Windows XP logon screen style
14
Jul
By default, even the Administrator can change only the XP-style that is used when he’s logged on, but the logon-screen still uses the (more than ugly) default XP-style…
Category Archives: Meaningful Labor
setting up various chroots under debian / ubuntu
13
Jul
building clean packages is pretty easy having a defined environment…
building Qt from scratch
1
Jul
stuck with “Basic XLib functionality test failed!” …? building Qt from source on Debian, Ubuntu and RedHat (RHEL5)
geocaching 2.0
1
Jun
some tools that make cacher’s life easier: firefox search plugin geocaching with your iphone blog entry (german) iphone online-app (this one is useful for every browser, since it provides an extremely fast frontend to the groundspeak-database, not only on mobile … Read More »
Windows usability continued
27
Mar
used to the usability-power of the default mouse-behaviour on X11? tired of ctrl-c / ctrl-v orgies? want your focus on the window you’re pointing at, and not being forced to raise that specific window above all others?
set rxvt title from shell
26
Mar
set the rxvt title using a shell-command: printf \\033]0\;\%s\\007 “$title” using this e.g. as bin/set_rxvt_title, you can push even a cygwin-rxvt-ssh session to dynamically change the window-title to the host you connect to. put this into your “~/.ssh/config“: PermitLocalCommand yes … Read More »
customizing thunderbird
5
Mar
some shortcuts for improved usability in thunderbird. keyconfig-addon is required! Compact Folder: goDoCommand('cmd_compactFolder')
routing with cisco-routers
26
Feb
ever wondered why your cisco doesn’t route your packets? simply because the default-setting has routing disabled. obviously, using a router to route packets seems to be a non-default use case to cisco… enable routing: conf t ip routing
clean garmin nüvi favorites
5
Feb
and keep your valuable adressbook… the nüvi lacks a possibility to delete a specific type of waypoints, e.g. all geocaches. this is particularly annoying when you have uploaded a collection of geocaches and want to remove them again, becaus they … Read More »
WebDAV on Symbian S60 / Nokia E65
2
Nov
quick way of “pushing” files to your wlan-enabled symbian phone? webdav. at least as long as there’s no ftp-server for symbian available…