Jul 20, 2010 
viel besser kann man es nicht auf den punkt bringen. ich kann kaum offene alternativen, die man selbst hosten kann, erwarten.
alexander lehmann hat schon ein paar so geniale filmchen gemacht. ich fand auch karls posting zu dem thema sehr lesenswert.
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Am samstag waren sie wieder, die grazer linuxtage. das programm war vielfältig, die stimmung gut und die menschen massen kaum zu bändigen. die teilnehmerzahl dürfte bei ca. 500 gelegen sein. unter anderem gab es vorträge über blender, openstreetmap, mysql, openoffice, grml, LaTeX, ubuntu, postgresql und python zu hören. neben den vorträgen fand auch noch einen workshop zum arbeiten mit der shell und LPI und BSD prüfungen statt. an den ständen waren natürlich neben grml, gentoo, kde, die fsfe, funkfeuer, openstreetmap, viele andere vertreten.
da ich heuer das erste mal offiziell als fotograf mit von der partie war, durfte ich das treiben ungestört beobachten. konnte aber leider nur wenig vorträge besuchen. dafür sind die fotos hoffentlich umso aufschlussreicher. sie stehen ab heute online unter http://glt10.flo.cx/ unter der cc-by lizenz zum anschauen und zum download zur verfügung.
i love firefox addons for certain quick tasks. they get things done so much faster and there are some really nice ones that i use regularly.
one of them was Exif Viewer, until it stopped working with version 3.6.* of firefox. 
since there was no update since July 2009 i didn’t expect a quick fix. so i did it myself.
here is what you do to make the addon work again (i already had it installed when i upgraded firefox to 3.6).
go to (the SOME_HEX_ID part is usually different for everone)
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[SOME_HEX_ID].default/extensions/exif_viewer@mozilla.doslash.org/
and edit the file install.rdf in that directory.
change:
[...]
em:minVersion="1.5"
em:maxVersion="3.5.*" /> <!-- Firefox -->
[...]
to
[...]
em:minVersion="1.5"
em:maxVersion="3.9.*" /> <!-- Firefox -->
[...]
or a version number that suits you. after a firefox restart the exif viewer addon should work again.
i give no guarantee this will work on any version of firefox. after all there is a reason they put a version number in there 
I’m following about 50 people on twitter. some of them post regularly some of them from time to time.
what annoyed me was when people twittered automatically via some service about something they do VERY often (e.g. geocaching: “i found the cache XYZ”).
and now i did it myself 
i posted automated messages on twitter. no actually in my case i let twitterfeed check for my flickr photo stream RSS feed for new images, that the service could then publish as twitter messages. although i explicitly set twitterfeed to only check for photos that had ‘tweet’ as tag to avoid spamming the daily image annoyed some.
thanks to mika for reminding me 
i apologize for spamming you (my followers) with automated messages. i will try to avoid this in the future
here why i think this is bogus:
- twitter is a platform where spontaneous messages, thoughts, findings, fun facts and any type of content can be published, without the overhead of formulating a big chunk of text e.g. a blog. twitter is great to publish tiny little bits of content that are greatly incoherent. people love twitter because others remind them of stuff they did not think of and pull them a little aside from the usual dirt tracks they use in their every day online life. do not post the same stuff over and over again.
- there are already platforms out there that offer a way to publish content in different ways such as video or photo sites: youtube, flickr, picasa, vimeo, etc. these platforms offer a great variety of services that users can access mostly for free. this includes distributing their content and making it accessible to others via different ways and formats: standard HTML (normal web surfing), RSS and atom feeds and maybe an API. use it!
- one should not abuse a service for something it’s not! this is definitely the case when you use twitter to divert a RSS feed as i did. let the original service serve its RSS feed. this way people have the choice to follow your contributions on another platform if they wish. post a message on twitter that you offer a RSS feed about a specific topic and people can get it from there.
to sum it up: follow my daily image here if you like. subscribe to my blog via RSS or Atom feed. i even have a youtube feed.
let me know what you think, post in the comments or send a trackback.
if you don’t know what RSS is read on on wikipedia about RSS and Atom feeds.
yesterday i installed snow leopard (10.6.1). BIG mistake; at least with a minor version 
i immediately ran into 4 problems. one of them that big that i decide to write these few lines to warn you about it (since they are essential to me).
the all so new finder is not really well implemented as it seems. finder has problems connecting to samba shares. a working setup under 10.5 (Leopard) was:
- a Linux Server with samba shares
- user password needed for personal shares
- some shares read only for guests as well.
one of the shares that is accessible through a password is my time-machine share. on this net share i run backups from my mbp. see how to do that in this blog post. time machine connected to it automatically.
for leopard i had to add this to the smb.conf to fix issues:
# fixes weird leopard behavior
unix extensions = no
but for snow leopard i had to add this:
encrypt passwords = Yes
because the finder will not connect to servers without password encryption.
this allone did not fix the problem that i could not login. connection to shares that are open for guest users did show, shares that needed login did not.
as it turns out the finder has a little hidden feature called “Numeric passwords ONLY”. this means that you have to have a user account that authenticates with a password that only consists of numbers! as soon as i changed that i was able to mount my beloved shares again and time machine seems to work as well.
some users report that finder is quite picky about dns resolution as well… see the forms i linked about that.
the second little issue i had affects boxee. the apple remote seems to handle locks diffently or not at all. whenever is started boxee under 10.5 the apple remote was talking to boxee only. under 10.6 it also controlls itunes and front row whilst i run boxee in the foreground. not so cool!
a third little thing that did not work in leopard either is tether a mac with the htc hero. this apparently works out of the box for linux users but not for mac. what’s so hard about that?
a fourth little thing that annoys me is that the new quicktime has no more option to stay in full screen when the focus comes off. this is especially disruptive on dual head setups.
i really really hope that apple will soon release 10.6.2 and fix these problems. i don’t get how they could have overlooked these…
mich haben die url shortener aus dem letzten beitrag fasziniert. da hab ich mich hingesetzt und einen selbst geschrieben. flo.cx/s/
die kurze domain flo.cx hilft dabei natürlich etwas…
das ganze ist im moment recht schnell gehackt und daher work in progress.
die grundfunktionsweise ist die gleiche wie bei den anderen shortenern: url angeben, in datenbank speichern, kurzen key zurückgeben, anfragen mit dem key per http header an die gespeicherte url weiterleiten:
$ curl -i http://flo.cx/s/1
HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 08:01:07 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: flo.cx shorty
Location: http://blog.flo.cx
X-Greetz: Have a nice day
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html
mein fokus ist darauf gelegen das ganze über apaches mod_rewrite hübsch über die adresszeile entgegen zu nehmen. sollten bugs oder missbrauch auftreten meldet das bitte an shorty[AT] flo[DOT] CX.
have fun
endlich! apple hat den gesamten iTunes store auf itunes plus umgestellt. jetzt gibt es alle songs ohne DRM. so sollte es sein. jetzt ist man nicht mehr eingesperrt wenn man seine musik nicht auf cds kaufen will. darunter haben nur die preise der neuen releases gelitten. die steigen jetzt auf 1,29 euro pro song. alte liedln werden aber günstiger und fallen auf bis zu 0,69 euro.
es stellt sich nur die frage ob die songs immer noch mit dem namen des käufers getaggt werden…
ein schritt in die richtige richtung! grossartig! jetzt fehlt nur noch eine itunes version für linux und die integration von anderen musikplayern.
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