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 →I was looking for some new business desktop computers to buy. They should have a Core2Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, a DVD burner, Gbit LAN and two monitor connectors of which one should be DVI. I used to buy these computers from HP, but I couldnt find a single model with DVI anymore. They have…
Continue reading →Some people complained that they get this message when they open facebook: I asked the people if they ever received mails from facebook – they said “regularly”. So I wasn’t really sure what could cause this issue. So I grepped the logs from our mail servers and found…
Continue reading →Want to configure postfix/spamassassin and wonder which RBLs to choose? I found a cool site which monitors ham and spam hit statistics of a lot of RBLs. Check out http://www.intra2net.com/en/support/antispam/, it’s worth a visit. My definite winner is zen.spamhaus.org. While having the highest spam hit quote, it has 0% ham hits.
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 →Have you ever tried to embed video files in PowerPoint? If you managed to do that, have you ever tried to play that presentation on other PCs or even on a mac? It’s a pain in the ass. I haven’t yet reached the point to say it’s impossible, but at least I can say it’s…
Continue reading →Trying to integrate Zimbra calendars in Lightning, I ran into a couple of problems. So far I’ve found four different ways to do it in the internet: ICS: http://zimbrahost.example.com/home/USERNAME/CALENDARNAME ICS: webcal://zimbrahost.example.com/home/USERNAME/CALENDARNAME ICS: webcal://<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>@zimbrahost.example.com/home/USERNAME/CALENDARNAME CalDAV: http://zimbrahost.example.com/dav/USERNAME/CALENDARNAME Now the ICS solutions don’t work properly for me, the calendar entries are loaded but Lightning is unable to write…
Continue reading →Now this was a weird one. The user said he was unable to work because every 20 seconds, his programs in which he was working were hidden and the desktop would show up. He told me he already rebooted the machine. So I opened the End Tasks dialog with Cmd-Alt-Esc and forced a finder restart….
Continue reading →To all other sysadmins out there in the world: Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day 2009!
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