Jacken’s Blog

Groucho and me got some paintball gear and our first battle will be at Åland. Yay!

In Sweden Telia is the selected peddler of the iPhone. With just one provider selling the iPhone there’s no reason to have a good deal on it. So I will not get an iPhone until Apple stops the nonsense of only having one provider. I think Apples strategy is so f…ing stupid. They always manage to do something to not becoming the standard platform. 

Yes! Finally a plugin for displaying PDF in Firefox 3 for mac. It uses PDFKit.

Get PDF plugin for Firefox here

Nobody talks about the fact that  all the companies  that  will now start making programs for the  iPhone  will first  learn  how easy it is to program with Cocoa. Then suddenly you have a lot of new programmers that know how to program for the Mac as well. Yes, it’s that similar. What would stop them, now that they have inhouse knowledge to make a Macintosh version of the software? Nothing…

Everytime (well, last night actually) when I need to do something with Applescript I shudder with horror. The syntax is actually something you forget all the time. There must be better alternatives for Apple to use as a scripting language. I agree with this article, but Python or Ruby would be a better alternative I think.

I have had this annoying problem with my Macbook Pro. Sometimes when waking the machine from sleep, the machine can not connect to the selected Airport network and then hangs with spinning pizza of death.

Apples next update to 10.5.3 looks like it will fix it. Hopfully Apple will release it soon…

From Fixed list of Mac OS X update 10.5.3 - Joining AirPort network after wake issue resolved

Here’s a nice bug for ya. One of the users at work has a Word document, and when she uses “Save As…” to save the file to another location everything looks normal. But Word never saves the file! It’s non existant! This is only if the setting for compatibility with Office 2004 is set.

This isn’t the first time something like this happened, you also have the infamous “Let’s delete the Powerpoint file before saving and then crasch“-bug where users where left without a document after saving.

You see a lot of reviews of Office 2008, but it feels like no one has the guts to call the pig a pig…

since using my new mail system Zimbra, I Must say I’m very impressed. The web client is actually so good that I now use it more than Apples built in mail that I’ve used forever. But until it’s time to migrate this setup to work I need to run it a bit more and also try to restore a backup. I can’t use the standard backup because thats not included in the open source addition. I also need to read up on the performance of it. Using it at home with 5 users really does not give a good indication on how much processing power needed for 45 users. Theres also two ways of doing the install, one is to install everything on one machine, another to split up the work to several servers. It does seem to be a problem to upgrade a single server to multi-server so I need to get it right from the beginning.

So i’ve upgraded some of the users to Microsoft Office 2008 at work, just to see if we have less problems with it. But It seems like the geniuses at Microsoft still can’t program. The classic “you are out of memory” dialog pops up in Word, and it’s impossible to save to any volume. My attempt to move users to another program has been unsuccessful.

But I guess it keeps the support industry going…

After getting a 3G connection on my new toy, I noticed that connecting to a site when browsing the web could take a long time, but as soon as it gets to the page it’s fast. Typical behavior of a slow DNS server. So after changing my /etc/resolv.conf file to use the OpenDNS servers instead, the increase in speed is incredible!

The eee PC use resolvconfig, so to make the changes permanent you need to go to the directory

sudo pico /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base

nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

My guess is that Tre has a lot of customers that gets annoyed of the slow speed, and all the provider needs to do is to upgrade their dns servers. Or maybe tip their customer of a better alternative. Go figure…