Tutorial
Adobe PDF Printer on Snow Leopard
by Reto Vogel on Oct.02, 2009, under Apple, Tutorial
After “snowing” Apple’s Leopard (I did a completely new install) I installed Adobe Acrobat 9. The installation run through quite well without errors. But then I saw, that Adobe’s PDF Printer is missing in the printer section… (continue reading…)
Easy music remix with Audacity
by Reto Vogel on Sep.29, 2009, under Computer, HSLU, Multimediatechnik, Tutorial
Also the audio-part is covered by the multimedia module at HSLU. This time we had to use the free audio editor and recording application Audacity. Audacity is cross-platform and is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD.
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Workaround for Juniper Network Connect on Snow Leopard
by Reto Vogel on Sep.19, 2009, under Apple, Tutorial
After reinstall of my MacBook with the new MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard I wanted to setup and establish a VPN connection to the firm. Not even installing (through the webbrowser) the needed software wasn’t possible. So at first I thought it must be something with company’s access-policy – but it wasn’t and my colleague at work told me, that it should work…
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PHP handler override through .htaccess file
by Reto Vogel on Sep.17, 2009, under Computer, PHP, Tutorial
While setting up my new blog and adding some useful plugins, I asserted that my hoster’s (Hoststar – Multimedia Networks AG) default php handler is version 4.3.11 … a bit out of date I think (actual version is 5.2.x respectively 5.3.x).
After some research and try-and-error I found an easy way to change the handler without getting in contact with the support unit – thanks to my studies colleague Thomas Galliker and to Google. (continue reading…)