The problem is that the fingerprint has to be written into the bios to get a pre-desktop / pre-boot authentication.

There is no way to write it on Linux.

A native Win* installation is needed… I haven’t it and won’t it!

Using VirtualBox I was able to write the fingerprint into the real bios of the T400. Windows XP Professional as guest was used, running “setup32_xvp.exe”, downloaded here from Lenovo. At first I got a strange “C:\WINDOWS path too long” error message as a part of the *.msi installation… Really strange.

However I have fixed this at the end: And my fingerprint was saved to into the Thinkpad bios with success!

The Lenovo software for Windows isn’t needed any more afterwards.

As a final step the gdm login can be disabled to make things 100% comfortable – by booting directly into the preferred user environment (System Settings -> User Accounts). Nice

With “collapse_whitespace” enabled for example

Home > Eyeglasses > Woman’s Eyeglasses

is shown as

Home Eyeglasses Woman’s Eyeglasses

The “>” is missed – but I have no idea why… strange…

At least a *.jpg of the frontal view of the eyeglasses is needed. This *.jpg should have a clean white background.

at least needed

Overlay, transparency, size, scaling, rotation, positioning will be computed by VirtualMirror itself.

Optionally VirtualMirror can use the Collada file format. This requires a web cam in any case. Both of the formats can be used together. VirtualMirror will try to enable the video mode if a Collada file (*.dae) was passed. Detailed information about Collada can be found at the following site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLLADA

We have a lot of installations around the whole world now. The software was translated to English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew – and of course there is still a German version.

And we have extensions and code snipplets to embed this VTO into Magento, HikaShop, Shopify, OpenCart, Drupal, Joomla and sCat.

Even I’m about the html5 version since months I’m not very satisfied with the result, using Dart. That’s really confusing

This is a very nasty error.

Looking into the code I found that I had removed the “?___from_store=xx”output in past for better SEO: Inside of /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/page/switch/languages.phtml “getCurrentUrl()” was set to “getCurrentUrl(false)”.

This was a bad idea because this avoids the translation of the category name. However setting this back to default the language switcher doesn’t work as expected. Even the category name is translated the store code is still missed.

In result I had to look some deeper inside the php… for Magento 1.7.0.2 I have found this fix:

/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Url/Rewrite.php

Starting from line 251 I have replaced the default assignment to $targetUrl

Mage::app()->getCookie()->set(Mage_Core_Model_Store::COOKIE_NAME, $currentStore->getCode(), true);

// endur 02-03-2013 fix for missed store code
// $targetUrl = $request->getBaseUrl(). '/' . $this->getRequestPath();

if (Mage::getStoreConfig('web/url/use_store') && $storeCode
    = Mage::app()->getStore()>getCode()) { 
    $targetUrl = $request->getBaseUrl(). '/'
     . $storeCode . '/' .$this->getRequestPath();
    } else {
      $targetUrl = $request->getBaseUrl(). '/' . $this->getRequestPath();
    }

// endur 02-03-2013 end

to get the store code added. It seem’s a bug of Magento 1.7.0.2.
Of course I havn’t change the core file itself, I have changed a copy instead:

/app/code/local/Mage/Core/Model/Url/Rewrite.php

…and the language switcher is working well from now

It’s not the latest available, however the Thinkpad is functional and fast as usual including a perfect working finger print reader (AuthenTec AES2550/AES2810) used to login into the Gnome Display Manager (gdm).

I have replaced the optical DVD drive inside of the Ultrabay by a classical magnetic hard disk: 320 GB Western Digital, Scorpio Black, running at 7200rpm, spinned down using hdparm -Y /dev/sd* most of the time.

I love the silence of the ssd drive because it is much better to listen – for example to this: Johannes Brahms wrote it for Clara Schumann

However, I’ll prefer the “hard” way: A root server, running Linux + Magento.

It’s tricky really to have a right-to-left language using pure action script (AS3)

The kerning may be incorrect.

Using HTML5 Virtual Mirror will have a reduced functionality compared against the AS3 version but at present this is an alternative way  for tablet computers on client-side.