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LEGO

February 5, 2011 • 1 min read • Technology

LEGO

Tobi wants Lego.
Statistiken über Finnland

December 9, 2010 • 1 min read • Technology

Statistiken über Finnland

Finnland macht oft Schlagzeilen mit seinem guten Abschneiden in internationalen Vergleichen.
Kid's series on German TV

March 5, 2010 • 2 min read • Technology

Kid’s series on German TV

The online offering from Germany’s public service broadcasters (i.e. ARD) for children (kinder.ard.de) is rather limited (although they do produce good children’s television).

February 16, 2010 • 1 min read • Technology

Disk dumps (dd) and copying over the network (netcat)

On the receiving machine (disk sda MUST be unmounted, e.g.

December 26, 2009 • 1 min read • Technology

A permanent static route in Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10), Precise Pangolin (12.04) & Trusty Tahr (14.04)

To add a permanent static route to a Karmic Koala system with one NIC, you need to edit the/etc/network/interfaces file.

August 24, 2009 • 1 min read • Technology

How to use jhead or exiftool to add a time stamp to a jpg image

If the jpg image doesn't have exif header you need to create it first:jhead -mkexifThen enter the time stamp data:jhead -ts2009:08:15-10:30:00Apart from jhead (http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/), there is another frequently used tool to edit exif data: exiftool (https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ).
Finally some good self-made chocolate ice cream

August 7, 2009 • 1 min read • Technology

Finally some good self-made chocolate ice cream

Last summer I bought this ice cream maker.

April 22, 2009 • 1 min read • Technology

How to determine and convert text file encoding (file, enca, iconv)

To determine the file type of the file "sample.txt" you just type:file sample.txtUsually it'll tell you only that it is a text file.
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