Blog History

2023

December

• 20 - Mac-like scroll direction in Linux Mint
• 08 - Speed up Linux Mint UI

September

• 26 - DKIM DMARC for Linux running postfix
• 15 - Debian 11 Suspend problems

May

• 17 - Dokuwiki with authldap and authplain in parallel

2022

November

• 29 - Bandplan DARC

June

• 29 - Release space from fail2ban sqlite3

May

• 13 - AWG m2 Table
• 13 - Kabelfarben

2021

July

• 13 - Sane slow scan for scanners

February

• 23 - Convert Microsoft .msg files to eml for opening in thunderbird

January

• 14 - Parsing long and short command line options in bash

2020

January

• 02 - TTGO T-Beam with Meshtastic

August

• 10 - Mac OS X Hotkeys

2019

October

• 27 - Mass resize Images to maximum width
• 02 - All google, apple etc. knows about you

September

• 24 - Remove personal information from word file

May

• 05 - Trust citrix server certificate

February

• 04 - Convert PDF Tables to Excel

2018

October

• 11 - How To Setup a DavMail Exchange Gateway on a Debian 7 VPS

2017

December

• 27 - Microsoft update error code list
• 05 - Install latest firefox in Debian, using apt pinning

November

• 21 - Win7 does not accept Samba Password

October

• 27 - Backuppc: script archive all hosts

August

• 24 - Use biblatex for printing separate bibliographies

July

• 17 - Least squares regression of parabola
• 05 - Linux on USB Stick

May

• 16 - Teamviewer linux without permanently running daemon

April

• 05 - how to stop systemd spamming syslog with messages

February

• 07 - Copying large files to USB Device blocks system
• 07 - Firefox Encryption Warning

January

• 21 - Window 7 can't use partition for installing

2016

October

• 23 - Limesurvey password reset

July

• 30 - Linux prevent teamviewer daemon from starting up
• 12 - Visio 2007 installer starts every time

June

• 02 - Windows 10 Upgrade stoppen

May

• 09 - Maxima plot error on mac OSX

April

• 22 - Convert OTF to TTF

2015

September

• 10 - Windows 7 Postinstall
• 10 - Infiniality installation on linux
• 10 - Cinnamon (nemo) desktop font color

April

• 10 - Beautiful word clouds

2014

August

• 05 - How to create a Zotero group for cooperation
• 01 - Best software for managing and playing videos and music

April

• 24 - Installing Sage on Debian or Ubuntu
• 24 - Declouding my data
• 24 - Windows 7, disable file open security message for samba fileserver
• 24 - The 'ultimate' bash prompt
• 24 - Converting videos for embedding in Powerpoint
• 24 - bash snippets
• 24 - synergy protocol version woes
• 24 - Configure dns settings in /etc/network/interfaces
• 24 - Ubuntu post install tasks
• 24 - Moving form Dokuwiki blog to Wordpress, and coming back

2013

April

• 19 - simple cropping of videos with avidemux

2012

October

• 02 - Converting dokuwiki blog to wordpress

September

• 30 - blog:setup_zoneminder_on_ubuntu_12.04_virtual_server
• 28 - Set up private firefox sync server
• 22 - Access encrypted lvm disk from live cd
• 02 - Ubuntu 24h Time display when using en locale

June

• 07 - Send sms from the command line using skype and unix/linux

April

• 30 - Configure Linux as an Airprint Server
• 17 - Linux adapt keyboard
• 09 - Convert Technisat TS file to mkv

February

• 28 - Recommended Linux software
• 17 - Recursively rename files

January

• 26 - Ubuntu 11.04 fingerprint
• 22 - Installing sage on ubuntu
• 19 - Ubuntu 11.04 vnc access, screen repaint problem
• 16 - Find ubuntu/debian package Simple way to look up what package contains a given file?
• 09 - vmware ubuntu

2011

December

• 19 - Install Windows codecs and support for encrypted dvds in ubuntu

November

• 10 - rkhunter debian
• 01 - Openoffice created default template

October

• 24 - Word 2007 shortcuts
• 17 - Download rtmp streams to mp3 files
• 16 - Keep versioning info of etc edits using etckeeper
• 01 - Remote debian updates using apt-dater

September

• 21 - Word footnotes have undeletable extra lines
• 17 - Badblock check in linux
• 09 - Encrypting tar files using openssl
• 04 - Word Silbentrennung für bestimmte Wörter verhindern

August

• 31 - Replace faulty disk in linux md
• 31 - Convert nero nrg to iso file
• 30 - Enable SDD trim in ubuntu
• 30 - Linux print screen tool with upload shutter
• 28 - Latex picins.sty not found
• 26 - Thunderbird dictionary problem
• 24 - Things to set in ubuntu after installing
• 23 - Use dd to overwrite disk with zeroes, with progress information
• 15 - Apache htaccess for ip or auth based access
• 11 - Quick image upload to imageshack in ubuntu
• 08 - Plugin to check free server memory with nagios
• 06 - Reinstall grub after installing windows xp or windows 7

July

• 26 - Using exiftool to add meta information to jpeg images
• 22 - Ubuntu disable password request after suspend/hibernate
• 20 - Angepasste Nummerierung von Ueberschriften in Word 2007
• 17 - Thinkpad middle mouse scrolling
• 13 - epr.ch mail settings
• 08 - Install flash player in linux 64bit
• 05 - Firefox and Chrom cache on ramdrive
• 04 - Install terminator with built-in quake mode
• 03 - Ubuntu Make logitech G15 special keys work
• 01 - Ubuntu Install handbrake from ppa
• 01 - Debian backup and restore package selections

June

• 26 - Webcam indicator for ubuntu
• 24 - Ubuntu natty not displaying PDF thumbnails on nfs drives
• 23 - Disable BIOS Beep
• 17 - Privacy Tunnel DNS Lookups through socks proxy when browsing
• 04 - Configure apache2 to use comodo essential ssl certificate

May

• 27 - Use fetchmail to retrieve mail from exchange 2010 server
• 22 - Monitor Linux network interface traffic using nagios
• 11 - epstopdf bounding box problem
• 02 - Convert img to iso image file under linux

April

• 30 - MBR copy, backup and restore
• 17 - Print files from any device using Dropbox

March

• 20 - Opening a file manager from the term
• 16 - Automatically lock windows PC, even if screensaver is disabled by administrator
• 16 - Enable screensaver using registry files
• 10 - Set rights of files in public_html
• 08 - Zebra striping in Libreoffice/Openoffice

February

• 21 - Very best VIM tips
• 16 - How to trap interrupts in the bash shell
• 14 - Recenty notify app for ubuntu

January

• 25 - Fix Incorrect Clock Settings in Windows When Dual-Booting with OS X or Linux
• 24 - Record streaming videos from the web
• 12 - Replace Oracle Openoffice with Libreoffice (Linux)
• 07 - Display windows version on the desktop
• 04 - vim replace in multiple files

2010

December

• 30 - Change windows desktop background for day and night (Ubuntu, GNU/Linux)
• 25 - Perfectly Rip Audio CDs to FLAC (works under windows and ubuntu/wine)
• 23 - Change windows desktop background for day and night, using batchfile
• 19 - Maxima snippets
• 11 - mencoder stream copy for lossless avi to mpg conversion
• 04 - Fix Gnome desktop icons disappeared, no right click

November

• 08 - Setting up a weave server on debian lenny
• 03 - Cache Windows updates using polipo and wpad.dat

October

• 29 - Bios password backdoors
• 24 - Maxmind geoip on debian lenny
• 22 - OpenSSH VPN setup
• 21 - Install puddletag on linux, mp3tag replacement
• 20 - Reset zarafa outlook users
• 02 - Embedding subtitles in videos

September

• 19 - Writing custom man pages
• 17 - Command line tipps
• 10 - Configure backuppc with a non-root account
• 07 - OpenVPN Setup (debian)

August

• 29 - Elegant solution for remotely accessible vnc desktops
• 15 - Running bastille on debian lenny
• 14 - Upgrade debian etch to lenny
• 10 - Optimize Ubuntu Lucid NFS client
• 08 - Thinkpad 301 Ericson wan card disappears

July

• 20 - Transfer typo3 site to a new url
• 15 - Resize ext2/3 volume with LVM
• 14 - Windows installation guide with must-have programs
• 11 - wbt-201 gps under linux
• 08 - Display shortcuts in mozilla firefox html display
• 08 - Renew license key of bitdefender for linux command line version
• 07 - Backup and restore complete TYPO3 installation
• 06 - Thunderbird tags with dovecot imap

June

• 29 - Configure awstats on debian webserver
• 28 - Vmware guest clock running too fast
• 25 - Create clean html image gallery from linux with 'jigl'
• 23 - Display nagios status on the desktop using conky
• 23 - Securely wipe free space using built-in cypher command
• 22 - Word 2003 page numbering
• 16 - Use RSS feeds with conky
• 15 - Blank screen with maple 12 on Ubuntu lucid if running compiz
• 08 - Bash resources
• 08 - Install bitdefender on linux

May

• 26 - Create encrypted tar backups and store them on the amazon S3 cloud
• 03 - Ubuntu 10.04 change menu button alignments
• 01 - Evernote for blackberry in switzerland

April

• 14 - Seamless rdp remove decoration fix
• 14 - Copy damaged harddisk to a file for recovery

March

• 25 - Must have windows software
• 03 - Install SANE support for Epson GT-2500 in Ubuntu Linux

February

• 15 - Convert avi to flv
• 08 - namebench dns benchmark
• 06 - Using RDP+rdesktop to run remote windows apps on linux desktop

January

• 16 - Recover disappeared Thunderbird Profile

2009

December

• 13 - Rip DVDs into multi language multi subtitle video file
• 10 - vim show linenumbers
• 09 - vmware tools update after Ubuntu kernel update
• 02 - vim-latexsuite on ubuntu 9.10

November

• 10 - Boxplots using excel
• 04 - Configure Conky
• 03 - Configure autologon in windows xp
• 02 - bash use ALT-. to copy last argument
• 02 - Linux speed up Speed up ext3

October

• 12 - Copy a filesystem from one computer to another using tar and netcat
• 10 - How to fix font rendering of Firefox 3.5 under Ubuntu 9.04

September

• 13 - Typo3 gsanalytics install and setup
• 01 - Unix command line cheat sheet

August

• 26 - How to keep your PC running fast
• 13 - Lightning fast command line use in Linux
• 11 - Search Google.com from the Linux command line
• 07 - Synchronize blackberry with outlook connecting to a zarafa server
• 03 - Capturing analog video with DV cam and windv

July

• 29 - Common SED taks
• 29 - Tasks that are best done on the command line
• 28 - Apache2 SSL with CAcert
• 28 - Install CACert certificate for postfix smtp/tls
• 26 - Install firefox 3.5 on ubuntu using ubuntuzilla
• 19 - Flexible vacation responder using procmail
• 19 - Adding syntax custom extensions to vim
• 13 - Counting the number of files with a given extension
• 02 - Send email on root login

June

• 24 - debian package backup
• 19 - Enable shell escape in Miktex running from WinEdt
• 19 - Remove Ubuntu Jaunty update manager popup
• 19 - Export Maple figure to eps file
• 17 - Reducing the size of word document with built-in pictures
• 15 - Thunderbird - Temporarily Switch Composing Between Plain Text/HTML
• 14 - Excel tipps
• 14 - 11 Very useful Excel keyboard shortcuts you may not know
• 14 - Excel mouse tricks
• 12 - Useful website netalyzr analyses your network
• 03 - Metacity compositing effects in Ubuntu
• 02 - Shut Down Your Windows PC Remotely From Linux

May

• 27 - Simple backup procedure for windows (c't bff)
• 24 - Convert and crop Humax iCord HD Files
• 23 - Nikto web server security assessment
• 22 - AltGr key does not work in windows guest on linux host
• 22 - Latex under windows
• 21 - Latex unter Windows (deutsch)
• 21 - Crontab quick reference
• 20 - Windows XP Fehlermeldung beim Serverzugriff
• 20 - split-tar creates tar files of limited size
• 20 - Restore windows MBR
• 20 - Debian setup on hexonet virtual servers
• 20 - Cool tool cutter
• 20 - Install NUT on ipcop
• 20 - Setting up proxy autoconfiguration
• 20 - Firefox speedup
• 20 - Disable windows keys
• 20 - Recommended site network problem solver
• 20 - Install fonts on linux