Boot from USB instead of DVD
You do not want to burn a DVD or CD when installing a new operating system or running some maintenance tools? Me not, too! Espacially, when you want to install something large which normally requires an expensive dual layer DVD or even when no DVD drive is available at all, it makes sense to use [...]
Running Virtual Machines from a USB stick
Since I got my 16 GB USB memory stick, which is a quite huge storage amount, I got the idea to make the best out of it and do a performance test. Many disc accesses are usually done with a Virtual Machine, so I put a blank Parallels Windows XP virtual machine image to the [...]
Perl 5.8+ on Windows with mySQL
On the last weekend I was helping a friend getting perl on his computer running. He also needed a mySQL Server. He is using Windows, so we hoped it should become easy, because precompiled versions are almost always available for the Win32 platform. With the help of my favourite remote application LogMeIn.com I connected to [...]
Force FileZilla not to annoy file changes
Cyberduck normally is the FTP client of my choice, but I had to work on a server where uploading was not possible and directory listing extremely slow. Trying to change the amount of concurrent connections and active or passive modes did not help me out. To verify it does not depend on my firewall configuration [...]
Downloading flashvideos (flv)
On a Mac it is not a big problem to save flash videos from any websize at all without any extra tools or extensions to the browser. Just use Safari as described in this little tutorial. Step 1: Open your favourite flashvideo – let’s say on Youtube. Then open the Activity Window using the menubar. [...]
Chardrive your harddrive
If the space on a harddrive gets smaller and smaller, then it is time to put some files away. Either they can be put on a backup media or deleted forever. The big question is what to kick first? Large files or long time untouched files? A very good helper is the PathFinder application, because [...]
Speedport W701V vs. FritzBox7050
The T-Com Speedport router model W701 V has like many other hardware some hidden talents, but they need to be awaken with the help of tricks. Netzwelt.de wrote an article about the compability of the Speedport hardware and that it would be almost the same like the AVM FritzBox 7050, except for missing a USB [...]
Cut without a knife
Recently I really had to split a large 1,5 GB archive file from a friend, because I did not have a DVD available, only CD-R media. With the freeware Split & Concat application, I splitted it down into to two slices. One 800 MB file and one 700 MB file. This could be burned and [...]
Desktop in file open box
In any file dialog box of the OS X you have all your favourites in left pane. They are really useful to quick access favourite places on your computer. The current things I am working on, are organized on my desktop. So inside a file dialog box, I just click the sidebar and click on [...]
Pretty, good and private
PGP stands for pretty good privacy and is used for encryption. It helps you to encypt your emails and files, so that only people you want to see the content can view it. Of course, you can create a ZIP file and use a password, but that is not that secure as PGP supports. To [...]
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