Archive for the ‘Computer Stuff’ Category

Never change a running system…

Posted: 8th January 2014 by knoppi in Computer Stuff, Linux, Software

… but if it’s not running you should change as soon as possible! I am just reinstallung my beloved Kubuntu on my desktop PC. I’m kind of sorry for the nice Chakra linux which has to go, but productive work was not possible anymore. From week to week more and more programs ceased to work […]

Gradients in IPE

Posted: 22nd March 2013 by knoppi in Computer Stuff, Software
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I was just trying to understand, how in IPE areas can be filled with a gradient. On the IPE Wiki you can find examples, however no documentation or comments.

OpenWRT USB storage

Posted: 25th January 2013 by knoppi in Computer Stuff, Hardware, Linux
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This is a continuation of my last post OpenWRT on TP-Link WDR3600. It deals with the use of my TP-Link WDR3600 as a central file server.

OpenWRT on TP-Link WDR3600

Posted: 22nd January 2013 by knoppi in Computer Stuff, Hardware, Linux
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For the history leading to this post, read TP-Link WDR3600: Router! Print-Server? and TP-Link WDR3600 – no information available. After all the annoying information, I decided to change the firmware of my router.

TP-Link WDR3600 – no information available

Posted: 10th December 2012 by knoppi in Computer Stuff, Linux
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I just received (after several weeks) an answer from the TP-Link support.

Logging in Python

Posted: 28th November 2012 by knoppi in Computer Stuff, Programming
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I am an excessive user of the built-in logging facilities of Python. Most information about that topic can be found in the Python Logging Howto or in the description of the logging module. If you’re interested how I use it in my modules, just go on reading

Lenovo s10-3t

Posted: 15th November 2012 by knoppi in Computer Stuff, Hardware, Linux
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Some time ago I bought a Lenovo s10-3t netbook which has a capacitive touch-screen and thus should be able to understand multitouch. Additionally the lid can be rotated and the netbook can then be used as a (rather heavy) tablet. Seems like a nice toy! What I actually want to advertise is the possibility of […]

TP-Link WDR3600: Router! Print-Server?

Posted: 25th October 2012 by knoppi in Computer Stuff, Linux
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I recently bought the TP-Link TL-WDR3600, a router I thought would be very fine as it has two USB ports to attach printers, scanners, external disks, whatever. My officemate told me of routers like this so I got curious.