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Using Beaglebone Black PRU with prussdrv on 4.1.x kernels

Posted on February 26, 2016 by jan

It took me a while to figure it out, so here some quick notes if you want to upgrade from Debian wheezy with 3.8.x kernels to the Debian jessie image for the Beaglebone Black, which comes with a 4.1-series kernel: … Continue reading →

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Mac Permission Problems

Posted on March 1, 2012 by jan

If you’re trying to access a Windows Server 2008 R2 (it’s probably the same with older/newer versions) file share with your Mac and you’re seeing this error: The folder Documents can’t be open because you don’t have permission to see … Continue reading →

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Stuck Evolution Calendars

Posted on March 15, 2011 by jan

If you have some calendars in Evolution which won’t disappear when you try to delete them, you can use gconf-editor (or gconftool-2 from the command line) to delete those calendars from the configuration. The information about your calendars is being … Continue reading →

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Synergy on Gnome/Fedora

Posted on February 9, 2011 by jan

Quick note: If you use Synergy to control multiple machines with the same keyboard/mouse combo and your keyboard layout doesn’t work properly on the client, try matching the list of available layouts on both machines. In my case I had … Continue reading →

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Synology USB Station 2

Posted on February 2, 2011 by jan

For several reasons – ranging from severe lack of space to urgent need of proper backup procedures – I finally bought one of these nice 2TB external hard drive monsters. In order to make it thoroughly geeky, I also installed … Continue reading →

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Improve WordPress Twitter Tools hashtag detection

Posted on January 23, 2011 by jan

I’m currently using Twitter Tools (a WordPress plugin) for the sidebar on this blog. I noticed that it doesn’t detect all hashtags correctly and subsequently every second hashtag wouldn’t be converted to a correct link to Twitter. Fortunately Stockoverflow saved … Continue reading →

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List of installed Android Apps with PhoneGap

Posted on January 22, 2011 by jan

PhoneGap is a project that aims to package WebApps (think HTML5, Javascript, JQuery, …) into native Apps for all the major mobile platforms. In contrast to just using the App in the web browser on your device it allows you … Continue reading →

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Once again, it’s time..

Posted on January 20, 2011 by jan

..to set up a simple blog where I can dump interesting stuff so I will find it later on. Let the fun begin!

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