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Download the QuickTime High Definition Trailers directly (and save them for future viewing, for example on a HD capable projector - thanks Michael ;-) ) kingdom of heaven nasa wildlife Technorati Tags: mac

Our office got a new HP LaserJet 2420dn printer yesterday to replace an old LJ6 (that was woefully inadequate for office use). Installation of the printer drives went fine (as long as you call a 67% success rate in the first round fine - now we are at 100%) Today the additional 500-page tray arrived and was installed. On Windows it was a snap to tell the printer driver, that there is another tray to be served from. On OS X (the Tiger variant) - no such luck. I can print no problem, but the drivers insists on only having 2 trays. And the place where I can select memory and duplex option has no little checkbox for selecting the additional tray. What is the wisdom out there for these kind of problems? Google is no help. Can it be, that Windows is better than Mac OS X? ...

20 cool things in Tiger - and I haven’t heard about most of them… The best hint for me, was the hint for Keychain Access. I know that there is something that is called keychain, but I didn’t realize that it’s a full blown application that not only stores all your passwords (duh), but also allows you to retrieve them (what a concept). It also stores encrypted notes (think credit card numbers). ...

Last week my article on Ruby on Rails came out in Infoweek.ch. It briefly describes Rails, Ruby and gives a very high-level overview over the development and the advantages of Rails over other development frameworks. Thanks to the guys at Infoweek, I’m allowed to give you a PDF version of the article. Enjoy (and beware: it’s in german): Technorati Tags: [ruby on rails](https://technorati.com/tag/ruby on rails) **UPDATE: ** The PDF has disappeared from my server, but the original article is still available online. ...

The tale of the joys of asynchronous vs. synchronous processing. In one of my application users edit rich text in a web browser. This has been working well for 2 years, but all of a sudden problems have appeared. When the users edit very large portions of text, it sometimes is cut off at an arbitrary position. Time do do some debugging… **Insert:** One thing I like about my job in IT - and I mean really like - is the fact, that all strange behavior can be traced back to a cause. The cause may be hidden, it may be beneath several level of seemingly wrong things (that turn out to be correct) but it's there. Always. It may take some time to find it, but I have found each and everyone in the past. This fact gives me a lot of confidence and my clients hear “that’s the way it is, and I can’t solve it” a lot less than earlier in my career. ...

It took a while, but now it’s online: The swiss (and the scandinavian) itunes music stores. The price for a track is CHF 1.50 ( around 1 Euro or 1.2 US$ - quite expensive, but this is Switzerland, where the money comes from). Also, version 4.8 of iTunes itself is available, and it’s playing videos now. Now if only the quality of the downloads would be better - allofmp3.com is much more advanced in this regard. (I’ll leave the legality discussions for the moment) ...