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Digital Traces
The Hitchhiker's Online Game
Is the World Ready for a Cyberwar?
After reading a lot in the media about the so called cyber war, I wonder: How well prepared are the nations? In the media it seems as if Russia and China had active cyber warriors sitting and waiting to get into action or if not already attacking. But I can hardly imagine that any technologically advanced nation would not have highly professional IT security experts available...
What do you think? Or are the US cyber warriors just more sneaky? Would the US invent the internet for military reasons and then just sit there while everybody else seems to be putting up their armies? Could a cyber war lead to a real war? Are plain computers the 21st century's war machines?
The Infallible Ticket Machine - When Machines Do Make Mistakes
I have had similar thoughts. What people may forget is the problems you may get into with machines and that they do make mistakes. But let me tell you what happened to me.
I went to buy train tickets. They were non-refundable day tickets valid for one day only (not 24 hours).
I went to the machine. I chose the type of ticket. Then I chose a date. Then I chose to take two of them. Then I paid and left. A few hours later I looked closely at my tickets and found out that it did not apply the choice of date to both tickets. One of them was valid only for yesterday. I had bought them at about 11.45 pm. And yesterday was now already past.
Okay, there were several problems: The machine should have warned before selling you a day ticket that would be valid only for 15 minutes. It should actually automatically select the next day then. But the very least it must of course apply your choice of day to the tickets when in the last step it asks you for the number of tickets.
Okay, I thought, no problem. Luckily there are still humans. I went to a service person. The date and time of purchase were printed on the ticket, so it was an obvious situation. I told them about it and was quite surprised about their reaction.
The tickets are non-refundable they told me. That I aleady knew. I said again that I told two tickets and that the date was not applied. They told me I must have made a mistake when ordering them, so it was my fault. That kind of remark is hard to deal with, especially if you're earning money with IT services. I tried to explain this to them and they informed me that machines don't make mistakes.
Ah. That was new to me. I gave up with her and went to another service person somewhere else:
I: Hi, I've gotten the wrong ticket from the ticket machine.
S: Well, the tickets are non-refundable.
I: Oh yes, I know. But I didn't choose that ticket.
S: Then it wouldn't have printed it - you must have made the wrong choices.
I: Aha. (explaining the choices). Could the problem be with the machine?
S: No, there is no problem with the machines. You should simply buy the tickets one by one.
I: And now?
S: You're too late to exchange it now. Try writing a letter to the central custumer service department.
By now I had no time to buy new tickets and had to run to catch my train. It turned out that the train personell didn't even notice the difference in dates when checking my tickets. So luckily in the end a human error helped me avoid problems after the machine's error.
In the end I quite agree with his critic view on technology: One should always keep in mind that machines do make mistakes. And when they do, it can be extremely hard to impossible to convince people of it.
Easily Receiving Big Files via Droopy Webserver
List Open Files of a Process
provides an exhaustive list including libraries.
ls -l /proc/`pidof process`/fd
provides a list of only the "plain" files.
Intro to Linux Virtual Memory
Introduction to SSH
The example
ssh terry@host2 ls ~is just badly quoted/escaped. There's no need to use /home/terry if you correctly escape the tilde by putting it all in quotes:
ssh terry@host2 "ls ~".
This lets your shell know it's not supposed to resolve the "~" so that the shell on the other side of the ssh line will do so. See the e.g. EXPANSION section in man bash for more.
Sed One-Liners
Brain Training
More About Being a Good Citizen in an Open Source World
Who is the worse open source citizen, Google, Apple or nobody? And I posted a little comment as well:
Google is to blame for doing open source(Linux), but the wrong way(hotfix instead of a good solution).
Apple is to blame for doing open source(BSD), but the wrong way(bad or no community "backfeed").
What's worse is a matter of taste. I also think Apple is the worse open source participant. They give back so little to the community it makes me sad. (Then they restrict the app store in ways that prevents competition, etc.)
Google does not do much for the community, though it says it tries. But honestly, if you would put their effort into relation with what money they make through open source software, it's really very sad, too. And the companies PR departments would be silly if they wouldn't make sure it looks like a serious effort.
But they both gain a lot and give a little. Google may state what they wish - considering their resources they give little. They could employ at least a few expert kernel hackers pro bono. Otherwise they will get an identity crisis a little like Ubuntu currently: People want to know they are part of bringing things forward.
And this shows the problems with current open source licenses in my view: The companies still don't really have to give useful "back-feed" to the open source projects (far from being in relation with what they gain).
What if the EU would decide that every device must come with open source drivers? Or if someone wrote a license that requires at least 1% of the profits from the open source project to flow back into the project? It would of course be very good for the projects. But in a second step I am convinced it would be at least as useful from a macroeconomic point of view:
Less development effort would be duplicated and the code quality would constantly increase.
Of course the big problem with this approach is finding out how much money is made with a project. That would be the job for courts to decide. And currently I can't think of any really good measurement possibilites. But then with 1% of the profits I'm sure it would not hurt a company anyway.
NVIDIA Brings Fast GPU Video Acceleration to Linux
Then came XvMC and it was not really convincing, because the impact was not too fast and it only worked during playback Mpeg2 AFAIK, not during transconding.
Now came NVIDIA (admittedly a couple weeks after AMD, but therefore publicly and including patches for mplayer) and finally brought out really nice and efficient video acceleration for linux.
My favorite Linux Performance News Site Phoronix checked it out and you can see quite an improvement (CPU usage with first OpenGL, then XVideo and then Nvidia's "VDPAU"(Video Decode and Presentation API).
I hope AMD and Intel will finally come out with some progress in this area, too. Next I would like to see support for encoding, e.g. in Xvid and then maybe even tasks such as gzip, bzip2 (the latter ones didn't even show multi-core support in my tests).
Customized Linux Message Notification, I Wish I Had
A. Why the information is not all going through syslog (almost is, but not e.g. the users errors).
B. And more importantly: Why isn't there a nice interface to syslog that shows me what I want to know, e.g. as a plasma applet for kde4, configurable but with low resource consumption nice&pretty on my wallpaper?
That'd be nice, wouldn' it? Maybe I'll write that myself one day...
How to Scroll Back in Screen
Or Ctrl + a then Esc and then use the cursor keys. Esc to leave the mode again.
Google Finds the Flu
Prepare JPG Files for Fax
# (c) 2008 linux-tipps.blogspot.com
# published under GPL v. 3.0 or later.
which convert || echo Please install ImageMagick && exit 0;
which sam2p || echo Please install sam2p && exit 0;
which pdftk || echo Please install pdftk && exit 0;
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
ln ../*.jpg .
for i in *.jpg; do nice convert $i -unsharp 3x3 -monochrome $i.png; done
for i in *.png; do sam2p -pdf:b2 $i -pdf: $i.pdf; done
pdftk *.pdf cat output output.pdf
mv output ..
cd ..
rm -rI tmp
"Begging the Software Gods"
But I have one point to make: Unless you are (or employ) a mighty programmer, you are not as free as you feel after reading the article from your Linux system. ;-)
The point he makes is true and good. But in my view having a freedom is worth no more than you have the actual concrete ability to use it and gain direct benefit from it.
Now I think it should be made easier to actually do it, to benefit from that freedom. But e.g. finding a suitable programmer is often still complicated and not every open source project has a place to e.g. offer bounties. As he sais: it is not always an easy choice, but a worthy choice.
You have the freedom, but you can only really use it when you have someone with programming skills. And he did not mention that. (Of course that's not his point.)
The point I'm trying to make is that an infrastructure that enables the average non-programmer user (e.g. through money) to really take advantage of these freedoms (customize software) without much effort would have a positive effect for the open source community. It would give provide money to the programmers and help users in realizing the open source freedoms.
Now the other cool then is that you might actually get a programmer to write a feature for the same money you would have paid for a closed source software (esp. Microsoft Office vs. OpenOffice). And when you do, everybody can profit from that. If more people would see that and act like it, the whole community would profit.
TV International?
But they don't broadcast their channels. At first they always claimed it would not be feasible technically, until Zattoo came along and proved what was clear before: Where there is a will, there is a way.
Now the TV stations claim they don't own the rights. Or they go online for some regions like hulu.com. And I still think: Where there's a will, there's a way. How long do we have to wait, until the Internet tears down the borders of TV stations?
How long until it will be possible to legally and comfortably watch your favorite TV series when it first aired.
Setting up NX
WPA Encryption Cracked
That means many people will need a new router and a new setup for it. And for a long time many networks will remain open again. If you want a long term solution it more and more looks like a VPN solution is the only way to go.
And if I'm not mistaken he who managed it is Erik Tews from the German University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt.
Okay, it turned out the hack is not as bad as thought. It will probably still take some time and combination with other approaches to really become useful. But I think this might help around the current restriction that you can only decypher clients that connected after you were "listening" with WPA.
A Tiny Backup Script with Rsync
# (c) 2008 linux-tipps.blogspot.com
# the base path
DIRS="Desktop Documents"
# you can also use absolute paths
RSYNC="rsync -av --progress -e ssh"
# add -z for compression
ssh-add -l || ssh-add
# this adds ssh private keys if not added already
# for cron scripts use keychain instead:
# source ~/.keychain/*-sh
# see here for more
cd $FROM
$RSYNC -z $DIRS djtm@server1:/some/path/Backup/ &
$RSYNC $DIRS djtm@server2:/some/path/Backup/ &
wait && echo Sync Done. || echo Sync Failed or Aborted.
Find Bots in your LAN with BotHunter
Their webpage has just gone offline. I'm sure that's because of all my readers visiting their web page right now. ;-)
Apple's Lock-In Syndrome
Adobe Flash has also been ported, but is kept away from the iPhone by Apple.
So if you've wanted to buy an iPhone, reconsider. It's buggy and Apple won't let you install any software that might "duplicate" available functions. They should be honest and say software that competes with theirs.
Source: Heise Article [german original]
DVB-T in Linux
But most people don't notice a few ms desync, so I can recommend kaffeine. If you still want to use vlc, you should know you can open the channels.conf like a playlist so you need not go crazy trying to manually set up the reception.
OpenOffice 3.0 in Ubuntu 8.10
Interesting readme files
Ask a Spammer for Ubuntu!
Fixing Wake On LAN in Ubuntu 8.10
1. The network cards' drivers are unloaded during suspend.
This often deactivates your card's wake on lan feature and completely powers it off.
You have to add your network cards driver module to the MODULES_WHITELIST in /etc/default/acpi-support. Also add the network card's interface(e.g. eth0) to SKIP_INTERFACES.
2. The network is not (properly) restarted after resume.
a. NetworkManager overrides settings in /etc/network/interfaces.
The easy way is to simply remove networkmanager: sudo aptitude remove network-manager.
b. The network setup script is not restarted after resume.
You can add the script (networking) to STOP_SERVICES in /etc/default/acpi-support.
3. Wake on Lan is not enabled by default
You need to issue e.g. sudo ethtool -s eth0 wol g. You can do that in an init script and you will likely have to do it again after resume. (I've put it a script to do that into both /etc/acpi/suspend.d/54-wol.sh and /etc/acpi/resume.d/99-wol.sh )
List of Ubuntu Intrepid Bugs
Linux Memory Statistics
Introduction to WINE
New Layout
My Software Favorites
- FileZilla (ftp client)
- KDE 4, esp. Plama, Okular, Pauker, KTeaTime, Kopete, Kaffeine
- Nomachine NX (the best remote desktop solution out there!)
- OpenOffice (office software)
- OpenCards (flash card learning software)
- Opera (web browser)
- Picasa (google photo management)
- Pidgin (instant messenger)
- Sane
- ScummVM (play old DOS games like monkey island)
- Skype (video conference, also check out mebeam)
- SuperTux (a platform game)
- UltraVNC Single Click (remote help software)
- WINE (run windows software in linux)
- µTorrent (a bittorrent client)/span>
Googling for Something Linuxy
Sometimes when you talk about things as a Linux user, people look at you oddly. For example when you tell them about installing software into a wine bottle in Linux. They'll probably just look at you in wonder and consider if you've gone mad.
Now the same sort of happens with Google sometimes. Even though Google is based on Linux, it will find quite a different kind of wine unless you e.g. add linux to the search. But even then it's not efficient and you might lose pages, as wine also works on Mac OS X and (yeah, I know) Windows itself.
But there's help: the Google Linux Search. It's not restricted to Linux as its name suggests, but excludes almost everything that doesn't have anything to do with computers (and which might distract the normal Google).
I've got Sun Java Working in my Browser in 64-Bit Linux!
But Secondly, it's possible and really easy with wine! Just download Firefox and install it. Then download Java and install it. Done! That easy! :) It should work the same way for Flash, etc.
Now finally I could use packstation.de in Linux!
Automatically Boot Different Kernel on Fail With the Grub Fallback Options
Funny Bug Report Misuse
Find Out Which Operating System is the Best
Rude Linus Torvals
Funny Linux Shirts
32 Bit Software in 64-Bit Debian-Based Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu)
Canon Printer Tips
Famous Flame Wars
Preacher of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Microsoft Office 2003 with Wine
Backup with Rsync
I shall leave the explanations to it and just post my script as example here
DIRS="Documents Desktop"
cd ~
for i in $DIRS;
echo Syncing $i
rsync -av --progress -e ssh "$i" user@server:/path/to/dir
Disabling Touchpad on Demand
There's now an alternative to using the shared memory of the synaptic driver to enable and disable the touchpad:
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Off" 8 1 (enable)
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Off" 8 0 (disable)
This should work out of the box in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid). But it doesn't. At least not for me. But this works for me:
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Off" 8 0
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Off" 8 1
Nice! :)


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See also: peripatetic
Alternative forms[edit]
- Peripatetick
From Latin peripatēticus, from Ancient Greek περίπατος (perípatos, "strolling, covered walk, conversation while walking"), from περιπατέω (peripatéō, "I walk around"), from περί (perí, "around") + πατέω (patéō, "I walk"). Aristotle's school was sometimes called the περιπατητικοί (peripatētikoí) "those who are prone to walking" or οἱ ἐκ τοῦ περιπάτου (hoi ek toû peripátou, "those from the walk") in reference either to his supposed habit of teaching while traversing the περίπατοι (perípatoi, "walkways") of the Lyceum or simply to the walkways themselves with which the school became associated.
Peripatetic (plural Peripatetics)
- A disciple of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, p. A5(r):
- And though it be True indeed, that some Aristotelians have occasionally written against the Chymical Doctrine he Oppugnes, yet since they have done it according to their Principles, And since our Carneades must as well oppose their Hypothesis as that of the Spagyrist, he was fain to fight his Adverfaries with their own Weapons, Those of the Peripatetick being Improper, if not hurtfull for a Person of his Tenents ; besides that those Aristotelians, (at Least, those he met with,) that have written against the Chymists, seem to have had so little Experimental Knowledge in Chymical Matters, that by their frequent Mistakes and unskilfull way of Oppugning, they have too often expos'd Themselves to the Derision of their Adversaries, for writing so Confidently against what they appear so little to understand.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, p. A5(r):
- (disciple of Artistotle): Aristotelian
Peripatetic (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the philosophy or methods of Aristotle, or to his followers.
of or pertaining to the philosophy of Aristotle

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How do you know you're middle-aged? How about when you wear clothes and shoes based on comfort rather than style, or grow hair in all the wrong places: nose, ears, eyebrows? Those are just two of the signs mentioned in a recent British survey about when middle age begins and how to identify it.
The 2,000 people surveyed by Benenden, a health-care and insurance firm, also made clear that middle age was no longer something for 30- or 40-year-olds to worry about. The life change, they said, began at 53. In fact, nearly half of the older-than-50s who were surveyed said they personally had not experienced "middle age" yet.
"A variety of factors — including more active lifestyles and healthier living — mean that people find their attitudes towards getting older are changing. Over half of the people surveyed didn't feel that there even was such a thing as 'middle age' anymore," Paul Keenan, head of communications at Benenden Health, said in a statement when the survey was released in August.
"Being 'old' appears to be a state of mind rather than being a specific age," he added. "People no longer see 'middle age' as a numerical milestone and don't tend to think of themselves as 'old' as they hit their fifties and beyond. I'm 54 myself, with the mind-set of a thirty-something — perhaps sometimes even that of a teenager!"
So beyond comfort shoes and ear hair, what are some signs that you're no longer young? Here's the full list offered up by respondents to the survey. Some are particularly British (e.g., joining the National Trust, taking a flask of tea on a day out). But you'll get the point.
●Losing touch with everyday technology such as tablets and TVs
●Finding you have no idea what "young people" are talking about
●Feeling stiff
●Needing an afternoon nap
●Groaning when you bend down
●Not remembering the name of any modern bands
●Talking a lot about your joints/ailments
●Hating noisy pubs
●Getting more hairy — ears, eyebrows, nose, face, etc.
●Thinking policemen/teachers/doctors look really young
●Preferring a night in with a board game than a night on the town
●You don't know any songs in the top 10
●Choosing clothes and shoes for comfort rather than style
●Taking a flask of tea on a day out
●Obsessive gardening or bird feeding
●Thinking there is nothing wrong with wearing an anorak
●Forgetting people's names
●Booking a cruise
●Misplacing your glasses, bag, car keys, etc.
●Complaining about the rubbish on television these days
●Gasping for a cup of tea
●Getting bed socks for Christmas and being very grateful
●Taking a keen interest in "The Antiques Road Show"
●When you start complaining about more things
●Listening to the Archers
●You move from Radio 1 to Radio 2
●Joining the National Trust
●Being told off for politically incorrect opinions
●Flogging the family car for something sportier
●When you can't lose six pounds in two days anymore
●You get shocked by how racy music videos are
●Taking a keen interest in the garden
●Buying travel sweets for the car
●Considering going on a "no children" cruise for a holiday
●When you know your alcohol limit
●Obsessively recycling/ knowing the collection dates
●Always carrying a handy pack of tissues
●Falling asleep after one glass of wine
●Spending more money on face creams/anti-aging products
●Preferring a Sunday walk to a lie-in
By comparison to those who participated in the British survey, Americans have a different take on when middle age begins, at least according to a paper published in 2011 by researchers at Florida State University. That study, which used nationally representative data collected in 1995-1996 and 2004-2006, showed that the perceived beginning of middle age varied, not surprisingly, depending on the age group that was providing the estimate. Overall, the researchers said, most people think of middle age as beginning at 44 and ending at 60.
"People's views varied quite a lot," associate professor of sociology Anne Barrett said in a video about her research. " Some people said at 25, some people said at age 75 or even 80."
In addition, people of color and those with fewer economic resources tended to see middle age starting earlier in life, Barrett said, and both women and men view the beginning and end of middle age as occurring earlier for women than for men.


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Favorite transaction (new feature)
Discussions about iCompta on iOS
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Favorite transaction (new feature)
This is second time I'm begging you to add "favorite transaction" feature into icompta. Simply pre-fill transaction form (payee, account, category...) name it and call it when creating new transaction. The best way is to incude the list of "favorite transaction in 3d touch so it automaticly open pre-fill new transaction window. This thing can't be done by rules or any feature in icompta. I have to manualy do it everytime I crate new transaction. This feature would save a lot of time
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Re: Favorite transaction (new feature)
Please let me know if this feature will be included in next update or version... it is very important for me!
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Re: Favorite transaction (new feature)
I don't know yet so you should not rely on it.
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