Articles in Category "Technology"

“jack-autostart” – Setup and Start Scripts for jackd

9. September 2015 in GNU/Linux, Multimedia, Programming, Technology.

“jack-autostart” is essentially a start script (I use it for my XFCE sessions) that starts „jackd“ with appropriate command line parameters and configures as many applications as possible to route playback to the JACK service. For this purpose, redirect all ALSA playback to JACK, and set JACK as default audiosink/-source for GStreamer.

Adding Custom Format Buttons To tinyMCE in WordPress 4

25. August 2015 in Programming.

Introduction In my technical articles I sometimes use inline fragments typed in a monospace font to highlight code or filenames that appear within floating paragraph text. Back in the days I did this with the <tt> element, nowadays I use <span class=”tt”> and a CSS style like .tt { font-family: monospace; } I wanted to […]

DTP With Free Software?

31. Juli 2015 in Multimedia, Technology.

In case anyone is wondering how to produce documents with complex structure, multiple pages and professional quality using free software, the answer is of course: with LaTeX. Consider the alternatives: Office (Libre, Open, the KDE stuff) are a nuisance when it comes to properly customized sectioning, and for larger documents or 100% precise positioning they […]

PHP HTTPS Streams: Explicitly Using A CA For Verification

20. Juli 2015 in Programming, Technology.

When I tried setting my Owncloud Calendar’s ICS export URL (which uses HTTPS) as a calendar import URL in Dolibarr (currently installed are Owncloud 8.0 and Dolibarr from the version 3.6.2-3 Debian package), Dolibarr gave me these errors (taken from the error.log of the webserver, with some additional formatting): PHP Warning: file(): SSL operation failed […]

Rollbare Ablage

27. Juni 2015 in Other, Technology.

Mit einfachsten Bauteilen aus dem Baumarkt habe ich mir eine Ablage mit Rollen Marke “No Bulls***” gebaut. Das Möbelstück ist stabil und ziemlich schwer (ich konnte es mit Ach und Krach alleine in den 2. Stock bringen), die Auflage ist relativ solide (es ist halt Grobspanplatte, als Werkzeugablage oder ähnlich ist sie gut zu gebrauchen), […]

Banana Pi Case Remod

25. Februar 2015 in GNU/Linux, Physics, Technology.

I cut a bay for my Clicktronic HDMI-to-DVI adapter into my Banana Pi case. To maintain structural stability of the case, I had to cut about one half of the bay into the lower half of the case and the other into its upper half. To do this, I had to raise the mount level […]

RDP With Copy&Paste From Windows to xrdp on Debian

11. Juli 2015 in Administration, GNU/Linux.

The package of xrdp (Version 6.1.2) that is available in Debian does lack support for Copy&Paste. The “master” branch of xrdp on github provides this feature but is not packaged for Debian at the moment. To have it available, I built it manually on my Debian server. The procedure took about 1 hour, most of […]

Alles Banane!

7. Februar 2015 in GNU/Linux, Technology.

Aus dem Banana Pi Pro Board und einem “Eurobox” Universal-Gehäuse Polystyrol (EPS), Conrad Artikel-Nr. 523130 – 62 habe ich eine kleine Appliance für mein Netzwerk konstruiert, die verschiedene Aufgaben übernehmen kann. Als Betriebssystem verwende ich Bananian, welches mir ein Debian Wheezy zur Verfügung stellt. Das System war sehr unkompliziert einzurichten und funktioniert super. Die von […]