Old Netgear routers such as the ProSAFE GS105E required the Windows executable ProSAFE Plus for configuration. By now, there is a new generation of tool (NETGEAR Switch Discovery Tool) available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Howev...

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Published on April 29, 2023 | 3 min read

Of Old Times…A long time ago (actually only about 30 years) it was common in research institutes to provide work stations(for example Sparc servers) to the researchers and make their home directories (located on a central server) available on every work station by...

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Published on April 10, 2023 | 21 min read

After about 12 years we decided to take down our old garden house. It had been erected on foundations which turned out to be a little too soft for the job. The house was getting more and more slanted and in the end thedoor hardly closed anymore.In the beginning of the new year 2023 ...

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Published on February 21, 2023 | 1 min read

CSS libraries such as Bulma or Bootstrap provideexcellent support for making tables on web pages more responsive to the available width. However, as a rule thereis a “natural” limit to making the table narrower and narro...

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Published on February 12, 2023 | 2 min read

About 20 years ago I created my own homepage at www.the-rickerts.de/mr. I used pretty basic tools like handwritten templates and the m4 macroprocessor to render the HTML. It wa...

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Published on January 28, 2023 | 3 min read

They like to play a lot, those kids, and especially on their computers, tablets, game consoles and god knows what other electronic devices they are able to get their hands on. And what do we parents do? Try to think about what the net effect of all the media time will be… Positive, because t...

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Published on April 19, 2019 | 4 min read

Recently, I installed the iOS app Pythonista on my iPad. The original intention was to kickstart Python programming for my son. However, the little app turned out to be so practical that I got addicted myself.Over the past few weeks ...

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Published on December 29, 2015 | 0 min read

Since I had been using the VDR (Video Disk Recorder) for several years on my local server using xine with the XVDR protocol I wanted to have the same functionality on my new Raspberry Pi. However, instead of the...

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Published on January 25, 2014 | 2 min read

After an upgrade of Horde (unfortunately, I do not remember which one), I had trouble with some of my Horde users. Upon login, I received the error messageEin schwerer Fehler ist aufget...

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Published on January 05, 2014 | 1 min read

As described in Horde ticket 11596 the nag application of the Horde Framework is the only application that requires rewrite rules.When rewriting is not enabled (which is often the default) upon each edit action the user is redirected t...

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Published on December 31, 2013 | 1 min read

Ever since I used my iPhone with Horde I’ve had trouble with syncing birthdates: due to timezone conversions the dates on the server usually were shifted to earlier times. If the same entry got synced several times the shifts would accumulate usually moving the birthdates several days....

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Published on December 30, 2013 | 1 min read

A while ago I’ve added a third network to my system. The first two networks are directly connected to my server and so a normal entry in /etc/network/interfaces suffices for these interfaces to bring them up and configure routing, e.g....

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Published on December 25, 2013 | 1 min read

Three people check into a hotel. They pay €30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is €25 and gives €5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that €5 would be difficult to share among three people, ...

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Published on December 13, 2013 | 0 min read

DescriptionSome TV decoders (such as FanTec) use a binary file format to configure the TV stations. This file is usually called dtv_channel.txt. My tool <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-ro...

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Published on May 02, 2010 | 0 min read

MotivationThe starting point for the multi-seat setup was our newborn child Joshua who needed a room to himself. So my wife and I decided to “merge” our two offices and turn my office into my son’s new bedroom. This implied that wife’s ancient PC running Microsoft W...

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Published on December 02, 2006 | 9 min read

Vorderer Schulhof: Bis Ende 2005 wird ein neuer Trakt entlang der Kattowitzerstraße gebaut. Das Bild oben zeigt links (hinter den Bäumen) ein Teil des alten naturwissenschaftlichen Traktes und ...

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Published on May 29, 2005 | 0 min read