De Saint 0171 - De Saint eist vergelding

De volgende gedigitaliseerde Saint: De Saint eist vergelding

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Weingut Alfred Franger & Sohn

Ich hatte mal wieder die Chance bei Weingut Franger in der Pfalz ein par gute Weine abholen zu können! Sehr zu empfehlen!

Put documents on your Mac in iCloud for GoodReader

If you want to store documents from your Mac in iCloud for, say GoodReader, there is an easy way to do this!

First step to take is to store a document in iCloud from within GoodReader.
Next step is to setup your Mac to use iCloud. You might need Mac OS X Lion for this to work.
The last step is to open the Library folder inside your Home folder. By default, this folder is hidden in Mac OS X Lion, but you can open it or make it permanently visible by using one of these methods.

Inside ~/Library you'll find a folder named Mobile Documents.
If all has been setup well, GoodReader's iCloud folder should be visible there. Inside that folder is a Documents folder. Simply drag a document into that folder and it is auto-synced into iCloud. You are then able to see the document in GoodReader's iCloud folder and download it from there onto your iOS device.



I have made an alias in my Finder window's sidebar to the Mobile Documents folder, so I have quick access to it.

DEC VAX cq. OpenVMS Help Pages

Just because I had them and I am cleaning up my collection of help-documents, I put these (open)VMS Help Library pages online. They are quite old, but I hope somebody finds them useful anyhow, since openVMS is still around.

Foto: Fungus Circle

Fungus Circle

Chateau La Baronnie - Montagne Saint Emilion

La semaine dernière, mon oncle a poussé le vin ci-dessous dans mes mains. Après lire l'étiquette que la moitié, j'ai ouvert la bouteille la semaine dernière et je l'ai bu dans trois jours. C'est seulement plus tard que j'ai remarqué que l'étiquette à l'arrière a dit: 'temps à garder: 8 ans'. Peu importe, il est intéressant de toute façon d'apprendre ce que vous pourriez avoir gardé pendant 8 ans à venir, n'est-ce pas? Un vin très sec, mais douce et savoureuse. Peut-être ce vin aura un goût moins sèche après 5 ans ou plus. Très potable, déjà.

De Saint 0419 - Kris-kras de Saint

En weer een gedigitaliseerde Saint: Kris-Kras de Saint.

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Use SmartSynchronize with Coda (= replace opendiff)

Here's a small how-to replace opendiff (FileMerge) with SmartSynchronize. This way you integrate SmartSynchronize with Coda and possible other SVN-GUIs or IDEs.

Foto: A dead tree looks like a whale

This dead tree looks like a whale

Relocate SVN repositories with SmartSVN

Today I had to move our SVN repositories to a new server, because the old one (an Xserve G5) is being emptied and then either sold or thrown away. So if you're interested in an early 2005 Xserve G5, send me a note. Anyway, relocating a repository was easier than I thought. A bit of reading and googling revealed the steps I had to take and to help you, I wrote them all down, sort of collected steps-to-take, and posted them on this page.

French - English - Dutch Phrases

I have put a huge list with phrases in three languages (French, English and Dutch) online. These short phrases are very handy in learning the other language. I found this list someday on the internet (do not remember where) and added Dutch to it. Mind you, the Dutch translation is done by a computer and is far from correct. But I am working on it, when I find the time.

Ik heb een enorme lijst met zinsneden in drie talen online gezet (Frans, Engels, Nederlands). Deze korte zinnen zijn erg handig bij het leren van de andere taal. Ik heb de lijst met Franse en Engelse zinnen eens op het internet gevonden en de Nederlandse vertaling er aan toegevoegd. Let wel, de Nederlands vertaling is door een computer gedaan en verre van correct. Maar ik werk er aan, als ik de tijd vind.

J'ai mis une liste énorme avec phrases en trois langues (français, anglais et néerlandais) en ligne. Les courtes phrases sont très pratique dans l'apprentissage de l'autre langue. J'ai trouvé cette liste un jour sur l'internet (ne me rappelle pas où) et ajouté néerlandais à elle. Mais attention, la traduction néerlandaise est fait par un ordinateur et est loin de corriger. Mais je suis à y travailler, lorsque j'ai trouver le temps.

Kroonkurken van Bier

For a long time I collected crown caps of various beer brands. This collection was gathering dust and I could either throw them all away or do something with them and then throw them away. Digitizing them was the only non-dust catching solution. At first I wanted to make a page for every brand, but hey, a hobby should not become a manic 'have-to-do'-thing. So, nice and simple: 5 pages with crown caps, nicely mixed up. Here are some previews, the actual images are on this page.

Weingut Alfred Franger & Sohn

Ich war wieder mal in Deutschland und habe mir dann mal ein Paket Weine zusammenstellen lassen, die ich sehr empfehlen kann! Ich habe die Etiketten wieder abgeweicht und eingescannt.

Kleine Science Fiction Omnibus 2

En nog maar eens een science-fiction pocket. Nu een verzamelbundel van korte verhalen. Erg leuk om te lezen.

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R.I.P Steve Jobs - Thanks for everything!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR NEVER ENDING POSITIVE ENERGY
and for bringing the Mac into my life

My sincere condolences to Steve's family and everyone at Apple

Katholieke Illustratie 14 januari 1940 Nr 14

Nog eens een exemplaar van een oude Katholieke Illustratie uit 1940. Ik vind het echt een leuk blad - enkel het godsdienstgedoe spreekt me niet aan.
Voor grafici is dit blad echt leuk, gezien de verscheidenheid aan advertenties en hoe deze er destijds uitzagen. De .zip is prima en heel goed te lezen met SimpleComic of een andere Comicbook-reader.
Het papieren exemplaar gaat binnenkort naar de H.A.N.D., tenzij iemand anders het graag wil hebben. Mail me dan.

Veel leesplezier!

Download het magazine vanaf mijn Dropbox account. Dit is een voor iedereen toegankelijke map.

Encode/Decode BASE64 scripts for Coda

Here you will find two scripts for use with Panic's Coda, which take selected text and encode it to BASE64 or decode it from BASE64, inside the current editor (base64coda).
To add the scripts to Coda's scripts-menu, click the menu and select 'Open Enclosing Folder':

Drag the scripts in the opened folder, go back to Coda and select 'Reload Scripts' from the scripts-menu. You should see the two new scripts:


Now, select some text and choose BASE64 Encode and then BASE64 Decode to see your text again.

Kürbissuppe - Pompoensoep

Heute bekam ich im Restaurant da Mario (im Waghäuseler Hof) eine sehr schöne Kürbissuppe serviert. Ich konnte es nicht lassen und musste ein Foto davon machen:

Foto: Nestor

Nestor, our German shepherd

Multiple MySQL instances on Mac OS X Client or Server

A new project and a server in the basement, drove us to research how we could replicate MySQL databases of two other servers onto the one in the basement. Quest: we need multiple instances of MySQL on the server, with each its own setup. Our findings and how to set this up on Mac OS X Client (your regular desktop Mac) or Mac OS X Server (your co-located Xserve, Mac Pro or Mac Mini Server) are described on this page.

Foto: Sunbeams

Sunbeams

CSS buttons

Today I converted all download links on this site, from using Javascript + CSS to style them to CSS-only (with a background image). I kept some CSS from the JSbuttons installation, because that is how I still want them to look. In case you're interested, here's the CSS:

General CSS:

.mybutton {
   display: block;
   position: relative;
   float: left;
   background: #aaa;
   padding: 5px;
   margin-top: 0px;
   margin-bottom: 10px;
   border: 1px solid gray;
   border-radius: 5px;
   text-decoration: none;
   text-align: center;
   color: #fff;
   font-style: normal;
   font-weight:bold;
   line-height: 15px;
   cursor: pointer;
}

.mybutton:active { background: #444; }
.mybutton:hover { background: #eaeaea; }

.mybutton.blue { background: #2ae; }
.mybutton.blue:hover { background: #05b; }

.mybutton.green { background: #5b5; }
.mybutton.green:hover { background: #282; }

.mybutton.pink { background: #e1a; }
.mybutton.pink:hover { background: #a0a; }

.mybutton.yellow { background: #dd3; }
.mybutton.yellow:hover { background: #aa0; }

.mybutton.black { background: #222; }
.mybutton.black:hover { background: #000; }

.mybutton[class] {
   background-image: url(%pathto(button-shade.png)%);
   background-position: bottom;
}

On a per page basis:

a.mybutton {
   height: 16px;
   width: 100px;
   color: #eeee00;
}

a:hover.mybutton { color:#ff5500; }


And this is the background image (inside the border):

Normal link:	.mybutton link:
Go to Apple	Go to Apple
<a href="http://www.apple.com/">Go to Apple</a>	<a href="http://www.apple.com/" class="mybutton blue">Go to Apple</a>

 
 

Stropdasknoop

Op deze pagina staan een serie 'how-to' stropdasknopen. Kan nog eens van pas komen!

Goodbye 3.5 inch floppy disks

I was cleaning up my IT-stuff, like cables, manuals and old software (a 2-yearly routine) and finally found no use anymore for software on floppy disks. I liked the diversity of the prints on the metal labels and found that a part of this IT-history that is now closed, could be saved. So I scanned a few:



More of these on this page!

If anyone feels (s)he likes to add some to this 'collection', feel free to email them to me.

SetEXIFData 3.0

Version 3.0 of SetEXIFData is out, with the following changes:

New:

• Added a checkbox which can be set on to remove all keywords (and not add any new ones) from all the files in the files-list.
• Added a checkbox which can be set on to titlecase all keywords, which was previously done automatically. It is set on by default.
• Added a checkbox which can be set on to autofill the document name property of each photo listed with the current file name.

Bug fix:

• Problem with assigning keywords for Preview, Photoshop CS5 and iPhoto has been fixed. Turns out these programs let '-subject' overrule '-keywords' for keywords.

My installation of Mac OS X Lion

This installation of Mac OS X Lion took my weekend and then some, to figure it all out and get things to work. Making the backup took almost a day. The order of the steps taken is now what it should have been, had I been able to see in the future. I hope these steps can help you to speed up your installation of Lion.

1) I downloaded Lion from the Mac App Store

2) Located it in /Applications, copied it to a backup disk.

3) Right-clicked it and chose 'Show package contents'
   - Opened the Folder 'Contents'
   - Opened the Folder 'SharedSupport'. In there is a file 'InstallESD.dmg'

4) Inserted a 8GB USB Flash Drive into an USB-slot of my Mac

5) Started Disk Utility
   - Selected the USB-flash drive in the bar on the left
   - Selected the pane 'Partition'
   - Chose 1 partition
   - Clicked 'Options' and selected 'GUID table'
   - Partitioned the drive
   - Selected the USB-flash drive in the bar on the left
   - Selected the pane 'Restore'
   - Dragged the USB-flash drive to the field 'Destination'
   - Dragged the 'InstallESD.dmg' to the field 'Source'
   - Clicked the 'Restore'-button
Now I can always boot from the flash drive and (re)install Lion.

6) I deactivated licenses of the following software (advise from OnOne):
   - All OnOne Software tools
   - RapidSearch (just to be on the safe side)

7) Updated the following software:
   - Tuxera NTFS
   - Glimmerblocker
   - Dockstar (Mail plug-in)
   - MailTags (Mail plug-in)
   - Drobo Dashboard
   - FileMaker Pro 6 (PPC-only) to 7 (Universal)
   - EyeTV
   - Perian
   - Flip4Mac WMV
   - ChronoSync and ChronoAgent

8) Removed following apps
   - DivX and 3iVX (Uninstallers are in their respective folders in /Applications)
   - FlagIt! (Mail plug-in) -> uninstalled this, development halts and Lion has now 7 flags of different colors. I also went into System Preferences and uninstalled SpiceShaker and removed the SpiceRack Prefpane since nothing else but FlagIt! was using this.
   - Adobe AIR (removed everything from '/Application Support' and '~/Application Support' folders)
Apple has made the folder 'Library' in the home folder invisible. But I can get to it via SHIFT-CMD-G and by entering the following path '~/library'.

9) Restarted my Mac
At the bongggg, I held down the SHIFT-key until a progress bar appeared: Mac starts in Safe-mode. From our national Apple Doctors (CARD Services) I learned that it is best to install major updates while in 'safe mode'.

10) When logged in, I attached a 1TB backup disk and used Carbon Copy Cloner to backup my Mac OS X startup disk.

11) After the backup had finished, I shutdown the Mac and disconnected all external hard disks, including my Drobo.

12) Started my Mac again in Safe-mode

13) Installed Mac OS X Lion
On my iMac, I simply clicked the Lion icon in the Dock. I booted my MacBook Pro from the USB-flash drive and installed Lion from there.

14) After installation, I let the Macs boot normally and logged in.

15) Performed Software Update; restarted normal

16) Opened 'App Store' from the Dock and downloaded 'Xcode'
   - I installed Xcode by starting 'Install Xcode' in /Applications

17) I rely on FastCGI (for Lasso 9), which is not included in Lion anymore. So I had to restore the file 'mod_fastcgi.so' from the backup disk, made in step 8. The Lion installer also removed the file 'Lasso8ConnectorforApache2.2.so' which is needed for Lasso 8. I copied both of them back. If you need these, you can find them and copy them to '/usr/libexec/apache2/' (same folder as in 10.6)

18) Then, my iPhone was not recognized, because somehow either the Lion or Xcode installers have removed a file call 'usbmuxd' and support files. To get this working again, I had to reinstall iTunes from scratch, like this:
   - Via 'Terminal', deleted iTunes: 'sudo rm -R /Applications/iTunes.app'
   - Next, I followed the steps outlined here: support.apple.com/kb/ht1747
   - Then I downloaded iTunes from Apple's site and installed it.
iPhone is back!

19) Activated the software licenses again (see step 6).

20) If you run Windows in Parallels 6 off a Bootcamp partition, and it won't start with Parallels, do what is described here: http://kb.parallels.com/en/111629

21) And the last thing I did was repair disk permissions via Disk Utility.

22) A restart and back to business.

23) If QuickTime Player X is behaving strange, like when you click a player's window, you click through it, get rid of old files in the Preferences folder. Open Terminal and type the following exactly as written:
cd ~/Library/Preferences
rm *QuickT*X*

 

Foto: A gray, dreary morning

A gray, dreary morning

Mac OS X Dock Separators

Here are some Mac OS X Dock separators (dock-separators(apps-intel)). These are mainly dummy apps and folders with a transparent icon and names that consist of only spaces. The apps are all Intel-only. The .zip contains 6 apps, the first one has a name of 1 space and the 6th one has a name of 6 spaces, and 3 folders with the same transparent icon and spaces as names. Here's how I use them:

Foto: Ah, a bridge!

Ah, a bridge!

Universeel Experiment - Edmund Cooper

En weer eens een science-fiction pocket. Deze keer eentje van Edmund Cooper. Universeel Experiment is erg leuk om te lezen.

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ICSviewer

A small program to convert a calendar-export (.ics-file) to table-format and calculate working hours, so you can copy and paste the results of your calendar entries into an invoice or a spreadsheet. Download here.