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My Crazy Hacks wiki is now online!
So, finally, I have disabled the old Crazy Hacks site which was running on crazy-hacks.org and replaced it with a wiki. The site is now available at http://www.crazy-hacks.org/wiki/.So, what exactly is...
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Feed your cats remotely using Linux and Python
There's a cool article by Chris McAvoy in the January issue of the Linux Journal titled "How I Feed My Cats with Linux". He's using an inexpensive controller, a serial port and a small Python program...
View ArticleUnmaintained Free Software Wiki
Today I have moved my site Unmaintained Free Software to another server, again. The URL didn't change, so no need to update your bookmarks or anything. In the next few days or weeks, I'll be migrating...
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GPS::Tron
This looks like a good candidate for the Crazy Hacks wiki: GPS::Tron is a real-life remake of the classical TRON game using modern technologies like GPS, Bluetooth and GSM or GPRS. Two players run...
View ArticleGoogle to support Wikipedia with servers and bandwidth?
Google plans to support the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia with servers and bandwidth. Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikipedia, has talked to Sergei Brin and Larry Page (the founders of Google)...
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Crazy Hacks on del.icio.us/popular
Wow. I just noticed that my Crazy Hacks wiki is currently listed on del.icio.us / popular. I'm impressed. The list of people who bookmarked Crazy Hacks currently has 35 items (27 added recently).This...
View ArticleUnmaintained Free Software Wiki online
The Unmaintained Free Software wiki is now online and has been declared by me to be the authoritative source for unmaintained or orphaned Free Software projects. The old website is gone, but I will...
View ArticleKlingon Wikipedia
Today, I stubled over a new language project of the Wikipedia, the Klingon Wikipedia. No, I don't understand a word, but the mere fact of the existence of this wiki is funny enough for me to post it here.
View ArticleWikiNode project
Mattis Manzel has brought to my attention the so-called WikiNode project. The basic idea is that every wiki should have a page called WikiNode, which describes what the wiki is about and provides links...
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Alanis Morissette live concert in Munich
I was at the Alanis Morissette live concert in Munich last Friday (April 15, 2005). The show was pretty good, and I took a few photos which I uploaded to the German Wikipedia. I'll add the images to...
View ArticleWiKi4All, a Catalog of Wikis
Oleg Popov has recently started a new wiki called WiKi4All, which aims to be a catalog of wikis, where all existing wikis are listed in certain categories. He's actively visiting loads of wikis and...
View ArticleMediaWiki 1.5alpha1
MediaWiki 1.5alpha1, the first unstable release of the 1.5 series of the software that runs WikiPedia, is out.There's some important release notes there: ** WARNING: USE OF THIS ALPHA RELEASE MAY...
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Interesting KDE Stuff
I'm stumbling over lots of interesting KDE stuff lately. First, I'm a long-time happy user of akregator, a very nice KDE RSS Reader, which I use for my daily blog and news reading. Second, I'm using...
View ArticleMediaWiki 1.4.6 Fixes Security Issue
I just upgraded my Crazy Hacks wiki to MediaWiki 1.4.6.The new release fixes a few bugs, but more importantly it fixes a security issue. All users are advised to upgrade.
View ArticleUnmaintained Free Software Is Back!
Finally! My Unmaintained Free Software wiki is back online...After several weeks of downtime, I was finally able to recover, reinstall, apply backups etc. I won't bother going through all the gory...
View ArticleUnmaintained Free Software in the InterWiki Map
I just noticed that my Unmaintained Free Software wiki is now listed in the Mediawiki software's InterWiki map!This means you can easily link to any Unmaintained Free Software article/project from any...
View ArticleWikimedia needs your help
The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for donations to cover their always increasing costs for hardware and other stuff.They need ca. $200,000 for this quarter alone! Yes, that was a bit shocking for me,...
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Lots of 22C3 stuff
Tim Pritlove Jens (argh, need some sleep!) from the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has asked for more english blog posts about 22C3, the upcoming hacker conference in Berlin. So here you go.Reminder: The...
View ArticleWikiMatrix - Wiki Feature Comparison
Are you gonna setup a wiki anytime soon? Checkout the WikiMatrix site which allows you to compare various wiki software projects according to a huge amount of criteria.My favorite has always been...
View ArticleLast chance to fight EU data retention
On the 13th of December (next Tuesday) the European Parliament will vote on a Data Retention Directive. This directive is stupid, stupid, stupid (you cannot stress that enough)! More info on the Data...
View ArticleGerman Wikipedia as DVD or download for offline viewing
Got 8 GB of free space on your hard drive? Why not download (almost) the whole German Wikipedia (just the text: 2.6 GB, text+images: 8 GB)? You can get DVD ISOs via FTP/rsync/Bittorrent or buy DVDs for...
View ArticleUnmaintained Free Software is back (again)
Yeah, it's that time of the year (again)...Unmaintained Free Software is a wiki which collects and categorizes orphaned Free Software projects, in order to find new maintainers for the projects — just...
View ArticleNew form of wiki spam?
Today, I had the "pleasure" to experience a new form of wiki spam in the Unmaintained Free Software wiki. Or at least it was the first time I had seen it...The registered wiki user "Drunkers" (yes, the...
View ArticleComputer Forensics Wiki
For everyone who might be interested in computer forensics, data recovery (e.g. ext2/vfat undelete), file system internals, digital evidence, or just playing around with dd, The Sleuth Kit or similar...
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Trac - web-based project management with wiki + bug-tracker + svn code browser
I've started looking at Trac recently, a nice web-based project management tool written in Python.It integrates with existing Subversion repositories; for example, you can browse the code in your...
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New Unmaintained Free Software logo
Thanks to the great work of Matthias we now have a great new logo for the Unmaintained Free Software wiki.Thats' all.
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Unmaintained Free Software progress
Yet another Unmaintained Free Software update:Thanks to Matthias (again), we now have a wonderful new main page in the wiki, which looks a lot better than the old one which I had created a long time...
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Speed up Linux crypto operations on the One A110 laptop with VIA Padlock
OK, so I've been hacking on and testing my shiny new One A110 mini-laptop during the last few days and I must say I'm very happy with it. I'll write up some more details later (check the wiki if you're...
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