I just installed Postfix Enabler to be able to send my emails through a SMTP server on my own powerbook. I didn’t want the hassle to configure the postfix server myself, so I went for a software doing it the Macintosh way.
The default configuration was a little too open for my taste. I want others [...]
Even before I upgraded to OS X 10.4 (Tiger), I got the report that the Save File dialog in Realpolitik crashes. Now I have applied a quick’n’dirty fix for the next couple of days for all Tiger users and released Realpolitik 1.7.0 Alpha 2 earlier than planned.
Currently I’m revamping the dialogs known to Mac developers [...]
After much carbonizing by Ben Hines and some polishing by me a new Realpolitik Release is available on Sourceforge, the first release for OS X.
The release version Realpolitik 1.7.0 Alpha1 is not yet stable (hence Alpha 1), there are still some known (and probably many more unknown) errors like selection and redrawing problems with the [...]
Ever since I started my blog, I was looking for a neat solution to upload my internet pages whenever Nanoblogger updates the local copy.
I didn’t want just a recursive upload, because some directories (e.g. data) shouldn’t be publicly accessible. My first attempt was a script using ncftpput, but it always uploads the whole site.
I wanted [...]
Longtime Apple developers probably know this intuitively, but I needed some time to figure it out: When CVS-ing files with a resource fork, you must not use the /usr/bin/cvs that ships with OS X!
Because Apple used to separate data and metadata, most files in the pre OS X era had a data fork and a [...]
It is exactly two years that I ordered my first Mac, a 12 inch Powerbook. It’s compactness and completeness (almost everything built-in without protruding parts, Bluetooth and fast WLAN, except the second and third mouse key) make it still the right choice. And with OS X it has a decent operating system that lets you [...]
After four years I had again a PC assembled, but this time as a gaming PC for Kamen (and for the rest of the family, too ).
At work we have a PC department that assembled the PC according to my wishes. The installation of the OS I like to do myself; I chose [...]
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Kamen got the book Python für Kids. To enable him to use the book on OS X, I wanted to setup the Python environment on the Mac as on the PC: Install IDLE and, to hide the differences between integer and floating point math, configure to use the new division.
Installing IDLE [...]
Im Gegensatz zu PCs ist bei OS X Python bereits vorinstalliert. Leider fehlt jedoch ausgerechnet IDLE, so dass trotzdem noch etwas zu tun bleibt.
Installationsanleitung für IDLE (von PythonMac FAQ abgekupfert):
Tcl/Tk Aqua herunterladen und installieren
MacPython herunterladen und installieren (für OS X 10.3 sind das die MacPython Panther Addons)
Das Programm PackageManager im Ordner /Programme/MacPython-2.3 starten
Im PackageManager _tkinter [...]
A friend’s PC had lost its ability to dual boot (Windows 2000 for work and Windows 98 for games). I had installed BootMagic to switch operating systems some years ago and it worked fine until it was broken this month during some harddisk cleanup.
I completed the cleanup of the Win98 partition with a new installation. [...]
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I'm Peter Steiner; I live in Bern, Switzerland, and work at SIX Card Solutions in Biel/Bienne.
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