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Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid? — Psalm 27:1 (NIV)-
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Local OpenStreetMap server
When you are one of those users who have a huge usage of OpenSTreetMap tiles (i.e. to generate offline maps for your phone), the you might know that most tile providers limit the access due the huge workload. A solution … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Various
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Using Zarafa with Z-Push on Kubuntu 12.10
This is a quick guide how the set up the Zarafa groupware on (K)ubuntu 12.10 and use it with Mail for Exchange. Zarafa To set up Zarafa, I followed the (German) guide on http://www.dirk-hagedorn.de/?page_id=841 … Continue reading
Add USB-serial support to your Synology Diskstation
The Synology Diskstations do not support USB to serial converters (i.e. FTDI) out of the box. How ever, since Synology is so nice and publishes the kernel sources (its under GPL, so they actually have to), its not … Continue reading
Posted in Electronics, Linux
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How to use V-USB on an attiny85
V-USB is a project from the company Objective Development Software GmbH to bring basic USB support to any micro controller. This is what they say about it: V-USB is a software-only implementation of a low-speed USB device for Atmel’s AVR® … Continue reading
Posted in Electronics, Linux, Programming
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Linux, the Sandy-Bridge CPU and the HD3000 GPU
For all those who are wondering how great the Linux support with the new Sandy-Bridge CPUs are, I can let you know, It works great! As the guys from Phoronix already showed in www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_sandy_speed&num=1 Linux runs quite well, as long … Continue reading
How to sync egroupware with a tablet N900 with syncevolution.
Until now, I was using googles address book and calendar service to sync my phones address book and calendar with my PC. As I don’t like to share my personal data with google, I always was looking for an alternative. … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Maemo
Tagged addressbook, calendar, egroupware, egw, N900, sync, syncevolution
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Kubuntu 10.10 and dual screen
Every time I reinstall a Linux distribution and try to use 2 screens (my laptop screen and an external one), I have to struggle with the Xorg configuration. As I now installed Kubuntu 10.10, I was very pleased to see … Continue reading
How to install VMware 6.5.4 on a kernel 2.6.35 (Kubuntu 10.10)
As I recently moved from my old Debian installation to Kubuntu 10.10, I tried to get VMware (VMware-Workstation-6.5.4-246459.i386.bundle) to work. As normal, it did not just work from beginning. After starting the installation, it missed gcc and some other packages. … Continue reading
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