My dad has an old Panasonic MiniDV camcorder and wanted to import old tapes into his cutting tool on Windows 10. After hooking up the camcorder via Firewire, the import dialog showed the time code of the running tape, but instead of the video, the preview was black and there was no audio. To make… Read More »
Recently, I switched from a German QWERTZ to a UK Extended QWERTY keyboard layout – for easier access to characters for programming. The UK Extended keyboard is great in that it still provides means to type umlaut characters which I still need when writing German mails. For normal umlauts, you can type AltGr + 2… Read More »
The LED in the mute key doesn’t work out of the box. To enable it, add a file /etc/modprobe.d/hp-spectre.conf with the following contents: After a reboot, the LED should light up when the audio is muted. (Source: wiki.archlinux.org)
Cardo Updater puts the main binary cardo-updater into /usr/local/ and registers this as a LaunchDaemon with the file /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.cardosystems.cardo-updater.plist. After killing all cardo-updater processes and removing both files, the updater is gone.
There are two locations where you can define the button’s location: dconf and gconf. The dconf-method works for most of Gnome Shell and Unity. However, e.g. Chrome is using the “old” gconf-setting. dconf Install and run dconf-editor. Go to org → gnome → desktop → wm → preferences and find the setting button-layout. The default… Read More »
Here are some Android apps and games I’ve found interesting or which were recommended somewhere for various purposes. And which I didn’t had the time/need to try them yet. Apps Games Specials / Miscellaneous
On my hp Spectre x360, the Ins key is only reachable via the Fn key as in Fn+PrtScr. So I wanted to swap both keys. System-wide – so not only in X (using xev). I finally found this which suggested the following procedure:
Calendar/Contacts servers File Sync servers (Dropbox-like)
In Outlook 2016, you can’t setup an account from an Exchange 2007 server without having autodiscover setup correctly. The Manual Setup only offers “Exchange ActiveSync” which doesn’t work with the 2007 Exchange. (The working method is named “Microsoft Exchange”.) Usually, for an email address account@example.org, Outlook 2016 will look for https://autodiscover.example.org/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml. If that DNS entry… Read More »
Similar to booting different operating systems via network, you can also boot multiple systems from a USB flash drive. This is even a bit easier since you have a boot medium (the flash drive) and don’t have to jump through hoops to get a system to boot from the network. Initial Setup While you can… Read More »