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I’m folding proteins on my locked screen (I normally do not use any screensaver but screen locks)… Few days ago I have found (again) a protein folding project, called Folding@Home. The goal of the project is understand how to fold proteins and protein aggregation, helping to fight Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD and ALS… I love to help, so I have downloaded the GUI and the screensaver and joined to Team Mac OS X.

So this will be a bad change 🙂 I tried to change my old tr/td based blog design to blosxom.php kind div/css based. I hope this will be future-aware, I had to work with this for long hours… 🙂 If you have an idea about how to position the navi div to not to collide with the main div at bigger font sizes… Yes, there is font size relative sizing

I have made a presentation about “Multimedia on the Macintosh” on the DigitalWorld Conference today. I had success, I made a real “show” in twenty minutes (:-P). Before my presentation there was a drawing, I had luck, maybe first time in my life :). I have won a Genius G-Shot P313 camera!

Yes, I have found the way of doing an OpenOffice.org package, with just-mount-and-drag-and-drop install. I have still difficulties with the user directory and the X11 presence, but I will solve it. I had promising meeting with the HDSys (the Hungarian apple distributor), after testing and bugfixes they will probably bundle it for Central European languages. I have the Hungarian version already working on my desktop 🙂 My next project is to make a Hungarian, tested version of NeoOffice/J, but

I will be one of the hosts in i+ (pronounced: Allj meg, means “stop”), a new tv show in fix.tv. The show will show Mac vs. PC fight from one aspect. And old iMac (base G4 with some extra ram) versus an AMD 2GHz monster. Uh. This will be a hard fight. We will try to introduce Macintosh for the public. Fix.tv is a small tv channel about interactive multimedia and computing, music clips and cars,

Last week I installed Oracle 9.2 to my PowerBook. I have still problems setting it up in changing network environment (I have to reedit /etc/hosts every time I got new IP address) but runs well on my little book. I had to make an oracle user, with sudo rights… The tomcat setup has changed between jaguar and panther, so I had to edit some scripts (allup.sh and alldown.sh) to make it run properly.

I got a support call from my old friend, Meszi. He has a customer who wanted to use his Mac server from a modem connection. After a sort search I found mgetty has been ported to Mac OS X. The link is here: http://www.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/ I had to change Makefile a bit (there is no fax and modem user or group), I bet nobody will be enough. On panther I had to remove an “extern int sys_nerr;” from the logfile.

Sunday we will leave for a skying trip, 5 days without Internet access (Panic! Panic!)… I think this will be hard. What more, I will have to leave my PowerBook home 🙁 No way. What will I do in the hospital after breaking my bones on the slope? 😀 I definitely have to bring the notebook.

This was such an event! GarageBand demo, beautiful machines… aaand… 512M RAM more in my PowerBook 🙂 I’m happy with the speedup, but of course I have to wait for some apps, yet. I am waiting for G5 notebooks 🙂

After some calculations I’ve decided to buy new battery for my Powerbook here. I will have problems with warranty but the price was cheaper (around 35 Euros). It’s hard to find an Apple shop! I checked apple.fr for the list of resellers, then I met with different shops: They don’t sell Apple parts but complete computers They don’t have stock The given address is a warehouse (or something with a big steel door) … and of course there are others who sell Apple parts 🙂 We’ve had some problem with France Telecom (their phone boxes are not properly