Jakob and me just wrote a small bash line that checks the current temperature of the IBM Thinkpad T43p notebook and prints it nicely. Hope we guessed the value meanings correctly. [Read full post…]
Found while searching how to place the icons inside a custom gnome splash screen. The Gnome Splash Block. [Read full post…]
I just found 10 minutes to clean up my blog a bit. I switched the theme from my old brownish, dark theme to a nice grey-blueish one by Sebastian Bergmann (thanks!). It now looks much friendlier. Beside that, I updated my sidebar plugins and added the new eZ components release feed. Cool, now I only have to make up my new website, for which a little tool is lurking on my hard disc for a couple of months now... Hope I will find time after my exam phase end of July. [Read full post…]
My favorite weblogging software Serendipity was just released in version 1.0. Thanks a lot to Garvin Hicking and all other contrinbutors for their efforts to build that great piece of PHP software! Congratulations for becoming stable, S9Y! Btw., the new design of the website is really cool! :) [Read full post…]
Thanks to Jakob I found a patch (look at the very end of the page) which enables Beagle to index Thunderbird emails. I created a Gentoo ebuild for me personally to support this. I just made a TAR ball of it, so you can use it, too. To make it running, do the following steps: [Read full post…]
Since a few days Jakob Westhoff - a good friend, university and usergroup collegue of mine - has a blog. I convinced him to set one up, because he produces a lot of geeky things, which by now stayed on his harddisc. [Read full post…]
Since 1996 I'm using ICQ as an instant messaging service. While I was satisfied with it all the time, I'm now getting into real trouble with ICQ spam. Blocking unwanted messages from users that are not on your buddy list is not a problem (at least in Gaim, although this tools seems to forget the privacy settings now and then). But lately I receive constant masses of authorization request spam. It's a real annoyance to get about 50-200 of these messages per day and to reject all of them manually. I would be really near to leaving the ICQ network, if there weren't so many of my non-geek friends on ICQ. [Read full post…]
No, not myself, but my server. Until now I ow a 1und1 Root Server L, which I bought more than 2 years ago. Now that 1und1 offers a new generation of servers, I decided to switch to a 64-bit machine. My old server had a Celeron processor, 256 MB RAM and 20 GB HD, which could not really handle my spam protection anymore. The new one is an Athlon 64 3000+, has 1 GB RAM and 2 80 GB SATA discs, which I run as a soft raid. [Read full post…]
I just stumbled over this rumor. The article states, that Oracle is planning to take over up to 3 open source companies, including JBoss and Zend. Let's see, where this leads... [Read full post…]
I recently decided to create a new category to my blog, which is dedicated to eZ systems related topics. I know, my frequency on this (especially eZ components) related stuff was quite high in the past weeks and having all those posts ending up in my "PHP" feed was maybe a bit too much. Therefore, all eZ related posts will now be marked by the new "eZ" category and when I consider the post important for other categories (like "PHP" or "Community related"), I will add those additionally. [Read full post…]