published 8 minutes ago (12.05.2008 11:33)
Allowed Interactions in Robustness Analysis Diagrams
i think these are the sexiest uml diagrams by far :-)
published 9 days ago (03.05.2008 15:55)
Running Firefox 3 beta, howto
happy bookmarking
I’ve used Firefox 3 beta for over a month now. And I am very happy! Not only is it stable and runs a bit faster, the best thing is the seriously improved bookmarking. Bookmarks can now be tagged, and the whole thing comes with an imho well thought-out user interface. visit dria.org for a nice overview. so bookmarks finally become useful as a knowledge archive, you now actually find what you once bookmarked.
running a nightly build
Firefox 3 beta 5 (for OS X) crashed fairly regularly on my box, so I tried running off the nightly builds. So far, they have been more stable, the crashing is gone. Additional benefit: I can get daily updates by going to “Help” > “Check for updates”. Excellent!
You’ll find the latest Firefox 3pre build here.
Enabling Extensions
Once you are so far, most extensions stop working—not good at all. Most extensions have not been updated for Firefox 3, so Firefox disables them on startup. But most of them will work in Firefox 3 nevertheless, all you need to do is create the boolean user preference “extensions.checkCompatibility” and set it to false (type about:config in the URL-bar to access the user preferences).
Chromatabs extension
On a side note, try the chromatabs extension! It colors tabs with a color unique to the page displayed, so if you memorize your favorite sites’ colors, you’ll easily spot them in the tab bar.
published 13 days ago (29.04.2008 00:08)
life is what happens when you're making other plans
this list has just reappeared, i put it together in munich at the end of september 2006. it strikes me that just one month later, i would move to a city that’s not
even mentioned.
published 15 days ago (27.04.2008 12:40)
The last adventurers
»One of the last adventurers of our time is the motorcycle driver. While others are leisurely traveling in comfortable cars, he braces himself against the wind with tingling senses and experiences the soaring feeling of speed and perfect control over his machine while seeing all the beauty of nature. BMW—trade mark of world champions.«
From the 1965 BMW motorcycles catalog. Set in Akzidenz Grotesk.
published 18 days ago (24.04.2008 18:50)
chris king headsets — on and on and on
mine, today.
i’ve had this Chris King NoThreadSet on my mountainbike for 13 years now. it looks worn, but works as well as on day 1.
fortunately i was wise enough not to get it in anodized blue, which at the time was second only in hipness to “3d violet”.
as a hommage to the great craftmanship, and the amazing 1996 bike-pro buyers guide, here’s their page on the “king cycles” headsets:
»After several years of research, Chris King began making his headsets available to the public. That was over ten years ago.
aah, the classic.
His headsets incorporate the highest level of craftsmanship and performance in a segment of bicycle parts that had been seriously overlooked. The fork race is made of stainless steel to resist corrosion and machined to make a perfect seat for the bearing. The race is cut and polished to receive the inner dimension of a sealed bearing cartridge. The upper and lower bearing cups are machined aluminum then turned to tight tolerances that fit snugly and squarely into the head tube. There is an upper adjusting nut, which would be called an upper cone race in a traditional ball bearing headset, and head lock nut. Both the adjusting nut and the head lock nut begin as machined aluminum pieces. They are then turned and machined, to create the threads for the steerer tube as well as precisely squared surfaces for installation tools.
this is what the NoThreadSet looks like today.
All the alloy pieces are machined from 7075- T651 aluminum, then anodized. For the bearings, both cups have stainless steel precision sealed bearing cartridges pressed into them. King Cycles makes these bearings so they will handle the horizontal load on what is traditionally a vertically loaded bearing. They are well shielded from moisture using a metal seal, (not rubber or nylon) and should provide years of life, if not the permanent solution to anyone’s headset problems. They come in three stack height sizes, Standard European 43.5mm, a Short Stack Japanese 34.0mm, and a BMX size that is also used for pre- ‘91 Yeti framesets. The 1” Short Stack headset weighs 109 grams. All Chris King headsets are available in Blue, Black, Red, Silver or 3DV (Violet/Lavender).«
published 18 days ago (24.04.2008 11:33)
stoned olympics!
published 19 days ago (23.04.2008 18:03)
Firefox 3 uses sqlite to store bookmarks (and most other things)
ever wanted to search your bookmarks with
SELECT * FROM moz_bookmarks WHERE title LIKE "%ruby%";
now you can:
in your firefox profile directory (~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxx.default on a Mac), type:
# open db file $ sqlite3 places.sqlite # show available tables sqlite> .tables # set output to sql insert statements sqlite> .mode insert # send output to file "firefox_bookmarks" sqlite> .output firefox_bookmarks sqlite> SELECT * FROM moz_bookmarks WHERE title LIKE "%ruby%"; # list other available commands & options sqlite> .help
Or, if you want JSON output you can export all bookmarks via the GUI. Use Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks, click the rightmost icon in the top navigation and choose Export.
published 19 days ago (23.04.2008 17:28)
P.S.: Ich werde mich am 24.12. betrinken.
widmung eines unbekannten an eine andere unbekannte, im antiquarisch gekauften buch “1984” von george orwell.
»Liebe I,
Weihnachten 1973 schenke ich Dir dieses Buch. Ich finde es albern, nur einen Tag im Jahr des Tages zu gedenken, dessen Aufgabe es der 24. Dezember eigentlich sein soll. Dennoch möge man versuchen, Heiligabend und die weitere Entwicklung im christlichen Sinne zu beobachten. In diesem Sinne wünsche ich Dir eine glückliche Zukunft.
Dein J
P.S.: Ich werde mich am 24.12. betrinken.«