Pesches Schlauch

I’m cleaning up old harddisks in my vintage PCs and found a DOS partition that I used solely to run the emulator S3AEMUL for the Psion Series 3a. This emulator was once available for free: a clever marketing trick! I got soon hooked and bought my first PDA, back in 1995.
Out of nostalgia I tried [...]

Im neusten Build 1970 von Parallels Desktop funktioniert AltGr nicht mehr. Ziemlich umständlich kann man die Taste wieder aktivieren.
I’m quite happy with my alien operating system running along my other applications on my Mac. The biggest gripe is the keyboard.

Parallels maps the Windows Alt key to the Mac alt/option key. Ok, Alt to alt seems [...]

Mobiles Internet mit dem Mac ist einfach, wenn man das nötige Modem-Skript (von http://www.taniwha.org.uk/) hat und die Telefonnummer (für GPRS die “APN”) kennt. Benutzername und Passwort bleiben leer, und die “Telefonnummer” bei Swisscom ist gprs.swisscom.ch; bei Orangeclick mit Express-Option ist es click.
One week per year I want to connect my Powerbook to the internet using [...]

Nicht jedes Motorola C350 ist gleich. Einige werden von iSync erkannt, meines nicht; mit einem selbstgeschriebenen Plugin klappt es aber doch noch.
According to the iSync Device List, the Motorola C350 is supported by iSync. But my phone was not found.
There are small differences between the supported model and mine. Using USB Prober[1] my device announces [...]

Nach dem Starten von Programmen übernimmt Quicksilver jetzt auch das Bedienen der Menus (!)
Using the newest Development version of Quicksilver, you can now navigate the menu of the current application without a mouse, just by using Quicksilver. Unfortunately, the configuration of Quicksilver is not for the faint of heart, but Rui Carmo has nice instructions [...]

Die Installation von Darwinports Dia schlug fehl, bis pkg-config von Darwinports nachinstalliert wurde. Grund war ein installiertes Mono.
I wanted to give dia a go and tried to install from Darwinports with sudo port install dia. I had a small problem during the install: after a couple of dependencies had been compiled, it aborted with this [...]

Intelligenter Winterschlaf-Modus auch für ältere portable Macs — aber Achtung!
Matt Johnston found out how to enable the hibernate mode (a.k.a. the Safe Sleep introduced with the new HiRes Powerbooks) for older Macs.
I tried it on my 867 MHz 12″ Powerbook and it works. Finally changing batteries doesn’t require to shutdown and restart anymore — or [...]

A couple of days ago I made Rekall work with MySQL on OS X. And now I’m not really using it!
There is a big showstopper for maintaining german content (or in any other language that uses more than the 7 bit ASCII character set): Rekall (on the Mac) doesn’t handle Unicode correctly. Here’s a short [...]

I had some trouble getting Rekall to work with my MySQL server, but in the end I succeeded. Here’s what I needed:

MySQL binaries (I’m using 4.1.14-max)
MySQL source code
Rekall-2.3.4 and Qt-3.3.4-mini binaries from ATG
MacPython 2.4.1
Apple Developer Tools (from your Tiger Install Disk)

The short road installing just the binaries lead to an error:
dlcompat: Library not loaded:
/usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.14.dylib
The reason [...]

I habe meinen alten Palm beurlaubt und bin zu iCal übergelaufen. Wichtigste Erkenntnis: Feiertage und Kalenderwochen sind komfortabel bei project24 abonnierbar.
Many years after most users I have jumped on the iCal train too. I’ve dumped my very old Palm and started using iCal as my main calendar.
But iCal itself is not good enough:

it doesn’t know [...]