Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Using containers in my eyes reaches its full potential only when combined with an orchestrator – the usual choice should be Kubernetes. But if you build your own Dockerfiles you want to have a development environment where you can test the images on that orchestrator. This environment should be set up easily and responding fast.

This ought to be some kind of tutorial on how to write your own syntax highlighting rules for vim and how to activate them. Actually, the sites I found on the web, were either too superficial or much too complicated – like the vim documentation itself. I used them all to learn the art of […]

Personalized City Map

Posted: 22nd June 2015 by knoppi in Computer Stuff, Linux, Software, Travelling
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I was, for a long time, dreaming of a personalized map of something. Not necessarily a city map, also hiking maps were fine. At home online maps were alwas fine. Zooming in, changing map center and similar stuff went fast, I got all the information I needed. But, eventually, I desired a hard copy of […]

Yesterday, I published an article about majordomo and my conclusion of nut using it, since the version my webhoster provides does not support archives and digest functionality. But do I need it actually? I think that the mailing lists will have only a very limited number of users and, hence, only a small amount of […]

Today I try out OpenSlides (Link). It is an open-source agenda-organizing-displaying-voting-whatever tool which might come in handy from time to time. As usual, for all the information about OpenSlides go to their page, here is the usual mnemonic which can help you in some way. So you wanna know what I actually did?

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.