After updating Leopard to version 10.5.2 using Software Update, iSync stopped working – it flashed in the dock, but never opened 🙁 Luckily i found this dirty but awful simple trick to get it back…
I recently switched back from firefox to safari as my default browser, mainly because firefox is too big, slow and hangs from time which anoyed me more and more.
The switch became possible, because i found some extensions to safari, which counterparts i used on firefox excessively:
I’ve set my sleepmode of my macbook pro to use the “old” style of sleeping and my mac was very stable and had nearly no problems with waking from sleep. But as my battery seems…
I just wrote the initial (and maybe useful) version of my very first dashboard widget. You can find it on the software page and download and use it for free. features: calculate filesize from a…
Recently i upgraded my OS to Leopard and had to recompile python 2.4.4 for my Zope 3 buildout setup (i need a clean python for that). The problem was, that python 2.4.4 won’t build on…
As you might already know, Anarchy Media Player is a way cool javascript-based player solution for playback of media files like .mp3, quicktime movies, flash movies and so on. The very cool thing about that…
Yousif Al Saif from tredosoft.com has programmed an installer allowing you to run multiple Internet Explorer versions in parallel on your Windows XP: Download Multiple IE installer (10.3MB) please read Yousif’s original article here and check out the comments on this article as well, you will find some useful information there as well.
as i had to reinstall my mac book pro after my harddisk has died recently, i post my list of essential packages i need for my developments in Mac OS X.
as i had to reinstall my mac book pro after my harddisk has died recently, i post my list of essential packages i need for my developments in Mac OS X.
But when i tried to ping some other machine, this didn’t work 🙁 I checked /var/log/messages and the onboard Broadcom Interface showed up as eth1, but i was not able to start it. When i ran $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart i got some error messages like: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1 eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device No clue what went wrong, i googled a lot and finally i stumbled upon this forum entry: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221768 Then i ran: $ ifconfig -a and got a list with my network interfaces and more importantly with it’s MAC address.
i just found out that my Ubuntu Server 6.10 has login shells for almost all users set in the /etc/passwd file! That’s a very bad idea because this maybe enabled someone to install “Data Cha0s Back Backdoor” on my machine 🙁 I checked this with 2 other fresh Ubuntu Server 6.10 installations and both also had the login shells for users like daemon, mail, www-data and so on. Especially www-data should not have a chance to create a shell in my opinion!