Archive for August, 2008

Update: os x and DNS

I found some facts how os x is handling the dns lookups. Because i was wondering why changing the resolv.conf doesnt seem to change Safari’s or Firefox’s lookups. The key to this is lookupd and DNS Service Discovery. Actually i came across this from an iphone related problem, which is quite well documented at saurik [...]

New iTunes and iPhoto importer

I updated my iTunes and iPhoto import scripts. Added Growl feedback and some hacks to handle iTunes performance problems, some iTunes really gets slow and i had to add timeut exception handling. So just call this from the terminal: python addToiTunes.py -d /media/mp3s -r -p Where all Mp3 Files below the path get imorted to [...]

Stupid Fritzbox DNS

Since my DSL provider’s DNS updates are really slow i wanted to switch to opendns, which is a good a idea anyways. But wtf i cant change the default dns in my fritzbox. No way to do it via the web admin. Ok why bother i said to my self and went for the shortcut. [...]

New Webspace

Moved my site to a new hoster geekisp.com. Got some nice webspace with all the stuff u need for painless hosting. So i got ssh access, svn and the all common web languages like php,python and ruby. I could even run a java webcontainer in my account, if really get into in grails. This package [...]