I found this message today in my telnet session on my FRITZ!Box:
Nov 26 10:16:25 dsld[2178]: internet: Bonk Attack detected (1)
I think, this I saw this already a couple of months ago, and I think, the box rebooted then, but it didn't do that no.
Friday, November 26, 2010
an alert on my FRITZ!Box 7390: "internet: Bonk Attack detected"
I found this message today in my telnet session on my FRITZ!Box:
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Adium, the free instant messaging application for Mac OS X
Adium - Download
It's based on libpurple, and it can also deal with Skype and OKCUPID instant messaging.
It's based on libpurple, and it can also deal with Skype and OKCUPID instant messaging.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
entering XML or literal HTML in the Blogger article editor is a PITA
At least the "<" you have to enter as "<", which makes it rather unreadable. If you forget this, and enter tags, as you want to see them displayed, they simply get removed. Bad and sad!
DocBook: article.info.date … – why does date not get displayed?
Good question, isn't it? No, it's not a good question, I assume. Using <date> here is apparently just not the right way (I assume). Why?
I have used this combination for quite some time now.
I have no idea, whether I ever convinced myself, whether <date>…</date> gets displayed.
Just today I wondered, why it doesn't get displayed.
I went through the pain of searching the DocBook XSL documentation, and XSL files, and … .
This is the file, that actually showed me, how I should do it and that I should use <pubdate>…</pubdate> instead:
I am really not sure, it was always like that, but that's the way it is now.
So what do we learn from this lesson?
Editing a DocBook file in emacs' nxml-mode does present you the entire list of syntactically acceptable tags. But that doesn't mean all these tags are being made use of by the stylesheets.
So either you always construct your DocBook files from the nice samples in TDG, or you keep verifying your files against the template files like the one quoted above, or …
I have used this combination for quite some time now.
I have no idea, whether I ever convinced myself, whether <date>…</date> gets displayed.
Just today I wondered, why it doesn't get displayed.
I went through the pain of searching the DocBook XSL documentation, and XSL files, and … .
This is the file, that actually showed me, how I should do it and that I should use <pubdate>…</pubdate> instead:
…/html/titlepage.templates.xmlWhatever it makes you feel like, if you look at this file (it really shows me, how little I understand of all this, so I feel desperate), it clearly lists the tags, that are taken into account for constructing the article info, and it doesn't include <date/> but <pubdate/>, so simply go and use <pubdate> in your DocBook article and stop crying!
I am really not sure, it was always like that, but that's the way it is now.
So what do we learn from this lesson?
Editing a DocBook file in emacs' nxml-mode does present you the entire list of syntactically acceptable tags. But that doesn't mean all these tags are being made use of by the stylesheets.
So either you always construct your DocBook files from the nice samples in TDG, or you keep verifying your files against the template files like the one quoted above, or …
my XML catalog had a prefer="public" attribute
How did it slip in there? I can't really say. All I can say is, that it got included with an entry for Apples's PropertyList DTD. But how did I know then, there is such an attribute with such a value?
I removed it now, actually I put it inside an XML comment together with some words explaining my confusion. In case this action now will break any processing in the future, I hope, I will find this blog article then.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
observing the procmail LOGFILE
I am a fervent user of procmail, have been such a user, since I found out, that sieve is far less available in any such mail environment as mine at my provider's site.
I really don't know of a lot of others, that also use procmail. I think, Axel uses procmail as well, I worked with Axel like almost 15 years ago at ERNO. I only found out, that "Sven G." (a rather prominent open source person living in Berlin) also uses procmail, when we had a pasta evening together in my kitchen last Friday.
Observing procmail LOGFILE is my way of finding out about new e-mail messages, that try to reach me. I think, usually people have a look at their single mailbox (in case they are POP3 users) or at their 5 IMAP folders (just guessing that "5"). I have like 50 IMAP folders, and because I quite often toggle the "READ flag" of messages back to "unread", observing procmail LOGFILE and also keeping separate track of important messages in my diary is my way of attempting not to lose track.
Now why did I start this article today? Sven G. is a "procmail LOGFILE observer", too. And by "observer" I mean using "tail -f" on that logfile – IYKWIM. I just remembered that and Sven G., when I restarted that command line yet once again, and that raised a smile in my heart, that I enjoyed.
I really don't know of a lot of others, that also use procmail. I think, Axel uses procmail as well, I worked with Axel like almost 15 years ago at ERNO. I only found out, that "Sven G." (a rather prominent open source person living in Berlin) also uses procmail, when we had a pasta evening together in my kitchen last Friday.
Observing procmail LOGFILE is my way of finding out about new e-mail messages, that try to reach me. I think, usually people have a look at their single mailbox (in case they are POP3 users) or at their 5 IMAP folders (just guessing that "5"). I have like 50 IMAP folders, and because I quite often toggle the "READ flag" of messages back to "unread", observing procmail LOGFILE and also keeping separate track of important messages in my diary is my way of attempting not to lose track.
Now why did I start this article today? Sven G. is a "procmail LOGFILE observer", too. And by "observer" I mean using "tail -f" on that logfile – IYKWIM. I just remembered that and Sven G., when I restarted that command line yet once again, and that raised a smile in my heart, that I enjoyed.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
absolute cell reference in Open Office resp. Libre Office
Instead of B2 you write $B2 resp. B$2 resp. $B$2 to designate an absolute cell reference.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
why I do not donate to wikimedia
I do not donate to wikimedia because of that awkward "wikipediacracy" game. Too many trolls showing how important they are playing police. This is far away from paradise. Get the trolls out of their control positions, and I start donating, because I still appreciate the wikipedias a lot – despite the trolls. I don't mind, if it looks a little chaotic.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard): the Finder hangs again
I tried to make LibreOffice the default application for a file on a Samba network folder, and Finder hangs – not LibreOffice. I am now going to kill Finder, and I assume during the remainder of the day I also have to restart the entire OS again, which implies restarting almost all applications with all their current state. Annoying stuff! But it happens with other contemporary operating systems just as well. But ordinary OS X users keep telling the rest of the world, that you never experience trouble with OS X, which just isn't true.
The Finder does not get relaunched, and when you try to launch it yourself, this is what they show you:
Even the rebooting procedure stalled at "continuing", and I had to do a cold reboot. This is, how bad it really can get with OS X.
The Finder does not get relaunched, and when you try to launch it yourself, this is what they show you:
The application Finder.app can't be opened.You can't really do a lot without a running Finder, so now I am going to restart OS X
-10180
[OK]
Even the rebooting procedure stalled at "continuing", and I had to do a cold reboot. This is, how bad it really can get with OS X.
"Open Office" -> "Libre Office"
"The Document Foundation"
I decided to go for the OpenOffice fork "LibreOffice". I just hope, the names behind that organisation really mean, this is a steady thing.
I did not want to go through this entire customisation process with LibreOffice on my Mac (and so forth) again, so I copied OpenOffice.org/3 to (a fresh) LibreOffice/3. I am of course not sure, this is a good thing, but it seems to save time.
I decided to go for the OpenOffice fork "LibreOffice". I just hope, the names behind that organisation really mean, this is a steady thing.
I did not want to go through this entire customisation process with LibreOffice on my Mac (and so forth) again, so I copied OpenOffice.org/3 to (a fresh) LibreOffice/3. I am of course not sure, this is a good thing, but it seems to save time.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Skype 5.0.0.6378 on Mac OS X – how do I get rid of the photos?
Skype-5 on the Mac looks quite nice, but I don't like the contact photo, that I cannot suppress / hide. Am I just to dull to find the right switch or is there no such switch? Looks like they will make the switch available with the next release, that's what they promised at least for the Windows version.
Update:
Downgraded to 2.8.
Update:
Downgraded to 2.8.
Rooibos (tea) - en.Wikipedia.org
Rooibos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Update:
Alright, I survived the Earl Grey version of rooibos tea.
Update:
Prepared a cup of "chocolate / almond / truffle" rooibos tea. I assume, this will be my only cup of this tea. I can't stand the idea of this kind of tea. I really don't like this flavour.
…I was never attracted by rooibos tea so far, I always found it sort of strange, but somebody deployed 2 bags in my kitchen, and I am now going to risk my life and I will try one cup of each. If I will survive this, I will return to here.
The plant is used to make a herbal tea called rooibos tea, bush tea (esp. Southern Africa), redbush tea (esp. UK), South African red tea, or red tea. The product has been popular in Southern Africa for generations and is now consumed in many countries. It is sometimes spelled rooibosch in accordance with the old Dutch etymology, but this does not change the pronunciation.
…
Update:
Alright, I survived the Earl Grey version of rooibos tea.
Update:
Prepared a cup of "chocolate / almond / truffle" rooibos tea. I assume, this will be my only cup of this tea. I can't stand the idea of this kind of tea. I really don't like this flavour.
Friday, November 5, 2010
TEI = Text Encoding Initiative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Text Encoding Initiative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
… TEI is now the de facto standard for the encoding of electronic texts in the humanities academic community …
… The Guidelines define some 500 different textual components and concepts, which can be expressed using a markup language and defined by a DTD or XML schema. Early versions of the Guidelines used SGML as a means of expression; more recently XML has been adopted. …
… TEI is now the de facto standard for the encoding of electronic texts in the humanities academic community …
… The Guidelines define some 500 different textual components and concepts, which can be expressed using a markup language and defined by a DTD or XML schema. Early versions of the Guidelines used SGML as a means of expression; more recently XML has been adopted. …
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Contacts Manager within my Google Apps domain and contact picture
It looses its pictures, it doesn't accept new ones, it doesn't show an error message, it's weird and somehow broken. When I searched for this problem picture recently, I wasn't able to find other descriptions than mine.
When I "Add a picture", it let's me proceed, but finally after I want to "Apply Changes", nothing happens. After a while I decide to press "Back to upload".
Today they actually started telling me "Error while saving your picture." But I have no idea, what that refers to, and "the web" does not offer a solution here either.
This does not happen with my standard Google account, but only with my Google Apps domain account.
When I "Add a picture", it let's me proceed, but finally after I want to "Apply Changes", nothing happens. After a while I decide to press "Back to upload".
Today they actually started telling me "Error while saving your picture." But I have no idea, what that refers to, and "the web" does not offer a solution here either.
This does not happen with my standard Google account, but only with my Google Apps domain account.
created my personal calendar 2011
Ran a couple of home-brewed perl scripts.
After I ran them last year I started coding my $HOME/diary in UTF-8, and obviously my scripts don't deal too well with UTF-8, they were written for Latin-1, but luckily enough (and that's the major advantage of UTF-8!) they don't break badly enough. "Of course" there is no time right now to teach these scripts, how to properly deal with UTF-8, but a few changes around him helps well enough.
I keep delaying this task every year, but it has to be done. I really fear every year, processing this task takes many, many hours. It only took like 2 hours this year / today.
Of course it's my fault, my scripts don't deal well with UTF-8. I am rather sure, Perl / Perl5 can deal with it just as well as other modern programming languages. So put it on my laziness!
Of course it's my fault, my scripts don't deal well with UTF-8. I am rather sure, Perl / Perl5 can deal with it just as well as other modern programming languages. So put it on my laziness!
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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