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I know that the planning for the next fribot challenge is already launched.

My suggestion for the task next year: build a vehicle piloted by a fish!

        21.Dez.2006, 13:22 :: programming :: Permalink :: Comments (0)

Wunderschön träumerisches Lied der Melanchomundartrocker Patent Ochsner. Viel treffender könnte der Text wohl kaum sein, zumindest diese Passage. Und jedes mal könnte ich schwören, dass ich ewig bleibe, wenn uns nichts dazwischen kommt.

Den Text gibts in voller Länge auf luscht.ch zu finden, Hörprobe auf cede.ch oder in einer ruhigeren (schöneren) Version im iTMS.

        20.Dez.2006, 9:26 :: herzvoll :: Permalink :: Comments (0)

© 2005 Canon (Schweiz) AG

The other day I wrote about the Canon 50mm f/1.8 I bought. In that post I forgot to mention the story preceeding this buy.

I was talking with caillou about portraits I took and the problem of bad lighting conditions. He recommended me buying this objective, whereupon I laughed at his proposition, telling him "50mm ain't enough focal length for taking portraits with a small depth field". Then I continued thinking about this problem, and I thought I might give it a try. I tested with another objective and smaller aperture and found the depth field to be pretty small.

He shall be right, I was wrong. The rest ist already documented in the previous post. (tuet guet, gau?)

        18.Dez.2006, 0:05 :: photo :: Permalink :: Comments (2)

In the backend movable type shows the number of written post. But how can You tell? Since in the frontend there is no counter displayed, you have to use a little helper application: WordService (download).

This application shows up in any Cocoa application in the Services menu. It features (amongst other): Remove multiple spaces, sort lines, format caps and lowercase, rotate 13, and statistics. So mark all the entries in my full post list and select the statistics function in the Services menu – and here You go.

        17.Dez.2006, 22:46 :: mac os x :: Permalink :: Comments (0)

© 1945 by Editions Gallimard, Paris

Ainsi le petit prince apprivoisa le renard. Et quand l'heure du départ fut proche :
-Ah! dit le renard… je pleurerai.
-C'est ta faute, dit le petit prince, je ne te souhaitais point de mal, mais tu as voulu que je t'apprivoise…
-Bien sûr, dit le renard.
-Mais tu vas pleurer! dit le petit prince.
-Bien sûr, dit le renard.
-Alors tu n'y gagnes rien!
-J'y gagne, dit le renard, à cause de la couleur du blé.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Le petit prince, chapitre XXI, 3ème-avant-dernier paragraphe

Anyone who isn't familiar with the french language will find an english, german or other versions on odaha.com/littleprince.php.

        17.Dez.2006, 13:42 :: herzvoll :: Permalink :: Comments (0)

vtiger5 CRM installation protocoll on Mac OS X Server:

• activate httpd/Apache (Server Admin.app -> Web -> Start service)
• activate php (Server Admin.app -> Web -> Settings -> php4_module -> Save)
• download vtiger source from sourceforge (vtiger CRM 5.0.2 Latest Stable -> Core Product -> vtigercrm-5.0.2.tar.gz) and the linux installation manual
• unzip & copy to ~/Sites, open Terminal.app
• cd ~/Sites/vtiger/
• chgrp -R www .
• chmod g+w config.inc.php cache test/wordtemplatedownload storage install install.php test/product test/user test/contact test/logo modules/Emails/templates user_privileges Smarty/templates_c tabdata.php parent_tabdata.php Smarty/cache (in the documentation it says chmod 777 ... - don't do that, it's a security threat)
• done!

        13.Dez.2006, 10:41 :: programming :: Permalink :: Comments (0)

Forget-me-not is not only the name of a pretty tiny flower but also of a very useful software. I am even tempted to write "very" in italic to stress how useful it is.

It helps me be less aggressive to my Mac: About 5 minutes ago I felt a savage whish to throw something across the room. Now why, you're asking. Not that the Mac made a mistake, it was me who made the mistake. But it didn't prevent me from making the mistake to close Safari with about thousand tabs open. And for some unknown reason Taboo has not yet been compiled as universal binary.

So ForgetMeNot doesn't ask if You are sure to close Safari even with tabs, but it remembers the tabs and reopens the websites if You reopen Safari. The upside: You can even keep surfing across a Security Update with reboot. The downside: any form data (such as a blog entry) is lost if the forma hasn't been submitted.

        6.Dez.2006, 14:34 :: mac os x :: Permalink :: Comments (1)