# cpudynd 
cpudynd version 0.4.8 Copyright: Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
cpudynd: CPU frequency control disabled
Error: Nothing to do, exiting
grml:/home/mika#

I have created some communities on orkut (at.linux, klagenfurt, Lugg, pekwm) and invited some friends. My profile is becoming bigger and bigger (and orkut has some load-problems )”The requested URL could not be retrieved. Please try back in a few minutes.” ;-))). Tim Pritlove wrote some words about orkut. I think orkut has some potential for development. Well – let’s have a look ;)