I am trying to decide what lens to buy for my Canon EOS 350D. The first descision to make is what focal length I need. To do this, I found a nice tool which can display statistical info about your photographs. It shows you how many foto's you've made at certain focal lengths, with which aperture, ISO, metering, and …

Eclipse looks really nice on OS X. I can tell, I have it running on my mac Mini duo core. If you have problems getting it to start, and the logfile complains about linker errors, chances are you have the PPC version of the eclipse app file. To check this, Ctrl-click on the eclipse.app file. If it doesn't say …

This is a simple followup after my last post. Pim did also look into this, and made a script which doesn't pop up finders by simply calling "mount". There is only one minor glitch: the script pops up an error when the mount already exists. With my brilliant programming expertise, I quickly solved that: try …

With my Mac mini in a Windows LAN, I have the following problem: 1. I can add my (cifs windows) network shares to my login script (Preferences -> Accounts -> Login), but when the mac wakes up from sleep, they are gone. 2. When I want to connect to 2 shares on the same server, but one with a different account …

Bummer, I was hoping to be able to open those wmv files I get mailed in the Quicktime window. Although OS X claims to be supporting Flip4Mac since 10.4.5 (I have 10.4.6), the Flip4Mac installer exits with a message about not being able to install on Intel based hardware.I guess I'll have to live with -gasp- Windows …

I recently went to Vegas, which is a very long trip (about 20 hours including stopover). I don't like flying that much, my ears hurt and it is very boring to be crammed in a chair for 10 hours, with a headrest that makes your chin touch your chest no matter how you adjust it. However, on this flight (and the one back) …

Does Oracle complain about not being able to drop a table for a currently connected user, but you are sure you disconnected? Do the sessions "hang" in "inactive" state? Just log on as system, and execute the following query: SELECT 'ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION ''' || sid || ',' || serial# || '''; --', …

For some reason I've been selected my the google company to have the new interface of gmail, where you can use google talk without even installing it! Yes you've read that right. When I log in to Google, I immediately see a quick contacts list of people who are online (on googletalk), and I can chat with them as if I …

Getting the "Could not find an adaptor for class Foo" Mesage in Tapestry? You probably forgot to make your class Serializable. A simple description of a possible problematic situation follows: Suppose you have some simple class, like so: public class MyItem { private String itemname; public String …

In the early days, Adobe Acrbat Reader was a great tool for reading PDF files. But in the past months, it has transformed into a slow-starting, update hungry irritating tool which pops up questions about upgrading parts of the program you didn't even request to be installed. If you have the older version of Acrobat …