My little sister's boyfriend Jörg Schneider, together with Eric Ballerstedt, has founded a business called "BS Landschaftsarchitekten" (BS Landscape Architects, BS stands for Ballerstedt and Schneider). They will be operating from a city in the southern part of Germany (Lindenberg, Allgäu).
Currently, they have temporary website up which can be seen at http://www.bs-landschaftsarchitekten.de/. This website is in German as the newly found company focuses on the German speaking market.
Please apologize for the next paragraph being in German...
Jörg Schneider und Eric Ballerstedt haben die Firma BS Landschaftsarchitekten (http://www.bs-landschaftsarchitekten.de/) gegründet. Die junge Firma wird in Lindenberg im Allgäu (Süddeutschland) sitzen.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Copy&Paste under Windows just like under Linux!
I found the tool I talked about in my previous blog!
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/
Run the little executable, and can now copy&paste using your mouse just like under Linux:
Highlight it with the left mouse button, that will already copy it.
To paste it, simply hit the middle mouse button.
Awesome!
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/
Run the little executable, and can now copy&paste using your mouse just like under Linux:
Highlight it with the left mouse button, that will already copy it.
To paste it, simply hit the middle mouse button.
Awesome!
Moving windows under Windows just like under X
Ah, what an eye opener!
One of the most annoying things under Windows XP/Vista is that you cannot move and resize windows in an efficient and comfortable way.
Everybody who has worked using a window manager for X (i.e. KDE, GNOME, etc) knows that you can move and resize windows using the Alt key in combination with the left and right mouse button. That way you don't have aim for the title bar or for the small and skinny edge/corner of the window you want to move or resize. Under X, it is enough if the mouse pointer is anywhere within the window borders.
Today, I thought that it is enough with getting mad whenever I develop under windows (I am developing almost exclusively under windows lately).
So I googled and I found this tool:
KDE-style resizing/moving for Windows XP/Vista.
I immediately downloaded and ran the executable. No need to install it! So you can use it even if you don't have Administrator rights on your Windows box.
It works like a charm! My productivity under Windows has gone up by 100%. ;)
The next thing I need to find is a tool which puts text into the clipboard by simply highlighting it with the mouse - just like under linux. Ah, and the middle mouse button click would paste it, of course.
If I find a tool for that (I may have to code that myself), then this world should be a better place!
Maybe somebody already knows about a tool like that!
One of the most annoying things under Windows XP/Vista is that you cannot move and resize windows in an efficient and comfortable way.
Everybody who has worked using a window manager for X (i.e. KDE, GNOME, etc) knows that you can move and resize windows using the Alt key in combination with the left and right mouse button. That way you don't have aim for the title bar or for the small and skinny edge/corner of the window you want to move or resize. Under X, it is enough if the mouse pointer is anywhere within the window borders.
Today, I thought that it is enough with getting mad whenever I develop under windows (I am developing almost exclusively under windows lately).
So I googled and I found this tool:
KDE-style resizing/moving for Windows XP/Vista.
I immediately downloaded and ran the executable. No need to install it! So you can use it even if you don't have Administrator rights on your Windows box.
It works like a charm! My productivity under Windows has gone up by 100%. ;)
The next thing I need to find is a tool which puts text into the clipboard by simply highlighting it with the mouse - just like under linux. Ah, and the middle mouse button click would paste it, of course.
If I find a tool for that (I may have to code that myself), then this world should be a better place!
Maybe somebody already knows about a tool like that!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
New keyboard!
I got a new keyboard at work... and I am loving it.
Really, keyboards, mice, and joysticks are the best things MS can make.
I got the Microsoft Comfort Curve. It is simple, cheap ($20), and it feels really good. Love the gentle curve in it since I don't like the economic ones which are broken in half and than re-attached.
Obviously, I had to configure the few multimedia keys under linux.
Using
Now you can configure your amarok or other applications to use those keys as they now appear in any key short cut configuring dialog when you hit those special buttons.
Under KDE 3.5.x, a special thing happens when you hit the volume up and down buttons. Using kmilod, kmix listens to those button events and changes the volume of your entire system. Haven't quite figured out yet how to get rid of that key shortcut association and let amarok only use those two volume keys.
I could turn off kmilod entirely with kcontrol -> services.
But I think I like that I now have shortcuts to control the global volume and different shortcuts for amarok's volume.
Really, keyboards, mice, and joysticks are the best things MS can make.
I got the Microsoft Comfort Curve. It is simple, cheap ($20), and it feels really good. Love the gentle curve in it since I don't like the economic ones which are broken in half and than re-attached.
Obviously, I had to configure the few multimedia keys under linux.
Using
xev and looking up the proper description of the keys in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB I put that in my .bashrc:
xmodmap -e 'keycode 236 = XF86Mail'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 161 = XF86Calculator'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 233 = XF86AudioNext'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 234 = XF86AudioPrev'
Now you can configure your amarok or other applications to use those keys as they now appear in any key short cut configuring dialog when you hit those special buttons.
Under KDE 3.5.x, a special thing happens when you hit the volume up and down buttons. Using kmilod, kmix listens to those button events and changes the volume of your entire system. Haven't quite figured out yet how to get rid of that key shortcut association and let amarok only use those two volume keys.
I could turn off kmilod entirely with kcontrol -> services.
But I think I like that I now have shortcuts to control the global volume and different shortcuts for amarok's volume.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
DNS Zone Check
While I was configuring some CNAMES and A records for my mkoebele.de domain using EditDNS (http://www.editdns.net), I had first problems with telling my domain provider (1und1.de) to use new domain name servers - the editdns' ones.
Luckily, the 1und1 tech support was switched on this time and gave me actual a very helpful url:
DNS Zone Check: http://zonecheck.denic.de/
It is a tool which makes sure that the settings on your new DNS are appropriate for denic's requirements.
Very neat. That tool should help you to use any hosting service or dns management tool with your domain registered via denic.
Luckily, the 1und1 tech support was switched on this time and gave me actual a very helpful url:
DNS Zone Check: http://zonecheck.denic.de/
It is a tool which makes sure that the settings on your new DNS are appropriate for denic's requirements.
Very neat. That tool should help you to use any hosting service or dns management tool with your domain registered via denic.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
find in Windows! Found something useful!
My Development job at Navtech, I get to develop under Windows. Yesterday, I needed to solve a standard problem, a software developer needs to do like once a week at least:
Count the lines in a text file which contain the string ""
Under linux: No Problem:
Under windows? I fought my temptation to copy the file over to linux and to do it there. I really though, ok, what if I was a windows developer who didn't know about linux or cygwin... There should be a way!
One suggestion was to use Find & Replace and usually there is a dialog box at the end saying "Replaced 486 occurrences".
But I thought, that can't be it. I did some googling and was surprised!
Windows has a find in its good old MS DOS shell!!
Wow, it returned the number of occurrences formatted in a weird way. But it works.
Crazy...
I should use Windows more often...
Count the lines in a text file which contain the string "
Under linux: No Problem:
grep "<value>" file.xml | wc -lUnder windows? I fought my temptation to copy the file over to linux and to do it there. I really though, ok, what if I was a windows developer who didn't know about linux or cygwin... There should be a way!
One suggestion was to use Find & Replace and usually there is a dialog box at the end saying "Replaced 486 occurrences".
But I thought, that can't be it. I did some googling and was surprised!
Windows has a find in its good old MS DOS shell!!
C:\> find /C "<value>" file.xmlWow, it returned the number of occurrences formatted in a weird way. But it works.
Crazy...
I should use Windows more often...
Monday, September 1, 2008
My wife is now a French Tutor in Guelph
I created her a webpage on which she offers French lessons as a tutor in Guelph.
Check it out and spread the word: http://french.mkoebele.de. (yes, I will get her a new domain name ;))
Check it out and spread the word: http://french.mkoebele.de. (yes, I will get her a new domain name ;))
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