http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress The personal blog of Winfried Maus, born in 1970, thinking ever since. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:07:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are currently moving, and that means that I will be offline until we have Internet at our new place. So if I don't reply within the usual timeframe to your emails, this is the reason why. Talk to you soon from our new home! http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress/20080815-move-2008/ I know that I'm a nutcase, you don't need to tell me. Didn't I once say that the main reason why I bought the Xbox 360 was not to have to upgrade my PC/Mac again only to play computer games? Well, here I am, the living contradiction: My new nVidia ... http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress/20080812-crysis-stalker-and-my-new-nvidia-8800-gt/ OS X Leopard comes with a version of Python pre-installed, but this version is neither up-to-date nor is it a good choice when you want to create application bundles that also have to be compatible with OS X Tiger. That is why I have chosen to install the official Python ... http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress/20080811-python-essentials-for-os-x-leopard/ In the following article, I will describe how I install BlitzMax on OS X Leopard from the official Blitz Research Limited Subversion (short: SVN) repositories. According to Wikipedia, "a repository is a place where data or specimens are stored and maintained for future retrieval." The repository that we are interested ... http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress/20080810-installing-blitzmax-on-os-x-leopard-from-the-svn-repository/ Maybe I was having a little bit too much on my hands in the last days, but I've re-installed Vista Ultimate Edition 32 Bit SP1 on a 160 GB disk on my Mac Pro (which is what people nowadays call 'running Windows in BootCamp'). My Mac Pro has 8 GB RAM, ... http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress/20080808-far-cry-vista-and-my-mac-pro-revisited/ I'm writing this because I once again stumbled over some blogs of technophile folks who pride themselves with having successfully jailbroken Apple's iPhone. People buy iPhones because they somehow fell in love with that little device that could be out of a Star Trek movie. Then they quickly discover that the ... http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress/20080804-dont-jailbreak-your-iphone-or-ipod-sell-it/ I've been wondering for quite a while now why Netbeans 6.1 does not respond to key strokes when I use it with Apple's Java 6 implementation. Yesterday I found out that the problem is neither with Netbeans nor with Apple's Java 6 VM, but with Microsoft's OS X keyboard drivers. I ... http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress/20080803-my-microsoft-natural-keyboard-does-not-like-apples-java-6-vm/ I'm currently reading David Moody's Autumn saga. I've already finished Autumn and The City and now I am working myself through Purification. I've actually purchased the PDF versions of the books from David Moody's website (which is currently undergoing maintenance) and being a writer myself, I like his approach towards ... http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress/20080803-autumn/ I wouldn't really label this as photography, but in order to build a solid background for my insanity plea, I thought it would help to upload some photos of the daily life at our home. And this is what it really looks like. Watching old German Sci-Fi Operas Thing - yes, this ... http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress/20080803-daily-life-with-ze-boyz-and-their-friends/ This is only a fragment. I don't know if or when I am going to continue it. I guess this is mostly a by-product of having spent too much time playing Unreal Tournament... Es ist dein achtes Turnierspiel und du weißt schon nicht mehr, wie oft du in einem neuen Körper ... http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress/20080803-tournament/