Archive for June, 2006

Not without my Macbook

Friday, June 30th, 2006

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Yes, it’s finally here but I have no time to play with it. First “Betriebsysteme” now “Stochastik, IST, Analytische Geometrie, Rechnerarchitekturen and Operationsresearch” and after that “Softwaretechnik”. And I’ll have to put Windows on my sweet Macbook - what a shame.

Don’t cut&paste and drink

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

After installing Xcode 2.3 Trung and I had some background processes runing mad. It turned out it was the bfobserver daemon used for distributed network builds (distcc?). As allways google had the answer. It was this post on the apple mailing list Evil Post. As you may imagine, we read about disabling the daemon (using the wrong way). And yes, disbaling _ALL_ your daemons is a bad thing(tm). On the bright side, I learned a lot about the boot process of OSX :)

Double Command

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

This is a pref pane which allows you to remap some system keys. I set the fn key to act like ctrl and the right lower enter key as forward delete. Thanks Trung! Double Command

Shortcut daemon

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

It is a powerfull toll that allows you to create shortcuts for allmost any situations… It can execute scripts, menu shortcuts and so on. And it’s universal bin too :) Spark

[Update] Railsday 2006 is over

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

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[Update] - You can try Cockpit here: Cockpit

FreeBSD reconfigure Port

Monday, June 19th, 2006

If the Port supports it, issuing a “make config” in the portdir brings up the ncurses configuration menu.

Another (much cooler) Firefox extension found

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

It’s called Performancing. It sits in the status bar, and pops up redy to fix yor blogging needs :)

New Firefox extension

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

Found a new Firefox extension Deepest Sender that lets you blog directly from firefox (just in case you are too lazy to go to your blog.

Railsday 2006 is over

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

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Railsday is over and I had no sleep for the last 20 hours! But we (Trung and me) managed to create something and commit the stuff just in time. Rails is/was a contest where we had 24 hours time to create an web application based on the fantastic framework Ruby on Rails. There was a lot of Apple stuff to win and damn I wish we won. Our submission called Cockpit is a virtual desktop manager inside a browser where one can load any external site in a new small (resizeable) windows. Just in case one wants to keep an eye on some sites at the same time.

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I need some sleep…

Waiting for Godot…

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

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Well not really. I orderd a Macbook (I know - first revision Apple mobiles allways suck - but I am brave) together with Trung and Hendry. The arrival is slated for the 22.06.2006. Don’t try to contact me on that day :)