McCain calls for attacks on USA if Obama wins?

Just now (2008-10-24) McCain on a rally said that if Obama will get elected the USA will be tested by other countries. This means McCains calls on terrorists and foreign countries to attack the USA if he does not win. This is very dirty. How stupid can someone be?

And X11/Xorg with OpenBSD

On my last post about installing OpenBSD on my R52 notebook I forgot to say that the X11 really ran out of the box without any configuration at all.

Ubuntu Wireless Problem solved. Brain refreshed

The only reason my Intel card would not work was that I forgot to add it to the wireless MAC list – and the other reason was that I even forgot that I had activated that list. So now I can savely remove the Ralink chip card and passs it on.

Using WPA on OpenBSD

The missing WPA support was something many users where missing on OpenBSD. I now tell some practical steps on how to connect to a WPA encrypted wireless network with OpenBSD. Again – and as often OpenBSD makes it simpler than other OSes. Firstly – during install OpenBSD gives the opportunity to configure networks. I had [...]

OpenBSD also on Notebook as Dual Boot

I had left some part of the hard disk free to try installing OpenBSD on my IBM Thinkpad R52 later. The later is now. I had some respect for trying the dual boot as last time I tried it was a mess. I now have working OpenBSD on sixth partition. That means if you read [...]

Remove files with “-” (options)

I realized that I never read the man page till the end. Thanks to the guys of bytemine at Kieler Linuxtage for answering the question on how to remove files like “-a” which could be interpreted as an option. You just add “–” between the command and the filename.
man rm(1) on Ubuntu also gives another [...]

Report on Wireless status on Ubuntu 8.10 beta

Not much sense to read the rest as I could solve the problem by adding my internal card to the wireless MAC filter of my router. stupid me!
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Ubuntu Wireless Problem solved. Brain refreshed
This is what bothers me on the new Ubuntu 8.10 beta on my Thinkpad R52:

Now with a Ralink card (RT61) also this connection [...]

Republicans lost debate

Why did they? Well, actually it was not that much about Biden vs. Palin, but important thing was to find out which ticket people could trust if they voted for it. So Palins task was to convince people that McCain/Palin will do things  better. That, I did not hear today. Palin was too busy surviving [...]

How free desktops like GNOME and KDE could improve marketing

As I have decided to become a bit more engaged in GNOME marketing by contributing ideas, working on the wiki and providing patches for the web pages I have rethought how marketing can be done by a free desktop like GNOME or KDE:
I found that there is often an important miscalculation made. Like in the [...]

Democrats dont need to worry about upcoming debate

I will be watching the debate between Palin and Biden later (3am in the morning here). As CNN reports that some democrats are worried that Palin would be unexpectedly strong in the debate I like to through in my 5 cents: If you look on what McCain and Palin did wrong in a short period [...]