by schischa

Regarding to the latest problems the whole ICQ network is facing (yeah it’s not only the smartass guys using alternative clients this time but everybody) and the fact that our own jabber server and indeed all jabberservers in the world are running I want to say the following to ICQ:

I think this is just the perfect moment to tell people about jabber and that it will always keep working as long as one server in the internet is still working ;)

This isn’t about telling you how sweet our own jabberd is (it is in fact) but about telling people to use open standards as it’s really easy installing a messenger of your choice.

greetz to all jabber users, the teranetworks crew and my mum (who is also using jabber) :)

by schischa

This article is deprecated. You can find an updated version here.

Using urxvt / rxvt-unicode very often as my prefered terminal emulator I thought it would be nice to have clickable links. Reading through the manpage and searching in google I found out about the built in urxvt’s perl extensions and that this was possible.

Just add the following to your .Xdefaults:

URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,matcher
URxvt.urlLauncher: firefox
URxvt.matcher.button: 2
URxvt.matcher.pattern.1: \\bwww\\.[\\w-]\\.[\\w./?&@#-]*[\\w/-]

Now you just need to replace firefox with your favorite browsers startup script and choose which mousebutton should be handled. Button 2 is the middle mouse button and clicking a link with it now opens it directly in firefox without copy and paste or other timewasting things ;)

The great advantage of this solution is that you don’t depend on things like the openurl.pl script for irssi which doesn’t work using irssi in a screen remotely as I (and many other) do.

by schischa

Ich bin grade dabei, auf meinem kleinen p3 500 Homeserver https einzurichten für den lighttpd deamon. Dummerweise bin ich grad nicht daheim und weiß den, aus Sicherheitsgründen geänderten Port für Fernwartung, meines Linksys Wrt54GL Router mit DD-Wrt Firmware nicht mehr. Per elinks/links und anderen Textbrowsern hatte ich keine chance weil die DD-Wrt Firmware sich damit absolut gar nicht steuern lässt.
Wie löse ich nun also das Dilemma, per ssh in das netzwerk vor dem der Router steht zu kommen, aber nicht den Router ansteuern zu können.
Dank unseres allwissenden Totengräbers in #woot (unser irc chan im teranetworks), war das Problem mittels ssh Tunneling über meinen kleinen Homeserver über Port 1500, auf den 80er Port des Routers (auf dem läuft das Webinterface des Routers) schnell gelöst. Das ganze geht mittels:

# ssh hostname_des_servers -L1500:192.168.1.1:80

Danach reicht ein beherztes

http://localhost:1500/

im Webbrowser meines Laptops und ich gehe per ssh-tunneling über den Server auf den 80er Port des Routers der im selben LAN wie der Server ist. Hoffe ihr habts verstanden, vlt hat jemand ja irgendwann mal ein ähnliches Problem ;)

kleiner Auszug aus #woot:

22:58:52 |GraveDigger| und danach nimmste dir an A einen webbrowser und öffnest: http://localhost:1500/
22:58:53 |GraveDigger| :D
22:58:57 |GraveDigger| und dann darfst du staunen
22:59:00 |GraveDigger| netzwerk voodoo
22:59:01 |GraveDigger| :D
22:59:33 |schischa_| boah
22:59:35 |schischa_| du gott
22:59:38 |schischa_| alter
22:59:39 |schischa_| !!!!
22:59:40 |GraveDigger| :D
22:59:57 |GraveDigger| so
22:59:59 |GraveDigger| noch fragen?

und hier ein kleines Beweisfoto ;)

by schischa

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running deamonized

Just yesterday I presented my urxvt / rxvt-unicode config and promised to check out the deamon mode as it is saving ressources if you have lots of urxvt windows open and increases startup time to nearly zero.

To run urxvt deamonized you first need to start the deamon and fork it to the background with:

# urxvtd -q -f

after that simply start urxvt as client

# urxvtc

The startup options like tinting color and so on are the same as if you would start the “normal” urxvt session. Running urxvt deamonized has at least one big disadvantage: if the deamon is killed or crashes all terminal windows will be gone too as the deamon provides them. As I didn’t have a single urxvt crash the last year I would be heavily surprised if it happened now and will tell you immediately ;)
I suggest putting the urxvtd in the the startup configuration of your desktop environment or, if you aren’t using a complete one but only a wm like myself, to your .xinitrc.

little config update

I just decided to set all options in the Xdefaults and updatet it. There are _no_ options necessary any more for urxvt looking like that any more:

here the config file:

my Xdefaults