I just bought a new printer specifically searching for one that is toner refill friendly. After reading on this site that the Brother MFC-9340CDW would be a good candidate, I went for it.
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Fix SeaFile error “there is a conflict with an existing library”
Every now and then I get this error when working with Seafile: “there is a conflict with an existing library.” And just today I found out that I had found a solution three years ago, and since then forgotten about it. So here’s again, for the record, what I...
Continue reading...Spiegel-Online Nag Screens
So apparently, spiegel.de now hides itself behind mostly nagging pay walls. They even got coverage from El Fefe, and of course they are not only asking you to pay for “plus” articles, which I happily do, they also throw ad block nag screens in their reader’s way. Recently, a...
Continue reading...Fix for Safari on Mac: Client Certificate no longer accepted, or slow authentication…
Now this is a very annoying behavior I’ve observed with Safari on Mac and accessing a variety of SAML2 protected sites – while other browsers such as Chrome don’t appear to have that problem. The authentication process may just hang, or also fail with an uninformative cookie error. Ultimately,...
Continue reading...Make Skim Great Again
Yesterday, I had created a pretty useful workaround for the still fucked up PDFKit in Sierra, which prevents Skim from running. Motivated by Andrea Alberti, I’ve today created a much better version which can be applied in one minute, with one single command, and does not require to keep...
Continue reading...Better Workaround for the still fucked up PDFKit problem on MacOS
So I had written here about the problem with PDFKit under MacOS and shown how to get an deploy an alternative version of PDFKit which fixes the problem. Unfortunately, that makes Preview no longer work with PDF files, which is why I had also supplied there a script for...
Continue reading...Adblock, System-Wide, without Plugins… Pi-Hole!
This is absolutely awesome. I just came across Pi-Hole, a DNS based ad blocker that you can install on a Raspi or just some Linux box you may have around.
Continue reading...How to stop iTunes from reverting to the local disk
I don’t have enough disk space on my MacBook Air. So specifically I don’t want iTunes to occupy lots of it. I’ve my iTunes library on an external disk, which is fine until I happen to start iTunes without having that disk attached. In that case, iTunes will silently...
Continue reading...Update for the PDFKit Problems (and some other workflow)
While this thing was seriously not working, I have actually found out that I’m going to prefer non-Skim annotations now.
Continue reading...How to workaround the fucked up PDFKit in Sierra
OK, so it appears that Apple this time really blew it with PDFKit. In Sierra, it appears to be seriously broken, and the most important outcome of that is that Skim no longer appears to work.
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