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Posted in How-To on Mar 5th, 2011
Juniper Network Connect is Juniper’s cross-platform VPN client coming with many Juniper appliances. The OS X client installs itself using a browser Java plugin when connecting to the company’s VPN portal. In the first Lion beta the Java browser plugin is not available so you cannot install the client. Its also not possible to just [...]
Posted in How-To on Mar 1st, 2011
Apple just released the first beta version of its upcoming OS X 10.7 “Lion” operating system to subscribed developers. Its meant for developers to port and test their software on the new version. However, even testing and developing needs a comfortable environment and that can be achieved by installing your daily used software. Most of [...]
Posted in How-To on Aug 23rd, 2010
Whats the problem? You may think you don’t have to deal with disk defragmentation on OS X as OS X does it all for you. In most cases you are right, as OS X automatically tries to avoid fragmentation on files < 20MB. However, larger files are sometimes heavily affected. I noticed it when playing [...]
Posted in How-To on Jun 27th, 2010
Starting with Safari 5, Apple has included extensions support which makes Safari a real Firefox alternative for me. As a long time Firefox user I’ve saved many passwords in its keystore. For bookmarks, the exchange between the two browsers is easy as both support exporting and importing them as flat html files. Passwords are stored [...]
Posted in How-To on Jun 26th, 2010
In Deutschland kann man das aktuelle iPhone 4 offiziell nur in Verbindung mit einem Telekom Mobilfunkvertrag kaufen. Importeure bieten Simlock-freie Geräte zwar an, verlangen aber auch sehr hohe Preise. Umgehen kann man das Problem, wenn man selbst im europäischen Umland kauft. So kann man es z.B. online direkt im Apple Store Frankreich oder UK kaufen. [...]
Posted in How-To on Jun 8th, 2010
The bad news is that you may lose your tethering option after updating to iOS 4 from your previous iPhone OS 3.1.3 installation. The good news is that my 3.1.3 solution still works with iOS 4, so just follow http://www.kaisblog.de/2010/02/19/reenable-iphone-tethering-313/ to re-enable tethering on iOS 4. Good luck.
Posted in How-To on May 6th, 2010
Yesterday we had a little brainstorming session in our admin team where our IT documentation was one thing to discuss. The result was, that we need to change our documentation tool to something faster and easier to use. And my team developed some incredible ideas which we implemented and I want to share them with [...]
Posted in How-To on May 2nd, 2010
Today I spent half of my day trying to flash the BIOS of my homeserver which is a DELL Vostro 200 running Linux. The Vostro 200 system is not eqipped with a floppy drive. The problem is that DELL ships new BIOS files as a DOS/Windows hybrid which cannot be executed by Linux systems. By [...]
Posted in How-To on Mar 6th, 2010
During my CeBIT 2010 visit I stumbled upon a new offer from Strato: HiDrive. That’s an online storage solution starting with 100GB without traffic limitations. Supported protocols are WEBDAV(S), CIFS/SMB (even via openvpn!), FTP, SCP and rsync. As a special bonus to CeBIT visitors they offered the 100GB entry package for 1€ in the first [...]
Posted in How-To on Feb 19th, 2010
With Apple’s newest iPhone OS 3.1.3 internet tethering is officially available for factory unlocked iPhones. But for some reason my tethering option disappeared directly after I activated it the first time after the update. I tried to delete my network settings, re-install the carrier profile but all without success. How to re-enable tethering Sync with [...]
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