Once again, a quick reminder for myself: Howto display the internet traffic on your Sony Ericsson C702:
Menü, #, 4th Tab, 5
(On a german phone: “Einstellungen / Anrufe / Zeit und Kosten”)
I guess that works with other SEs like K800i and K850i.
I remember an old SE that i had which always displayed the traffic after ending an internet session, i wonder why they changed it.
This post is an update to Make Gimp.app usable on a mac:
The “Click through” property on both Apples X11 and the X11 provided by XQuartz is not set. This leads to the fact, that you have to click on each X11 window twice: First activating it, 2nd pushing a button or whatever else. I hate this, i really do.
With Apples X11, open a terminal and enter:
defaults write com.apple.X11 wm_click_through -bool true
With XQuartz X11 enter:
defaults write org.x.X11 wm_click_through -bool true
This will help you with all X11 apps, like Gimp, Inkscape, Open Office and the likes.
Sometimes my Macbook decides to wake up from his sleep (a.k.a hibernation). Most of the times i notice this at work when my emails disappear from my imap inbox as Mail.app applies his rules.
As i do not have Apple Remote Desktop or any other VNC server enabled on my Macbook, i do have a problem.
I can vpn into my home and i can ssh into the Macbook, so i came up with the following solution:
Put the following three lines into a plain textfile, i.e. “sleep.txt” and save it somewhere:
tell application "Finder" sleep end tell
Then, open Terminal.app, change to the directory you saved the file in and execute:
osascript sleep.txt
Your ssh connection will then timeout and the Mac sleeps.
Stupid me forgot that ssh can execute remote commands: From your workmachine execute
ssh my_home_computer 'osascript sleep.txt'
and you’re done. Thanks “tante” for reminding me 
Alternatively, you can achieve similar with Mail.app itself, have a look at the solution here, but i like mine better.
Zooming with the CTRL+Mouse Wheel Up/Down has been in inversed in Firefox 3. In version 2 you zoomed in (enlarged the text) with CTRL+Mouse Wheel Down and zoomed out with CTRL+Mouse Wheel Up, its now in Firefox 3 the other way round.
The revert back to the old behaviour, change
mousewheel.withcontrolkey.numlines = 1
to
mousewheel.withcontrolkey.numlines = -1
in about config.
To me “pulling” the page towards myself always felt much more natural to me than the other way round, but that’s just me.
Hibernate supports multiple types of inheritance mapping, some of them (Table per class, Table per subclass) using a discriminator column to decide the class.
The type of the discriminator can be one of
string, character, integer, byte, short, boolean, yes_no, true_false
In case you need to use any other than string or character, i.e. integer, you have to give the base class a default discriminator-value like 0 or -1 or whatever fits, otherwise you’ll end up with a an exception like:
org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not format discriminator value to SQL string
as Hibernate uses the class name of the base class to derive a default value.