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Posted in Technical on Feb 25th, 2012
As I reported earlier, I have been having great trouble removing the so-called feature of OS X Lion to automatically replace vowels with one of their diacritical replacements, or nothing—if you happen not to notice the options (which happens all the time when you are a fast typer such as myself). It seems there is [...]
Posted in Technical on Jan 20th, 2012
In response to renewed problem’s with Lion’s feature/bug of finsishing diacritical letters (see this previous complaint), I have probably found the solution in the excellent free system tweaker software: TinkerTool.app. The problem: following my own solution didn’t seem to be working, at least not in TeXShop, the graphical interface I use for writing in LaTeX: [...]
Posted in Technical on Nov 14th, 2011
Lion (Mac OS 10.7) introduced a device that comes in handy when you use an iPad or iPhone: a way to produce accented letters without having to use three key-combinations: simply hold down the base-letter long enough for all the alternatives to appear and then pick the one needed. I am on a real computer [...]
Posted in Technical on Sep 4th, 2011
Dit blog bij voorbeeld presenteert gewoon wat krenten uit mijn pap — wie dat leuk vindt leest door en, als men iets bepaalds zoekt, kijkt men naar de rubrieken of gebruikt men de zoekmachine. Wat zei ik ook alweer ooit over televisie? Zoek en lees. Maar er zijn websites die voor hun gebruikers bedoeld zijn [...]
Posted in Technical on Oct 9th, 2009
New category: papers. With the migration to WordPress my blog has been restyled, and shuffled. I also added a new category, “papers” which assembles papers and presentations as soon as they are available. The idea is to give you the abstract and a link to the file. And as of now new additions to this [...]
Posted in Technical on Nov 13th, 2008
I simply must share this hint about Mac OS X Mail.app. It solved this issue I was having: my in-box fills with great speed and it is taking me much dedication and time to keep it under 100 messages, which to my mind is the absolute maximum for the mailbox to be overseeable. So everyday [...]
Posted in Technical on Jul 11th, 2008
Today, I added counters to my webpages and weblog-categories.
Posted in Technical on Jul 6th, 2008
This is how to do it in Leopard, which uses apache2: 10.5: Enable https on 10.5′s Apache2 web server From macosxhints
Posted in Technical on Feb 1st, 2008
Due to a change in server technology, my weblog has been disturbed profoundly. Quite a few entries placed a long time ago have been redated to december 20, 2007, and were placed up in the blog hierarchy. I am sorry about this disturbance of blog-logic. I sincerely hope my present tactics of uploading entries restores [...]
Posted in Technical on Jan 2nd, 2008
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Posted in Technical on Dec 21st, 2007
There is no real need for PowerPoint® to do your slide-presentations. In LATEX, we use the prosper class (built on the seminar-package). It’ll produce presentations to be viewed in a PDF-reader, like Acrobat’s. You’ll need a standard TEX installation (use Gerben Wierda’s i-Installer for that purpose; make sure to include Ghostscript), plus these packages: prosper [...]
Posted in Technical on Dec 21st, 2007
Sometimes, people open pages in my web-sites in Windows Internet Explorer which then crashes, after first showing this message: Explorer.exe – Application ErrorThe instruction at “0x0105b1fe” referenced memory at “0×000000000″. The memory could not be “read”. Click on OK to terminate the programClick on CANCEL to debug the program. The first option I first read [...]
Posted in Technical on Jul 3rd, 2007
Here I am, sitting staring at two broken fruit iMacs (one Strawberry, one Bondy Blue). The Strawberry is the best of the two; I upgraded it with extra memory and an internal HD, only a year ago. Four months ago my household was treated with two power surges, one of which cost me a backlight [...]
Posted in Technical on Jul 3rd, 2007
I am not mentioning bigger apps that my computer life depends on and that work flawlessly too, like MS Excel, Camino (replaced Firefox, on Arno’s advise. Thanks!), Safari, Preview, Mail, Interarchy, Adobe Reader, Terminal, GraphicConvertor, NetNewsWireLite, iTunes, TexShop, MicroSoft PowerPoint, Calculator, ScriptEditor, FileMakerPro 8, and Chronosync. These are all five-star apps. There are also a [...]
Posted in Technical on Mar 7th, 2007
I was only just getting used to prosper, a LATEX class for producing projections, presentations, when a colleague from the mathematics department, Tammo Jan Dijkema, pointed me to another one: the beamer class. He also pointed me to another colleague who has made a local Utrecht University style, all `ready out of the box’. Installing [...]
Posted in Technical on Aug 13th, 2006
The fourth option Seems like I solved my issues with Internet Explorer. The culprit: some perfectly correct CSS-code (a pseudo-class). p:first-letter { font-size: 2em; font-weight: bold; border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 0; line-height: 1.2em; color: #069; margin-right: 2px; font-style: italic;} Probably there is some conflict or other with some other perfectly correct CSS-code. Well, I [...]
Posted in Technical on Jun 22nd, 2006
In the never-ending story about how to make Internet Explorer show my sites like they are meant to be shown I seem to have arrived at a decisive break-through. Today I removed the CSS-dropdown menus from the MSIE CSS-sheet and added something way simpler for IE to show in its stead. I have great hopes [...]
Posted in Technical on Apr 21st, 2006
CSS Opacity, By Michelle Goodrich — Mandarin Design. Tips on introducing more or less opaque images by mere use of CSS-styling. Looked into it; seems great. Accessibly explained too. Thanks Michelle. Got this tip from Xiffy = thanks again. The link above is from web.archive.org. Thanks to Thony!
Posted in Technical on Feb 15th, 2006
Little did I know that MS Internet Explorer® did not render the drop-down menus that I so meticulously deviced for my sites. One look at a Windows machine showed differently. So I had to set out to rework the CSS-code once more. Thank God, Suckerfish explains everything neatly. And now, my academic sites work fine [...]
Posted in Technical on Oct 18th, 2005
De website van mijn bedrijf is opnieuw grondig herzien, herstyled, en inhoudelijk bijgewerkt.