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To all my readers: I am way to upset about the invasion of Ukraine by Russian fascists and the atrocities they are committing there. I am at the moment not able to write useful articles about IT topics. This is something from mainstream Russian TV by a super star who gets medals of honor from …
Typical software development environments have several systems running the software. While usually each developer runs it on his machine, there is a continuous integration server running and versions of the software that succeed there go to an artifactory and are immediately, during the night or manually installed on a system that is called „staging“, „development“, …
Everyone who uses Linux (or some Unix) knows the normal file permissions that are administered with chmod, at least to some extent. It is worth noting, what permissions of a file and the underlying directory mean. In order to read the file, one needs read rights for the file and also read and executable rights …
„File Permissions“ weiterlesen
We have been using the term „certificates“ for a long time for files that are used to encrypt or sign data or to prove identity. Now „certificates“ have become something that we use in our daily life to show that we are vaccinated or tested against Covid-19. Because they are provided as QR-codes and people …
¡Próspero año nuevo! — うれしい新しい年 — Shnorhavor nor tari! — Selamat tahun baru! — Честита нова година! — Gelukkig nieuwjaar! — สวัสดีปีใหม่ — Lokkich nijjier! — عام سعيد — Среќна нова година! — Un an nou fericit! — Happy New Year! — Срећна нова година! — Feliz año nuevo! — С новым годом! — Srechno …
„2022 Happy New Year“ weiterlesen
С Рождеством − З Рiздвом Христовим − Prettige Kerstdagen − Feliz Natal − क्रिसमस मंगलमय हो − Nollaig Shona Dhuit! − Buon Natale − Sretan božić − Natale hilare − Честита Коледа − Veselé Vánoce − Bella Festas daz Nadal − Kellemes Karácsonyi Ünnepeket − Crăciun fericit − Zalig Kerstfeest − Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia …
Strava and Komoot can be used to plan bicycle trips and to record them. Both tools can be used for both purposes, but it seems that Strava is better for the recording and Komoot better for the planning. Btw. it works also for walking or running, for example. But I will stick with the bicycle …
„Pseudo Data Structure for Strava and Komoot“ weiterlesen
Today every phone and tablet and a lot of other devices have capabilities to detect the current location and this can be used for many things… Even some speedometers for bicycles rely on geo-positioning only or use a rotation count of the wheel just as additional, optional source of information. In the 1990s I worked …
„Some Thoughts about Geo-Positioning“ weiterlesen
For changing file contents, we often use editors. But sometimes it is a good idea to do this from a script and do a change to many files at once or do the same kind of changes often. The classic approach to this is using sed, which is made exactly for this purpose. But most …
„Automatic editing“ weiterlesen
Almost all meeting rooms have these technically excellent Jabra devices to do a meeting and let someone participate who is not in the meeting room. What happens during these meetings more often than not: The remote participant or the remote participants are forgotten… While it may be a useful approach in some circumstances, think twice …
„Meetings with some members remote“ weiterlesen