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Amber from Stutthof

August 1, 2017 • 2 min read • Technology

Amber from Stutthof

While running at the Baltic beach close to Kąty Rybackie (Poland), I picked up some amber.

July 28, 2017 • 1 min read • Technology

Accessing shared folders in VirtualBox (Linux guest)

Transferring files from the host to the guest OS and vice-versa doesn't work out-of-the-box when you install VirtualBox from the Ubuntu repositories and download an Ubuntu VirtualBox image (e.g.
Fertig

March 4, 2017 • 1 min read • Technology

Fertig

Nach einem Jahr von mühsamenm Teilesammelns und Bauens haben Tobias und ich heute das Lego Millennium Falcon Ultimate Collector's Edition (Lego Set 10179, http://brickset.com/sets/10179-1/Ultimate-Collector-s-Millennium-Falcon) fertig gebaut.

March 2, 2017 • 2 min read • Technology

Handbrake and protected DVDs

Ripping DVDs is a thing of the past, but occasionally I still need to do it.

December 23, 2016 • 1 min read • Technology

ScanSnap iX100 support for Linux

Under Ubuntu 16.04, the ScanSnap iX100 is not supported yet by the sane package.

November 20, 2016 • 1 min read • Technology

Automated reinstall of software from package list

If I need to reinstall a Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux OS (or mirror a software selection to another machine), this is how it can be done.

November 15, 2016 • 1 min read • Technology

Temperature Sensors

https://my.wirelesstag.net/eth/signin.html

October 19, 2016 • 1 min read • Technology

Let’s encrypt duplicated my log files

I have not been keeping log files for my web server until the beginning of 2016, when I needed to trace access to certain files (I started to use awstats, mostly because I was familiar with it since I had used it years ago when my site was still running on a Red Hat server).
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