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While investigating some HTTP header fields, I stumbled across the “X-hacker” containing a job posting. Inspiring idea.

In Mac OSX 10.8 developer preview, Apple added a long desired feature to the calender.app for business use: calender weeks. Problem: However, the displayed calender week is one week ahead the real calender week. Typically calender weeks starts with the first full week of the year. But, calender.app starts calender week one in the week […]

Settings: Microsoft Windows Vista (SP0, SP1, SP2) System is not part of a domain Outlook is setup up to use company’s Exchange server Problem: Each time you open Outlook, the credentials for a server in the domain are queried. If you select “save password” the popup occurs next time you restart Outlook again. Solution: 1.)    […]

Problem: Yellow warning sign in front of all CD-/DVD devices in device manager. Solution: Open the registry editor and navigate to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Control -> Class -> {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}. Check the properties of the following keys: * LowerFilters: PxHelp20 * UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM Alternatively, delete both keys. Reboot the system, all […]

Issue: While installing, the MS Office setup wizard asks for the file “SKU011.cab”, but it is not contained your installation source? Solution: Open the registry editor and naviagte to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> Software -> Microsoft -> Office -> 11.0 -> Delivery -> 90000409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9. The value for the attribute CDCache must be set to “0” (it was […]

Problem: ELSTER installed on MS Vista SP1, program runs. Just when checking the data or submitting data to the Internet the application closes abruptly without any error message. Checking the Windows eventlog section systems indicated the following errors: SOURCE: FW1 EVENTID: 1 DESCRIPTION: FW1: C Sending reset dire The error indicates problems returned by the […]

Problem: Need to extend the reiserfs formatted partition /dev/sda2 mounted as /. Solution: Get your desired live cd and boot from it. Use cfdisk /dev/sda or fdisk /dev/sda to change partition tables of your disks. First note the start cyclinder of the current parition! Delete the existing partition /dev/sda2. Create a new partition /dev/sda2 with […]

Google’s new Internet Browser “Chrome” is available. And it is fast — really fast. Tabbed browsing works on process-basis, i.e. each tab runs as an isolated process consuming approximately 20-30 MB of main memory. This may be an evidence for a stable system architecture. Settings are imported seamlessly from existing Firefox profiles. Let’s have some […]

Only a few weeks ago, apple opened its application store offering third-party developers a platform for distributing application. Although the majority of available applications are games, funny applications or even protoypes, there is an increasing number of enterprise applications. Oracle was one of the first vendor of enterprise software releasing an iPhone frontend for its […]

Imagine you have two or more isolated MySQL serves instances and you want to execute queries across different server instances. One possible way is to query each sevrer individually, gather the result and combine the results on the client. Another more comfortable way is to execute the query across a single prepared server instance which […]