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Music recomendation

November 19th, 2008 Ansi

Moin

After all this technical blabla I think its time to talk also a little bit on music, wah?

Couple of days ago I heard on my favorite radio station Funkhaus Europa the “La Dolce Vita” show. If you are interested here is the link to listen again and here is the link to listen live to Funkhaus Europa. What gets my attention on this show was the song “Si j’etais un homme” from “S Petit Nico”. Unfortunatelly I can not order the CD on Amazon. But I found the myspace page from “S Petit Nico” where you can listen to the song among others. Furthermore I found the music video on youtube:


Enjoy. :-)

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New IBM Video

November 16th, 2008 Ansi

Moin

IBMLab just released a new Video. Well, Nic looks like a rapper on the screenshot…..

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Server, Network and Phone reconfiguration

November 14th, 2008 Ansi

Moin
I am going to shutdown the server and network and the phone system now for complete reinstall and hardware upgrade / exchange. Hopefully the phone will work in one hour again and the network right after. The server can take a little bit longer… May be the tux with me….

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Video Mashup

October 30th, 2008 Ansi

Moin

I am soooo sorry…

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How to export display via SSH after sudo su

October 8th, 2008 Ansi

Moin
Just figured out together with DrScofield how to export the Display via an SSH tunnel after changing user to root via sudo. And hey it sound trivial but was not easy to find out. Here is the step by step way.

  1. ssh -X server #as normal user
  2. xterm #for testing if export display as normal user works
  3. echo $DISPLAY #write it down
  4. xauth #enters the shell of xauth
    1. list # find the line with the display number from step 3 for me it was “wpsvm054/unix:12  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  071df2e12cfff0ed75fd0af5869665f7″ remember the first part of it
    2. quit #to leave the shell
  5. xauth extract filename system/unix:12 # the line from step 4.1
  6. sudo su - # to become root
  7. xauth merge filename # filename from step 5
  8. export DISPLAY=:nummer.0 #Displaynumber from step 3 resp. 4.1
  9. xterm #for testing

Hope it works on other systems too.

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Microblogging

September 30th, 2008 Ansi

Moin

Lets find some slides on Microblogging, some videos and some examples. When I tell people about microblogging (or as some people call it “twitter“) they look at me like “what a freak!”. But let me try to explain why microblogging is realy something new and different from chat, blogs or SMS. First of all lets have a look on Slideshare what presentations are available on this topic.

Slides

There is one very good one in german language:

140 - einhundertvierzig
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: 4newbies deutsch)

And one in english with the basic facts:

Twitter and your Company
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web2 media)

Videos

Twitter in plain english


Twitter in pain german


The Bleeper Movie - MyVideo

Some Twitters:

IBM

http://twitter.com/IBM_System_z
http://twitter.com/sametime
http://twitter.com/ibmevents

Conferences

http://twitter.com/w2e_NY08

Election and Twitter

http://election.twitter.com
http://twitter.com/BarackObama
http://twitter.com/JohnMcCain

German politicans

http://twitter.com/muentefering
http://twitter.com/hubertus_heil
http://twitter.com/neuepolitik
http://twitter.com/diegruenen_at
http://twitter.com/pofalla

Satire

http://twitter.com/schaeuble
http://twitter.com/rolandkoch
http://twitter.com/merkel

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OpenStreetMap

September 30th, 2008 Ansi

Moin

Last weekend on the Barcamp in Stuttgart (#bc0711) I learned more about OpenStreetMap. Extreme impressing! What I really liked was the tremendous power of communities. Peter gave a very good presentation on Openstreetmap.

Presentation:

Openstreetmap im Tourismus

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: barcamp castlecamp)

Here are the live examples:

Buenos Aires

Google:


Größere Kartenansicht

OpenStreetMap:


View Larger Map

Hanoi:

Google:


Größere Kartenansicht

OpenStreepMap:


View Larger Map

Kapstadt:

Google:


Größere Kartenansicht

OpenStreetMap:


View Larger Map

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The otherinbox

September 18th, 2008 Ansi

I plan to analyse at least one WEB 2.0 service per day and write a short blog on that.

Starting today with the “Otherinbox“. Nice combination of instant email service and web emailer. If you subscribe to the service you get a domain like ansi.otherinbox.com where you can use several email addresses like facebook@ansi.otherinbox.com or intershop@ansi.otherinbox.com. The service accepts all emails for this domain and shows them in a web based mailer in seperate folders. Nice and usefull. At the moment they are in closed beta but you can follow them on twitter at @otherinbox.

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Convert

September 18th, 2008 Ansi

Played around a little bit with ImageMagick and specially with the convert command.

Nice feature is to add Text on a picture like a watermark:

convert -font \
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/luximri.ttf \
-pointsize 160 -fill black -draw "text 0,590 'Text auf Spike'" \
P1020049.JPG spike.jpg

or make a border arround a picture

convert -border 10x10 -bordercolor "#000000" P1020049.JPG spike2.jpg

Nothing special but was nice to play with it.

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Using Garmin with linux and gpsbabel

August 19th, 2008 Ansi

This post if more for myself then for others because you can find this information on many places. I bought a Garmin GPS Map 60 some time ago. It works great with Linux and the GPSBabel software. In order to transfer the loc files from the Geocaching.com side you can use this script:

#!/bin/bash
rm a.csv
rm a.kml
rm a.gpx
for i in *.loc
do
gpsbabel -i geo -f $i -o csv,prefer_shortnames -F $i.csv
cat  $i.csv >> a.csv
rm  $i.csv
done
gpsbabel -i csv -f a.csv -o kml -F a.kml
gpsbabel -i csv -f a.csv -o gpx -F a.gpx

sudo gpsbabel -i gpx -f a.gpx -o garmin -F usb:0
sudo gpsbabel -i garmin,power_off -f usb:0

This script converts all the *.loc files in one folder into one GPX and one KML file. the KML file can be placed on a webserver and then fiewed with google maps or via google earth. Here are some usefull commands:

Upload route:

sudo gpsbabel -r -i garmin -f usb:0 -o kml -F u.kml

Tracks downloaden from Garmin:

sudo gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f usb:0 -o gpx -F tracks.gpx

Switch the Garmin off:sudo gpsbabel -i garmin,power_off -f usb:0

Best Webpage I found for creating routes for bike tours is Marengo

And now have fun. :-)

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