http://pragmat.org/blog Ralf's scratch space Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:53:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just spent 15 minutes of my limited life chasing a frigging Safari bug. Apparently on my last logout, Safari didn't close the PubSub [that's Apple's framework for dealing with RSS feeds] sqlite3 database properly. This led to a hang upon the next startup, and every subsequent startup. After a ... http://pragmat.org/blog/2008/01/21/safari-pubsub-hang/ I just ran across the following gem [via BoingBoing, yeah I know it's old, I just saw it now though]: AirPower, a wiki dedicated to documenting power outlets at airports all around the world. I usually start scouring the airport for power outlets on multi-leg flights once I've completed a ... http://pragmat.org/blog/2008/01/21/power-outlets-at-airports/ Two accessories I recently bought which I can heartily recommend: Bräda, a laptop support cushion which makes having your laptop sitting on your lap really comfortable. No more frying my balls! Also, after having dropped my iPhone two times in the first two days already, I went to Media Markt in Berlin ... http://pragmat.org/blog/2008/01/19/recently-acquired-accessories-starting-with-the-letters-br/ I just set up a cross-compiling environment for the iPhone and compiled dns2tcp for the iPhone. Dns2tcp is a DNS tunnel written in C that I can heartily recommend, it however could be a little bit more stealthy. Using DNSSEC KEY RRs clearly is NOT stealthy. If you trust me ... http://pragmat.org/blog/2008/01/10/dns-tunneling-on-the-iphone/ I really have to say: from a usability perspective, this baby rocks. Putting my security researcher hat on, I however have to say: Shame on you, Apple! I'm taking bets as to how long it takes till we see the first worm for the iPhone. What's interesting is that the ... http://pragmat.org/blog/2008/01/04/iphone/ Fuck. I so want this! And I don't even have an iPhone yet. :) last.fm on your MP3 player! And I want that A2DP profile to work, dammit! Apple, hear me? http://pragmat.org/blog/2007/12/21/mobilescrobbler/ My new A2DP headset/headphones arrived today and I have to say: I'm stoked! Although the headphones part is not quite as good as the AKG headphones I own, they sound alright.Pairing with my Nokia E61 with the HBH-DS980 worked almost flawlessly (the first pairing attempt failed, but after I reset ... http://pragmat.org/blog/2007/11/24/new-toy-arrived-sony-ericsson-hbh-ds980/ Apple just released the Darwin 9.0 source tree! http://pragmat.org/blog/2007/11/01/apple-releases-105-source-tree/ So I was quite heartbroken about my favourite Mail plug-ins, GPGMail and Mail-Act-On being disabled after the Leopard upgrade. Turns out there's a very easy way to fix this (found in the MAO forum). Simply move the bundles back from the Bundles (Disabled) directory to the Bundles directory (in $HOME/Library/Mail, ... http://pragmat.org/blog/2007/10/31/mail-act-on-and-gpgmail-under-leopard/ Just upgraded to Leopard doing a clean reinstall. Before I copied my sparseimage FileVault container (/Users/$USER/$USER.sparseimage) to an external USB drive, after the reinstall I copied it back. Then I remembered that FileVault in OS X 10.5 uses a new format (as reported in FileVault doesn’t use Sparse-Images anymore) and ... http://pragmat.org/blog/2007/10/30/converting-filevault-images-for-os-x-105/