Entropy increases

http://xkcd.com

Every now and then Apple disables the TCP ports of the X server. I don't know why, but at least two updates from Apple disabled this now...

I just figured that I also need to install NoEjectDelay from the same website to get rid of the eject key delay, but the key repeat still do...

The small enter key on older MacBook Pros is completely useless. Newer MacBook Pros have an option (Alt) key there instead which makes more ...

I recently repeatedly experienced duplicates in iTunes after importing directories of mp3 files. Almost all files (but not all) would be vis...

... can be found here now: http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/music.swf (The link in the older post does not work for me at least on m...

BTW: 75% of all statistics are useless! :-)

Apparently there is still a chance: http://ifaq.wap.org/sex/geekguide.html :-)

The keymap on a german keyboard attached to a Mac is rather different that what people expect from a standard Linux or Windows PC. This is v...

After playing with the keyboard type (I don't remember exactly what I did) I had a nasty keyboard type/mapping problem on my MacBook Pro...

After a cold boot I reproducibly got into an infinite loop of the gray start screen. The boot-up sound would be played every 3 minutes conti...

Here I found the solution how to print from my MacBook Pro on a shared printer which is connected to a Ubuntu (7.10) Linux box. The printer...

... sometimes means you *are* looking for trouble.

Germans like signs very much. Too bad this one is in english. :-)

Ignorance is bliss ...

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music: http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html This page is great: Samples from all kinds of electronik mus...

Two great music videos: Pendulum: Slam The Prodigy: Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix) We're going to rock civilization! Yeah. :-)

When using the fast user switching feature of Mac OS X 10.4.x (x == 1 to 8 at least) there is a nasty bug which screws up the color profile ...

Today I tried to watch youtube.com on my Mac Mini running Mac OS X Tiger 1.4.8 but I was hearing no sound. The video is played using some fl...

The HP Color LaserJet (CLJ) 2550 / 2550L / 2550LN uses the toner cartridges Q3960A, Q3961A, Q3962A and Q3963A. The printer stops printing af...

Apple, what have you done. A black day in Apple history. :-) After installing the Apple Security update 2006-004 I had problems starting Mai...

Stop the bombing! Every bombing destroys lives unselectively. No bomb has ever lead to a better world. Never, ever. No matter which nation e...

Congratulations Italia. The final was not a very good game to remember, but italia deserved the thin win in the end in the penalties. I stil...

Honestly, I can not believe it. The german football player - Torsten Frings - got suspended for one game in the worldcup after the FIFA comm...

Today 32 minutes door2door for the usual round without looping on the top but along the columns. That looks bad since the real Lousberglauf ...

I bought this toy yersterday for 299 at Aldi Süd and I am mostly satisfied (so far, not having tested this on a long trip). What I like: Coo...

This is exactly what I feel like very often: Flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams

The italians winning over australia in the last few senconds of the game reminded me of an even more extreme football game which took place ...

The swiss team lost against the ukraine after overtime and penalty shootout. What a pity! The underdogs almost made it! However, the ukraine...

Australia lost in the 1/8 final elimination round of the football world championship against a very weak italian team. They had a realistic ...