Sometimes the own ancestry is not the most pleasureful affair. Just think of Luke, being confronted with the revelation of Darth Vader, claiming to be his father. After the release of Star Wars 7, a lot of Star Wars talk has spooked around in podcasts and on Twitter and so on. So, when giving my aged Sony Ericsson MBW-200 a charge –… Read more »
Seit über einem Jahr nutze ich eine Multicard von O2 über den Anbieter Simplytel – mit dem ich eigentlich im Großen und Ganzen recht zufrieden bin. Aber wehe, wenn man hierzulande mal ein Service-Anliegen hat… Zunächst: Multicard bedeutet, dass ich mehrere SIM-Karten habe, mit welchen ich mehrere Telefone mit der selben Telefonnummer nutzen kann. Ich spare mir damit das lästige… Read more »
After about 5 months of low usage of my Beats Solo2 Wireless, the sound on the left earpiece sometimes died away or had complete dropouts. I called the Beats support and, of course ended up with the Apple support, as Beats belongs to Apple for some time now. First thing they instructed me to do was a reset of the headphones…. Read more »
Funny or sad, what once was a high end machine today often sits in a corner and collects dust. Likewise my beautiful Power Mac G4 Quicksilver, which was build around 2002. In my opinion, this was the gilded age of Apples design. Not alone by means of the look, but also in terms of usability. The accompanying Apple Cinema Display uses one single… Read more »
Networking For networking I installed Samba and Netatalk. For the latter I recommend to not install it from the Ubuntu package sources, as they still only contain version 2. Netatalk 3 is so much easier to set up, as it uses only one config file. You can easily compile and install it from source by following this guide. I used the… Read more »
Operating system and remote access Finally, my server also needed some software. It is based on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS and I use SSH with public key to access the server from remote. Using public key authentication spares you from entering passwords for every connection and makes access even safer. Especially if you connect the server to the web. To access your computer… Read more »
Während meines Besuchs in Salzburg war ich in einem vietnamesischen Schnellrestaurant essen. Ich hab’s ganz ohne Google gefunden, es war nämlich genau gegenüber meiner Unterkunft. Ich saß mit einem Pärchen am Tisch, Wiener, also auch Touris, wie ich. Begeistert erzählten sie mir, was ich mir alles anschauen solle. Die beiden waren schon etwas älter als ich, also auch nicht unbedingt Digital Natives. Dennoch… Read more »
Das Easterhegg ist der “kleine Kongress” des Chaos Computer Clubs, und findet jedes Jahr an Ostern an wechselnden Orten statt. Vor 2 Jahren war Stuttgart an der Reihe, und da das ja vor meiner Haustüre lag, wurde dies mein erster Chaos-Event – jedoch nicht der letzte. Ich hatte quasi Blut geleckt … “Heuer” also Easterhegg in der wunderschönen Stadt Salzburg,… Read more »
The time I started using WhatsApp, most people were still using SMS and a lot of folks in my circle of friends even didn’t own a smartphone. It was the time they saw a geek in me, just because I owned an iPhone (must be somewhat in 2009). Some years later, WhatsApp had become a bag of pain. First, with the… Read more »
I had troubles when making my first steps with the Raspberry Pi – I always got the message „Setting locale failed“ when setting up the Pi via SSH. If you’re facing troubles with setting the correct locale using a Mac to connect to the Pi through SSH, you may find the following helpful: After searching for a while and trying stuff… Read more »