Category Archives: Software

Everything related to the non-physical digital world.

U3Helper Tutorial 🇩🇪

This page in English. Wie man ein Programm U3-fähig macht Beispielprogramm: IVOSBenutzte Hilfsprogramme: Sandboxie, regedit, Total Commander (für Dateimanagement und Komprimierung), notepad Es geht los mit der Installation von IVOS in die Sandbox. Da es den Microsoft Installer benutzt, muss man diesen zuerst innerhalb der Sandbox starten. Im Sandboxie Control (das gelbe Icon neben der… Read More: U3Helper Tutorial 🇩🇪 »

Colourful make and gcc

Install the packages colormake and colorgcc. Then create the following alias: Also add this environment variable: And you should be set.

iStat

iStat is an app that shows performance statistics of different machines. I compiled their iStat Server on my x86_64 machine and made a little DEB package. Download: istatd_0.5.4_x86_64.deb I also uploaded it to my PPA at launchpad.net. (If you own a Linksys NSLU2, you might want iStat Server (ARM).)

Gajim and Notify-OSD

gajim doesn’t support the new (since Jaunty) libnotify-osd library of Ubuntu and instead shows a dialog box. There’s a patch available at archlinux.org which enables support for libnotify-osd.

U3 Basics

U3 USB Stick The U3 capable stick will emulate 2 devices: a virtual CD-ROM drive and the actual flash disk. The virtual CD drive contains the LaunchPad software manager and it is on this extra area to let it be automatically run by Windows (as Autorun from USB flash disks doesn’t work correctly). Another advantage… Read More: U3 Basics »

jabberd2

The setup of jabberd2 is mostly straight-forward. Just install the package and all needed transports. The change the config files in /etc/jabberd2 to your needs, esp. the name/jid of the admin. pyMSNt Update The most recent version is in a Mercurial repository at https://sharesource.org/hg/pymsnt/summary. There you can download the trunk revision and replace the files… Read More: jabberd2 »

Midnight Commander (mc)

Open drop-down box To open a drop-down box (like those on the FTP link… dialog), press Alt+H. ZIP contents not shown The later versions of unzip have a slightly different output format but the uzip-module still expects the old one. To fix this, edit the file /usr/share/mc/extfs/uzip (as root) and change the line to Highlighter… Read More: Midnight Commander (mc) »

Google Calendars

If you want to sync your iPhone primarily with an Exchange server of your company but do want to have your (private) Google Calendars with you, you can add them as CalDAV calendars (since iPhone OS 3.0). Go to Settings → Mail, Contacts, Calendars → Add Account… → Other → Add CalDAV Account: If you… Read More: Google Calendars »