sed-tutorium v1.4
(12 August 2008)
The version v1.4 of the German introduction to sed fixes a few typos. But the real reason for incrementing the version number is the change in the toolset: I'm abandoning db2pdf and have started using fop to generate the PDF file. And whilst I was screwing with the generator, I was also beefing up the layout of the DocBook output.
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Script to rename a svn:author
(01 July 2008)
The following Script helps to rename an author in the Subversion log.
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Pictures of barely dressed women
(28 June 2008)
If you google for the German term Bilder von leichtbekleideten Frauen (pictures of barely dressed women) then you find the translation of "How to ask Questions the smart Way" on the first page of the search results. Apparently some users in the Web think more people would read the text if it is sold to them as a page with risqué pictures. And I have a suspicion they might not be all that wrong...
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Subversion backup script
(01 June 2008)
After having rewritten for the thrid time a script to generate SVN backups (in three dfferent situations), I have decided to put a sample script online so I don't have to re-invent the weel the next time.
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USB to I2C bridge
(10 May 2008)
This is my first hardware project and it is still in an embryonic state, but the first version of the schematic can be downloaded.
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sed-tutorium v1.3
(13 April 2008)
Version v1.3 of the German introduction to sed has undergone a thorough spell check. If I missed the one or the other error, please don't hesitate to report it!
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Pictures from Turkey
(08 April 2008)
I've put some pictures from Antalya in Turkey online. Enjoy.
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sed-tutorium v1.2
(03 March 2008)
The German introduction to sed corrects some minor bugs in v1.2. The biggest difference is the switch from the GNU FDL to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
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pycrc version 0.6.5 released
(02 March 2008)
Version 0.6.5 of pycrc supports now two new CRC modesl (dallas-1-wire und r-crc-16). This version fixes also a problem in the generated source code for the bit-by-bit-fast algorithm and adds increases the compatibility with C++.
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Tuning Subversion on slow networks
(18 January 2008)
Ever complained about Subversion beeing slow over HTTP? The page blog/2008-01-19-subversion-tuning_en.html show some ways to tune Subversion with Apache.
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pycrc version 0.6.4 released
(05 December 2007)
Version 0.6.4 of pycrc fixes a bug in the code generator for table-driven algorithms. When the crc_update() function was called more than once the result could get erroneously reflected.
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How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
(17 November 2007)
The official German translation of the excellent article "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" is now hosted on http://www.tty1.net/smart-questions_de.html. I'd like to thank the LUGBZ for having hosted that page for many years in the past.
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Pictures from England
(15 November 2007)
After one year and a half I have finally managed to work through my pictures from England and to put some of them online. More pictures are found in the page photo.
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pycrc version 0.6.3 released
(13 October 2007)
Version 0.6.3 of pycrc adds a few new CRC models (crc-5, crc-15, crc-16-usb, crc-24, crc-64) and fixes a few bugs in the generated code. C89 code is now completely ANSI compatible and should work in systems without <stdlib.h>. A bug in the --check-file option has been fixed and an unnecessary restriction on the width of the Bit-by-Bit algorithm has ben removed.
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Transparent Subversion proxy with svnsync + webdav proxy
(26 August 2007)
The page blog/2007-08-26-subversion-proxy_en.html describes how to set up a transparent Subversion proxy server.
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pycrc version 0.6.2 released
(25 August 2007)
Version 0.6.2 of pycrc is a minor bugfix release. Bugfixes: the command line option --check-string was ignored and the generated sourcecode for the table-driven algorithm has been improved. No new functions are added.
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pycrc version 0.6.1 released
(12 August 2007)
Version 0.6.1 of pycrc is a minor bugfix release. In particular, the new C89 code introduced a couple of bugs which are now gone. Previously deprecated command line options have dropped in this version. No new functions are added.
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sed-tutorium v1.1
(19 July 2007)
The German introduction to sed corrects some bugs in v1.1. Thanks to Alexander Kriegisch.
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Rant about my experience with the Izmailovo hotel in Moscow
(18 July 2007)
A report about my experience dealing with the Izmailovo hotel in Moscow. I hope the contained informations are useful for people planning to travel to Moscow.
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Fighting spam with exim4
(09 June 2007)
The short article blog/2007-06-09-fighting-spam-with-exim4_en.html contains some (obvious) methods to fight spam with the exim4 MTA.
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pycrc version 0.6 released
(21 May 2007)
pycrc version 0.6 has been released. This release contains a major rewrite of the code generation back-end and a re-organisation of the source code. There are also several other minor improvements. With version v0.6 the license has changed from (a modified) GPLv2 to MIT.
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Linux support for Samsung YP-T9
(06 April 2007)
Yay! I have got my brand new Samsung YP-T9 MP3 player connected with Linux and I am listening to Ogg Vorbis files on it while writing this lines!
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pycrc version 0.5 released
(25 March 2007)
pycrc version 0.5 has been released. This version contains small bug fixes and no new functions.
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sed-tutorium v1.0
(20 February 2007)
The German introduction to sed has bumped the version number to 1.0. This version contains some minor changes and corrects several typos (Thanks to Thomas Falkner).
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An example script for an iptables firewall
(06 February 2007)
blog/2007-02-06-iptables-firewall_en.html describes an example of an iptables firewall script with some gimmicks like automatic blocking of ssh portscans.
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pycrc version 0.4 released
(26 January 2007)
pycrc version 0.4 has been released.
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pycrc version 0.3 released
(14 January 2007)
pycrc version 0.3 has been released.
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Examples of dual-licensing of Open Source Software
(10 December 2006)
I have written a small comparision on dual licensing of Open Source, just out of interest.
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This pages are now generated out of XML
(25 November 2006)
Since I wanted to learn XML and XSLT, I have converted the source code of this pages from Web Meta Language to XML.
Provider change
(04 December 2005)
This domain is now hosted on a virtiual Xen server by www.unixshell.com. I have posted a report on my experiences on blog/2006-11-25-unixshell_en.html.
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Slides for shell-workshops
(29 September 2005)
Eventually, I put online some old slides for a sed-awk workshop and for a Bash workshop.
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South Tyrolean Free Software Conference
(08 November 2004)
The LUGBZ proudly presents the South Tyrolean Free Software Conference in Bolzano, Italy. See the homepage of the fsfcon for more detalis.
NO Software Patents in Europe
(09 April 2004)
tty1.net joins the web strike against software patents.
sed-tutorium v0.8
(17 March 2004)
The German introduction to sed was ported from SGML to xml and by this occasion I have corrected some typos.
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GNU/Linux Installation Party VII
(28 February 2004)
The LUGBZ has organized the 7th edition of the GNU/Linux Installation Party in Bolzano (IT) at February, 28th. Everyone interested in this event is welcome.
Workshop: Introduction to Shell Scripting
(26 April 2003)
The LUGBZ is organizing an introduction to Shell Scripting. We invite everyone to partecipate. More informations can be found on the Workshops page of the LUGBZ. The slides can be seen here.
Workshop: Introduction to sed and awk
(25 January 2003)
The LUGBZ is organizing an introduction to sed and awk. We invite everyone to partecipate. More informations can be found on the Workshops page of the LUGBZ.
sed-tutorium v0.7
(08 January 2003)
The German introduction to sed has reached version 0.7. I really don't know when version 0.6 came out. Do you?
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Linux Day in Bolzano
(23 November 2002)
The Linux User Group Bolzano holds its second Linux Day. Several speaker were engaged who talks in German or italian language. You can read more on the dedicated page of the LUGBZ.
sed-tutorium v0.5
(08 September 2002)
The German introduction to sed has reached version 0.5. It contains some small changes and error corrections.
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Hack-it 2002
(21 June 2002)
This year the italian Hacker Meeting, hack-it 2002 was helt in Bologna. Here are a few photos i made.
Virtual Domains with Exim + Courier-IMAP + MySQL
(24 May 2002)
Lately i had to set up a mail-server for virtual domains, and i wrote down some notes about this type of setup.
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Photoalbum
(31 May 2002)
Finally i got enough images to put them online.
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This site goes online
(10 March 2002)
Since I'm in a CSS-fever, this pages use CSS in a exhaustive way. Sorry for any inconvenience with older browsers. (This pages have been tested with lynx though.)