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My activities and experiences in computer related areas include the following:

In den letzten Tagen habe ich an zwei Übersetzungen von Open-Source-Projekten mitgeholfen:

• Für die nächste Version von MoinMoin habe ich die schwedische Übersetzung komplettiert und berichtigt. MoinMoin ist eine Python-basierte Wiki-Software, die ich für unterschiedliche Projekte verwende, in die ich eingebunden bin, zum Beispiel das hier. Die Übersetzung wird mit der in ein paar Wochen kommenden Version 1.7 von MoinMoin ausgeleifert und wird automatisch funktionieren, aber wenn man sie im Rohformat sehen will, geht das hier.
• Die andere Übersetzung war ins Deutsche und galt einem Thema für Wordpress das sich Tarski nennt. Dieses Layout verwende ich für die meisten meiner Blogs (siehe Links in der Seitenleiste) und ich habe meine ältere Übersetzung (die wiederum auf der eines anderen basierte) auf die neueste Version von Tarski (2.1) gebracht. Die Datei im .po-Format findet man unten als Anhang.

Zum Bearbeiten von .po-Dateien verwende ich Poedit.

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Mehr Info hier und ein etwas ausführlicherer Kommentar meinerseits hier.

Below is a small collection of the few technical articles and product reviews that I have written over the years and that might still be of interest.

• SSH-Tunneling HowTo
• Running Debian GNU/Linux on an IBM Thinkpad R40
• Hacking the gallery software igal
• Rescuing a messed-up linux-laptop with the help of a network-boot setup.
• Getting hacked and what we did about it.
• iAudio 6 MP3-Player Review
• Squeezebox 2 Networked-MP3-Player Review
• Archos Gmini 220 MP3-Player Review

Comment spam in blogs is evil and unexcusable. Not enough that I have to take certain measures to keep this site and some other blogs clean, no! Now they have started spamming my picture gallery which uses Coppermine. I turned the anonymous comments off now, so you have to register in case you want to comment pictures there.

Which reminds me that I have to select some good images from the last months and put them there...

user@linux:~$ host thepiratebay.org
thepiratebay.org A 83.140.176.146
user@linux:~$ host 83.140.176.146
Name: hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org
Address: 83.140.176.146

:-)

Akismet is a service for sorting out spam comments. I have already used this with Wordpress but now there is a plugin for drupal, too. I have it running on this site and it seems to work nicely. Your occasional comment will therefore no longer be held for manual moderation and should appear immediately.

Podpress is a plugin for Wordpress that is supposed to make embedding audio and video content into blogs easy. It maybe does, but after looking at the feature-list that includes the item

View MP3 Files ID3 tags when your Posting,

I do not feel like testing it anymore. It may be nitpicking, but this "you're / your" error is a red flag for me, just like "there / their / they're".

So, someone else found out that eMusic is a very good place to buy music online, without DRM-crippling. I am subscribed to their largest plan (90 tracks each month for 20 US$) and I am happy to hear that they are doing fine.

The choice wasn't easy, but a few days ago I ordered my iAudio 6 and it arrived yesterday. In short, it is an mp3-player with 4GB capacity and, judged from the few hours that I have had it, it seems to live up to the expectations. Read on if you want to know why, see pictures and read the full review.

My Gmini 220 is broken in the most ridiculous way: The button to turn it on and off is bust. Well, I was unsatisfied with its quirky interface anyway and I will re-use it's 20GB 1.8"-harddrive in a cheap USB-case.

But this means I need a new MP3-Player, this time one that plays Ogg/Vorbis, too. Other criteria are the lack of proprietary "transfer-software" (USB-Mass-Storage is what counts!), battery life, size (both physically and in capacity) and the ability to act as a USB-host when transferring images from my camera.

I have been eyeing the iAudio X5 for quite a while and I am sure it is very good. Nevertheless, I am sceptical about this button/joystick that is the main device for user-input. It will most probably wear out with time.

In addition, iAudio has just released an attractive new player with a harddrive in the tiny new 0.85"-format. It is called iAudio 6 and holds 4GB which is significantly less than the X5 with its 20, 30 or even 60GB.

Of course, size does matter, but not exclusively. The battery-life is longer for the smaller one, it is physically smaller and uses a touch-sensitive area instead of a joystick. On the other hand, USB-host capability is nearly useless with only 4GB of memory that will partly be filled with music anyway.

Tough decision! :-)

Wired has a nice and elaborate article about The Pirate Bay which is "operated by a crew of intrepid Swedes who revel in tormenting the content industries."

Yesterday at work, a fellow PhD-student came to me because he had messed up his Linux installation on his laptop. He had misspelled a point for a slash and typed chown -R someuser / as root. He did not realise that something was wrong and only aborted the command after quite a while.

Since all the sysadmin tools now belonged to a user and not to root anymore, the system would not boot but into a rescue shell from where it was not even possible to change back permissions, due to the messed up system.

The normal and best solution for such cases is to ...

I just came across KeyJnote (via). It is a little script, written in Python, that takes a PDF file or a buch of images and displays it/them as a slideshow. It uses OpenGL to make eye-candy transitions between the slides and allows highlighting of certain areas and an easy overview of all slides. Since OpenOffice can export to PDF, I probably will use KeyJnote next time I do a presentation (if I don't prepare it in S5 instead, that is) or next time I present some photographs.