SanDisk RescuePro Software on a 'Mini' CD

I bought some accessories for my photo gear today. Among the items was a new 2GB SanDisk Extreme III CF card. This package came with a 'purse' to store cards, and a CD with recovery software. In most cases you'll only get the Windows version of a product (if there is an OSX version all together)..... But this CD also contains the OSX version of SanDisk's RescuePro. Downside is that the CD is mini CD (or what you might call it), and those won't work very well with the latest Mac's. The latest Mac's have DVD/CD players without a tray, so insert the CD, and you can ship your Mac for repairs...... And since the Windows OS can't read the Mac part of the CD, there's no way of getting the software of the CD.

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Display Full Path in Finder

One thing I hate is not knowing where I am. I had this in Windows, and I still have it OSX. By default OSX doesn't show the full path in the finder. This is annoying as hell. Especialy when you're having shares called 'Pictures', and the chances are quite big that you might have a local directory called 'Pictures'. You can't tell the difference. Using the following terminal command, you get the full path in the Finder. So no more 'Pictures', but '/Volumes/Pictures/' Terminal command: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES killall Finder Simply replace the YES for NO to disable the feature. This is OSX 10.5 or higher only!!

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TrueCrypt v5.0 Coming Soon

The TrueCrypt developers have scheduled the release of v5.0 for Januari Februari 2008. This release will also have Mac OSX version. Now we're getting somewhere. Finally, true cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and OSX) encryption, and it's completely free.

TrueCrypt 5.0 Release scheduled for: January 2008

• Windows system partition encryption with pre-boot authentication
• Mac OS X version
• GUI for Linux versions of TrueCrypt
• Parallelized and pipelined read/write
• and more.

The following features are planned to be implemented in future versions:

• Support for external authentication modules (cryptographic tokens)
• 'Raw' CD/DVD volumes
• TrueCrypt API
• and more.

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Wonderbra

Do watch this video... UP CLOSE!!!

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Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED AF-S

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a photogear wishlist. This list contained a Nikon 28-70mm f/2.8 ED lens. This lens is nearly 10 years old (introduced in 1999), so Nikon introduced a new version in November 2007. The Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED AF-S is the successor of the legendary 'Beast'. And now, good fortune is knocking on my door (e.g. I won 10 euro's in the new years eve lottery). I'll probably order this new lens this weekend :D . Together with my dad's Nikon D3 it should be a smashing combination.

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MDaemon Config Horror

I evaluated the MDaemon v9.7.2 mailserver, and I must say that it's quite complex to get it to run... my way. It's quite common to separate the program and the data. So, I tried to put the data on a different disk. This isn't done by using the GUI, but you need to edit the Mdaemon.ini file in the App directory (not every directory can be changed by the GUI). After changing the defaults, the MultiPOP feature didn't work. It seems there's another config file for remote mail stuff. This file (schedule.dat) needs to reference the same location as the Mdaemon.ini file. Why is that? Why use two config files for one program? And why use a different extension (.dat versus .ini)? Beats me. For a mailserver that pretends to be a fair, and relatively simple alternative to the over-powered and over-featured Microsoft Exchange mailserver you need a 'rocket science engineers degree' to get it to work properly.

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