Es ist wieder einmal die Jahreszeit, wo tausende von Schweizer und Schweizerinnen ihre Steuererklärung ausfüllen und abgeben müssen. Wer die Graubünder Software “SofTax” verwendet, hat natürlich den digitalen Vorteil gegenüber der Papierversion. Jedoch lässt sich das generierte PDF nicht kopieren oder speichern. Eigentlich. Dank eines einfachen Tricks für Mac OS X lässt es sich doch […]
Continue ReadingPerfect Online Backup Strategy
For over 15 months I am using BackBlaze as an online backup system. Once installed and configured, it automatically backs up all my data in the background. No matter how many files or how large your backup is, everything is safe. BackBlaze currently backs up 38 GB of data in 634’244 files for me. Now […]
Continue ReadingSnow Leopard Pro-Order Now
The Swiss Apple Online Store has just re-opened after being down for over one hour. And what Twitter users pre-told is true. You can pre-order Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) and it will ship by August 28 (at least in Switzerland). Of course I’ve already ordered my copy 🙂 Now Digitec needs to hurry up […]
Continue ReadingBreaking the Network: SSH Server as Proxy for Secure Browsing
Our university LAN is pretty restricted. You can only access the most basic ports like http (80), ftp (21), ssh (22), pop3, imap and so on. But what if you need another port like a port to manage a webserver? After some tuning and searching we came up with the almost perfect solution. And it […]
Continue Readingvim: Regex Search and Delete Line
:%g!/\< \(STRING\|VALUE\)\>/d Explanation :%g Range to search. %g means the complete file ! Negotiation. Can be used to negate the regex \< \(STRING\|VALUE\)\ regular expression (regex). Can be anything /d command to execute with each line found. d means delete Example used :%g/INSERT INTO `table` VALUES>/d This command deletes ALL lines with INSERT INTO `table` […]
Continue ReadingMac OS X: Finder fails to connect to Windows File Server
I am having trouble connecting to our Windows File Server for a couple of days now. Finder always gives me this error message: Changing my password or using the server’s ip did not solve the problem. Next I tried to connect with the command line tools smbclient. That worked perfectly. But what the hell? I […]
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