Kategorie: linux

  • Ich bin ein Babbelfisch!

    Ich bin jetzt hochoffiziell Übersetzer in Fedoras German Translation Team. Was mache ich da? Übersetzen natürlich. Damit wird versucht, Linux, hier Fedora im Speziellen, für möglichst viele Sprecher nicht-Englischer Sprachen zugänglich zu machen. Weil Deutsch mit über 100 Millionen Sprechern eine große Zielgruppe ist, sind hier Helfer immer gerne gesehen. Aber natürlich gibt es auch…

  • Acer 8204 and Fedora

    As some of you may have read or somehow learnt, I do own a new laptop now. Well, actually it’s only used-new, but as good as new and still with warranty. Anyway, first thing I did: Put in the Fedora 8 Live-CD, booted, enjoyed. Almost everything worked out of the box. Exceptions were the graphics…

  • Scr3wed

    Yesterday I somehow managed to screw up my home partition. It was a cryptsetup-luks encrypted partition and it seems like I wrote over the beginning of the partition when updating grub, which I had to do due to some re-partitioning… Today was consequently mostly spent on fixing that mess. At home I usually keep a…

  • Mood-GNOME

    Yesterday Evening I had an idea. Inspired by the changing background in Fedora 8 (which rocks, by the way!!!), I had the idea about some „mood-applet“ for GNOME (or any desktop, for that matter). What’s the idea? Well, think of it as a global setting applet, where you can somehow „change“ your mood, kind of…

  • rdiff-backup and "Found too many current_mirror incs!"

    If you use rdiff-backup or some program, which sits on top of it (e.g. backupninja) and you get errors similar to this: Traceback (most recent call last): File „/usr/bin/rdiff-backup“, line 23, in ? rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:]) File „/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/rdiff_backup/Main.py“, line 298, in error_check_Main try: Main(arglist) File „/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/rdiff_backup/Main.py“, line 318, in Main take_action(rps) File „/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/rdiff_backup/Main.py“, line 276, in take_action…