I found two solutions, for mac and windows, if you want to limit the bandwidth of your browser. The best solution for firefox on windows is the add-on “Firefox Throttle“. The developer says it’s useless but I think it is very easy to use. Of course it is much easier of the mac. Just use the local built-in firewall with the commands in the terminal. This limits your port 80 with 8Kbyte/s (just change the values if needed).

sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 8KByte/s
sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80

I already had two reasons for doing this. I didn’t want to steal bandwidth from my office when I downloaded big files and also bandwidth of my wife’s laptop at home to avoid argument With the following command you can delete this “rule”.

sudo ipfw delete 1

I installed a web server (apache2) in our office which is accessable over the internet from outside. With “.htaccess” and “.htpassword” it’s secured with login and password. But the transmission of these parameters is of course in clear text, so everyone could read if the person has the knowledge. With the “digest authentication” method, it will be encrypted with/to MD5, your password will not be transmitted in clear form through the internet. The best howto I found is here: http://finelycultured.com/2009/09/using-apache2s-digest-authentication/

Suddenly on my Windows XP SP3 PC it wasn’t possible to write/format my USB Stick anymore this week. “Write protection” on the USB, for what? Even with the second USB Stick I had the same problem, so I thought what’s wrong? After surfing an hour in the WWW I found the easiest and the best solution for me here: http://situsnya.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/write-protect-usb-devices-in-windows-xp/ Of course you could use the same method to secure all your USB devices.. ;D

Our second part of the honeymoon was Greece, Athens and Santorini to be exact. Athens is a beautiful city, very clean and the people are very friendly. Also the food was good, better than the greek restaurant where I’m going to every week. Just one thing I don’t like in Greece, the language. It sounds like you have an insect in your throat. Acropolis is very beautiful and you have an amazing view in the night. After 2 days we flew to the island.

Santorini is famous for breath-taking sunsets and incredible view by the ocean. It’s true! Don’t go there with children as they would just be bored, but to spend a romantic time with your partner, it’s perfect. We stayed in a quite expensive hotel with a balcony which was bigger than the room itself. When we were sitting in the Jacuzzi, we looked at the amazing view and felt like being the last humans in the world. Totally 5 days we spent there.

Nearly every day we saw a cat, so that’s why many photos with cats are on my homepage and also SHE loves cats. We were a little bit unlucky with the weather as it rained 2 days. But that’s just an another reason for staying in the bed…

If you are more interested in my honeymoon, don’t hesitate to check my wife’s homepage as she described neatly every day we spent in Greece. Thanks to my super wife who gives me every day happiness.

I want to digitalize my DVDs on my external harddisk and I think I’m not alone with this idea. But how can you backup copyright-protected DVDs? In Switzerland it’s legal to make backup for myself, even if I need to break the protection. So I was looking for a tool which helps me with this issue. “DVD Decrypter” is the right tool.

Are you also nerved about the Windows message “Cannot delete file: It is being used by another person or program” when you want to delete or rename a file/folder? This time’s over now, just install the tool “Unlocker” and it will automatically unblock the file/folder. Works pretty good, poor people who don’t know this.. ;D