Google introduced its location tracking service Latitude in February 2009. A year later, in March 2010, I bought my first Android phone: the Google Nexus One. A few days later I’ve enable Google Latitude on it and my first checkin was on 31 March 2010 at 16:20:48 CEST. And apart from when I was without… Read More: Tracing My Steps – Logging Where I’ve Been »
A while ago I was fed up with Android Wear smartwatches and bought a Garmin Fenix 5 Plus. After using it for a while I started to explore the possibilities beyond the manufacturer specifications. This lead to a firmware patcher based upon work from Alex Whiter (who sadly passed in 2019). That patcher modified the… Read More: Pimp my Garmin: Turning your Fenix 5 Plus into a… »
When I got my Spectre x360 back in 2016, I booted it into the Windows 10 it came with, played a bit around and then decided to put Linux on it. So I took a backup of all partitions, repartitioned the whole SSD and went on with Linux. Of course, I found a way to… Read More: Fix stock recovery of HP Spectre x360 laptop »
A while ago I’ve acquired an old Tektronix TDS784D oscilloscope. Originally, it came with these enabled options: While this already is a lot, there’s still option 2C (Comm signal analyser) which is a pure-software option. (In later production runs, the device might also already contain the necessary hardware for the bigger memory option 2M. Check… Read More: Pimp my scope: Unlocking Software Features in a Tektronix TDS784D »
For an older oscilloscope I wanted to replace the 3.5″ floppy drive with USB. After checking for the required connector and available USB emulators, the one that I needed was the GOTEK SFR1M44-DU26 – an 1.44 MB floppy emulator with a 26pin FFC/FPC connector. (There’s also the SFR1M44-TU26 – which has… Read More: GOTEK Slim Floppy Emulator SFR1M44-DU26 »
I’ve started collecting knowledge for myself (and for everyone to see) in a DokuWiki back in 2008. In 2014 I found DokuWiki to start feeling dated and explored alternatives. I liked the idea of having all entries as single files and in a standard markup format (compared to DokuWiki’s own markup language), so I started… Read More: The Wiki that became a Blog »
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: Import video from MiniDV camcorder in Windows 10 »
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: UK Extended keyboard with even more extensions »
After some years, my IKEA Markus chair developed some clicking/knocking noise whenever I swivel in it. This was very annoying for everbody in the same room. All posts and videos I found about problems with these chairs were talking about re-greasing the swiveling mechanism under the seat. However, there were a lot of people that… Read More: Fix IKEA Markus office chair »
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)