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WLAN with Zyxel router and OS X 10.5

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Each time when I’ve visited my parents the last five times, I never got a WLAN connection working with my Macbook on OS X 10.5. That’s really bothersome when you are connected to a cable in a small room. Today I had some time to check why it only happens with my Macbook and not with any other computer with Windows installed. I found a helpful blog post which helped me a lot to solve the issue. As you can see the timeout problem was introduced with the upgrade toContinue readingWLAN with Zyxel router and OS X 10.5

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Microsoft .net Framework 2.0 and mscorcfg.msc

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Lately I had to configure the code access security for the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0 on several clients. While on computers with the Software Development Kit (SDK) Version installed it’s not a problem, but you will have trouble with the Redistributable Version. The mscorcfg.msc applet which can be used to configure all parts of the .net framework isn’t included anymore in the latter one. Thanks Microsoft. Do I have to download the SDK version now which has a size of 354MB to only set some configuration settings? After searching aContinue readingMicrosoft .net Framework 2.0 and mscorcfg.msc

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Sweet little update to Google Reader

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This morning I was surprised about a different behavior of Google Reader while reading my blog subscriptions. All the last months I was annoyed by the need of manual scrolling to see the next posts when the selection is at the bottom of the page, means when hitting ‘J’ for the next post it was moving downwards. At some point you weren’t able to see the next ones. With todays change (or probably some days ago) the selection stays at the top of the list and only moves downwards whenContinue readingSweet little update to Google Reader

CategoriesMozilla Software

Firefox in your country

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Some days ago Mozilla put a new survey online to get feedback from their users how Firefox is used in their country. If you are living in Brasil, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Poland, Spain, or a German-speaking country please take the survey. It will only take 5-10 minutes to finish but will help Mozilla to improve the user experience and distribution of Firefox in your country.

CategoriesMozilla Software

Querying mozilla-central by date

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With the switch from CVS to Mercurial the ongoing work for the next major release of Firefox 3.1 is happening in mozilla-central now. That’s why using Bonsai to query for fixes within a given time span will not work. So what’s the replacement? How can you search for checkins which caused a regression? It’s as simple as that. Since yesterday the web frontend (pushlog) supports querying by date. You can use the same date format like it was used for Bonsai or just enter “yesterday”, or “today” which will alsoContinue readingQuerying mozilla-central by date

CategoriesMozilla Software

Firefox 3 will be available soon…

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Some hours ago Mozilla has advertised the release date for Firefox 3! So this wonderful piece of software will be official available on June 17th, 2008. Amazing work was done during the last three years which result in a huge list (approx. 15.000 of them) of new features and improvements. Deb Richardson has written a field guide for Firefox 3 which describes the most impressive ones in detail. Anyone who is interested in Firefox 3 should also pledge to download Firefox 3 by June 18th. It will help Mozilla inContinue readingFirefox 3 will be available soon…

CategoriesMac Mozilla Software

Temporary folder for Firefox and Thunderbird on OS X

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In February last year I bought my first MacBook with OS X 10.4 alias Tiger installed and I was happy to say “Hello” to the Apple folks. Ever since it was a bit of work and I had to learn a lot until everything worked like expected. But there is still one thing which bugs me when running Firefox or Thunderbird on a fresh OS X installation. Both applications don’t use a reasonable temporary folder. Instead files which are opened by helper applications are stored under ~/Desktop or ~/Download andContinue readingTemporary folder for Firefox and Thunderbird on OS X

CategoriesLeisure Software

Celemony – A new way of composing music

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Some days ago I found this really interesting site. Until today it wasn’t possible to compose music by using wav files. Instead you have to use the midi format which emulates (todays nearly perfect) the real sound of the given instrument. But now that’s history! Grab a wav file, select the appropriate instrument, voice, or sound track and move its notes up or down. Damn, is that easy going. I’m fascinated about how that is working. Take a look at the video to also get banned. The release of theContinue readingCelemony – A new way of composing music

CategoriesLeisure Mozilla Software

My weekend at FOSDEM 2008

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What an amazing weekend! Reminisce about the last two years this one was definitely the greatest one at FOSDEM. The main reason why I joined again was Mozilla. And due to there aren’t so many choices to get the opportunity to meet Mozillians, I cannot cancel such an appointment. 😉 I met a lot of interesting and crazy people, listened to mostly all talks inside the Mozilla devroom (also known as sauna) and had pulsating and valuable conversations. Mostly I enjoyed to finally met Seth Bindernagel and David Tenser. BothContinue readingMy weekend at FOSDEM 2008

CategoriesMac Software

OS X leaks keyboard shortcut for optional button in dialogs

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Hey, what’s up with my Tiger? I didn’t realized it all the last weeks but why there is no keyboard shortcut anymore to cancel a dialog? It was a fine thing to only have to hit the space key. I mainly used it within Lightroom to delete an image from the database. But as I see now, the button hasn’t a small blue border anymore. It’s cumbersome to grab the mouse and navigate to the cancel button. Does anyone of you also have this problem? I could imagine that thisContinue readingOS X leaks keyboard shortcut for optional button in dialogs

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