I love Safari in general. It’s speedy, looks like it was made on and for a Mac and has all basic features you need for your day to day browsing. All important web extensions such as Flash have plugins for Safari and best of all it doesn’t depend on XUL.
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Posted in Apple.
Tagged with internet, OS X, proxy, safari.
By Daenney
– June 29, 2009
I own a MacBook Pro 15.4″ unibody since mid January to which I regularly attach a Samsung Syncmaster 305T. However, the combination of this MacBook Pro and my display has caused a lot of problems, as can be seen on these pictures.
I have been in contact with AppleCare sine February about this problem and early May they decided something had to be wrong with my MacBook Pro and approved it for RMA. I got my MacBook Pro back two days ago, according to them fixed (they replaced the logicboard and a few other things).
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Posted in Apple, random.
Tagged with Apple, apple cinema display, firmware, macbook pro, samsung.
By Daenney
– June 11, 2009
I got my hands on the 10A380 developer build of OS X 10.6 (like many other people by now) and decided to install it and give it a whirl.
The installation is a breeze, as usual, fast too.
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Posted in Apple.
Tagged with Apple, development, mac, macbook pro, OS X.
By Daenney
– June 10, 2009
As a few people are aware this site and a few others of my own and some friends are hosted on an XServe G4 running Debian Lenny served from the DCG Amsterdam datacenter within the ColoClue network infrastructure.
Why Debian? ‘Cause I like to snuggle up with it at night? Partially because I just love Debian plain and simple and because it is one of the few distributions which has decent powerpc support. Yes powerpc, what did you think was†inside†my XServe G4? Exactly, a dual-CPU G4 IBM PowerPC.
Unfortunately, running on exotic hardware does bring a few issues with it such as serial console access and remote†power-cycling. Next up some details on how to get the whole†shebang†to work.
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Tagged with Apple, development, firmware, mac.
By Daenney
– May 22, 2009
We use Scrobby at home to scrobble whatever MPD plays to our Last.fm account. One problem, when we reboot the server and we forget to start scrobby manually, well, sometimes days of data doesn’t get scrobbled.
Thus I wrote a†preliminary†init-script that should fix the problem for now. It’s based upon skeleton and, I know, it’s not the best script ever nor does it follow all the lsb rules and best practices, but it’s a start, it works and I’ll fix the ‘decency’ when I have time to spare.
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By Daenney
– April 20, 2009
Those few poor souls who actually read my blog (or the RSS feed) know I rage from time to time on my blog about stuff that’s really bugging the freakin’ hell outa me, today is no exception.
Today we rage about Logitech. Logitech is a very rageable subject, especially when it comes to drivers and the other crappy and faulty software they bundle with quite excellent products.
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Tagged with Apple, development, Harmony, Java, Logitech, tv.
By Daenney
– February 24, 2009
I use nickcolor.pl in irssi like many other people but it is one of the most crappy plugins ever when it comes to user output, since it gives none except for when it errors.
After pissing me off a few times today I ran through the source, indexed the commands and added some useful output here and there. I have submitted my changes to the original authors but just in case, here is my modified nickcolor.pl.
Posted in random.
Tagged with development, irc, irssi.
By Daenney
– February 20, 2009
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By Daenney
– February 15, 2009
FOSDEM (Free and OpenSource Developers Meeting) takes places every year in Brussels, Belgium on the campus of the UniversitÈ Libre de Bruxelles.
I went this year, for the first time, this post is all about that.
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Posted in Life, random.
Tagged with community, development, europe, impressions.
By Daenney
– February 9, 2009
If you run a Mac (like I do) and you also use Office 2008 (like I do) you might have noticed that an extra folder appeared in your Documents folder called Microsoft User Data which shouldn’t have been placed there to begin with.
An added thorn in the eye is that that damned folder gets synced by Live Mesh or Syncplicity every god dang time a file is touched there.
So, I decided to fix yet another of Microsoft’s mistakes:
mv ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/ ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Office/User\ Data/
ln -s ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Office/User\ Data/ Microsoft\ User\ Data
This will move the folder to the Application Support part of your own Library (not the system wide one) where it should have been stored to begin with and create a symlink in your Documents folder to the new location so Microsoft Office doesn’t get all confused and whiney.
Why you ask? Besides because it is the correct file-system hierarchy? Because Live Mesh, Syncplicity and other file sync utilities do not follow symlinks. So I can now synchronise my whole Documents folder and its contents without syncing pointless Microsoft data every time with it.
Posted in Apple, random.
Tagged with mac, Microsoft, syncplicity.
By Daenney
– February 2, 2009
