iOS airplay 4.3 update: AirVideo just released an update->play in background!!

AirVideo has an update that says it will airplay in the background, if that's true, that would be perfect. I'll have to test in a few hours, then I'll send an update.

Update:

I'm typing these words in safari, while airvideo client is streaming a movie in the background.

super!!!

The ipad just got a whole lot better.

but there is still one point outstanding: if you accidentially come across another application that streams using airplay and you want to continue the movie, you'll have to start from the beginning and fast forward or try tonposition where you were before. Most probably that's something that airvideo can fix!

Google Chrome Annoyances #930349: How to stop google chrome from trying to open pdf, doc etc in google docs

Somehow my google chrome setting not to open Microsoft Office Documents with Google Docs Viewer is lost and I have to disable it again, so here it is:

chrome://extensions

Untick Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer by Google

If you ask why I even bother doing it: My dayjob environment does not allow me to open these documents online and through our proxy the error message that I get back from google is something linked to bandwidth (but I'm not sure where it fails exactly and I don't bother).

iMovie on iPad 1 is great but...

At each sync with itunes it removes iMovie again and I have to install it with the iphone configuration program again ;(

iOS 4.3 AirPlay for 3rd pary apps is flawed!

It's incredible to be able to stream any kind of video to Apple TV2 but my Ipad is just a brick when using AirPlay.

I cannot switch to any other application or I'll loose the streaming. You have to stay put in the application.

I cannot imaging using my Ipad as a relay for viewing movies and then not being able to do anything.

Air Flick is still the way to go, it would be great to have air Video Server to actually use AirPlay directly and have some remote control to fast forward etc.

Even if you go out and back into Air Video you lost where you were, that means you would have to find the exact same spot to continue.

Please fix this Apple for 1 and AirVideo for 2

apple tv2 - jailbreak what is it good for? absolutely nothing?

http://support.firecore.com/entries/387605

Apple TV2

recommendation: Buy if you are an Apple freak and also an Apple User, buy if you have movie rentals in your country and really want to use this feature
+

• price
• size
• speed
• temperature
• noise
• apple integration
• apple remote via iphone/ipad
• airplay from iphone/ipad
• stream all video formats without jailbreak with the help of airvideo server/mac airvideo client/airflick.
• stream screen of mac to apple tv, even if usage is in question
• stream pdf, ppt and other content from mac to apple tv, (airflick 0.30)
• easy renting of movies
• remote (really use all that many buttons on the others? the aluminum version is just gorgeous)
• streaming is the only real solution, I hate copying from disk to disk or whatever.

-

• no simple way to stream Video_TS - need to use some manual process
• remote signal received only from a limited angle. I used to play games with the remote and the iMac or Mac book. I pointed the remote to the ceiling etc and I still was able to navigate, but with the apple tv2 the receiving angle is narrow to say the least.
• Volume control!!! It sucks to have to turn to another remote to control volume, but I think this is not achievable if the audio is going out optical or is it the other way around. I have not been able to enable it and successfully up or down it.

Bugs

• Can be crashed with airplay from iphone

• Caches metadata from itunes library and only updates when restarted. If you feel like you need to add some covers to your movies and then want to see it on apple tv. Nothing helped except power off/on of the appletv2.

• Takes too long to start showing photos when connecting to our 30'000 plus library. It should give something back sooner and continue loading in the background.

Missing features

• itunes based streaming very limited in how to select movies, i.e. genre, by movie, unseen, playlist but not by selecting year, actors etc.

• Photo browsing is a pain. We have over 30'000 pictures and if we want to go by events, we have to scroll down for more than 20 seconds to reach the latest pictures. It should offer a lot more ways to explore the photos, I still hope for an Ipad app that lets me view my pictures from our big iphoto library and present this also on the apple tv (kind of like tv-out with a photo app that is connected to iphoto on the mac).

Missing

• iOS Apps? 
• iphone/ipad gameplay over airplay?
• more dynamic content, it gets really boring after seeing the static animal selection over and over again, apple should make it easy to allow for dynamic additions of the pictures. People would just sit in front of the apple tv and wait for the origami screen saver with beautiful pictures updated dynamically. It is somehwat possible but if you do a flicker search it is limited to 100 pictures and they stay the same for too long. Maybe one should add the possibility to playlists for screen savers, i.e. best selection for yosemite done by users and some nice background music.
• dynamic content, see news and pictures of the album/singer of the currently playing peace, maybe even let one explore some content seen
• genius for apple tv?

Never to have features

• 1080p from Apple
• a sigma design chip that eats all

What were my previous boxes?

windows pc
mac with plex/xbmc/boxee
netgear
popcorn
apple tv
wd tv
wd tv live

Apple TV2 Rocks!!! AirVideo Server->Mac AirVideoClient -> AirFlicks

Apple TV2 streams any video format no jailbreak necessary.

Here is how:

1) Get AirVideo Server 2.4.3

Configure folder to share and start server.

2) Get Mac AirVideo Client  3.0(374)

Edit Servers -> name whatever, location IP Address of where AirVideo server is running. Then click save
Select server from main window and click connect.

3) Get AirFlick 0.30

With 0.30 you don't need to do anything as it connects to apple tv 2 automatically


4) With AirVideo Client select folder->file and then with edit servers panel-> Video press AirFlick Live Conver.

5) Usually you will get an Error. Press menu on the apple tv2 remote and press in Air Video Client the AirFlick Live Conver. Button again.

All done.

I just tried 30 files with different formats etc. and the streaming is just perfect!

Did I mention that when you say apple and perfect there's always a catch: The video controls are not really supported, no fast forward etc.

And I would also like to see a program that integrates as if it would be an itunes server and do live conversion in the process. Air Video to the rescue?

Also many people still have some Video_TS Folders that would be nice to play ;).

apple tv2 - looks like it was worth the wait

I received an apple tv2 as a christmas present and I have not been convinced that it is really a great product. It still is not great but has more appeal than most of the current boxes around. At least if you have some mac gear lying around. I just decided to sell my iPad for lack of usage. Besides consumation I cannot do much and without pdf annotations I really should look at KNO.

I had an apple tv 1 and it was an ok product with the help of xbmc or plex it was even greater, but xbmc and plex fail me regularily and apple tv2 passed the test with my family members. They can use it and it works albeit I was able to crash it with airPlay from an iPhone.

Screen saver, origami is great but it should do random pictures which it is not good at. And with home share to go into the picture section it takes now up to 2 minutes (we have 32000 photos in iphoto) before I can start browsing and did I already mention that I have to manually scroll down in events until the newest photos appear and that takes at least 20 seconds.

And we have more and more movies in iPhoto but they won't show.

What I love is ease of use, homeshare, apple remote on ipad and the limited but functional ui. renting movies is easy and fun and very fast (at least for me) to start streaming. Over christmas I learned of AirFlick and other tools from erica sadun and the future looks very bright and promising. With the help of AirVideo and AirFlick it will be possible to stream any content over to the apple tv2. Just what you could do with a ps3 or almost. But maybe even more.

I still cannot listen to my wifes favorite radio station but maybe I can get it to stream from vlc over to apple tv2 with airflick. But at the moment even I am not able to do so, since I failed to stream from airvideo even with the correct id. The error on apple tv2 came for more than 10 times and then I just stopped trying.

But hey, apple always sells hope as in next time they get it right, they were so close. After almost half of a year with the iPad and going through iterations with fastpdf, goodreader, cloudreader and ibooks I should know better, but I am sucked in and just added another level of addiction. Hey I really think about converting all my DVDs with handbrake (using nightly builds apple tv2 preset) over into iTunes again. (Almost there, maybe AirFlick and AirVideo come to the rescue).

Oh my, I even tested elgato Eyetv again, repluging my hybrid and trying to find ways to bring content into the itunes library. Did I mention that I couldnt stop me from buying an elgato 264.hd turbo stick at 80$ even though I read a lot about the crappyness that it brings, but hey I have had a new thrust of hope and that's all it needs. At least I can escape the WD TV nightmare, not that the box is not ok but it is much more limited in giving hope (did you ever try to really do some cifs or nfs link, I even don't remember if only one of those were supported or not with ccrad, well I failed miserably. The apple tv 1 was customer friendly. I have not bought a popcorn and will not. Streaming is and has been the solution to most of my problems except that I really badly need cloud storage and sync to all to become one.

Apple TV (old Version) streaming instead of sync

Apple Streaming

I was surprised to see that the streaming connects differently to itunes.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2249?viewlocale=de_DE

Sharepoint Foundation Problems , ReportViewer no cmdlet enable-SPSessionStateService

How Elon Musk Turned Tesla Into the Car Company of the Future

How Elon Musk Turned Tesla Into the Car Company of the Future

Selective Color - finally I try to learn it

Still don't know which is the right program to do the job, especially mac native and not expensive adobe photoshop, but here is a good explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_color

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/or/selective-coloring.html

http://forrestcroce.com/Articles/SelectiveColor.html

photoshop makes use of a monochrome mask layer

Windows XP autologon

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;315231&x=8&y=10

2 ways, 1 for all including domain joined machines, 1 for standalone machines:

standalone easy method.cont

You can also use turn on automatic logon without editing the registry in Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and in Microsoft Windows XP Professional on a computer that is not joined to a domain. To do this, follow these steps:Bildschirmfoto 2010-08-29 um 12.09.45.png

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type control userpasswords2, and then click OK.
   
   Note When users try to display help information in the User Accounts window in Windows XP Home Edition, the help information is not displayed. Additionally, users receive the following error message:
   
   Cannot find the Drive:\Windows\System32\users.hlp Help file. Check to see that the file exists on your hard disk drive. If it does not exist, you must reinstall it.
3. Clear the "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" check box, and then click Apply.
4. In the Automatically Log On window, type the password in the Password box, and then retype the password in the Confirm Password box.
5. Click OK to close the Automatically Log On window, and then click OK to close theUser Accounts window.

taking screenshots or screencopies from mac os x without additional software

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61544

To take a picture of the whole screen, press Command-Shift-3.

To take a picture of part of the screen, press Command-Shift-4 and drag to select the area you want.

The picture is saved as a TIFF file on your Desktop. Note: Mac OS X 10.2 and later saves pictures as PDF files. See document 107078 "Mac OS X 10.2: Screen Shots Are Saved in PDF, May Be Converted" for additional information.

To copy the screen capture to the Clipboard instead of saving it as a file, press Control-Command-Shift-3 to copy the entire screen to the Clipboard, or Control-Command-Shift-4 to copy the selected range to the Clipboard.


or even more deatil at:
http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X

iPad frustration - PDFs are frustratingly frustrating

I am a technology freak. I love new gadgets and so I spent almost a $800 for my 32GB IPAD 3g.

One of the things it should help me is with getting really going with pdfs. Meaning I want one place where to store and sync all my pdfs.

But I ended up with 5 pdf reader on the ipad and none is really great. Some show promise others were not meant for it.

1) sync pdfs from somewhere to a folder structure or using multiple tags
2) all pdf apps shall have access to a single document store!!! So I can use some app that has an advantage over others for some purpose and not sync it into that app or upload

Upload of the files over some download functionality or server is ok but not if you try to come with multiple hundred documents.

pdf apps:

iBook
FastPDF
GoodReader
CloudReader

3) allow for comments, highlighting

I am still trying to figure out how to handle my library of about 2000 documents make them accessible on the ipad without having it stored remotely on some server. The problem is that some pdfs are quite large and until the document is downloaded between 1 minute to 5 minute can pass and that's definitely too long.

HfsExplorer 0.21 works under Windows 7 (Even though its from 2008)

I use allmost everywhere Macs and ended up at the office with my USB drive and was somewhat surprised to that I Could Not See the Disk.

Then i remembered that i used this Disk for timeline and that it Must Be hfs+.

Then I Found hfsexplorer and tried it on Windows 7 64Bit and it worked nicely, albeit I only wanted to Read from the Disk and Not Write back to it.

Next Time i am going to dry the Boot Camp Driver (maybe)

vmware vsphere 4.1 -> must migrate to ESXi for the next releases

Just had time to read the email from vmware about vsphere 4.1. The only interesting Thing I saw was that ESXi is a must for Future releases. So here´s my goodbye to the old ESX, farewell.

And with all the development ongoing I should consider to switch my Professional career over again to vmware.

10000 supported virtual machines

licenses per physical cpu but max 6 core, otherwise need Advanced or Enterprise Plus or additional licenses.

ram 256GB except enterprise plus.

wdtv experiments

This is definitely a fine box. But the networking part (there is none by default) is crappy, especially when using wireless an wpa!

I own a Siemens Gigaset USB Stick 54 -> apparently this is Ahteros

HWID: 129B 1667 4810

Chipset is according to http://pl.wiki.wdtv.org/doku.php?id=wlanusb a


actually this is called zydas
zd1211b

1) get new firmware from b-radd.cc 1.03.01
2) unzip files and put the files in the base directory, i.e. first level not in a directory
3) get additional software packages
4) opt.bin-0.2.zip
5) core extras

1. and many more
   

apple - not everything is lost (homesharing, audiobooks etc)

I spent a lot of time doing stupid stuff again and again and suddenly I google a bit about the things that take time and there is a solution:

itunes9 homeshare -> first I thought great -> then i noticed that it just imports duplicates on the other computer but then I found out that there is a view option on the bottom where you can set it to not in my library or so!!!!

audiobooks - i hated that I had to store all those audiobooks etc in musik and could not use another category but this is gone (actually since itunes 8 or so). Just right click information and go to options and set the type to audiobook, select skip when ... and  keep position

album covert: album artwork asistant, nice 

Windows XP Mode on Computers with no VT

I own a Acer 5630 with a good CPU that contains Intel VT and X64 extensions but Acer decided not to give me the option to enable it.

So here comes Windows 7.

I cannot install 64bit but I really wanted to take advantage of 4GB RAM and 64bit is the way to go anyway.

I installed Windows 7 RC? and then downloaded vpc rc and windows xp mode rc.

When I tried to create a new VM or wanted to start XP Mode only an ERROR messages was displayed and I shall check my cpu and enable virtualization. As I said this model from Acer does not allow this and I haven't found out how to hack the bios settings to enable this.

But Virtualbox just works fine and I don't care about all that speed, my need is just to get windows xp for certain old applications.

Next thing I now is that I have to try to use the Windows XP Mode vhd to boot up in Virtualbox.

1) C:\program files\windows xp mode rc\.vhd
2) elevated cmd prompt: takeown c:\.......vhd
3) icacls ......vhd /grant myuser:F
4) remove read only attribute of file
5) start the virtualbox and create a new machine, import .vhd to library first and then start it

a mini setup will run

and ask you all the regular questions.

Also in my case it asked for a video driver and base system. Cancel those.

The system is then ready and only the 2 drivers mentioned before show up in devmgmt.msc as not correctly installed.

Internet works from the start. Machine looks to be fully funtional. (Virtualbox 3.0.6 used).

side note: I can only hope that the guys from virtualbox make a better seamless mode it's not nice, missing is the integration like in fusion, parallels or vpc.

After this I tried guest additions and since I felt really great I enabled the 3D accelation for fun. (Did a snapshot before that).

Worked like a charm. The only thing was to click enter when asked for administrator password which I left blank intentionally.


Ok, now activation. I DOESN't work. it did not accept it. there is a key provided in the machine and since the hardware changed you'll need to activate it and this seems to break and the key is then gone.

Update: I just switched back to my snapshot and did not install anything and tried to install updates. no luck either. Activation does not go through.


Good that they did this, bad for those people like me that bought a stupid machine where VT cannot be enabled.

When I bought that notebook I especially took care that the processor I buy has the features for x64 and vt but no one mentioned that the bios has to have this setting. I did not think that it should not be there because on my thinkpad the settings were always there.

Ok. Now maybe has another solution to my problem. running vpc without vt would be ok or getting that bios fixed.

;(

VirtualBox: Boot from a USB Drive (stick or disk) !!

I found this and it saved my day!

Boot your USB Drive in VirtualBox
http://agnipulse.com/2009/07/boot-your-usb-drive-in-virtualbox/

mac os x 10.6: boot from usb

I always like to play around and I hate CDs etc. That's the reason I took an .iso of the dvd and restored it onto a usb diskdrive and restarted the computer while holding down alt(option) key and selected that usb disk.

everything is fine. mac os is now even better than before and the price is more than right. The best feature is the dock and gallery view with scrolling and folder traversing.

BTW: The .iso must be on a mac formated disk, mounted (by double clicking) and then using the disk utility can be restored to the usb disk. But you'll have to drag the mounted iso to source and select the usb disk. somehow I always forget to do that and it takes a few minutes until I realize I need to do it this way.

Have fun.

Unix Bash: test if file or directory exists

test -e test.txt


test -d dir




if [ -d dir ]



       -a file
              True if file exists.
       -b file
              True if file exists and is a block special file.
       -c file
              True if file exists and is a character special file.
       -d file
              True if file exists and
is a directory.
       -e file
              True if file exists.
       -f file
              True if file exists and is a regular file.









       -g file
              True if file exists and is set-group-id.

Unix Bash: replace trailing / from string

a="dir/"

echo ${a%*/}

replace within string

a="awordb"

echo ${a//word/dog}

Unix: find: I always forget how to remove things with find

find . -name "-F" -exec rm {} \;

Unix Bash: find yesterday

date -d '1 day ago' +'%Y/%m/%d'

outlook sync with google calendar and then import into iphone

Getting started with Google Calendar SyncPrint OverviewIntroductionGet StartedSync OptionsCopyright NoticesTroubleshooting
To set up Google Calendar Sync:
1.Make sure you're using a supported operating system and Outlook version.
2.Download Google Calendar Sync (version 0.9.3.5) at http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe
3.Once a dialog box appears, click Save File. The downloaded file should open automatically. If it doesn't, manually open it from your browser's download window.
4.Click OK to confirm that you're aware this is an executable file.
5.Read through the Google Calendar Sync Terms of Service, and click I Agree.
6.Follow through the Installation Options and click Install to finish the set-up process.
Once Google Calendar Sync is installed on your computer, the Google Calendar Sync Settings window will appear:




Google Sync: Set Up Your iPhone or iPod TouchPrint
To set up Google Sync on your iPhone or iPod Touch device, please follow the steps below for the OS version that you're running.

OS Version 2.2.x


Requirements and Upload1. Make sure your device has firmware version 2.2 or 2.2.1. You can check your current version by going to Settings > General > About > Version. Google Sync won't work on earlier versions of the firmware.
To upgrade, follow the instructions at http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/. If your iPhone or iPod has firmware version 3.0, it's important that you follow different setup instructions.

2. Upload any Contacts and Calendars from your phone to your computer before proceeding. The iPhone will delete Contacts and Calendars during setup.
Learn how to upload your Contacts with iTunes: Instructions for PC - Instructions for Mac

3. The contacts that are replaced on your device will be the contents of your My Contacts group. This is the only group supported at this time, so make sure to clean up your My Contacts before syncing.
Tip: If you have a Mac, make sure that Synchronize with Google in the Address Book app is OFF. Otherwise all of your contacts will sync to Address Book.

Note: Mail sync is not yet supported. You may receive error messages if you attempt to turn on Sync for Mail. Getting Started1. Open the Settings application on your device's home screen.
2. Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
3. Tap Add Account....
4. Select Microsoft Exchange.


     Enter Account Info5. In the Email field, enter your full Google Account email address. If you use an @googlemail.com address, you may see an "Unable to verify certificate" warning when you proceed to the next step.
6. Leave the Domain field blank.
7. Enter your full Google Account email address as the Username.
8. Enter your Google Account password as the Password.
9. Tap Next at the top of your screen.
10. A new Server field will appear. Enter m.google.com.
11. Press Next at the top of your screen again.


  

12. Select the Google services you want to sync. Currently only Contacts and Calendar are supported.
 Make sure that you have uploaded your data before proceeding.

13. Press Sync twice when warned about data loss.

    

You've set up Google Sync for your iPhone. Synchronization will begin automatically if you have Push enabled on your phone. You can also open the Calendar or Contacts app and wait a few seconds to start a sync.

Next, learn how to choose which calendars to sync, if you'd like to enable multiple calenders.

Tip: If your business, school, or organization uses Google Apps, your administrator will first need to enable Google Sync before you can take advantage of this feature.

OS Version 3.0


Requirements and Upload
1. Make sure your device has version 3.0 firmware or above. You can check your current version by going to Settings > General > About > Version. To upgrade, follow the instructions at http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/.

2. Perform a sync with iTunes to ensure that Contacts and Calendars from your iPhone are backed up to your computer.

Note: Mail sync is not yet supported. You may receive error messages if you attempt to turn on Sync for Mail.


Getting Started
1. Open the Settings application on your device's home screen.
2. Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
3. Tap Add Account....
4. Select Microsoft Exchange.

    
Enter Account Info
5. In the Email field, enter your full Google Account email address. If you use an @googlemail.com address, you may see an "Unable to verify certificate" warning when you proceed to the next step.
6. Leave the Domain field blank.
7. Enter your full Google Account email address as the Username.
8. Enter your Google Account password as the Password.
9. Tap Next at the top of your screen.
9a. Choose Accept if the Unable to Verify Certificate dialog appears.
10. A new Server field will appear. Enter m.google.com.
11. Press Next at the top of your screen again.

  

12. Select the Google services you want to sync. Currently only Contacts and Calendar are supported.

13. Unless you want to delete all the existing Contacts and Calendars on your phone, select the Keep on my iPhone option when prompted. This will also allow you to keep syncing with your computer via iTunes.

    

You've set up Google Sync for your iPhone. Synchronization will begin automatically if you have Push enabled on your phone. You can also open the Calendar or Contacts app and wait a few seconds to start a sync.

Next learn how to choose which calendars to sync, if you'd like to enable multiple calenders.

Tip: If your business, school, or organization uses Google Apps, your administrator will first need to enable Google Sync before you can take advantage of this feature.

mac os x - apache2 - webpages

look at

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Apache/Using-Apache-and-PHP-on-Mac-OS-X/


o start Apache Web Server, you must go into the “System Preferences Control panel located on the “Apple Menu”.
 
Click on the Icon labeled "Sharing". Then locate the tab labeled  "File & Web". You will want to click the button labeled “Start” in the  "Web Sharing " section. This starts up Web sharing which starts the Apache Web Server.

Apache Web Server is now running. Easy, huh? "How can I tell?” you ask. Simple. Start up your web browser of choice. In the web address or URL part of your browser, type: "localhost" (without the double-quotes)

Ex. http://localhost

If everything is Okay, your browser will display the following:

"If you can see this, it means that the installation of the Apache Web server software on this system was successful. You may now add content to this directory and replace this page."
 
It worked! Hooray.
 
To access the pages of this directory, double-click on your hard drive and locate the "Library" directory. From there locate the "WebServer" directory and then the "Documents" directory where these web pages reside.
 
Note: If its not running, you either do not have web sharing enabled or   something is wrong with Apache's files. It should work right out of the box.
Since Mac OS X is a multi-user system, every person has their own account and with that brings it’s own set of web pages. To access your personal web pages you must type the following in the browser address:
 
Ex. http://localhost/~yourname/
To access your personal web pages, locate your account name directory under   "Users" And locate the directory labeled "Sites".

/Users/yourname/Sites/your web pages are here <---
  

still looking for the best daily log software and what private folders on mac os x

Where are good descriptions for what comes with 10.5.

what is the private folder ?

How to update apache on mac os x?

Excel remove text from the beginning =replace(a1,1,4,"")

Remove the first 4 characters from a string:

1,6,00:00:00:00:00:00

result is

00:00:00:00:00:00

excel is bad - trailing characters is worse

I had to copy some text from a table in IE to Excel and then use a concatenate() formula.

But the result contained always a trailing space or so it seamed.

But =trim() or =clean() did not remove it.

Thanks to the online help, I found the following which solved my problem:

=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A4,CHAR(160),CHAR(32)))

apache 2 - beautify directory listings

After a long time I found out:

mod_autoindex is responsible for the generation:

I had to put in the following:

IndexOptions FancyIndexing HTMLTable VersionSort FoldersFirst NameWidth=* SuppressDescription

- Most importantly for me was the NameWidth=*, i.e. automatically size it to the longest name and FoldersFirst so it's like explorer.


IndexStyleSheet "/css/style.css"

- With this I was able to put in a stylesheet and change the font and background

IndexIgnore P*_files components.swf loadflash.js

- This helped to get rid of some files from displaying

wdtv: making it a wireless streamer

Blogged with the Flock Browser

http://wiki.wdtv.org/doku.php

Get a Mac Apple TV Ad - Top of the Line

Mr. Big!

Link to the apple videos on apple.com

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

Convert vmware machine to virtualbox 3.x

Today I found a nice vmware appliance that was only available as a vmware image. But I dissed vmware server and workstation a long time ago (except fusion) and try to make use of virtualbox.

But virtualbox lacks a lot of things but this is how I was able to move that appliance to virtualbox:

1) the appliance came with the following files:

.nvram
.vmdk
.vmsd
.vmx
.vmxf

2) I started virtualbox and imported the .vmdk

This is really great: Virtualbox can handle .vmdk natively!

3) I opened the .vmx in an editor (for me that means vim) and extracted:

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
guestOS = "other26xlinux"
memsize = "512"

4) I created (wizard) a new virtualbox machine using:

Linux, Linux 2.6
512MB ram
use existing harddisk, that's where I choose the disk that I imported in step 2

5) Just for fun I started the machine without changing any settings (like SCSI etc.)

I left all the other settings at default and started the machine, but it crashed:

unkown interrupt or fault at EIP 000000060 c0100295 00000294

and that messages appeared endlessly.

I could not see the previous messages besides uncompressing linux ..... it was too fast.

6) I stopped the machine using HOST+Q then select stop

7) Ok now here come the changes that I should have done before, but I list them here in separate steps.

7.1 Under System -> Processor: check -> Enable PAE/NX


This fixed the unknown interrupt message thing (but the machine would still reboot after the inital steps)

7.2 Under Hard Disks -> Enable Additional Controller->SCSI(Lsilogic)
7.3 and change the attachments-> Slot -> to SCSI Port 0

Now I was able to boot and the system started nicely. But no network!!!

8) vmxnet: Device in slot 0000:00:03.0 is not supported by this driver.
vmxnet: probe of 0000:00:03.0 failed with error -16

Now I immediately new that was bad news and I had to try to get this machine to accept the new network adapter.

The default adapter that virtualbox 3.04 on my machine at least:
PCnet-FAST III (NAT)

I read on a webpage that Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop would be a better choice.

So I changed it to Network ->Adapter 1-> Adapter Type: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (8254OEM), NAT was ok for me.

9) Still no networking, eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Ok, now I did not really now what kind of distribution it was and I needed to have a look at the network config etc.

9.1) I saw that it was Grub but it looks like it has a timeout=0, because it only displayed the menu very very quickly.

I have not found out how to stop Grub from continuing. Even after 10 times of Host+R

Hitting escape as it was said here did not work:

Occasionally, GRUB requires some simple intervention. Perhaps a new kernel isn’t working correctly with your system or maybe you want to bring the system into a different runlevel than the default. Hit the ESCAPE key to interrupt the GRUB countdown and bring up GRUB’s main menu.

Maybe someone knows how to stop that thing.

9.2) Ok to access the files I used ubuntu-9.04-desktop live iso cd which I added to virtualbox library and then under CD/DVD-ROM -> mount -> iso image file -> ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso

9.3) I quickly checked the boot order under System->Motherboard->Boot Order and noticed that the default is Floppy-CD/DVD-ROM-HardDisk-Network. That was fine.

10) Live ISO cd running and with ubuntu I just clicked on Places->Home Folder and selected the 4GB Disk it listed. This mounted the hard disk as /media/disk read/write and I did not even have to search for which disk and what parameters to use mount with

11) Using the terminal I checked if there is a configuration like on red hat or on debian but it was not!

12) In /etc/modprobe.conf I found the following statement:

alias eth0 vmxnet

this I changed into

alias eth0 e1000

13) I also changed /boot/grub/menu.lst  timeout=30 just so I can enter single user mode

But on that machine I could not just add Single at the end of kernel but had to use init=/bin/bash



Finally, the vmware appliance ran on virtualbox!!!

Linux - what to do if single user mode does not work

I just been through the problem, where I desperately needed root access to a system and could not boot into single user mode.

It uses grub, but the timeout=0, I was able to mount the harddisk and edit the menu.lst under /boot/grub/menu.lst to timeout=30.

Also I added a second entry and put the word "single" behind the kernel line:

kernel /boot/bzImage rw root=/dev/sda1 Single

but when I booted into the system it just booted into Runlevel 3 as usual.

What I had to do is to add init=/bin/bash to that line and then I was accessing the system again.

Update:

You should run:

sync
reboot

but reboot failed!!

there was a message  init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl

I had to run reboot -f !!

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Windows 7 is not worth talking about

I was so disappointed after hearing so much talk about windows 7 and then experiencing it myself and finding out that it is xp + vista + some changes.

Windows 7 is looking ok. For me it is still to cluttered, the user experience is still not easy enough. The programs and even media center look like 2003. The ribbon for wordpad is 2007.

In the keynote of teched 2009 they said they cannot change to much or you won't be able to recognize and use it. Maybe it should be completely different and mind boggling.

Office 2007 was a nice enjoyable user interface upgrade. I liked most of it and was happy that it was kind of a breakthrough. But Vista and Windows 7, forget it. Stick to windows xp and install the ui extensions and youre all set for the next 4 years!!!!

Don't invest into Windows 7. Use it if you get it for free. Me, I would always love to work with the newest technology and I used Vista since mid november 2007 (after the beta etc.). I appreciate the group policy things, I  appreciate a bit a modernization but it should be a revolution now.


Mac OS X is the much better end user experience. It lacks a ton of things but what you get it what you can use (60% functionality there). With Windows I get 85% functionality but I have to install or use 15 additional programs and they don't reall interoperate that well.

So to hell with Windows 7 for now. Let's see if they have something else in petto.


I use now a new MacBook with 10.5.7 and VMWARE Fusion with XP, Vista and Windows 7 in unity mode and I'll love it. I get 90% functionality out of this and Apple and Microsoft is happy or should be since I have to have all licenses from both.

MSI Wind U120 mac os x

It was almost to good to be true but running osx on that little machine is the best thing ever.

Cost of Hardware SFr. 440.00, cost of Software SFr. 180.00. And I have complete OSX Netbook!

Nice.

com magazin

http://www.com-magazin.de

Virtualization: Microsoft Virtual PC 7

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=de&familyid=04d26402-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6

iphone is still running

to my surprise the iphone is working great.

I did get rid of the wave case since it made it to big and I want my iphone to be without any case.

But I'd like to apply a kind of a seethrough protection film on the back side since it gets some hicks and they do not look nice. Also I the metal frame gets more and more scratches.

I really like artwizz film, up to now I had to replace 2 films and I still have 1 left from the original package. Great!

The biggest no no is that the iphone lacks a real sip client that I could use in the company and GPS Navigation. i really want to get rid of my axim dell with bluetooth gps and navigon and use the iphone everywhere!

Virtualisation Hooray

Today is a good day for me. I made progress.

vmware server 2.0
running ubuntu-8.10 - 4 network adapters - ipv4 routing - dhcrelay for all networks
w2k3 server - ms dhcp server - 20 scopes
wxpsp2 and wxpsp3 - clients on different networks
infoblox dns appliance - bridged on one of the physical adapters

Test environment where I can use the same ip range as in production without having to many physical machines around to play.

ipv4 routing was easy
dhcrelay was troublesome but somehow worked. I still don't know why it did not in the first place since I haven't changed the configuration. I set it to listen to all interfaces and did not add any options.

perl eclipse epic padwalker

Now I am trying to do some perl stuff.

eclipse ganymade

I downloaded eclipse and double clicked on the downloaded file.

The I started eclipse and went over 

interesting tool?

http://www-pc.uni-regensburg.de/systemsw/TOOLS/wlaninfo.htm

found on chashys blog

Bernhard Müller, SEC Consult: Improved DNS Spoofing Using Node Re-Delegation

http://www.sec-consult.com/files/Whitepaper-DNS-node-redelegation.pdf

http://www.sec-consult.com/files/sec2.html

Apple ohne Patch für DNS-Lücke

http://www.heise.de/security/Apple-ohne-Patch-fuer-DNS-Luecke--/news/meldung/113383

Anhörung zu DNSSEC-Schlüssel - ICANN greift nach DNS-Kontrolle

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Anhoerung-zu-DNSSEC-Schluessel-ICANN-greift-nach-DNS-Kontrolle--/meldung/117161

Customize Windows/Office Save As Dialog

Ok I found the termology:

Places Bar - Windows XP, Office XP, 2003, 2007
Favorite Links - Windows Vista

Since I have to go through the save as dialog a thousand times per month I decided to search for a solution to modify the dialog and have found:

Solution was Office 2003:

1. In Word click on Save as...->
2. Then select the folder you would like to add to the places bar,
3. then choose from the tools menu (upper right corner on the dialog) add to "My Places"
4. And since I want mine to appear topmost I have to select it and click a few times move up

vista - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926167
windows xp - http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/07/28/how-to-set-custom-shortcuts-in-the-windows-xp-save-as-dialog-box/

Office - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826214/en-us



I will check if this helps.