http://patrick-nagel.net/blog patrick-nagel.net/blog Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:41:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night I ran a quick test on how long my new Dell Inspiron Mini 9's battery would last under "normal netbook workload". Details: OS: Gentoo Linux (what else? ;) ) Running programs: KDE 4, Konqueror, Thunderbird (fetching mail via IMAPS every 5 minutes) Conditions: Wireless connection to Internet, shell script kills and reloads Konqueror ... http://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/84 GPGee (website down during time of writing) causes Thunderbird to crash on opening mails containing http:// links after having opened a mail containing a file:// link before. This sentence alone should make it clear to everyone how much trouble this issue caused me, and how hard it was to track ... http://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/80 They asked for it - they got it... a nice DDoS ;) (spreadfirefox.com and mozilla.com were unreachable for a couple of minutes after 17:00 UTC). Anyway... go ahead and download it, it's a good piece of software. I tried out beta3 and the RCs, and I like the new version so ... http://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/79 Since I moved my laptop to the new OpenRC init framework, my GPRS connection stopped working. At first I didn't know what needed to be changed, but after having a careful look at /usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example and adjusting the proposed ppp chat script, I got it up and running again. Here is ... http://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/78 Today I was trying to upload a lot of mail (something like 160000 mails stored in a deeply nested folder structure of about 13000 folders) to an IMAP server. Those mails were converted from the Eudora mailbox format to a more sane Eudora mailbox format using "Eudora rescue", and then ... http://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/77 I'm using this setup for quite a while now. It's great in many ways - here some of the reasons: I can access it from multiple hosts at once I can use one unified user interface for all instant messenger protocols and IRC I can access the platform even through my mobile phone ... http://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/76 ... then check your iptables settings on the server. Perhaps you made the same mistake as I did: Restricting local traffic (on the 'lo' interface). Add the following rules to your iptables ruleset, and make sure it's at the beginning (before the restrictions): iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT http://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/70 I just spent half the day hunting down a tricky bug in (probably) Internet Explorer. Situation: We were working on a piece of documentation consisting of multiple HTML files using frames. It was planned to burn this directory structure to a CD, and the CD would then be delivered to the ... http://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/68 Perhaps somebody else will find this useful. The relevant part of my /etc/conf.d/net: (assuming Bluetooth works) ### GPRS ### config_ppp0=( "ppp" ) link_ppp0="/dev/rfcomm0" pppd_ppp0=( "noauth" # Do not require the peer to authenticate itself ... http://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/67 A good example for why using closed source software (and thus depend on it) is a bad thing, can be seen in the newest development around X.org: There is a new version of the X server, which contains ABI changes, and now all users of the closed source ATI and NVIDIA ... http://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/65