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Archive for June, 2009

ARGGG… The iPhone OS 3.0 has finally been released, but the iPhone activation server has already gone down…

Lot’s of people – including me – have started to receive the error message:

… or as seen in the diagnostic log that can be sent to Apple as iTunes: Restore error 1639

Guess there is nothing to do right now, than just wait it out and keep trying…. sucks!

After having scoured the Internets to find an answer and not really being able to find an answer to the question How do I set the theme height of an Artisteer theme? I decided to find out myself.

Actually, it was not that hard.

Find the file:

/yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/YourTheme/style.css

Edit it and look for the section

.Post-body
{

Simply add the height (in pixels) that you want your theme to be. Afterwards, it should look something like this:

.Post-body
{
position: relative;
z-index: 0;
margin: 16px;
height: 600px;
}

For quite some time, I have been taking panorama pictures and I have mainly been posting them to my Picasa gallery.

But some of the pictures are quite large and you don’t really get the full experience of them on Picasa, so I created a page for my panorama pictures on the site.

You can find it here or via the menu, look for Panoramas

I love Gmail… I have been using Gmail since before it went public (thanks to a good old friend for the invite).

However, I often need to find an email fast, and often I forget to star emails, or I just can’t find it among my huge amounts of starred emails.

The basics for easy Gmail searching is using “from:PERSONS_NAME”, i.e. from:debrass, or using the plain email address, i.e. from:myfriend@hisdomain.com.

But, being able to use more search options is an advantage. Google’s own help found here already provides a wealth of helpful information.

Though the list is long, here are the most basic ones you need.
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I watch a lot of movies and in general VLC is one of my most used and favorite applications on both Windows, Linux / Ubuntu and OSX.

But, on Linux / Ubuntu when I open a new video is doesn’t open in the same VLC instance as it does in Windows or OSX, which can be extremely annoying.

I Googled and searched the VLC and Ubuntu forums, but didn’t really find anything, except a not so easy solution: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=692139

There must be an easier solution… and there is and way simpler….

1. Open VLC (Applications > Sound & Video > VLC Media Player)

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So, a good friend of mine told me that his ISP Stofa / StofaNet in Denmark has blocked off the The Pirate Bay (http://thepiratebay.org/)

Easy way to get around this is either using other tracker sites, or just just Hide My Ass, since StofaNet only blocked off the site itself, not the BitTorrent network itself or other torrent sites.

Truly a say day, when someone – no matter who – starts to censor the Internet….