Photographs from Apollo Mission to Moon
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Brian Koberlein mentioned that NASA provided photos from Apollo moon mission on Flickr.com. Below is one:
Suppressing Advertisement on Web-Pages a.k.a. Ad-Blocking
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Advertisements on web-pages is ubiquitous. Without advertisement even this blog could not be offered free of charge. But advertisement can be a real nuisance with its blinking, flickering, moving, and distracting appearance. Sometimes they even contain malware. There are two simple remedies for…
Upgrading from OxygenOS 1.0.0 to 1.0.3 on the OnePlus One Smartphone
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I upgraded my OnePlus One smartphone from Oxygen 1.0.0 to 1.0.3, see Installing OxygenOS 1.0 on the OnePlus One Smartphone. Download OxygenOS 1.0.3 from OxygenOS 1.0.3 with the latest Stagefright patches, and check MD5. Then upload the zip-file. adb push ~/Download/ONE_12_A.01_150827.zip…
Linux pam and /etc/shells
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I learned the hard way that a user in /etc/passwd not having a shell specified in /etc/shells is not able to log-on. On Ubuntu /etc/shells looks like this: /bin/sh /bin/dash /bin/bash /bin/rbash /usr/bin/tmux /usr/bin/screen On Arch it looks like this: /bin/sh /bin/bash So if you provide a user…
Urban planning
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As I commute to work with my e-bike I became more and more interested in bicycle lanes. It looks that this a coming trend in many modern cities. See for example New York, New York's streets? Not so mean any more, a talk by former chief of the department of transport Janette Sadik-Khan under the…
Output of lstopo from hwloc
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This is the output of lstopo --of png > ~/tmp/lstopo.png for a machine with an AMD octacore FX 8120, bulldozer architecture, see AMD Bulldozer CPU Architecture Overview. One can just type lstopo, which shows the same in a separate window. lstopo is part of hwloc in Arch or hwloc in…
Accessing Android phone via USB cable
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Since Android 3 it is no longer possible to access the phone via USB mount. The reason being that Android puts everything into a single partition. As this single partition is always mounted by Android it is not easy to have two users (Android system and PC user) to write on this single partition.…
International Space Station after undocking of STS-132
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Awesome picture from NASA.
PC overheating
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When the CPU is not properly cooled down, then the PC crashes, see below video. The solution for this particular case: Upgrade the BIOS.
Lexware Financial Office Pro 2015 does not work with wine
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Today I received a free copy of a student-version of Lexware Financial Office Pro 2015 including a license key. Lexware is a financial accounting software which is easy to use and quite well suited for small German enterprises. I installed wine 1.6.2 on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS, which consumed almost…
Visiting GSI Helmholtz Centre in Darmstadt
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GSI Helmholtz Centre is a heavy ion research centre near Darmstadt. I visited this research facility on the 06-Jul-2015. It takes a couple of months to acquire a visiting day. Here are some impressions. I highly recommend the facility. Precious beam time is controlled here: Cabling: Combating…
Methods of Proof — Diagonalization
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Very clear presentation on the uncountability of the real numbers, and the halting problem. Further keywords: Cantor, natural numbers, real numbers, diagonalization, bijection, Turing halting problem, proof by contradiction. -- -- -- Quote -- -- -- A while back we featured a post about why learning…
Photograph from Space
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Awesome picture. Also see Photographs from Space by Karen L. Nyberg.
Commuting to Work with an E-Bike
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My current workplace in Frankfurt is 20 km from my home. In the past years I used the train to go there. Unfortunately the train became more and more unreliable. Sometimes the train had lots of delays, sometimes the train just didn't arrive, sometimes the train was heavily crowded, often the…
Hard-Disk and SSD Speed Comparisons
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I bought a new Mushkin SSD with 60 GB. These are the results with gnome-disk-utility. These are the benchmarks for the ADATA with 128 GB. Just for the records another speed test for a classical Seagate 1 TB hard disk drive, old but venerable. See also Hard-Disk and USB Drive Speed Comparisons.
Installing OxygenOS 1.0 on the OnePlus One Smartphone
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Some notes and sketches to install OxygenOS on the OnePlus One, plus some remarks on my experiences. Download twrp. Download OxygenOS from here. Unzip the file and check MD5 of oxygen_1.0.0_flashable.zip with MD5 from web-page. $ cat oxygen_1.0.0_flashable.md5 2d79312774c44d2fa2bf5bb0c877d1b7 …
Speeding-Up Software Builds: Parallelizing Make and Compiler Cache
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1. Problem statement Compiling source code with a compiler usually employs the make command which keeps track of dependencies. Additionally GNU make can parallelize your build using the j-parameter. Often you also want a so called clean build, i.e., compile all source code files, just in case make…
Statistics of this Blog: Crossed 20.000 Views
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This blog was viewed more than 20.000 times. As in this post, here are the numbers: The averages per day are: The development of visits is as below: Top posts (all time) are: Most visits come from US and Germany by a wide margin:
Classical editor in WordPress.com
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The new editor in WordPress.com is quite annoying. It is annoying because: list of categories do not show up edit area is smaller "copy a post" is missing "format" menu is now a drop-down Unfortunately there is no option to switch back and forth between the annoying and the…
Four Free Invites for the OnePlus One, #5
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I have four free invites to purchase a OnePlus One smartphone. Below are the codes: GLU4-W66Y-VALB-PEPS GLZK-QIZH-3GAL-QQYQ GLQ5-74SJ-EDCA-GH1K GLRW-XU8U-8MSB-GQ28 They expire within one day.