Author Archives: joachim

VLC 0.8.2

For all PowerMac G5 owner who couldn’t use Videolan Client to watch DVD’s without messing up the audio system there are good news: VLC 0.8.2 was just released and fixes the annoying bug.

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Switch to WordPress

I switched to WordPress. Importing all MovableType entries worked perfeclty. I hope getting less comment and trackback spam using WordPress.

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Sudo in Tiger

When you use the sudo command for the first time in Mac OS X Tiger, you get one more advice as before Tiger: Peter Parker’s (Spider-Man) uncle lives on and tells us: “With great power comes great responsibility!” Go Get … Continue reading

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iPod Updater 2005-02-22

Today, Apple released the first iPod Updater which brings new functionality to all iPod models, including the very first one with mechanic wheel! Now, all iPods feature almost the same functionality on the software level, for instance the ‘Shuffle Songs’ … Continue reading

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Schneesturm

Heute Nachmittag in Zürich-Witikon:

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Hispeed

Am 30. Dezember habe ich einen hispeed 2000 Anschluss über das Webformular der Cablecom bestellt. Eine Woche später flattert ein zu unterschreibender Vertrag in den Briefkasten. Der Vertrag wird am selben Tag unterschrieben und abgeschickt. Drei Wochen später liegt erneut … Continue reading

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Happy 2005

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Disabling Session Cookie in Tomcat

If for some reasons you need to disable the use of a cookie for session handling, you can edit the context.xml file located in the META-INF directory of your J2EE web application. The following solution works well with Tomcat 5.5 … Continue reading

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Netbeans 4.0 RC1

On thursday, NetBeans 4.0 RC1 was released. I couldn’t find a list of changes since 4.0 beta2, but one thing I can tell is that the key modifier bug under OS X has been corrected. Finally, you can use the … Continue reading

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How to store a Java object into a byte array

ByteArrayOutputStream byteStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); ObjectOutputStream objectStream = new ObjectOutputStream(byteStream); objectStream.writeObject(theObject); byte[] array = byteStream.toByteArray();

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