chaos!

Day 0: Cash registers closed, WLAN working.

The estimates as to when the cash registers would open developed as follows:

12 hours -> rand(6,12) hours -> 22 o’ clock.

I got my ticket despite the troubles. Good riddance as they were sold out the next morning.
Day 1: Topics to look up: GSM security, dnssec, OpenMoko, sleephacking, arduinos, MakerBots
Day [...]

TAG, you're it!

Today the shops were open for business despite it being a Sunday and I grasped
the opportunity to buy a mp3-cassette adapter so I won’t have to endure
ad-infested radio on my morning-commute.

That event led me to an issue I’ve been putting off for some time now.
I own a Sandisk Sansa MP3 player and all in all [...]

Hello, how is the fsync today?

So I run a bleeding edge operating system on my one and only home computer.

It’s an Eeepc 901 with a teeeeny SSD on which lives a Debian GNU/Linux with an
unstable/experimental flavor to it.

I also like to surf the web. I do it all the time when I’m sitting in front of
my machine.

Every now and then [...]

urxvt and back again

Hello world,

there once was a time, when I was using rxvt to do my daily terminal work, which is more or less all my work. As I tend to have quite a couple of terminals open at any one time and am quick to spawn new ones on a whim to do some temporary work, [...]

…and all this time I have not known…

vimperator

Mouseless browsing!
100% awesome for awesome!
VIM!

One would need an oracle…

To touch up on some oracle related topics I decided to give oracle-xe (free as in beer) a spin. Turns out there is a repository for debian unstable for that. Nice!

The whole thing can be read at and obtained from oracle.

It’s not quite that straightforward to get the php5 connection up, but it’s manageable.

Now I [...]

I AM flabbergasted

This totally awesome post is sooooo relevant to the stuff I have to absolutely learn because it somehow includes the mention of an AM radio.

I think I blinkd…

This was still around.

I have no real use for thinkblinkd anymore, lacking even the most basic Thinkpad, but every now and then there is a 404 in my apache logs, trying to find it, so I dug deep in some backups and here it is again. Enjoy!

I really miss the thinklight… *sigh*

What it is? Why [...]

Gedächtnisstütze

Ein halbes Nummernschild steckt in einem halben Messingkopf. Jemand hat damit ein Teeservice zerschlagen.

Das alles steht auf zwei langen Balken an denen zwei Ausweise kleben.

In einer kleinen Lücke zwischen den Balken sieht man ein kleines Schild auf dem ‘Zerbrechlich’ zu lesen ist.

Auf dem Boden liegt eine weitere kleine Scherbe von der 13 kleine Pfeile auf [...]

bash the dash to crash

I guess choice is a good thing.
If you use an open operating system you have lots of choices.
Which desktop environment, or any at all?
Which terminal emulator? Which browser? Which mail client?

And then there’s ‘which shell’? csh? ksh? zsh? bash? dash?… there’s a long list.

Most, if not all of them, are POSIX compliant shells, which means [...]