The pidgin Facebook plugin does not work properly so far. A single Facebook user actually talks to me with yet another id, every single time he sends me a message. This does not look tested well enough.
I am using pidgin 2.6.2 (libpurple 2.6.2) from fink on Mac OS X, Snow Leopard.
Update / 2010-12-28:
For quite a while Facebook chat has now been reachable through Jabber / XMPP.
You can’t reach the main Fink web site right now, but there is an alternative though.
2009-10-28: You can fink again. The main Fink web site is still not available though.
Do you think, I am starting a fairy tale here? No, I’m not. Look it up on Apple’s list of public downloads for Mac OS X. The link there is broken (right now), but read it and bend it! It points you to sweetpproductions.com, there you want to look for the Safari AdBlocker (maybe this link will still be functional). It works with Firefox AdBlock Plus filter subscritions.
Question is, how long it will take, until the iPhone’s Safari can be made to block ads as well. I mean, an iPhone is an OS X derivative using Cocoa, so I wonder how hard that will be.
Well, now don’t you complain here, if you find browsing without ads a poor experience!
A Netgear knowledge base article named Recommended Unix printer configuration for PS110 explains, why it’s good to use the LPD printing method.
Now my Mac is the UNIX-ish machine on my LAN with the richest printing capabilities:
What is still missing in the team is my Canon PIXMA MX310, a combi device that I mostly use for batch scanning enterprise documents and for sending documents by fax. That device is attached via USB to a rather simple (and fanless) machine (a NEO) running WinXP, running through pretty all of the year.
Just for the completeness of the presentation: Incoming fax documents get received by that FRITZ!Box, and that lovely devices creates PDF-s from them and forwards them as e-mail attachments to one of my IMAP mail boxes out there.
I happened to come across and old friend last night on Yahoo Messenger resp. pidgin, who told me, that she was justing attempting to commit suicide.
What had happened? She had an abortion last week with twins in the 3rd month. No contraception? No, really not. But the Pill and antibiotics do not go together. She didn’t know that, and she got pregnant.
We chatted quite long last night. I think, she felt a little better, when we said our “Good Nights”.
there is that nice article on where to find the “pipe symbol” / “pipe symbol” on an Apple keyboard. of course nowadays with Snow Leopard or “just” Leopard that’s all different. but it still (with a little fancy and curiousity) helped me finding out, how to get to that thing.
in short: System Preferences / Language + Text / Input Sources / Show Input menu in menu bar / Show Keyboard Viewer.
there you play a little with combinations of the shift key, the function key, and just try yourself!
alright, I actually completed this article — at the cost of letting my SO wait for my call to the gym. sorry for that!
My task is to copy an Audio-CD with a language course on it.
I tried to achieve this on my new Mac Book Pro, just with the software, that comes with it. Disk Utility does not seem to support exactly this, it leaves out especially the creation of an image of a CD-ROM. I would though burn a CD-ROM from an image.
Looks like openSuSE’s Brasero does not have a problem with this task.
My Mac Book’s current “hostname” looks really weird. I would rather like to change it.
Update 2013-06-15:
A: in Sharing you can change the computer name.
After I had bought my iPhone (on a German “prepaid” card, so: I did pay quite some money for it, and I don’t feel like I stole it, and I don’t have an expensive monthly tariff on a “postpaid” card), I got somebody to jailbreak it. He installed Cydia, Installous, and “all that”.
I the meantime I also installed a few apps from those repositories, but I wasn’t able to remove any of them.
Now I found a setting to get apps installed through Installous to appear under my iPhone’s Applications on iTunes on my PC. Looks like that is a way to also remove them.
Yes, I read there is an issue with that “AppSync”. So be sure, you know, what you do, before you also simply toggle that switch. Your “other apps” might get removed by iTunes next time you sync your iPhone.
I am now stuck in a huge sync, and I will interrupt it, as my SO keeps reminding me through the phone, that we have an appointment in the gym.
At least I do know now, how to get rid of that app, that I didn’t find useful. It drives me nuts, if I can’t find things like that out in a rather short time.
Oh, just a short extra note, before I leave for the gym: YES, that syncing DID remove a few apps, that I didn’t want to get removed. Those were those navigation apps, that the guy thought I should get installed by him for quite some bucks. Well, not to worry, I shall poke him for that soon. Offfffffff for the gym!