Moved Hosting Provider

Some of you might have noticed that some things have changed on my website. For one, the website was down/inaccessible, and two, the interface is different (eventhough I try it not to be).

The first part had to do with some articles I posted. These postings resulted in some attention. So much attention that my website drowned. The hosting provider at the time was not capable of dealing with this, so I had to leave. Since I run this website for fun I don't want to be bothered with 'these things'.

Some of the services I had (like the certificate import tool for mobile phones) also suffered from this inconvenience. The symcaimport tool is now reachable under http://symcaimport.redelijkheid.com.

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Where Did the Guy Go?

We went to Doel, Belgium last Saturday with the local camera club. Even though I've already been there before it still manages to capture my attention and imagination. You see completely different things each time.

I did make less photos this time, but not much less :)

All my photos from Doel can be viewed on my flickr page.

Apple Snow Leopard and Filevault

Ran into one of the most annoying bugs in OSX evah.... The earlier versions of OSX had a problem with Filevault and remembering certain default application preferences. This issue is resolved in Snow Leopard, but I ran into another (new) feature.

Whenever I put my MacBook to sleep it closes all running programs and documents (without any save option), and logs me off....
Waking the MacBook back up leaves me with the default log in screen. After the log in, it's like I rebooted the machine...

Need to remember to save before putting it to sleep, or to wander of for a couple of minutes.......

UPDATE: I fixed it. Yesterday I saw a flash of the error reporting tool of OSX while I opened the lid of my MacBook, and before it logged me out on the fly. This meant that there might be some info in the console application.
It turned out there were two applications generating lots of errors. Namely PGP and EyeConnect (some part of EyeTV). Somehow both had come over with the data migration.

After uninstalling PGP manually (because the regular interface didn't work any more) and removing all references to the EyeConnect application everything worked as it should (so far).

UPDATE 2: Never mind the previous cheerful update. LoginWindow keeps crashing. I even reinstalled the compleet OS on a seperate disk and with virtual no apps installed it keeps crashing. So the sleep mode is essentially unusable. I've been thinking of removing the Snow from the Leopard....

Google for the Visually Challenged

First I thought that my screen resolution had gone back to the late eighties / early nineties (CGA, EGA, etc.), but it seems that Google 'redesigned' their search page. Damn, those buttons are big....

Google for the visually challenged??

Photoshop CS4 and Snow Leopard

Photoshop CS4 was released as an Universal app (system requirements). So both PowerPC (PPC) and Intel support. Since it's an Universal app, you shouldn't need Rosetta on an Intel .
So upgrading to Snow Leopard shouldn't be a problem... Until you're gonna use the droplet functionality of Photoshop CS4. That piece of code still needs Rosetta to function.

So no way that CS4 is Universal. It's just another piece of buggy Adobe software.

What's next? An announcement that this crap won't be supported and that you can upgrade to the >1000USD Adobe CS5 suite next year?

Firefox indexes Fonts

While I was looking for a particular song I heard on the radio on several top-whatever websites I got this Firefox warning;

Firefox wants to use the font "HelveticaTStd-Roman" on the volume "xxx"

A couple of remarks;

• Why is Firefox indexing the fonts on my system? This particular font sits in a directory not used by my fontbook.
• Fail on the part of the top 40 website for using a very specific (and obviously) non-default font in their design.

Apple OS X Leopard, Nokia N95 and Dialup Networking

One of the things I forgot to backup were the setting for Dialup Networking (DUN) on my MacBook. I use a Nokia N95 with a flatfee UMTS/HSDPA subscription. Both the MacBook and Nokia N95 have Bluetooth capabilities, so it should be a match made in heaven... Well, not completely.

You need specific settings AND files for getting this to work. First of all, Apple does supply several modem scripts for several phones/providers, but not the HSDPA/N95 combination.

Thankfully, I found this blogposting providing the modem scripts (local version). Having those makes it a lot easier.

Just unzip the file and place the scripts in the following folder:

/Library/Modem Scripts/

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