Note This will be an ongoing series to describe the steps I took to pull as much as possible of my stuff out of "the cloud" to regain control of my data. The idea behind this is that with your own server, you can selfhost most of the stuff you …
Small issue I encountered while trying to get a full background urxvt working: If you want Transparency and BorderLess, you should not use transparent but instead background and set it to rgba:0000/0000/0000/0000 Now you get full transparency...
Hello everyone, today I hustled with the problem that the text my cursor was above went invisible, not matter which color I chose for it. The text always got the same color. What solved it for me was to uncomment the URxvt.font-line in my...
I had this Error and after ages of searching someone came up with the idea of mixed up languages. So if no "compatibilty" or "patch" suggestion helped you, then try checking wether you mixed up languages. This happened to me as I installed D2 in...
Quick Post here. I moved to Linux (Ubuntu) on my desktop system because I wanted to see how it evolved and how it performs in daily production. I'm kinda split between awesome native ssh support and so many great features and the drawbacks of it...
Hey there, got a problem today where I have to track file downloads from a site. Since I got Piwik tracking them, I will use their API to get my information, saving me loads of work. Piwik offers the possibilty to integrate it directly into your...
New category: Joomla! Since I use this CMS at work and also on my own pages, you can expect me to write about some problems I encountered during my work. Today's problem was getting a dynamic, correct URL no matter what SEF-settings are. So...
Okay so I tried many of those media-servers and some of them worked pretty nice. But there's one thing that was really bothering me: All of them were just UPNP but now I wanted to connect the PC directly to my TV so save the energy of the...
So XBMC failed. I would have to install X-Server and several other stuff and it is cleary not suited for a standalone upnp server. Maybe sometime in the future I will connect the box to my TV and use XBMC as my frontend. But unti then, I will go back …
After testing uShare for some time now, I will write down quick and dirty experiences I have made: uShare does not support German "umlauts" like ö,ä,ü etc., at least not in the default setting I could not get uShare to start at system boot. While...