Saturday, December 20, 2008

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pressure settings

What I appreciate very Mac OS is the ability to save settings in the Print dialog extensive than can be preset.

This can then be simply a drop-down list, for example, between "normal", "double-sided" or "Booklet" select (pictured above right). One must not always through the depths of the print dialog . Fight

the way is also a nice print preview in the Print dialog built-in - see picture.

Some printers, there are sometimes a few setting traps: the color printing with our Xerox Workcentre 7235 did not work first. That you select the "275 Xerox WorkCentre Pro driver must find out fast times. This works well then the booklet printing, and brochure layout called.

but it may take longer to realize that the color is only possible if the "Color Adjustment" option "printer-specific" is set - well, that's not very obvious. But fortunately it is also the default in a corresponding save for a quick selection.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Logitech G7 Dongle Bluetooth

VMware Tuning

The performance of my Windows VM was since switching to VWware never really satisfactory. The Version 2 VMware has not the situation improved. So time for some tuning :-)

My Windows VM was Versoion for a staggered set up VMware: first a Network Setup a VM (Type "Other"), then a VM based on it by the Type "Windows" (so that people could install the VMware Tools). The result was two interdependent Windows file system files. And performs worse with time. So: Reinstall the Windows VM in a VM only - with version 2 of the VMware is now.

The second tuning step: Capacity Enlargement! On computers that means more RAM. Doubling from two to four gigabytes in the Mac, so the VM can now use a whole instead of half a giga.

now running Windows in the VM pretty neat, I could take back the assignment of two used for Windows CPU cores on one - which enjoys the parallel current Mac applications.

An additional step could be a (re) Change of virtualization be, because Parallels virtualized Windows faster than VMware . But for us now is VMware Standard ...

Friday, November 14, 2008

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length: 10.5 Leopard, but ...

Just before preparing for the next version of Mac OS Leopard seen the light of the world I have my MacBook Pro finally lifted from 10.4 to 10.5.

But what a shock: "Connect to Server ..." is an error -6602 and sometimes comes a kernel panic !

Apparently Leopard no longer connects properly with the Windws servers, here is the statement from Microsoft:
Cause: Windows Server 2008 implements FileShare scoping. In previous versions, if you browsed a Virtual Cluster Network name or the node name, you were presented with all the file shares being hosted on the node (local and clustered). Scoping uses the network name to identify if the browse request if for a cluster file share or local. If it's a cluster network name, it only returns the file shares in the group that is associated with the network name. If it's the local name, it only returns the local shares. The same is true when connecting to a file share, the correct network name must be used. When connecting or browsing with an IP address, it will only access to the nodes local non-clustered shares.
- Leopard 10.4 works, because we can see in the network traces that it provides the network name.
- Leopard 10.5 does not provide the network name, only connects via IP address, Which causes this issue.
Well, what can you do? User Windows Admin who set up a special access to the Shares (Merci!), so you can connect again.

I also have reported the problem via the Apple feedback page . The issue is certainly known, but "constant dripping wears away the stone" ...

As for the kernel panics: they are gone. Maybe the Re-Install VMware has solved the problem.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

How Many Calories In Dry Fruit

CD reading problems under Vista fix

If Vista Explorer in the contents of an inserted CD / DVD's will not, but only receive a "blank disc prepare "indicating helps the below registry entry (but only after a reboot).

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \\ Software \\ Microsoft \\ Windows \\ CurrentVersion \\ Policies \\ Explorer]
"NoCDBurning" = dword: 00000001

Monday, November 3, 2008

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The MSIE teach a tar.gz download

in various TYPO3 installations that I am responsible (corporate web presence, corporate intranet, sports club), I use the TYPO3 backend extension "Full Backup". This creates a dump of the MySQL database and packaged it with the TYPO3 program directories all in one. tar.gz archive together that you can download then.

annoying in this context is a feature of MSIE, when downloading from a. Tar.gz file to create always. Tar.tar extension, which then installed local decompression program like Total Commander, etc., of course, begin to know som.

Even in the Save In dialog, the proposed. Tar.tar through. Tar.gz about halfway, he makes stubborn again. Tar.tar it.

only by appropriately placed quotes around the full file name around in the Save In dialog, you can wean the MSIE's "own intelligence" so that the backup file is placed correctly with the extension. tar.gz on your hard disk. can

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Cost For An Escalade Limo

notes everywhere

Unfortunately is Impossibly is not possible to synchronize the notes in the iPhone with Outlook or iCal.

But there is an emergency: Evernote.com .

About this web service you can synchronize notes between his Mac, Windows or iPhone. However, the notes maintained in the Evernote client and not in iCal or Outlook. There is also a web interface with mobile version. add


tagging, full-text search, filter
  • storing the notes in different folders or "notebooks"

  • Voice Notes with the iPhone
  • Geotagging::
  • Evernote also has a few great features notes with a location near the present location of
  • photo and image-Notes: This text will be recognized in the image and can use the Search are found - wow!
Cost: There is a free account with which you can upload up to 40 MB of data per month (new notes and updates). For everything there is a premium account for $ 5 per month or $ 45 per year.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Colorful Tech Deck Trucks

VMware version 2.0

Now she is here, the version 2.0 of VMware Fusion !

New: Default Folder (desktop, music, etc.) from Windows and Mac OS can synchronize [1], and Internet links in Windows can be left open as always with Safari, and many more. For details see the report of MacNews or Release Notes .

My first impressions:
    My
  • running Windows XP in the VM much faster than previously : the inertia and the second long freezes largely are partially disappeared.
  • You come now to the dock when the VM is running in full screen mode.
  • Now there is a counterpart to Smart Select Parallels (must be activated first in the settings of the VM so that it funtktioniert).
[1] At the moment I mount my Mac desktop folder in the Virtual Machine as a drive (eg via shared folders in VMware), which is also very practical - it thus maintains two separate desktops and still have easy access to it.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

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new VPN solution with Juniper

Now it is as far as the name used by us ( Mac-unfriendly ) CheckPoint VPN infrastructure has been replaced by a new solution from Juniper . Although there are also no proper Mac client, but everything is web based so that all internal web applications and at least indirectly (upload / download) can access the shares . We can live with it, especially since we have been tightened the rules for the 'native' VPN access significantly.

Friday, August 22, 2008

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KDE-Login

For some distributions, it is standard that the root user does not log into the KDE graphical interface.

This may impose from
AllowRootLogin = true
be corrected in the file / etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc
.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

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allow direct download URLs with Firefox identify root

repeatedly annoying: performing is in itself free downloads from the Internet thanks to the advanced registration forms and to confirm the EULA patience.

An example of this is the last post introduced Xerox Mobile Express Driver.

consolation for Firefox users: Right-click on the download manager you can direct download URL on the clipboard.

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So you can send the link for example to a colleague via e-mail, which then saves the tedious clicking and come directly to the file.

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Xerox Mobile Express Driver - involve traveling fast printer

problem: one connects one's notebook to the customer's network and at times just want to print something. Meanwhile It is indeed the bests so that most printers in the office environment has its own LAN interface is connected, "hear" so to an IP address (through shares from Windows machines to print to, is often problematic because their own laptop in there is usually not in the customer domain ...).

this sense then you would need "only" the IP address of the nearest printer to know and to get the necessary printer driver. Actually still quite a lot of effort to even a few pages print on another printer and then never use again ... simplifies

Stark, the ad hoc use of printers in a foreign network by the free Xerox Mobile Express Driver, which can be downloaded from here:
http://www.office.xerox.com/software-solutions/mobile -printer-driver/enus.html

In the Windows printer environment you have only one entry Xerox Mobile Express Driver, the specific printer (it will all aufgelistetet, IP, and PostScript-compatible ) is selected according to the release of the printing process:

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Saturday, August 9, 2008

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Lotus Word Pro files open

other day a colleague in the office to me, he would have sent a friend a strange file attachment that can not open it. After a short search on the Web at least once we knew then that the extension. Lwp stands for Lotus Word Pro, a text processing.

Unfortunately, neither MS-Office 2007 or OpenOffice is able to open the file correctly.

The solution was then a free viewer program from the Lotus-FTP-Server:
ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lotusweb/product/smartsuite/Kvlotus.exe

The program Although a bit aged, but done with Vista his ministry and has opened the attachment successfully. Cut-and-paste you could then copy the contents to MS-Word.

side note: in the LWP file once stood just a few lines of text in there that were not formatted times great, you could also write the text that is purely in normal manner in the mail Kö . can I think some people do not think you can send an e-mail without attachments, actually (-:

Saturday, August 2, 2008

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No forgotten e-mail attachments, thanks Attachment Reminder

Everyone knows it: you write a more extensive e-mail and explained to the recipient what to do exactly with an attached file. Quickly it happened, just that one forgets that Annex. For Firefox Users should therefore have the extension "Attachment Reminder that you can download here:

https: / / addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/5759

If If we now write an email, that contains certain keywords that "sound like attachment" to ...

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... but then forgets to actually add the appendix, attachment reminder Active:

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If the Attachment Reminder to many "false alarms" triggers ; sen, you can edit the list of keywords yourself:

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

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iPhone SW 2.0 - good and bad

Yesterday it was done - I mean (U.S.) 2G iPhone with PwnageTool to firmware version 2.0 has brought (see instructions at iClarified ) and are released. The whole process took about two hours read the documentation customize firmware, reset iPhone and then another 15 giga data transfer back to the iPhone.

It all worked out quite well, even to dial into the Swisscom network ran the update without problems. Then the joy came the new features this - a few highlights:
  • The AppStore with the many programs such as the iTunes / AppleTV remote, AIM and Facebook client Shazam , etc.
  • The direct access from iPhone to Exchange Server (in our office is not possible because the WLAN is not directly to the internal network is).
  • Many small improvements such as a viewer for PowerPoint-mail attachments, searching of contacts, etc.
today but then came the great frustration: the synchronization with my business calendar ( via iTunes / Outlook ) no longer works #!!¿%#$!£!! After many trials and endless reading of support articles ( here, here , here, here , here ...) I have come no further - BIG SHIT - this is really a small GAU!

that remains is the knowledge that many people have the same problem and hope that Apple fixes the bug soon - stay tuned ...

So if you sync over his appointments on the iPhone 2G iTunes/Exchange-2003, nor should stay away from the 2.0 firmware!

Update: with the just released version 7.7.1 of iTunes is working again to synchronize the Exchange calendar. However, not right away: first it took a lot Geknorze with this and this instructions from the iPhone Calendar Forum .

Monday, July 28, 2008

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links to files (update)

now is find my widget another way, file links in the Windows format just under To open Mac OS: the extension WinShortcutter dominated now a mapping function.

Then it goes like this: Link Mark>>> Menu Safari (depending on the active program)>>> services (or services )>>> Open Windows Link . If the link points to a Share , it should already be connected, otherwise it will not do.

very beginning but you have to define in the system settings from the mapping WinShortcutter. Here are some examples:
  • Map from \\ \\ OurFileServer \\ DeptShare on Map to / Volumes / DeptShare
  • Map from M: on Map to / Volumes / DeptShare
What is a problem still: if the link is on an HTML page behind a text, you can not mark it and the function of the service menu does not work.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

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pure text (lwp.) - Ease of removing formatting from clipboard text

passages from one application to another using cut-and- to incorporate the paste, makes most every time. annoying in certain situations is the fact that not only the text, but is also adopted its format in the target application.

I call two typical cases from my professional life where I just want to avoid this as far as possible to the existing formatting of the destination application not to mess up:

  • text passages that someone sent to me via e-mail , to the editor of the editorial system TYPO3 are taken
  • I write an e-mail and take over parts of the text, derived from e-mails from other people

One way , get rid of the unwanted formatting, is an intermediate copy the text to the Windows own editor notepad.exe. If in notepad.exe then Ctrl + A and then pressed Ctrl + C, one has the text on the clipboard without formatting.

Of course this method is cumbersome in the long run, here comes the freeware pure text into the game, which can be downloaded here
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
. After installation, you have a new icon "PT" in the system tray, right-click can be (formatted) text that is in the clipboard, convert it to text without formatting:

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be an alternative to the Options dialog to set a hotkey for the action:

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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DeskPins - some windows are forced to the forefront

On some occasions it is n & # 252; useful, the program window to force still in the foreground, so that they constantly keep the focus. Some programs for this purpose in an options dialog a "stay on top", "always on top" or similar named function, but most applications do not.

a program where I do something to me would be the remote control tool TeamViewer, which I use several hours every day for customers remote maintenance. For remote maintenance, it often comes time to idle time, say something in the remote control session is initiated, the hold times can also run a half hour (more complex database extensions, etc.). This idle time I use it like to read alongside other things like e-mail, do Web research, and so on. It's is possible but that in the remote session something happens that requires intervention, but this I did not notice for several minutes.

Here is the freeware Deskpins comes into play, download here:
http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/deskpins.html

to install the software, there is little to say, the tool starts automatically with Windows and settles in the system tray:

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Per -> right click -> Enter Pin's Fashion
then release it ...

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... and I can now by left clicking in the title bar of the TeamViewer window of a drawing pin (English "pin") mark:

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& # 160;

Now I can via Firefox web pages and see also my remote support session keep in mind:

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Monday, July 21, 2008

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tips from Apple

Apple offers on its business Page a podcast Quick Tips , which is highly recommended. Every few days is a short video review, in the nice tips and tricks are shown. Since the clips rarely last longer than a minute, the consumption of this podcast is easy and practical. Have fun!

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

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A solid case ... Still

no, no, that does my MacBook Pro does not ;-) But I have been there a few things happened that were not so beautiful - and yet my devices still work. The solid construction of small and large products of Apple deserves a mention. Here are a few samples:
  • My old video iPod (5G ) is to me a couple of times when riding a bicycle fell from his pocket and landed on the asphalt and remained for a Schlitterpartie. Result: only a few Scratches ...
  • My 12 "PowerBook has also been through a lot.. Tea was spilled on the keyboard and once he has fallen off the table when someone is stuck on the power cable only retardation is a glitch in the housing Fortunately there is now the MagSafe and the Sudden Motion Sensor ...
  • Even my new iPhone was not spared from injustice: a case on the ground it has survived without visible damage And recently, one of the earphones bathed in coffee -. and warbles still continuing.
The only damage during my 15 years of experience with Apple products is a faulty disk controller. Bottom Line: Macs, iPods and iPhones are a solid thing :-)

Monday, June 16, 2008

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Tiger

Good news and bad news ... The good: we have soon a real Mac support team. As the apples, we also have spread in the production environment that is a very purposeful decision! Let's see what comes of it.

The bad: at the moment, our Macs have not upgraded to Leopard. The reviews posted here that is still based on experience with 10.4.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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iPhone: iPhone sync and data transfer

Here are some details of the iPhone sync with Outlook and your own data: an iPhone is different from Computers are supplied with content, whether Mac or PC. As it stands, should be given every tab in the iPhone-View can be operated by iTunes from a different source. But this means that all elements must come as within the "Info" tabs from the same device: address book, calendar, mail accounts, and bookmarks.

bad I want to sync only the calendar from the Windows installation or from Outlook or Exchange. Address book and bookmarks but I want to take over from my home Mac. Although one can activate iTunes when syncing in both the items from the "Info" tab, but it appears a message like "... are synchronized with a different user account ..." and you have to decide whether you want to merge information or not. I'm doing now containing only sporadically an update from the addresses and bookmarks.

are sometimes from Windows iTunes an error message when the iPhone pocketing. A restart of iTunes or the iPhone almost always helps ...

mails I have not yet synchronized to now, I use my G-mail account via IMAP when I'm on the road. can

An iPhone is indeed not (yet) to use as a USB stick. But via e-mail can still store documents on the iPhone: send files to an e-mail to the iPhone this account. It will make them available offline (for IMAP after the first Open). In G-mail can be send by 'marked' marked and they are found then the mail program in the folder [Gmail] / Starred .

The iPhone has a viewer for the following document types: PDF, Word, Excel, Plain Text, HTML, but no PowerPoint and RTF not . Other formats I have not tested ... The presentation is not 100%, but pretty good.

What I still missing: a practical way to get my notes from the P910 and Outlook to synchronize with the iPhone - anybody has an idea?

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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, what else?

Now it is done - is my new mobile phone an iPhone :-) brought from the U.S. awakened and using ZiPhone in Swisscom network to life. A wonderful device - the operation is simple (almost) perfect! Particularly we must stress also the Web browser: here is a sample movie .

If you get despite successful unlock no network connection, it may be that the SIM card is too old. So can select from the Swisscom shop and a new one - it takes a quarter of an hour.

The synchronization of my Exchange calendar works with the iPhone quite easily: it works with me in the Windows VM on iTunes and Outlook. The other data I download from my private Mac: the filling of the iPhone from various sources is therefore possible without ceremony.

My old phone, a Sony-Ericsson P910i , wanders into the drawer. For those interested, this part of me gets the prize for "worst business mobile phone ever". The sync software is completely unreliable, it is lame, disabled PDF viewer, you can not use the Organizierfunktionen without a SIM card, and much more ...

the moment I'm still looking for suitable solutions for the iPhone following: Password-store, file store (à la USB stick) with viewers, including for PDF, SecurID token generator and a good AIM client. More on this later ...

Saturday, March 29, 2008

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Quick-and- Dirty Guide to Samba

following is based on a made with default settings openSUSE-10.3 installation to be achieved:

  • share a physical folder / public as \\ \\ servername \\ public the network
  • release will be Windows 9x-like behavior, that is, full access to everyone without any user names and passwords

All of the following steps as root run.

Step 1: Samba Server To install if not already
Per command
Which
smbd will consider whether the Samba server is already installed. If this is the case, the output of the command
/ usr / sbin / smbd

Does the command does not output, Samba must still by
-> YaST -> Software -> Software install or delete
be installed.

Step 2: Startup scripts of Samba to enable
It makes sense, samba at system startup via (supplied) init scripts / etc / init.d / smb and / etc / init.d / nmb to be run automatically, so you do via chkconfig command: chkconfig smb on chkconfig

nmb on

Step 3: Create the directory / public
Here's how:
mkdir / public
chmod 777 / public

Step 4: Adjust Samba configuration file
In the [global] / etc / samba / smb.conf is an entry
security = share and add the variable

workgroup =
adapted to ensure that the Linux server behind is in a possibly already existing working group.

is for the actual release at the end of the / etc samba / smb.conf add an additional section:
[public] path =
/ public
& # 160; quest ok = yes browseable = yes

read only = no

Step 5: first-time Samba startup
either by rebooting the Linux server or For construction hearing from
rcsmb
restart restart rcnmb

Step 6: Test of the shares of a Windows PC
Per -> Start -> Run -> \\ \\ servername \\ public [ENTER]
should come to the share.