Mooie vogel plaatjes

Voor fans van mooie shots van vogels is Flickr een waar walhalla. Hoewel je helaas ook hier het koren van het kaf moet scheiden. Een aanrader zijn de foto's die Ludovic Hirlimann fotografeert van vogels.

Als extra bonus zet hij er meestal ook de Franse en Latijnse namen bij, laat je vogel kennis spreken en zet de Nederlandse naam er eens bij :-)

Xerox Phaser 6125N working in mac os x

The Xerox Phaser 6125N is roughly 150 EUR cheaper as it is big friend the Phaser 6130N which is 'made for the mac'. Why it needs to come that expensive I don't know, marketing is properly the buzzword. Anyways, let's check out the little friend and try to get it running on a mac anyways ;-).

First lets us find a alternative model which does have supported mac os x drivers. Our friends at OpenPrinting suggested the Fuji Xerox Docuprint 525A. Let us download the Mac OS X drivers and install them (using the regular mac os x clicks, drops).

Now add yourself the printer and make sure to select the driver yourself 'FX DocuPrint C525 A-AP v1.7' is the one you are looking for.

Now print ... ehm every piece of paper needs to inserted via the manual feeder :-(. Luckaly there is also a way to get around that PITA. Mac OS X printing is proudly powered by CUPS which allows us to select the right options.

note: don't be scared when username/password are beeing asked during setup, just provide your login credentials

1. Goto http://localhost:631/printers/ using your favorite webbrowser and press 'Set Printer Options' on your newly created printer


2. Head to section called 'Options Installed' and change 'Optional Tray Module' to option '250 Sheet Feeder'


3. Click 'Set Printer Options in same section'


4. You will see the message 'Printer example.com has been configured successfully.'


5. Some more settings are now available, head to http://localhost:631/printers/ again, press 'Set Printer Options' on your newly created printer again.


6. Now goto section 'Basic' and change 'Paper Source' to 'Tray 1 (250 Sheets)'


7. Click 'Set Printer Options in same section'


8. You will see the message 'Printer example.com has been configured successfully.' and could close the page if you like

Print again ... hoara it now feches the pages from the tray :-)

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Filmpje pakken?

Volledige legale films met nederlandse ondertiteling. Laten we eens met een goude ouwe beginnen ;-)

apache httpd mod_autoindex 'missing' subfolder

Also getting tried when apache httpd is not showing the subfolder of a directory indexes listing (generated by mod_autoindex), when for example the permission is denied by the means of AuthBasic. Don't know where I am talking about, maybe this example makes sense:

DirectoryRoot /usr/local/www/data
Options +Indexes

<Directory "/usr/local/www/data">
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory "/usr/local/www/data/foo">
   AuthUserFile /usr/local/www/secret/.foo-htpasswd
   AuthType Basic
   AuthName "Directory 'foo' not visible in indexing of /"
   Require valid-user
</Directory>

AllowForbidden is the magic keyword we need to follow, as suggested at nixforums.org, join me...


A patch has been proposed and applied. And it it also in tags/3.2.1. But wait a minute ... no release scheduled yet, as 3.2.1 is a so called DOA

Anyways work in process, let there be a new release some day :-)

Hoe gebouwen gebouwd worden...

In Leiden, NL zijn ze een nieuwe ROC aan het bouwen het leuke is dat je dit op de website kan volgen. Nadeel is dat dit beeld zo saai als wat is ;-).

Gelukkig kan je met wat creatief html code kijken de live feed van de ROC Leiden nieuwbouw vinden waarbij je dus 'echt' live kan kijken en dat is natuurlijk veel leuker om te zien!

ecards.plaxo.com expired certificate

Properly the nightmare of every webadmin, as (the new) firefox does give you all kind of nasty warning enforcing some more strict ssl policy around the net

https://ecards.plaxo.com/ecard/index.php?corpUpdate=1

But one thing more worse than the warning itself and that is their support desk. Expired certificates does not seems to appear in their drop-down problem/answer sheet, resulting in all kind of odd responses like

"Please check with a different browser and system, and also check the Cipher strength on your Internet Explorer." (running a Mac OS X)

"Sorry, Plaxo ecards link is not a secure link. It is http://ecards.plaxo.com and not https://....." (occurred on redirected from logging in, which should be hopefully be https at least)

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Migration wizzard...

Ough, I enable automatic logout as a security setting before actually starting the migration wizzard on the new Leopard Macbook Pro. Which leads after 60 minutes of inactivity to a really nasty error message, freezing the migration wizzard for a while. But don't worry (you own a mac so you never need to) it will take some time to recover but you will get there eventually :-)