I never found an up-to-date and conclusive article on how to install Leafnode on OS X. So, I decided to publish one that is based on Configuring LeafNode on OSX by David Thole written in May 2010. He’s everywhere (GitHub, Twitter, YouTube, Stackoverflow, etc.) but his own site is often down and, therefore, the link […]
There are a number of tutorials on how to “Create an OS X Mavericks Installer Drive” out there. The essential procedure is always the same but quality of the tutorials matters a lot. What I ended up following was Create an OS X Mavericks Installer Drive in 4 Simple Steps from OSXDaily. The only thing […]
Today I spent way too much time to reset a Windows 7 password. What took time, however, wasn’t the actual reset process but digging up information on the Internet. I read lots of instructions and hints on some shady hacker/cracker forums which didn’t sound too trustworthy. Also, I looked at a number of reset/recovery tools […]
When the other day my wife switched on our digicam we had no idea we’d be in for SD card recovery soon. Right after switching the camera said it couldn’t access the SD card inside. I tried inserting the card into my MacBook – wasn’t recognized. Then I tried with the old Windows XP PC […]
By coincidence I dug up the long lost URL to a super interesting online riddle: http://www.deathball.net/notpron/
dnsjava to resolve whatever address request.getRemoteAddr() would return. This worked very well in most cases. However, in some cases I would see something like: [quote]java.net.UnknownHostException: Invalid address: fe80::1d9:b65a:ed86:7940%11[/quote] Not being much of a networking expert I was puzzled about the ‘%11’. Once again superuser.com came to rescue: http://superuser.com/questions/99746/why-is-there-a-in-the-ipv6-address
…not really learning DOT because it’s so simple – at least in its most basic form. I don’t understand why it took me so long to finally sit down and understand how the input for Graphviz works. What a glorious day today… You want to learn DOT, too? Wonderful, for a quick-start try this online […]
When you search the Internet for answers to questions like “Why does Windows Explorer take so long to start” or “Windows Explorer takes too long to start” you’ll find thousands of hits. One I can recommend for a nice overview is here: http://ask-leo.com/why_does_windows_explorer_take_so_long_to_display_sometimes.html As mentioned in the article the cause usually is that Windows stumbles […]
On Windows machines I’m used to using FinePrint to pre-process every document before it’s actually sent to the printer (2 on 1 page, 4 on 1, booklet, watermark, template, etc). From that suite of features what I miss the most on OS X is the ability to print booklets. Turns out there are at least […]
If you’re faced with the challenging task of exporting a mailman subscribers list through the mailman web interface (e.g. because you don’t have SSH access to the server) look no further, there’s a nice Python-based solution for this. Download http://msapiro.net/mailman-subscribers.py onto your Python-enabled system and run: ./mailman-subscribers.py -f <host_URL_without_http://> <listname> <password>