Soulcake Monday

The liberator project tries to make even more programs accessible as vim, i.e. letting you use familiar keyboard-shortcuts.

Currently it consists of a Firefox(3)- and a Thunderbird-Extension, Vimperator and Muttator.

Firefox is trying to set a Guinness World Record for most downloads within 24 hours. Pledge now!

Something great fun: Build your own hero with the HeroMachine

Today I was looking for a nice search engine for my documents (no, I don't want to use some fancy desktop-search like Beagle, thanks). I was thinking about doing this a long time ago, and back then the only free engine was ht://Dig. And to be honest, back then it just sucked. Maybe it was the engines fault, maybe I was just too stupid to set it up correctly.

Nowadays there seems to be quite a bunch of available engines to choose from — here's a list with those I found.

If you are one of the poor people being forced to have gamin installed on your Linux-Box (e.g. in RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 you can't install gnome without gamin), you might notice that it sometimes creates a lot of CPU-usage and/or high load.

Read on for a workaround, some interesting hints about "load average", and a pretty diagram

Learn new vocabulary and end world hunger by doing so!

www.freerice.com

Long time no post.
And then it has to be an awfully sad one.
http://noe.orf.at/stories/228172/
http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3071380
One of the three was my friend.

See below for pictures

Great rainbow this evening.

In other news, I had the opportunity to taste some of the honey my bees are making -- yummy. It has quite a strong minty note.

Quick followup to ICE - In Case of Emergency:
The Austrian Red Cross now also suggests storing such numbers under the name "IN"

Nach zwei Stundn Aufstieg haben wir um 09:25 den Gipfel des Kosiak erreicht. Leider war's nebelig

This entry is done using my cellphone!

Yesterday I've inserted (or rather: was allowed to help inserting) a queen into my beehive.
Click below for a somewhat less stupid picture

Since yesterday evening, I'm an apiarist. On the left is a picture of my beehive (I took it at 21:18, with an exposure time of 8 seconds, so it's not too great )

After reading a 3-part introduction to Kerberos in ix, I've decided to give it a try myself, on my desktop at work.
As I already log in to my machine every morning using winbind (which authenticates me against our ADS), I hoped that I'll be able to get my Kerberos-ticket directly from there.
After some (read: half an hour of) fruitless googling, I decided to read some manpages (winbindd, pam_winbind, smb.conf), and found the solution nearly instantly, and decided to share it with you:

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Interesting.
Not the number itself.
But the 2 facts that
a) it's forbidden in some countries to disclose that number
b) people from those countries nevertheless disclose it, and no one is able to stop it

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, visit some IT news sites or any other news-site

And again, just because I enjoy living in a country which is more free than the "land of the free"
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