http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog weblog Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:03:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the longest time I ran Firefox 1.5. 2.0 had nothing to offer and from what I heard was a real dog. Finally I switched my main browser over to 3.0 and it has been a nice experience. I love those little things. Like asking if you like to save ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2008/08/17/upgrade-happy/ Got refurb iPod nanos from Apple for the kids. $99. Tooble is a somewhat buggy but overal working application that will get youtube videos and put them into iTunes and therefor the nanos. Handbrake takes care of DVDs and works actually much better. Overall it is pretty impressive with how ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2008/08/03/new-media-3/ while burning in a new machine with a 3ware 9560 adapter I got twice the following error messages: kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi0: WARNING Character ioctl (0x108) timed out, resetting card. kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi0: AEN: INFO Cache synchronization completed:unit=0. Looking at the source it seems that 0×108 is TW_IOCTL_FIRMWARE_PASS_THROUGH I had these errors only ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2008/07/23/kernel-3w-9xxx-scsi0-warning-character-ioctl-0x108-timed-out-resetting-card/ DVDs are cheap. They can be. I picked up the habbit to have lots of unwatched DVDs around. My very own Netflix. With the upside that I get to pick from 50 unwatched DVDs one that I feel like and watch it right away. Last night I watched ‘Lolita’. Funny ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2008/07/08/culture-its-amazing/ By far the worst online user management is done by apple. I felt I could use an Airport Express. But I did not feel dealing with Apple’s broken password management yet again. iTunes kinda works most of the time. But their developer connection and online stores are plain pathetic. I ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2008/06/24/worst-online-user-management-apple/ June 29th 2007: Apple releases the iPhone August 8th 2007: INTERDUBS supports the iPhone June 17th 2008: Beam.TV launches mode to support the iPhone. As for all others companies in the space: Nothing. Yet. http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2008/06/20/iphone-support/ The other day a colleague observed me wrangling some obscure firewall / ftp issue that came up for one of my clients. Once I had fixed the problem he proclaimed: “you really leave no bug behind”. I like that expression. It matches what I am trying to do with ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2008/06/18/no-bug-left-behind/ Nicolas Carr asks Is Google Making Us Stupid. The question is provocative, the underlying mechanism interesting. His conclusions seem predictive and not very helpful I am afraid. Reading the title I hoped for the wrong article. One that would illuminate and much more interesting question: “How does google change ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2008/06/12/adaptive-beings/ With a MacBook you pay around 50 extra to get it in black. Now with the iPhone 3G there will be a white version. But that will only be available for the larger 16GB version. I never ever have filled up the 4GB I had. So you have two choices ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2008/06/09/white-is-the-new-black/ Funny how Apple sometimes ‘fixes’ things by giving the remedy a new name: Under 10.4 the ‘fancy’ cache would go made quiet frequently. Basically you’d see the wrong web page, while other commands like ping etc still reach the proper server. sudo lookupd flushcache used to fix that. Of course the bug has not ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2008/05/22/seing-the-wrong-page-again/