Debian stable vs. testing

Posted on 19.02.2007 by Thomas

Yesterday, I installed Debians current stable version 3.1 rev 4 ‘sarge’ on a vmware. After the installation, I tried to install python2.4, apache2.2, subversion1.4.2 …

I could install the python2.4 package, but the package python was only available for python2.3. After creating the links (e.g. python -> python2.4) manually, I tried to get the apache2.2 package. To use debians apt for this job, I had to add the testing sources to the apt list. After this step, he tried to upgrade my system with a new kernel and some new tools. Enough for me! ;) I went to the debian package page and downloaded the testing net boot cd.

Launchy – The keystroke launcher for windows

Posted on 05.02.2007 by Thomas

Do you know Apple’s Spotlight? You can use it to search, find and launch almost everything on your system! Launchy is an alternative for windows. You can specify, which folders are scanned for links and applications, use it to open websites and so on…

You can find it here.

SuSE’s YaST can stress…

Posted on 20.11.2006 by Thomas

This is an entry of pure frustration. Today I tried to install rsync on a modified SLES 8 installation to create a case study to use rsync to create a mirror of one of our working folders in basel, switzerland.

While I used YaST to install the package, the automatic conflict solving reinstalled an old version of samba2. But we use samba3 on our systems.

The installation of 500 kbs of software crashed the hole infrastructure… Thanks to YaST!

I’m happy that I could fix it within 10 or 15 minutes while reinstalling the samba3 packages.

OpenSearch dict.leo.org

Posted on 16.11.2006 by Thomas

I created a OpenSearch plugin for dict.leo.org to use it in Firefox2 or any browser, supporting OpenSearch.

This page offers the plugin through the autodiscovery mechanism. You can explicit download it here.

Trac 0.10

Posted on 08.10.2006 by Thomas

I updated my trac version from 0.9.3 to 0.10 and must say that this was the easiest update of any bug tracking system I ever made!

I use trac for my personal project management and tracking.

First Look – Times Reader

Posted on 05.10.2006 by Thomas

Wow! Times Reader is the first real app, I found for .NET 3.0.

Times Reader runs on Microsoft’s new Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), which is built into the new Vista operating system and is included in the .Net 3.0 Framework service pack for Windows XP.

Beagle and Google Reader

Posted on 04.10.2006 by Thomas

Beagle sounds like Google Desktop. I will give it a try on my Debian Etch installation and will report the test results here.

And… today I moved from RSS Bandit to Google Reader. I had a small conversation about online and offline readers with one of my colleagues and decided to give it a try and test an online reader. :-)

upstart – event-based init daemon

Posted on 04.10.2006 by Thomas

Gerade bei Linux.com | Replacing init with Upstart gefunden:

upstart – event-based init daemon – Ein für Ubuntu entwickelter Ersatz des init Daemons. Arbeitet eventbasiert und wird um viele nützliche Kleinigkeiten angereichert.

Arcor macht mich heute aggresiv

Posted on 06.08.2006 by Thomas

Heute ist echt einer der Tage, an denen ich richtig sauer bin, zu Arcor gewechselt zu haben. Alle 10-15 Minuten bricht meine Internetverbindung zusammen und ist ne Minute später wieder da. Kein Webradio, Instant Messaging geht auch nicht vernünftig. Nichtmal Webseiten kann man in Ruhe besuchen.

DG834GB : Netgear

Posted on 31.07.2006 by Thomas

Sooo, endlich mach ich meinem Frust mit dem Router schluss. Ich habe hier einen WGR614v5. Ein relativ aktuelles Gerät von Netgear. Leider musste ich gerade auf den Supportseiten feststellen, dass er nicht unter den Superduper-Geräten für VPN drin steht. Daher also immer die WLAN-Abstürzte wenn ich ne VPN-Conn offen hab. Tja, und wech und neues her: DG834GB : Netgear

Ich hoffe, der will diesmal eher :)

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