« Archives in March, 2008

Smartphone-Experiments, Part 1

March 30, 2008 / posted in computer, connection, experiments, gadgets, internet, Linux, mda, mobile, Network, smartphone, smartphone-experiments, synchronization, Windows / 1 Comment

Over the last two days, I finally found a few hours to experiment with my Windows Mobile driven smartphone, an HTC Touch (ok, it’s branded, so it’s aka MDA Touch). With Windows, it syncs out-of-the-box, what a surprise, but with linux, things are a bit more interesting. I am running a Debian/Lenny on my laptop, [...]

pkgsrc/libgcrypt problems

March 25, 2008 / posted in Opensource, Patch, pkgsrc / 1 Comment

While upgrading another package from pkgsrc which depended on libgcrypt, I stumbled across the small problem that without further notice than stating “Error code 1″, gcc failed while compiling rijndael.c . A few moments later, a search on my mail-folder containing the mails of the pkgsrc-bugs mailing-list revealed this problem to be already known as [...]

GCC 4.3.0 exposes a kernel bug

March 19, 2008 / posted in BSD, Bug, Kernel, Linux, NetBSD, Opensource, Operating System, Patch, programming, security / No Comments

Earlier this month, lwn.net reported about a change to GCC, exposing a bug in Linux and BSD Kernels. GCC does not clear the direction flag anymore but assumes it to be done by the kernel, as specified by the x86-/x86-64 ABI. This is a major security risk, but as it seems after flying through the [...]

pkgsrc/curl problems

March 18, 2008 / posted in NetBSD, Opensource, pkgsrc / 1 Comment

Today, I tried to upgrade my installation of the curl-package. Usually, updating a package from pkgsrc is simple just do 1 make clean && make && make install make clean && make && make install and that’s it. As soon as one thing fails, the rest won’t be tried, which normaly doesn’t happen. This time, [...]

CodeHighlighter for WordPress MU

March 14, 2008 / posted in CodeHighlighter, Opensource, Plugins, programming, WordPress, WordPress MU / No Comments

As I wrote the previous posting, and tried to apply the syntax-highlighting provided be the CodeHighlighter-plugin by Wongoo Lee to the code-snippets, I was suprised, because it did not work. All information I found through google and Wongoo Lee’s website seemed as if it should have worked, though it did not. So I asked a few people, but they did not know anything either.

Automatic version-checking on NetBSD / pkgsrc-based systems

March 14, 2008 / posted in automation, bash, Operating System, programming, shellscript / No Comments

I am using NetBSD on several machines, with pkgsrc-current as base to install packages from. At first, whenever I wanted to see whether some packages needed an update, I had to run a cvs update command on the pkgsrc directory. After that was done, a lintpkgsrc -i was necessary to see, which of my installed [...]

Tech-blog opened

March 13, 2008 / posted in computer, gadgets, Network, Operating System, programming, security, smartphone, tech / No Comments

Welcome to this blog. It is dedicated to computer-technologies with focus on programming, opensource-topics, operating systems, it-security, embedded gadgets like smartphones, etc.  You can read more about this on the about-page. Stay tuned.