Oct 9

openSUSE 10.3 - back on Linsux

After a few months spent with just running Windows my long awaited openSUSE 10.3 was released and I was happy to grab the GM-ISO-Image just before the release when the mirrors weren’t that loaded. A quick and painless installation on the laptop got me a smooth running desktop OS with everything you need.There is a nice howto for doing this which.Though I didn’t use it I can recommend it to nearly everyone without any experience on installing suse. Everyone else should have a look too. There is some good stuff for everyone …
openSUSE 10.3 - openbox 3.4 - Gnome
The wallpaper is from interfacelift.com.
Filed by buk on October 9th, 2007 under Linux || Add Comment || Trackback ||

Sep 5

Being really smart!

As I got myself a new (and better) VPS yesterday and I wanted to upgrade the preinstalled openSUSE 10.0 to something more current instead of starting with a nearly outdated system. So the journey began with a simple system update via YaST which ended … well … pretty quickly. And obviously without any success.

After that I decided to do the update with smart instead, so find my little howto below.

Upgrading your openSUSE 10.0 VPS from Hosteurope to 10.2:
  • install smart for 10.0 from here
  • add the needed channels/repositories to smart (OSS, non-OSS, updates, smart) for 10.2
  • update the packagelist smart update
  • upgrade the system smart upgrade
    • Above step fails with “error: filesystem-10.2-22 requires rpmlib(BuiltinLuaScripts) <= 4.2.2-1“
  • upgrade system in 2 steps:
    • smart upgrade rpm rpm-python pam pam-modules smart
    • smart upgrade
  • be on the safe side: SuSEconfig ; ldconfig
  • disable all console in /etc/inittab
  • the next step was a real PITA and took me a while to figure it out
    • the ssh-daemon needs /dev/random which isn’t create when booting
    • add to /etc/init.d/boot.local: mknod /dev/random c 1 8
  • make sure all needed services are enabled for runlevel 3: chkconfig -l | grep 3:
  • hold thumbs and reboot
That’s pretty much it. I just had one major problem with the missing /dev/random and the not starting sshd because of it. Needed to install the telnet-server to get access while the system was running so I could debug it. After I while I found that post that finally fixed it.

Have a nice day.

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Jul 13

Mozilla annoyances

As I installed Ubuntu on my laptop this days to have something to compare against my “usual” openSUSE installations I kinda had to start with an empty $HOME, again. Not a big deal, a simple SVN checkout and my subversioned $HOME solves that problem.
Except for the Mozilla applications: Firefox and Thunderbird.
It’s the same over and over again, create profile, install extensions, edit profile …
Now you might say “But I don’t do this that often!”, that’s correct. For myself, I stumble over new extensions and stuff quiet often and while using 3 (Windows + Linux) boxes regularly, I have to make the changes three times each time. Annoying.
And as these apps use absolute paths in their configfiles you are absolutely f***** when thinking about sharing profiles between Windows and Linux.
Need to Google some more … any hints appreciated.
Thanks Paul for the congratulations, the best for you and your wife also. :)
Filed by buk on July 13th, 2007 under Computer || Add Comment || Trackback ||

Jun 6

ANIga extended

As you can see on the right I just added a “picture-of-the-day” function to ANIga. Usage is pretty straight forward, simply call anigal_show_potd(); somewhere, maybe in your sidebar and you are done.
For saving todays POTD I created a new table.
I’ll forward it to naabster, maybe he’ll add it.
Besides that there’s another new function added to ANIga called anigal_show_image($pid, $before, $after); which can be used to display a certain image wherever one would need it, for example in your daily posts.
All you need is the pid of the image, rest is done automagically.
To be able to execute PHP code in your posts you would need a plugin like exec-php.
If you are interested in the source please leave a comment.
OK, you can grab the diff here.
Filed by buk on June 6th, 2007 under Computer, Projects || Add Comment || Trackback ||

Jun 5

NULL

Today: german

Nach längerem mal wieder ein Eintrag, bisserl was ist ja passiert. :)

Die neue Funke ist endlich da. Eine schicke Nomadio React. Da sowieso ein Empfänger den Geist aufgegeben hat und bei einem weiteren die Antenne durch misteriöse Umstände eine Kürzung erfahren hat, hab ich kurzerhand die Anschaffung einer 2,4GHz Funke etwas nach vorne vorschoben. An den Wochenenden mit den Octiracern sind sowieso immer mehr Fremde anwesend und in regelmässigen Abständen macht sich ein Modell dank Frequenzstörung oder doppelter Kanalbelegung selbstständig. Sicher ist sicher, nun kann kommen wer will, ich bin gerüstet. Das gute Stück hat sogar nen USB-Anschluss, kann via PC eingestellt werden, besitzt keine externe Antenne, Empfänger-Akku-Überwachung und andere Scherze. Sensoren für weitere Telemetriedaten (Temp & RPM) kann man ebenfalls noch an den Empfänger klemmen. Zumindest wenn sie für teuer Geld dazukauft. ;) Bilder.

Außerdem hab ich endlich die Bremse vom Savage repariert. Mir waren die beiden Schrauben im Getriebgehäuse ausgerissen. Somit tendierte die Bremsleistung stark gegen NULL. Zusammen mit nicht funktionierendem Fail-Safe und abgerissener Antenne eine tolle Kombination. Habe jetzt ein M4er-Gewinde ins Plastik geschnitten und 2 Gewindestifte eingeschraubt und dann darauf Bremsbacken und -scheiben montiert wie es sich gehört. Das Ganze ist jetzt auch nicht dichter am Gehäuse, wodurch sich der Servoweg bis zum Greifen der Bremse deutlich verkürzt hat. Allerdings hört sich der Bremsservo auch nicht mehr so fit an. Schonmal Ersatz ordern. Bilder.

Ersatz, gutes Stichwort.

Ich habe vor ca. 2 Wochen im HPI-Shop diverse Teile bestellt, alle als lagernd markiert. Nach dem bis heute immernoch nichts geliefert wurde, hab ich mal nachgefragt wo es klemmt. Natürlich war die Kupplung nicht lieferbar und sie warten selbst auf deren Lieferung. Gut, dass ich genau deshalb dort bestellt hatte, weil sie als lieferbar angegeben war. Aber Hauptsache man hat als Kunde mal wieder Vorkasse leisten dürfen.

Immerhin, man hat mir die Lieferung bis Samstag versprochen … nach meiner zweiten Email zum Thema “Verfügbarkeit” bezweifel ich allerdings stark, dass sie überhaupt was schicken. ;)

Achja, Bilder vom letzten Wochenende aus der Tongrube.

Schlammschlacht #1 Schlammschlacht #2

Gibt auch noch ein Video.

Filed by buk on June 5th, 2007 under Computer, RC-Cars || Add Comment || Trackback ||

May 16

Updates . . .

Had some time tonight so I spent it fiddling with the page …


  • New font for post-headline, rendered with this plugin
  • Minor changes to the rest of the CSS
  • Comments enabled
  • Fairly easy anti-spam-measurement: added a hidden (by css) input field to the comment-form, if its filled its a bot



Life sucks, so do neighbours.

Filed by buk on May 16th, 2007 under Computer, Projects || Add Comment || Trackback ||

Mar 23

New Gallery implemented

Hi.

Out of pure luck I stumbled over ANIga, a very nice gallery that integrates smoothly into Wordpress.
It still has some “problems” and needs some workarounds but after all its just great.

I already moved a bunch of pictures into it, especially the new RC-Car pictures.

Have fun.

Filed by buk on March 23rd, 2007 under Computer, RC-Cars || Add Comment || Trackback ||

Feb 8

Your day sucks?

If you think your day sucks ….

thinkofit
Filed by buk on February 8th, 2007 under Computer || Add Comment || Trackback ||

Jan 12

WiFi, confuse your neighbours

I read about that pretty often but I still have a good laugh when I stumble over it (again).
So here it is, the ultimate guide to have fun with your neighbours.

The upside-down-ternet.

Filed by buk on January 12th, 2007 under Computer, Life || Add Comment || Trackback ||

Jan 10

********* IRC

Recently during an IRC conversation:
(found at bash.org)


[Cthon98] hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
[Cthon98] ********* see!
[AzureDiamond] hunter2
[AzureDiamond] doesnt look like stars to me
[Cthon98] [AzureDiamond] *******
[Cthon98] thats what I see
[AzureDiamond] oh, really?
[Cthon98] Absolutely
[AzureDiamond] you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
[AzureDiamond] haha, does that look funny to you?
[Cthon98] lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
[AzureDiamond] thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
[Cthon98] yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
[AzureDiamond] awesome!
[AzureDiamond] wait, how do you know my pw?
[Cthon98] er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
[AzureDiamond] oh, ok.


That hurts.

Filed by buk on January 10th, 2007 under Computer || Add Comment || Trackback ||