Ola Lindberg

Today I managed to get plate number 200! Check it out!

I usually use web based disposable e-mail adresses from Mailinator to avoid giving away my adress. I have noticed that some companies don’t let you register using a Mailinator adress. Today when I registered to download TimeSnapper (classic) I got this funny note.

TimeSnapper funny note when register with a Mailinator address

That made my day ^_^ Easy amused I guess.

I usually use Rsync for my incremental backups but since I moved to Vista it’s a bit of pain to get it working. I tried to install it using both Cygwin and DeltaCopy but couldn’t get it to copy international chars (i.e. åäö) via either Samba or SSH. So I looked into a tool called robocopy which is included in Vista (you can get it for XP as well). It worked fine and was easy to use.

To mirror a folder from one folder to another I put the following to a bat file (all on one row):

robocopy "D:\Pictures"
"\\MyOtherComputer\Backup\Pictures" /MIR

I did some different bat files for all folders I wanted to backup. At last I created one bat file that calls all the other. It looks like:

call BackupPictures.bat
call BackupCode.bat

There are loads of settings to customize your backups. For example to avoid copying desktop.ini files add /XF desktop.ini just after /MIR in the above example. Look into the robocopy help for more configuration options.

Oh! I just installed the brand new Wordpress 2.5 and it’s amazingly beautiful! The upgrade were really painless. Grab it yourself while it’s hot!

I have been using a Kinesis Advantage keyboard for half a year now and I think it’s a great keyboard. My hands feels more relaxed now than before and my RSI symptoms have decreased dramatically.

Since I mostly use a Swedish variant of Dvorak (Svorak-A1) I had some problems finding the built in shortcuts for selecting different settings on the layout (the shortcuts mentioned in the manual doesn’t work the same way on a Swedish layout as on a En/Us layout).

On a Swedish version of the Advantage, use the following shortcuts instead

Turn on and off audible tones (sounds for Caps Lock / Num Lock)

• Program + (?+\)

Turn on and off key clicks

• Program + (*’)

Instant Configuration

• (´`) + (w) for “Windows mode”
• (´`) + (p) for “non Windows mode” (use this for international Windows layout and in Linux)
• (´`) + (m) for “Macintosh mode”

Reset (there are several different resets, see the manual for more info) the keyboard:

• Program + Shift + F10

Kinesis On-Board Dvorak Layout (on a Swedish computer)

• Program + Shift + F5

If you are using a Swedish layout and switch to the on-board Dvorak layout your layout will look a bit different than the layout presented in the manual. The attached image shows how my layout works or download the SVG of the layout.