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OpenDocument approved by ISO

blog@ngolde.de (Nico Golde) — Fri, 05 May 2006 14:34:29 +0200

Great news, after 6 months voting for OpenDocument the
OpenDocument format which is used for example by OpenOffice is approved by the ISO.

OpenDocument is an open format for exchange of office documents (spreadsheats, text etc.).

[via consortiuminfo]

Why Linux is so cool....

blog@ngolde.de (Nico Golde) — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:28:36 +0100

... and most of the guys propagating Linux are morons. I only write this because on BeLUG-mailinglist there is a new topic about Linux fetishism. I really hate threads about why Linux is 1337 and Windows is not.

Do you guys don't have something better to do then going on the nerves of others with your Human-Spam and work on converting windows users to linux users?
For example think about Jehovah's witnesses, everybody hates them (ok except a finite amount of people) and now think about people swinging a tux banner and offering a linux magazin to show you how cool the linux community is. Thats an
extreme of what some people are already doing and I hate them too.

I also think that most of the people doing this are not the ones who have got the best technical arguments, if
they would have technical knowledge I guess they would solve more interestings problems.

And be paithfully the questions on the mailing lists and in usenet are really more idiotic as before Linux became more and
more popular but this is only a personal problem.

So please stop this, if Linux has technical advantages over windows and they are good enough to differ then there is no need for Linux-evangelism, if not is not worth a try for a Windows-user.

Before you think I don't like Linux, that is not the case and I don't talk about philosophical things like Free Software, OpenSource, DRM etc. this would be another deep going discussion.

Altogether I can only add: "Everyone uses what he deserves" -- Sven Guckes

Ah and btw. 2/4 written tests at university are over now.

One step forward

blog@ngolde.de (Nico Golde) — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:58:26 +0100

The ISO makes the Linux Standard Base (LSB) a real standard.

The LSB is a standard created by the Free Standards Group. The intention of it is to create a stable base and directive for
commond Linux distributions. I think its a great goal which should be supported or fancied by
every Linux user.

Read more on: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1880214,00.asp

Multiple file renaming

blog@ngolde.de (Nico Golde) — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:30:34 +0200

Thanks Mika...
I needed:

for i in cyrus21-kolab*
do
mv "$i" "cyrus22${i/cyrus21}"
done

very often in the last weeks....

pasting text via keyboard

blog@ngolde.de (Nico Golde) — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:00:04 +0200

You all know the problem that sometimes if you mark text in e.g. a browser and you paste it in a text box that the text will be
pasted with middle mouse click on the place where the mouse cursor is.
This behaviour sometimes sucks because it is not the place where you want the text (like in s9y blogs).
There is the possibility to mark text via the mouse and to paste it via the keyboard with the keys Shift+Insert.

Thanks to deifl for this tip.

My new Lex Light CV860A

blog@ngolde.de (Nico Golde) — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:17:06 +0200

Today I got a Lex Light CV860A for free by my company because at the moment they don't pay me for the internship and obviously they like me.
and once I told them that this just rocks as I saw it here as a router/firewall system.
I am very proud of this system.

Specification:
Size: 4.2cm x 22cm x 16.5cm H,B,T
Front Panel: Power Switch, HDD/ Network/ Power LED, 1 x USB, Audio Speaker/ Microphone-in.
Back Panel: PS/2 for Keyboard/Mouse, 2 x USB 1.1, 2 x Serial, 1 x Parallel, 3 x Realteck J-45, VGA Connector
(yes, three network interfaces!!!!)
AC: 60 W external ACDC (like used for notebooks)
Memory: 1 x Compact Flash Socket, 1 x DOC Disk on Chip, 1 x 40 pin DOM, 1 x 44 pin DOM, 1 x 2.5" HDD
Mainboard: VIA Samuel 2 mainboard
CPU: 533 Mhz (CentaurHauls), 256 RAM

I got it together with a 40 GB 2.5" HDD
The best thing is that it is as small as a book and produces absolutly no noise (assumed you have a quiet HDD) because it has no radiator.
I installed Debian GNU/Linux and it works like a charme.
I think I will use it as a server in the future, maybe for mldonkey or something like this as soon as I got my own
DSL flat. If I have the time I will for sure test the grml-terminalserver via PXE of the grml project.

Internship

blog@ngolde.de (Nico Golde) — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:40:30 +0200

I got an internship. From 01.07-01.10 I will work for the Linux Information System AG.

First European X.org developer meeting

blog@ngolde.de (Nico Golde) — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:04:18 +0200

Time: Sunday June 19th and Monday June 20th 2005

Place: LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany.

The X.Org Foundation is planning its first European Developers Meeting right before in Karlsruhe,
Germany on Sunday June 19th and Monday June 20th.

More information on: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/LinuxTagMeeting

Linux-2.6.12

blog@ngolde.de (Nico Golde) — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:05:58 +0200

... is released. See the CHANGELOG.

One of the new things is the including of a TPM device driver.

Heise reported too.

Linux kernel RSS feed

blog@ngolde.de (Nico Golde) — Fri, 20 May 2005 14:59:22 +0200

kernel.org told me:
"There is now an RSS feed available to track the latest kernel versions. Have fun!"

http://kernel.org/kdist/rss.xml

Modern Dekstops

blog@ngolde.de (Nico Golde) — Fri, 06 May 2005 14:28:21 +0200

On this site you will find some very interresting screenshots. There is a screenshot taken from windows compared with to similiar from Ubuntu and SuSE.
They look pretty much the same but Linux gives this look for free

Time to change the OS for all people running the wrong.