Category Archives: Nørd

“Wha… – What… – What the hell is an ‘Aluminium Falcon’ “

http://youtube.com/watch?v=M_NALyl9Sr4&mode=related&search=
Darth Vader the musical – ikke hel fed lyd, men aligevel underholdende 🙂

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfLOtIhjVFc
Darth ringer hjem og skal bortforklare at Dødsstjernen er gÃ¥et tabt… Kæmpe humor; Gav mig tÃ¥rer i øjenene..

Genfundet arbejdsmusik-lykken med Winamp 2.95

Version 5.xx har generelt været stor, ustabil og tit krævet geninstalletion for at virke. Til alt held har jeg fundet et site hvor man kan hente alle de gamle versioner:

http://www.winampheaven.net/old.php?major=2

Rescue disk version 3.1 :)

Dette værktøj kan bare alt man kan stÃ¥ og mangle i en snæver vending nÃ¥r man repearer PCere…

http://trinityhome.org/trk/

New Trinity Rescue Kit available

More than two years after the much appreciated Trinity Rescue Kit 1.1, a Linux livecd to rescue dead systems, the author Tom Kerremans finally managed to create Trinity Rescue Kit 3.0
Since TRK 2.0 was a halfly finished, deadborn, never released version, the author decided to start again from scratch, baptising this release version 3.0
Aside from the features already in TRK 1.1, many rescue and management features have been added and existing seriously improved and debugged.
A brief sumup of what TRK 3.0 can do more than any other rescue distribution:
-easily, without the need of Linux knowledge reset Windows passwords
-full ntfs read/write access thanks to the integration of the Captive NTFS Project
-alternative ntfs write support with FUSE NTFS very performant though with some limitations
-automatic virusscan of all local filesystems with 2 different virus engines
-clone Windows XP computers over the network between two TRK machines.
-automatic search and undelete files from ntfs volumes
-windows registry editing
-automatically search and mount all filesystems, including those on USB storage devices
-LAN configuration can be adapted to provide parameters and extra script execution using DHCP and a webserver. This opens the automatic ability to use a proxyserver
-search for scripts to run from harddisk or usb storage
-run a ssh server to enable remote rescueing
-straightforward startup options
-many standard and non-standard utlities like qtparted and links in graphical framebuffer mode, testdisk, tcpdump, mdadm, raidutils…
-kernel 2.6.14.3 supporting most known hardware (all disk controllers, ethernet, also gigabit ethernet)

ezstream install problems…

Today I found out that the old deprecated Shout has been replaced with ezstream – and beyond it having a far sexier name is has also inheired shouts compilation problems on FC4 systems. Default install barfs up following message when trying to configure:

..
checking shout/shout.h usability… no
checking shout/shout.h presence… no
checking for shout/shout.h… no
configure: error: must have libshout installed!

And I do have shout.h installed in /usr/include/!! But alas it looks in shout/shout.h – problem solved by making a shout folder in /usr/include and copy shout.h into it.
Simple solution, but it took me some an hour to figure out, while I tried different includepaths.. 🙁

Dagens rpm tip…

Ja man bruger vel yum eller apt-get nu tildags, men nogen gange kommer der duplicates i ens rpmdatabase og ovennævnte værktøjer nægter at updatere ens maskine.
Tricket er at bruge rpm -query hvor er navnet på dupletten, så får man de versioner der er installeret og så bruge rpm -e til at fjerne de forældede pakker.
Dette er mÃ¥ske logik for perlehøns for nogen, jeg blev først klogere idag; Men Demus slap da for at gøre denne form for oprydning for mig frem over 🙂

Andreas Katsulas dødede Valentins aften af lungekræft

Citizen G'karHan er osse kendt som Citizen G’kar fra Babylon5 og en af mine favoritkarakter i alle de TV serier jeg har set – en man starter med at hade og som senere viser sig ikke bare at udvikle sig til en fantatisk underfundig og morsom person, men osse samtidigt fÃ¥r man osse en forstÃ¥else af hvorfor han til at starte med virkede så vred, harm og sÃ¥ret.

“I believe that when we leave a place a part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in these halls, when it is quiet and just listen. After a while you will hear the echoes of all of our conversations, every thought and word we’ve exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.” ~ G’Kar, Babylon 5

apt-get idiocy –> Dependencies: debian

Ufielist on distro-bashing.. 

On 1/29/06, Robin <robin@kallisti.net.nz> wrote:
> > I want to like Ubuntu, but why oh why did they have to base it on such
> > a $deity awful distro? It ends up making me want to hit things with a
> > pretty, user friendly, /brown/ stick.
> Because they know that all the other ones are much much worse, clearly.

# apt-get idiocy
Dependencies…
debian

*damnit*

-b

On Sunday 29 January 2006 17:42, Bragi wrote:
> # apt-get idiocy
> Dependencies…
> debian
# rpm -ivh good_system.rpm
Error: unsatisfied dependencies:
 Debian-based system
Conflicts:
 *.rpm

— Robin

Gudtjenester for nørder…

I USA har man i Ã¥revis mÃ¥lrettet selv religion efter forbrugermÃ¥lgrupper og det gør sig osse gældende med dette seneste indslag. Nu er der podcasts af prædikener man kan hente over nettet. Men det slutter ikke her – der er en præst der nok sikkert ikke har haft en særlig stor menighed i sit lokalomrÃ¥de, men her pÃ¥ nettet fÃ¥r han nok en langt større opmærksomhed – han hedder Joel Anderson og hans prædiker er Biblen set fra et Klingonsk perspektiv og masser af bibelske citater pÃ¥ Klingonsk og religøse spørgsmÃ¥l set fra biblens og Klingonsk side.

Her er linket til The godcast Network – tag en lytter og der er stor sandsynlighed for at du gÃ¥r derfra med et muntert grin pÃ¥ læberne.

Og jeg har altid undret mig over hvor de fejlrapport blev sendt hen og om det hjalp..

Guaranteed to cut down coding errors. A new concept!
I suggest your developers watch
Video on MS codeerror reductiontechnoligy.
a few times – we all have a lot to learn from Microsoft’s new approach to coding.

Hvad de 3 prikker på Christania Tshirts virkelig betyder

Børnehavnen pÃ¥ Newz.dk’s debat havde faktisk en kongekommentar idag. “Nyheden” er :

Electronic Frontier Foundation har opdaget, at nogle farve-laserprintere indsætter mikroskopiske prikker på udskriften. Prikkerne identificerer hvilken printer, der har udskrevet og hvornår.
Det amerikanske “Secret Service” har indrømmet at stÃ¥ bag prikkerne. De har indgÃ¥et en aftale med printerproducenter . angiveligt for at kunne identificere falsknere. Noget lignende er ogsÃ¥ set i Danmark.
Se om din printers udskrifter kan spores tilbage til dig her.

Og sÃ¥ kommer wapse med følgende guldkommentar – vil ikke se pÃ¥ en Christiania trøje med samme øjne 🙂 :

Jeg har faktisk ogsÃ¥ hørt, at PET har indgÃ¥et en aftale med tøjproducenter, om at det tøj der bliver solgt pÃ¥ Christiania bliver mærket med gule prikker, for at de lettere kan identificere Christianitterne ude byen…