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GRML-and-Spelling Issues with Speakup?
by Hart Larry 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Well, I am considering upgrading, but I wonder if an issue with Speakup is fixed in GRML, where when reading, I mostly hear words spelled instead of pronounced. When searching an archive of Speakup, there are mentions of pre-empting a colonel. Thanks in advance for any tips in fixing this Hart

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ssb as usual
by martin yazdzik 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Dear Friends at grml, The really good news is that now my dell latitude d830 boots and runs from the live cd, no problems. Now, like many dell, hp products, the lovely, incomparable, almost Kaerntnerisch' bcm 4300 series chips still really need ndiswrapper, which means the last three lines of a blacklist are ssb, b43, b44. Now, for the terminally stupid amongst us, to wit me, is there an init script which we could call, either on the live cd or once installed, to make it possible for the really large numbers of bcm prisoners to run ndiswrapper without a lot of trouble. The reason I ask is that in using the live disk to work on these kinds of laptops for administrative purposes(in other words, non IT workers screw something up ;) ) only one "blacklist=blahblah" seems to work at boot of the live cd. This means that the very first commands, after happy hacking must be rmmod blah blah, which is find, unless a yazdzik forgets so to do. Thus, we need a grml script to use ndiswrapper which rmmods the offenders, grml-screwbcm or something that, useable at startup. Or not, as the case may be. Thanks, Mika and friends for another superb job. Best wishes, Martin

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grml kernel, pxeboot and nfsroot
by T o n g 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

Hi, I'm wondering if the default grml kernel is capable for pxeboot and nfsroot. There is only one thread in grml mlist mentioning pxeboot http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/820 but I'm not sure what the conclusion is. Specifically, is the grml kernel built with the following features enabled as modules? # DHCP support CONFIG_IP_PNP=y CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y # NFS client support CONFIG_NFS_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_V3=y CONFIG_NFS_V4=y CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO=y # NFS root support CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y Also CONFIG_AUFS_EXPORT should be enabled too, for me to export aufs as nfsroot from the server. Mika, if any of the above is not enabled in grml kernel, could you enable them in future releases? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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dpkg-dev conflicts with devscripts (< 2.10.26)
by Darshaka Pathirana 09 Nov '08

09 Nov '08

Hi! Just encountered a problem while trying to upgrade some packages. I am using a grml2hd by grml 1.0 which have been upgraded a few times and is now set to Debian/lenny in the sources.list: % grep -v "^\s*#\|^\s*$" /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://deb.grml.org/ grml-1.1 main deb-src http://deb.grml.org/ grml-1.1 main deb http://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at/mirror/debian lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at/mirror/debian lenny main contrib non-free deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main I usualy use grml-testing but also tried grml-1.0 / grml-1.0-updates and grml‐1.1. So here the problem: % apt-cache policy dpkg-dev dpkg-dev: Installed: 1.14.12 Candidate: 1.14.22 Version table: 1.14.22 0 500 http://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at lenny/main Packages *** 1.14.12 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status % apt-cache policy devscripts devscripts: Installed: 2.9.27.grml.1 Candidate: 2.9.27.grml.1 Version table: 2.10.35 0 500 http://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at lenny/main Packages *** 2.9.27.grml.1 0 994 http://deb.grml.org grml-1.1/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status % aptitude show -v dpkg-dev |& grep --color=auto "Package:\|Version:\|Conflicts:\|^$" Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.22 Conflicts: devscripts (< 2.10.26), dpkg-cross (< 2.0.0) Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.12 Conflicts: dpkg-cross (< 2.0.0), dpkgname So the new version of dpkg-dev conflicts with older devscripts but grml does not provide any newer one. I *definitly* could change the pining of devscripts but wonder if there will be a newer version of devscripts-grml, what the best way to handle this problem or if I am doing something wrong escpescially because I newer knowingly used devscripts-grml and also was not able to find the sources in the git-repository to check for updates. Do you need to know more infos? Please let me know! Greetings, - Darsha P.s. I have not tried grml-1.1-rc yet to see how it's handled in there...

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grml release candidate 1 of version 2008.11
by Michael Prokop 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi! I'm proud to be able to present release candidate 1 of the upcoming stable release 2008.11 - available in all the different grml flavours. New features? Tons of new features! Including an update of grml-small - and we even provide a 64bit version of grml-small now! Release Notes for grml 2008.11[-rc1] - codename "Schluchtenscheisser": http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2008.11/ Disclaimer: The release notes for the other flavours aren't available yet, but the most important stuff can be found in the above release notes anyway. The following flavours are available from the devel directory of grml's mirrors: grml_2008.11-rc1.iso 667M grml-medium_2008.11-rc1.iso 178M grml-small_2008.11-rc1.iso 75M grml64_2008.11-rc1.iso 687M grml64-medium_2008.11-rc1.iso 187M grml64-small_2008.11-rc1.iso 77M Grab them from one of our mirrors: http://grml.org/download/#mirrors Known issues of 2008.11-rc1 can be found at: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=release_candidate Please report any bug you notice so we can provide stable releases to you soon! http://grml.org/bugs/ Enjoy grml! regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc

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memset was not declared
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 31 Okt '08

31 Okt '08

Hello, i have to try compile some programs under grml 1.1. After running make, i become some error messages memset was not declared in this scope. any ideas wht to do? google shows a bug in the gcc, but nothing what to do, to fix that. Regards. Dietmar

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it's still there.
by Doug Smith 30 Okt '08

30 Okt '08

Ok, I tried to start the latest devel iso of grml with swspeak, and it wouldn't start. I also tried to do the same with today's latest daily build. What I am wondering is this: When will this issue be fixed so that I will have back my grml swspeak followed by swspeak at the completion of the bootup process? Is there some other command I could give and get something other than: fatal error setting up software speakup and then: sorry, software synthesizer not available. Did you boot with swspeak boot option? Please fix this as soon as possible, and let me know when I can return to using grml like I did on my 32-bit machine. Thanks most sincerely: Doug Smith

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VM issues
by Kristof Semjen 27 Okt '08

27 Okt '08

Hi all, I've recently tried to install grml with parallels (on a macintel), and my attempt was unsuccessful, it might be a problem with parallels, but I was wondering wether anyone reported issues with that configuration? PS : I have installed a fedora on my external HD since then, but I don't like it as much. And grml saved my professional life once, thank you for your nice distro. BTW, I will provide more info if necessary.

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Re: [Grml] No GUI
by renlac10＠gmail.com 27 Okt '08

27 Okt '08

Thank you so much, Frank and Richard, for your attention, and sorry for taking your time. Your considerations about my post are correct. Realising my mess, I tried to track back how I came to grml site thinking it was incognito site, but with no success. I'll stay curious about for a good time, though. Well it was indeed about the incognito live-cd you have pointed out and it simply happened to not boot completely in my machine. As to an hour ago I realise it was for some hardware problem, as the same cd did mounted the gui (kde) finely on my brothers computer (although the browser couldn't find any webpage, even the network having internet connection ok). That seems to be a lone guy work (still in beta condition), but promissing as a very useful tool for those a "little bit" paranoid on computer/internet security. The cd even erases the ram at shutdown to avoid eventual cold boot attack... :-)) So finally I came to this list just for us to have a nice meeting. It was great to see your concern on my problem and I will not forget. Thank you for your directions and maybe will meet again. Open source is showing to me now its richness. Congratulations to you all. Best wishes, renlac

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No GUI
by renlac10＠gmail.com 27 Okt '08

27 Okt '08

Greetings! Sorry if I'm a totally ignorant newby at linux, which I'm getting in exactly because of Incognito, a longing and startling tool. Being clueless about, I thought I was to expect that booting Incognito live-cd would get me directly to the GUI (KDE) which is shown in the screenshots. But the boot stops at a linux prompt, both trying grml 1.1 and grml medium, being the first "livecd root #" and the latter "root@grm ~#". So I would like to ask whether this is actualy expected or is a bug, and what I must do to run kde (or the gui) in order to star using Incognito. Thank you very much, renlac

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Sending in bug reports and patches
by Jean-Rene David 27 Okt '08

27 Okt '08

Hello, I sent in a bug report along with a small patch for grml2usb at bugs(a)grml.org a few weeks ago. I was just wondering if it got lost in transit. I didn't receive any kind of acknowledgement and didn't see the bug appear on the BTS. The bug was still in grml2usb last time I checked (sometime last week). I can obviously resend, but I thought I'd check first. -- JR

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An Intro-and-Other Items?
by chime＠hubert-humphrey.com 27 Okt '08

27 Okt '08

I must have sent to another address for this list, as my message bounced. First, I asked on the speakup list-and-it was suggested I join this list for discussion-and-solutions. First of all, for any who are not on blind-l, blinux, or speakup, a bit of an intro. I got my first PC-and-started on CompuServe in 1994, tried Jaws in late 97, but finally left windows completely here at home in 2006. I have had shell accounts since 1995, but the transition from understanding DOS to understanding unix/linux commands, are a chalenge. Now, we installed GRML on my Laptop, the full nearly 700MB version. We successfully have IBM TT Synth working. Speakup is more or less talking. So here are my issues: #1 When speakup is reading, it is spelling most words, however in screen-review it is fine. #2 The cursor seems to be highlighting a random line, such as 19, instead of the most current text. #3 Where are any power management settings? After an hour or so, I am automaticly logged out of any consoles. #4 Once I rebooted the laptop, now speakup volume is much loer-and-the insert 2 will not alter anything. #5 Can I run Y A S R with TT Synth? Seems like anytime I go in the YASR options pannel, I can never save settings, as speech drops dead. #6 And in the setup screen for e-mail settings to join this list, it mentions you can set filters in receiving messages. Well, in L Y N X I saw no way to do that. Thanks in advance for any-and-all solutions Hart

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When will the speech issue with the 64-bit version be fixed?
by Doug Smith 24 Okt '08

24 Okt '08

Hi, all. I am writing to ask when the speech issue with the 64-bit version will be fixed. The "speech issue" is this: boot the grml64 disk and enter: grml swspeak The boot process continues in what sounds like a normal manner until: fatal error setting up software speakup I was just writing to let you all know that this is happening and, when I went looking for information to diagnose the problem, there was none. I do not mind working on the fix if you will just tell me what I need to work on. If I can be of any help in fixing this, I will gladly help. Sincerely: Doug Smith

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About /dev/shm
by T o n g 23 Okt '08

23 Okt '08

Hi, I used to have the tmpfs /dev/shm, but lost it due to recent update. However, I found that a fresh debootstrap install has it. So, I'm wondering who is in charge of creating it -- so as to get it back. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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OT, misc git questions
by T o n g 20 Okt '08

20 Okt '08

Hi, Just abusing our people's talent a bit here, :-). Quick questions on the git: - is it possible to amend a committed & pushed comment? - how to revoke a specific file to remote master? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Using grml bts web interface
by T o n g 17 Okt '08

17 Okt '08

Hi mika, I'm wondering if it is possible to do the following on the grml bts web site: - ignore all closed bts, i.e., show bts list without closed ones. - show bts related with a certain tool, e.g. grml-debootstrap. - combine the above 2 conditions. - shown only one type of Priority bts, e.g., only those of "features". Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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switching to german language
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 13 Okt '08

13 Okt '08

Hello, i need your help. I want to switch to german messages, but i become only english meassages. I have change the keyboard and language with the grml-setlang script and the boot option lang=de. I have the german keyboard layout for use, but no german messages. In the locale.nopurge file i have added the lines "de_DE*" and "de" and done some aptitude safe-upgrade. Thanks for some tips. Regards. Dietmar

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VMware and 2.6.26-grml kernel
by T o n g 13 Okt '08

13 Okt '08

Hi, Has anyone get any version of VMware working under the 2.6.26-grml kernel? I am trying to install the latest VMware.Workstation.v6.5.0.118166, but get a compilation error -- see http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue553 . According to http://www.archlinux.it/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_VMware "With 2.6.26 and VMWare 6.5 _no_ any-any patch is needed anymore (6.5.0 build-118166). The graphical installer works just fine and all the modules work out of the box" but I'm having difficulties. Please help. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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How to use the .iso image for usb booting
by T o n g 13 Okt '08

13 Okt '08

Hi, How can I put the .iso image on usb so that the usb boots with the latest devel release, grml-medium-devel_2008.09.28.iso for example? The wiki http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb & grml2usb uses windoze FAT16 filesystem, but I hope I can put it into (and boot from) native Linux filesystems, using grub if possible. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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msmtp through ssh-tunnel
by John Magolske 11 Okt '08

11 Okt '08

This might be more appropriately directed to msmtp-users, but as there's the following in the ~/.msmtprc that came with grml, I thought I'd check here first. # use ssh-tunnel # ============== # set up tunnel via ssh: # ssh -l mika -L 9999:your.rootserver.tld:25 user(a)sshserver.tld -N -f # # host localhost # port 9999 Wanting to tunnel msmtp through ssh, I tried this in my ~/.msmtprc: from username1(a)mydomain.net ssh -l john -L 9999:mydomain.net:25 username1(a)mydomain.net -N -f host localhost port 9999 And in ~/.muttrc : set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" But got the following error when attempting to send a message: msmtp: /home/john/.msmtprc: line 25: unknown command ssh Probably I'm overlooking something(s) obvious regarding the use of ssh and msmtp... Should that ssh command be invoked independently of msmtp somehow, maybe in a wrapper script? Should I be looking at the set_sendmail.sh script? Any pointers much appreciated. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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aufs mount
by T o n g 05 Okt '08

05 Okt '08

Hi, I found my aufs mount behaves not as expected. According to the example from manpage, aufs mount behaves like this: # mount -v -t aufs br:/day0:/base none /u none on /u type aufs (rw,xino=/day0/.aufs.xino,br:/day0=rw:/ base=ro) # mount -v -o remount,\ prepend:/day1,\ xino=/day1/xino,\ mod:/day0=ro,\ del:/day0 \ /u none on /u type aufs (rw,xino=/day1/xino,br:/day1=rw:/base=ro) But mine like this: $ mount -v -t aufs -o br:/day0:/base none /u none on /u type aufs (rw,br:/day0:/base) $ mount -v -o remount,prepend:/day1,mod:/day0=ro,del:/day0 /u none on /u type aufs (rw,br:/day0:/base,prepend:/day1,mod:/day0=ro,del:/ day0) See, /day0 show up 3 times in mtab. But according to the manpage, it should be removed from aufs mount table. Anybody knows why (and fix)? PS. My kernel and aufs are all 2.6.23 $ dpkg -l | grep 2.6.23 ii aufs-modules-2 0+20071211-1+g aufs modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.23-grml). ii kqemu-modules- 1.3.0~pre11-7+ kqemu modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.23-grml) ii linux-image-2. grml.06 Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.23 $ uname -rm 2.6.23-grml i686 thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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problems with speech, both 64 and 32 bit versions.
by Doug Smith 05 Okt '08

05 Okt '08

Ok, I hate to do this, but here goes. The other night, I downloaded both the new latest devel releases and burned them, hoping to switch this machine over to text-based. Here's what happened with the speech in both versions. First of all, this machine's a 64-bit one, so I tried the 64-bit version of the latest devel release. boot the computer with the disk in it. I kept them separate so that I would know that the one I was starting out with was the 64-bit version. grml swspeak when the disk stops spinning for the first time. The boot procesSmith, you might just have it. Well, I did get it, but what I got was not what I wanted. This was the flite Kal voice coming on with the simple, but rather non-informative message: Fatal Error Setting Up Software Speakup. Well, blast it. I might not get to switch my system over that night. I would have enjoyed that couple of hours when it comes to configuring my system, but not this time. Well, after a little longer, the flite program spoke again. Finished Booting. What is the setup that allows the flite program to speak even if the speakup fails? Well, since it spoke again, I thought I would try it anyway and see what I get. swspeak Sorry, software synthesizer not available, did you boot with swspeak bootoption? Well, of course, I did, but the system is unaware of it. Funny, but I'll try it out. espeak That gets part of the trick done, but not all. Espeak simply echoes all of my commands, so no results from them, except to know that something did, indeed, go horribly wrong. Well, I don't believe this. kill the espeak process to keep it from blocking my terminal. Now, I know that there are actually two software synthesizers, if not more, available, so don't give me that meaningless message. dmesg | espeak This was the only way I could think of to attempt to determine what was going wrong. All I heard was information about configuring and activating every component from the microprocessors to the disk drive and the usb ports, but nothing about an abnormality with speakup. Well, now, 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine, but I'm not going to my lady friend's room and disturb her to borrow her machine, and, besides, this would change another variable in my experiment and I just wanted to know what was happening here. boot the computer with the disk in it. I use the other one this time. grml swspeak Well, the first boot attempt falls flat on its face as the message about ossaudio failing to open an output device. Why is speakup or something still trying to use oss? ALSA, I thought, had become the standard a few years ago. The second boot came up talking. Great!!! However, I'm not going to run 32-bit stuff on here even though I know it will work, at least in part. Now, we've got speech, and it's working reasonably well. Now, fire up elinks and head for a few favorite web sites. It works reasonably well, and I am beginning to ponder the possibilities of using this stuff till the 64-bit one works. Then it happens. Instead of going to another web site, we crash land and explode into flames in glitchville. Speech crashes, and nothing but a reboot will remedy the problem. It worked for a couple of minutes, and I am not sure what kinds of diagnostics might determine the nature of the problem. Anyway, I'm on this thing without speech, and that can be potentially dangerous, especially for the already-installed file system, which I'm using right now to write this. Well, this is the best I can do at present for a but report, since it is the programming I definitely need that caused the problem. I hope this helps in some way and this can be fixed in the 64 and 32 bit versions in the next devel releases or in the rc versions. Hope this helps. Doug Smith

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When will the next release be out, and will the 64-bit version include speech?
by Doug Smith 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, I have been waiting for the new release. I mentioned the spelling problem in the earlier version, and I know that that has all been fixed. However, I have bought a new 64-bit machine since that time, and have had to go to a graphical distribution. It works ok, but I really miss all of my command line favorites. I wish to know when the next release of grml will be availalble. I would also like to know if the new 64-bit version will work with software speech. I tried the current amd64 version, but got neither speech nor sound when running the following: at boot: grml swspeak The system seems to boot ok, but, when it stops, I run swspeak I hear the disk spin, but there is no speech nor is there any sound. It seems to have something to do with the audio on this machine, because the listings of all the controls in aumix indicate that most of the volume settings such as mic, pcm, phin, phout, and more are missing. The only thing I can really tell you about this machine, since I do not know hardware all that well is that it is a Compaq Presario f-700 laptop with a dual-core 64-bit amd processor. The video, which I do not nor cannot use is nvidia or something like that. I do know what kind of sound hardware is on here. Is there anything I am doing wrong. Please help me return from the graphical nightmare world. Thanks. Doug Smith

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JFYI: Migration from Mercurial to Git
by Michael Prokop 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, Over the last few weeks the grml team evaluated the distributed version controll system Git. Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. The migration from Mercurial to Git took place in the last few days. By today (1st of october 2008) the grml mercurial repositories are deprecated and the official place for grml's sources is: http://git.grml.org/ As usual we provide documentation about our setup and tools: http://grml.org/git/ Further information like reasons for the migration are available at: http://grml.org/2008/10/01/ Special thanks to Michael Gebetsroither for his work and help on migrating. regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc

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JFYI: grml development mailinglists moved
by Michael Prokop 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, I just want to inform you that we just migrated some mailinglists from mlmmj to mailman: | Bugs-changes bug reports in the grml bug tracking system | Git-commits source changes at grml - the Git VCS | Grml-live ISO build reports of daily.grml.org | Grml-testing-changes changes in the grml Debian repository The archives and the list of subscribed members have been migrated to their new home. See http://ml.grml.org/ for more information. Notice: this does *NOT* involve the grml mailinglist I'm writing this message to, it's just the devel lists mentioned above. If you encounter any problems don't hesitate to contact us. Special thanks to Alexander Wirt for his infrastructure work. regards, -mika-

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