Get Apple’s MultiTouch Magic Mouse To Play Nice on Windows

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So you like Apple’s fancy Magic Mouse? Its a beautiful piece of engineering with an insane price tag of $70. Problem is, even at $70, it only works on Macs leaving Windows users in the dust. But thanks to a hidden update here is how you get this little guy to work in Windows XP (32 bit) to Windows 7.

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Nice! Use your in-browser SSL Certificate to create your own OpenID. Easy, secure, anonym, perfect...
I wont use my google, myopenid or yahoo id anymore.

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gott wie gut! "dia Lumpasiech" und "Gemüsebratlinge" ;)

Wanted - Prozessergonomie!

Menschen sind anders als Maschinen. Diese Verschiedenheit erzeugt naheliegende Probleme, die nach einfach gestricktem Denken auf zwei Arten lösbar sind: Die Maschinen werden an den Menschen angepasst. Mit dieser herausfordernden Möglichkeit befasst sich die so genannte Ergonomie, eine Art melancholisch-resignierte Wissenschaft. Oder man überantwortet den Menschen vollständig der Maschine, so dass dieser sich der Maschine anpasst. Da das der Mensch selbst tut, gibt es keine Wissenschaft dafür, nur die Praxis. (In Wirklichkeit ist diese Praxis ein schon laufender Ausleseprozess Darwinscher Evolution, wenn man Maschinen als Lebewesen akzeptiert und damit das Problem erstmals erkennt.) Das Maschinenproblem tritt aber auch woanders auf, bei Geschäftsprozessen.

Was zum Nachdenken für die tägliche Arbeit. Das verliert man viel zu leicht aus den Augen...

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Kennen wir doch schon seit Jahren. Leider nur in der Wissenschaft. Schön dass es mittlerweile auch in die Nachrichtenportale durchgesickert ist...

Torbutton

Current version:1.2.2 (09 August 2009)

Authors: Mike Perry & Scott Squires

Install: Click to install from this website or install from Mozilla's Add-On site
Past Releases: Local
Developer Documentation: Torbutton Design Document and Slides (Not actively updated)
Extras: Google search plugins for Google CA, and Google UK.
Source: You can browse the repository or simply unzip the xpi.
Bug Reports: Torproject flyspray
Documents: [ FAQ | changelog | license | credits ]

Torbutton is a 1-click way for Firefox users to enable or disable the browser's use of Tor. It adds a panel to the statusbar that says "Tor Enabled" (in green) or "Tor Disabled" (in red). The user may click on the panel to toggle the status. If the user (or some other extension) changes the proxy settings, the change is automatically reflected in the statusbar.

To keep you safe, Torbutton disables many types of active content. You can learn more from the Torbutton FAQ, or read more details in the Torbutton options list.

Some users may prefer a toolbar button instead of a statusbar panel. Torbutton lets you add a toolbar button by right-clicking on the desired toolbar, selecting "Customize...", and then dragging the Torbutton icon onto the toolbar. There is an option in the preferences to hide the statusbar panel (Tools->Extensions, select Torbutton, and click on Preferences).

Very easy way to use TOR with Firefox

Improving Putty settings on Windows

Submitted by dag on Sat, 2008/01/26 - 01:25

Since I started contract work for a new customer and have been offered a Windows Thinkpad to connect to the internal network, I have been looking at ways to make my life more comfortable. Putty is now my window to the world work so let's look at how I can make Putty nicer to work with.

PS: Some of these options work equally well for Putty on Linux, put there is little use for that combination.

Skip directly to Putty settings summary.

Configure your Putty first, then make entries.
This is important advice. First configure your environment before you start using it. This is especially true for Putty, since you always start of from the default, it is important to configure the default entry before you create entries from these defaults. It will save you a lot of time afterwards to get things straight.

So before you make any changes, open the default template in Category: Session by selecting Default Settings and pressing the Load button.

Make SSH the default.
If you have an older version of Putty, chances are that you have Telnet as the default protocol. Changing it to SSH will probably save you some time when you start Putty out-of-the-blue. For this go to Category: Session and select SSH.

Increase scrollback buffer.
By default Putty buffers 200 lines of output, which is too little in lots of circumstances. And the moment you actually need this number increased, chances are you already lost some information you wanted. So it is wise to increase this number. What I do is go to Category: Window and increase Lines of scrollback to 20000.

Choose a good font.
The newer Putty binaries are able to make use of ClearType which drastically improves the font quality compared to Antialiased. Go to Category: Window > Appearance, choose ClearType and a nice font. I prefer Lucida Console, 9-point.

When you are there, you might want to change the Gap between text and window edge to 3 pixels.

Use proper character encoding.
Nowadays all Linux systems are able to use Unicode (UTF-8) so to make sure that the output in Putty (especially everything non-ascii) looks fine, go to Category: Window > Translation and change the character set to UTF-8, make sure that also the line drawing characters use Unicode as well.

Linux copy-and-pasting.
I prefer to do an implicit copy when selecting and using the middle mouse button for pasting. So I go to Category: Window > Selection and set the Action of mouse buttons to xterm (Right extends, Middle pastes)

When you are there, also enable the option Paste to clipboard in RTF as well as plain text, which is nice when you are copy-and-pasting to emails or text documents that allow fonts and colours. Your console output will look much the same as it does on your screen!

Change dark colours on a black background.
One of the more annoying things with terminal applications (xterm has the same issue) is that by default dark-blue is too dark to be visible on a black background. Not only is this frustrating, it makes the experience for new users so bad that they prefer to disable colours (or hate the ls colour output or syntax highlighting in vim).

So if you are like me, go to Category: Window > Colours and select ANSI Blue in the Select a colour to adjust to Red:74 Green:74 Blue:255. I do the same for ANSI Blue Bold to Red:140 Green:140 Blue:255.

Keeping idle sessions active.
Another frustrating problem is induced by the time-to-live of inactive or idle TCP sessions on firewall or switch configurations. At some companies this is put aggressively low so that TCP sessions that have no activity for 1 minute or even 30 seconds are being dropped. If you are using an SSH connection over such a network device, you have to take care to send keep-alive packets over your idle session. To do this go to Category: Connection and set Seconds between keepalives (0 to turn off) to 25.

Enable X11 forwarding.
Together with Xming, Putty allows you to run graphical Linux applications on your Windows system, so enabling X11 forwarding by default can be useful. To enable this, got to: Connection > SSH > X11 and enable Enable X11 forwarding.

Also dynamic forwarding is very useful to connect to systems on a remote network, even when you do not know in advance having it enabled can be useful. This option however reserves a local port on the system so enabling it by default is not really practical. However you can still enable it from a running Putty by selecting Change settings.

Finally, saving the default.
Now, don't forget to save the changes you just made to the default template. If you loaded the Default Settings at the start, return back to Category: Session and press the Save button. Now you are done !

Putty settings summary.
Category: Session
Connection type: SSH

Category: Window
Lines of scrollback: 20000

Category: Window > Appearance
Font: Lucida Console, 9-point
Font quality: ClearType
Gap between text and window edge: 3

Category: Window > Translation
Character set: UTF-8
Handling of line drawing characters: Unicode

Category: Window > Selection
Action of mouse buttons: xterm (Right extends, Middle pastes)
Paste to clipboard in RTF as well as plain text: enabled

Category: Window > Colours
ANSI Blue: Red:74 Green:74 Blue:255
ANSI Blue Bold: Red:140: Green:140 Blue:255

Category: Connection
Seconds between keepalives (0 to turn off): 25

Category: Connection > SSH > X11
Enable X11 forwarding: enabled

the best putty configuration i have seen so far...

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