Sometimes, you don’t want a script to run when it is already running. Maybe it is scheduled as a cronjob but the previous run of that cronjob hasn’t finished yet. I usually do some “pre-flight checks” in almost every script I write. And most times, this is one of them.
Continue reading →The problem Finding a good backup software for Windows is quite hard, if not next to impossible. But what makes a backup software good?
Continue reading →Today, I tried to do a ‘sudo port selfupdate’ and ‘sudo port upgrade outdated’. I say ‘tried’ because it failed when it tried to upgrade db46: —> Configuring db46 Error: db46 requires the Java for Mac OS X development headers. Error: Download the Java Developer Package from: <https://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wa/getSoftware?bundleID=20719> Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: missing Java headers
Continue reading →Run sudo touch /forcefsck Next time you boot, the file system will be checked.
Continue reading →So I upgraded to Thunderbird 3 some time ago. It has nice new features, like the grouped folders. Anyway, there are a few things that annoyed me too; one of them being the fact that whenever someone sends a mail to me and some other people, only the first recipient was displayed, with a “more…”…
Continue reading →So I decided it’s time to build a HTPC so I can record TV and also use time shifting when watching live TV. I’ve tried several products, be it software packages or whole linux distributions, including Windows Media Center, Apple Front Row, vdr, c’t-vdr, yavdr, freevo and mythTV. That last one I liked most by…
Continue reading →The problem Did you ever want to install a font on your Mac that’s on a SMB share, for example on a Windows/Unix server? Did you experience the font was broken somehow, being displayed in the finder as “unix executable file” with 0kb size? We had this issue here often, finally I figured out why…
Continue reading →The most common solution is pressing the eject key on the keyboard. If that fails for some reason (in my case the key was not working properly) you could always drag the DVD icon to the trash or right-click (ctrl-click) it and click “eject” – as long as there is a CD or DVD in…
Continue reading →My boss is working with tons of mails every day. Part of his workflow is to use the “followup” -> “add reminder..:” function in the right-click menu of messages. When I upgraded his Outlook from 2003 to 2007, he asked why that function was gone. I did some investigation, including a phone call at Microsoft…
Continue reading →I use a little tool to manage my MP3s called “MP3 tag tools“. It’s quite powerful, it allows you to mass edit some or all ID3 tag fields, fill them from a file name scheme and vice versa (create folder structures and/or file names from the ID3 tag fields). Now when I recently cleaned up…
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