If you have trouble with Flash segfaulting in Linux Firefox-3.5.2 (the symptom is a browser hang), I fixed that by downgrading Flash from Flash10 to Flash9. Of course Flash9 is full of security holes. In combination with the Flashblocker Firefox extension and only activating it on trusted sites it seems like a reasonable approach. Of [...]
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Here’s a patch to the vmmouse port that activates the driver unconditionally. This makes the VMware mouse driver work in the default configuration in FreeBSD (7 and 8). When xorg moved to use hal by default, the vmmouse driver needed to be registered with hal. This would work fine, except for the the current port [...]
How to fix a ppp problem when trying to establish a connection via a Huawei E169 UMTS USB stick.
Nun hat’s auch Les Paul erwischt. Nein, es handelt sich nicht um eine Gitarre, sondern um deren Erfinder. Außerdem verdankt man ihm das Mehrspur-Tonaufnahme-Verfahren, indem er zahllose Bandmaschinen zusammenschaltete und synchron laufen ließ, sowie – und daher auch sein Ruhm – die Solid-Body-Gitarre. Les Paul ist just im Alter von 94 Jahren gestorben. Ein schöner [...]
Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, well known for Boom Town and My Favorite Spy, co-invented frequency hopping to help make radio controlled torpedoes more resilient: At a party in Hollywood, Lamarr met George Antheil, an avant-garde composer who also wrote film scores. While playing the piano with the composer, the actress suddenly has an important idea [...]
Over at deviantart, Sonic840 has put together a poster of I/O ports, CPU sockets, RAM modules and whatnot. Might come in handy when trying to find out what that box on Andreas’ attic is
Wie wir gestern abend nochmal diskutiert haben…gibt’s neuere Folge von Simon’s Cat: http://www.simonscat.com/films.html
Telnet too complicated? Just add bgpbotz to your AIM friends list, and ask Merit’s routeviews server anything about their world view. The poor thing has a second personality answering to Jabber’s bgpbotz@jabber.merit.edu.
