February 2008

Last week we spent in Mon close to Savognin. Boyzeler was the first time on skis and he does it quite well. But after a while he sure preferred playing with water, snow and stones, as he proved by taking this picture:

Besides skiing we also went sledding. On our way to the Alp Flix we made a fire in the snow. This the kids found particular funny, especially when M. showed them what to use to start the fire without paper. All in all week with a lot of fun!

Today in the train I noticed that my GlobeTrotter Express Card didn’t work anymore. :-(. Found hints for the solution here (message 6). That’s what I did:

1. Open Network Preferences
2. Choose the Globetrotter Modem (with Bars)
3. Configuration to default
4. Account name, whatever it was (for me it is gprs.swisscom.ch)
5. Click Advanced
6. On the WWAN tab choose “Other” as Vendor (instead of Apple)
7. Leave Model as it is.
8. Click ok and connect.

 Model on the Advanced Tab shows “Option GlobeTrotter 3G” now!

Finally updated to Leopard. Everything went smooth, but the Dashboard. I had to delete all custom widgets to get over the Dashboard freeze. I reinstalled most of them and until now, everything works fine. Open Task:

• Reinstallation of GIMP (follow links on chiperoni)
• Clean my external disk to free space for TimeMachine

Mamma, you are the best cook in the world. And Pappa too.

Thank you, boyzeler!

PS. And I was running today!

This post pretty much sums up my feeling about switching to a mac (a bit more than a year ago). The only thing which really annoys me is that the horrible delay in porting the JDK to Mac. That I consider nearly an issue for Java Developers. Yet if you look at Java conferences, nearly everybody has a Mac

I got this post card last week. Really enjoyed it. Great to see that a lot of good stuff develop out of a a really bad campaign.

See also das-schwarze-schaf.ch