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I won’t have time to do this for another 2 weeks (see above for the reason), but I googled around for the problem of a crashing Lotus Notes 6.0.3 for Mac OS X and found … Ben already has it licked: Notes 6.5 on OS X. Also Nini seems like a good thing to have.

Thanks to Ned for the Subversion Cheat Sheet

Ups - alle Sonderzeichen liegen auf der Mac Tastatur an völlig anderern Stellen. Vor allem Dinge wie eckige und geschweifte Klammern scheinen auf einer Schweizer Tastatur unauffindbar. Zum Glück gibt’s Tastatur-Tipps.

Boys need toys… but the wife likes them too, so it’s OK: Pictures taken with a Nokia 9500 - all complaints about quality to Nokia please.

My MacMini arrived yesterday and I was playing the better part of the evening and a small part of the night (yawn) with it. First impressions: It’s small It’s quiet (unless it get’s really busy, at which point the fan kicks in - and that’s one noisy fan) Setup was very, very painless. I let my wife do it, and she went through the whole experience in a couple of minutes. the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) is immensely high the kids loved the included games (which led to tears when it was bed-time) connecting to sauron was a breeze iTunes was about 5 times faster re-importing my 12000 tracks on a Samba fileserver, than the Windows version on my Dell Laptop Connecting my iPod just worked - now I have to redo my smart playlists Fast User Switching (or whatever it’s called on OS X) works very well Installing / Deinstalling Software is easy a 1024*768, 15" screen is just a tad too small. A 17" wide screen would be nice - why doesn’t Apple have one? the “dead-slow”, “braindead”, “old piece of junk” graphic in the Mac Mini is absolutely fast enough Amazing that the whole thing cost just 20 swiss francs more, than my 30GB iPod about a year ago OS X is - just nice thanks to byteborg, rsz and vowe for initial support Open Questions: feel free to comment, I haven’t done much research on those yet ...

This is quite an up / down week, with all kinds of – let’s call them – interesting things happening. On the negative side: The air is so dry, that I wake up every night with a mouth so dry that my tongue feels like rasping through death valley At the same time my nose is regularly clogged too, so the open mouth is a necessity to survive the night My laptop died while trying to go from standby to hibernat mode. It managed to screw up it’s registry and boots immediately to a blue screen. Luckily the also installed Ubuntu Linux booted fine, and I was able to copy all of my files to an external firewire harddisk. (Note to self: Try to figure out why Ubuntu treats the harddisk of the Dell Inspiron as a VERY slow hard disk. The ususal hdparm tunings (-c1 -d1 …) didn’t increase the speed above 3 MB / s, which is just almost unbearable slow) My Linux server had a fit yesterday and crawled along with a load of 9000. A mercyful turning of the BRS brought it back to life. On the positive side ...