VLC 0.8.2

Posted on June 27, 2005 by joachim

VLC IconFor 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

Posted on June 18, 2005 by joachim

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

Posted on May 1, 2005 by joachim

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!”

TigerSudoCommand.png

Go Get ‘Em Tiger!

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iPod Updater 2005-02-22

Posted on February 23, 2005 by joachim

iPodScreenSmall.gifToday, 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’ command in the main menu. If the menu item doesn’t show up after updating the iPod’s firmware, reset the main menu settings (Settings > Main Menu > Reset Main Menu > Reset).

It looks like the Apple iPod Firmware online petition worked after all 🙂

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Schneesturm

Posted on February 13, 2005 by joachim

Heute Nachmittag in Zürich-Witikon:

Schneesturm.jpg

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Hispeed

Posted on February 6, 2005 by joachim

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 ein Brief der Cablecom im Briefkasten: “Wir haben den unterzeichneten Vertrag noch nicht erhalten […] “. Kurzes Telefon an die Cablecom: “Ich bin sicher den Brief abgeschickt zu haben…” Antwort: “Dann ist es möglich, dass er bei uns verloren gegangen ist…” – unglaublich. Ein zweites Mal unterzeichnet und abgeschickt, 1 Woche später trifft das Paket mit dem Kabelmodem ein. Nachdem das Ding angeschlossen wurde stelle ich fest, dass weder ‘sync’ noch ‘ready’ Lämpchen leuchten. Antwort des Cablecom Support: “Es muss ein Techniker vorbeikommen…” – kann man so viel Pech haben? Zwei Tage später kommt der vorbei und wechselt die Anschlussbuchse aus, die falsch montiert worden war.

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Happy 2005

Posted on January 1, 2005 by joachim

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Disabling Session Cookie in Tomcat

Posted on December 31, 2004 by joachim

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 and I havn’t tested this feature with older versions. To disable the use of cookies add the attribute ‘cookies’ and set its value to ‘false’.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<Context path='/myApplicationContext' cookies='false'>
  <!-- other settings -->
</Context>
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Netbeans 4.0 RC1

Posted on November 28, 2004 by joachim

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 Command key instead if being forced to use Control for all menu shortcuts.

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How to store a Java object into a byte array

Posted on November 22, 2004 by joachim 
ByteArrayOutputStream byteStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream objectStream = new ObjectOutputStream(byteStream);
objectStream.writeObject(theObject);
byte[] array = byteStream.toByteArray();
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