mikas blog

Today I got my DVDs “Super Drumming Vol.1”, “Pat Metheny Group – Speaking of now live”, “GPG All-Star Live From the Record Plant” and the CD-ROM “Dave Grusin – Presents GRP All-Star Big Band LIVE!”. Man, really great :)

Yes, I also have an orkut-account (username: mikap) because Sven Guckes invited me to join. Hm, don’t know wheter it is really useful – let’s check out.

I was kind of offline for the last few days and it was really recovering :). I went for skiing at Nassfeld for one day (33 Euro – puh), weather was great (except the storm at midday which seems to have caused a cold – grml!) and it was fun! But being offline does not mean not to fix computers ;) – I set up the computer from my brother and I used Knoppix due to a missing internet-connection (debian would be more than old ;-)). My FreeBSD-machine is still up and running, in the next few days I would like to set up a real IPv6 network (my computers are IPv6-ready but I did not use it till now) at home and maybe even at work. Now I have to catch up all the newsgroups and my mailboxes (fetchmail was running via cronjob to prevent problems with mailbox-quotas ;-)).

Today I set up a FreeBSD-box at work. It was hard work because FreeBSD needed the disk-values from BIOS but with activated harddisk it did not boot from CD-ROM. Ok, finally it worked and now it’s running:

[mika@bufo: ~]% uname -imrs
FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC i386 GENERIC
[mika@bufo: ~]% df -h
Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a   248M    35M   192M    16%    /
devfs         1.0K   1.0K     0B   100%    /dev
/dev/ad0s1e   248M   8.0K   228M     0%    /tmp
/dev/ad0s1f   595M   434M   114M    79%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1d   248M   1.8M   226M     1%    /var
[mika@bufo: ~]%

When I installed zsh, vim and slrn I noticed that my shellsetup is not completely os-independent so I improved my setup once again ;-).

Yes, XMMS randomizer sucks – bugs at xmms.org (pointers by Karl Voit) – possible solution:

[mika@tweety: ~]% apt-cache show imms | sed -ne "/Description/,/\./p"
Description: Unobtrusive, automatic, and learning XMMS playlist manager
 IMMS is an intelligent playlist plug-in for XMMS that tracks your
 listening patterns and dynamically adapts to your taste.
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Warum ich glaube, dass meine Ausbildung zur Softwarekrise beiträgt – von Ferdinand Altnöder (Filetype: PDF)

Dave Shea created (based on some stats) a list of the relevant browsers in the year 2004: http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/02/02/browser_supp/

Many Systems on a PowerBook – by Amit Singh

I think everyone knows the flash-game with the pinguin (http://www.google.com/search?q=pinguin.swf) – so have a look:
tux won :)

Well, I was using pekwm already for some months, but I wanted to improve look and feel, so I tried to install current pekwm-source from CVS. I fixed one bug with headerfiles (otherwise it won’t compile on debian unstable) and after mentioning this on irc.pekwm.org (#pekwm) I got an URL to current debian-packages from pekwm. I installed them and they seem to work very fine. I had to change the config-files :-( but now it works like a charme, have a look:

576 KiB – showing desktop of pekwm with xfce4-panel including some plugins and gkrellm
81 KiB – showing xterm with ssh-session to my server (screen-session with centericq inside)

Very nice in my opinion (and I should stark to learn for the exam tomorrow on university ;o))

Jimmy im ICQ:

Mist, mydoom hat SCO lahmgelegt, aber nicht MS :-( Gut, daß ich mydoom doch entfernt habe. Als ich hörte, daß er DoS gegen MS fahren soll hab ich mich gleich gefragt, wo ich den mydoom runterladen kann ;-)

Scrable with CSS

Linux v2.6 scales the enterprise

Yesterday I worked on some stuff for grml and created some static binaries:

[mika@grml: /data/Source/static-binaries/done]% ls -lah *
-rwxr-xr-x    1 mika     mika         696K Feb  1 00:22 grep-2.5.1
-rwxr-xr-x    1 mika     mika         812K Jan 31 23:01 mutt-1.5.5.1i
-rwxr-xr-x    1 mika     mika         1.3M Jan 31 23:43 slrn-0.9.8.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 mika     mika         1.6M Jan 31 23:56 vim-6.2.214
-rwxr-xr-x    1 mika     mika         1.1M Jan 31 23:01 zsh-4.1.1
[mika@grml: /data/Source/static-binaries/done]%

Well, not all of them are linked against the dietlibc due to some problems, but they seem to fit well and at least it is a good start ;-).

Setting up lm-sensors on my P4-system (Intel Corp. 82875P) really sucks. Now I tried xmbmon and what should I say? Yes, it works! It works out of box (./configure && make) on my workstation and on my laptop, very nice :)

My laptop (fan-rotation does not work):

[mika@tweety: ~]% mbmon

Temp.= 22.9, 22.9, 27.3; Rot.=    0,    0,    0
Vcore = 3.10, 3.11; Volt. = 3.32, 3.25,  7.87,   0.00,  0.00

Temp.= 22.9, 22.9, 27.3; Rot.=    0,    0,    0
Vcore = 3.10, 3.11; Volt. = 3.32, 3.25,  7.87,   0.00,  0.00

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and my workstation:

[mika@grml: ~]% mbmon 

Temp.= 25.0, 36.0, 25.0; Rot.= 2766, 1577, 6250
Vcore = 1.57, 2.62; Volt. = 3.41, 4.35, 11.61,  -5.17, -1.95

Temp.= 25.0, 36.0, 25.0; Rot.= 2721, 1577, 6250
Vcore = 1.57, 2.62; Volt. = 3.42, 4.33, 11.67,  -5.17, -1.95

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I made 25 slides for my using the power of google”-lecture on GLT04 with prosper (a LaTeX class for writing transparencies). I discovered prosper-make while writing a Makefile for transformation of my slides to html, prosper-make works like a charm! I improved my LaTeX-skills while writing mika.sty ;) for setting my own footers within the slides. Works very fine!

Ok, today I had some minutes for grmling. I made some details for design-goals of grml and requirements for it. Currently our biggest problem is which installation-system we should use, Anaconda is at least our favourite.

Organization of Grazer LinuxTage 2004 (GLT04) is going very well, a lot of lectures (currently more than 20!) and workshops (currently about 8) will be held. Today is meeting of the people organizating this event. GLT04 will take place on FH-Joanneum in Graz on 7th and 8th May, I have to quite a lot of work – especially for my lectures and workshops (www.linuxtage.at/prokop/).

Well, yesterday I took some minutes to change my setup from Cisco-VPN-Client to PPTP – on Laptop and on my Server (both running under 2.6.1-mm2). What should I say? Works great :-) Running about two to five times as fast as the cisco-vpn-connection (due to that most people of the about 3000 people in the network are using the suck^Wcisco-vpn-connection, reading NNTP makes much more fun ;-). In the next few days I will try to set up masquerading (for playing gateway) to bring my QNX-machine online.

Kevin Krammer sent me an URL about a great article about K Desktop Environment 3.2 (german only, sorry).