Magnus Määttä

I will be living at a friends place for a week or so and I'm stuck with Windows here. Just because I forgot to burn a copy of Knoppix before I left today. Have to remember to do it tomorrow.
I have now tried several different SSH clients and have not yet found one with tabs. I hate having 1742 windows open. I want my tabs back!
So in protest to this I'm going to go watch TV instead..

I have now, together with a friend, been trying to configure horde and imp to support several languages. After a lot of testing we eventually found out how to get the languages working. Almost.

This is like the strangest problem ever. We're using latest release btw.
If we make sv_SE default language for horde and imp, the site is in english when we first connect to it (the login screen). Then if we select Swedish we get logged in and everything will be in english. Now, if we choose any other language from the list, we're getting the site in swedish.
If we leave the en_US default for horde alone and no default for imp all languages works just fine, except swedish. The site will be in english if swedish is selected now.

We regenerated system locales (/etc/locales.gen) and selected every supported locale, around 170. And we ran make in horde/po and we have all mo-files.

Is it just us or is it really fucked up ?

I just found a graphical FTP client for Linux. It's called Kasablanca and it's great!
Well.. Maybe not "great", but it's better then the alternatives. I submitted 3 bug reports (feature requests) in 25 minutes for it thou and the progress counter is kind of funny:


Heh.. It (the percent counter) just restarted at 0%.. How funny..

It's written for KDE, which I'm using, so that's a good thing. I used to use gFTP, but I don't like the look and feel of GTK apps. I guess you only need kdelibs to use it.

You can get it here.

I got my Linux Technical Resource Kit from Novell yesterday and saw that The Inquirer now have an article about it too.. Good thing I got the URL early, about two weeks ago.
The package contains three DVDs.

DVD 1A:
- SuSE® Linux® Enterprise Server 8
- Nterprise® Linux Services 1.0
- GroupWise 6.5.1
- Red Carpet Enterprise Server 2.02
- ConsoleOne
- Linux Resources
DVD 1B:
- SuSE® Linux® Professional 8.2
- Ximian Desktop 2
DVD 1C:
- SuSE® Linux® Professional 9.1

Too bad I don't have a DVD player for my computer yet so I can install it and try it. But I'm working on that one. Another HDD wouldn't be a bad thing to have either so I can install it on its own HDD.

Here's the link where you can order it.

In unrelated news I am now running KDE 3.3 from HEAD. It works pretty good except for Kontact that have crashed 7 times for me now. All in semi-random places.

I was sitting here compiling KDE from HEAD and got this idea that I need to make my own hardware random number generator.
There are lots of projects to collect white noise and send it to a soundcard through the microphone input on a soundcard, but I don't have a soundcard in my server and all PCI slots are already used by ATA133, SCSI cards and NICs so I need something else.
A device that send the random bits to a COM-port, standard PC 9 pins is the answer.

A few years ago I was reading that using radioactive decomposition as a source for random data is by far the best method to use, although a bit painful. It turned out that I do have some Am-241 (40kBq) available here after some searching, so all I need to do now is find out how the hell I get random bits from it.
I'm going to ask one of my former teachers if he know how to do it. But if there's anyone out there that have done it, please do tell.