Scalingo discontinues free plans
I am hosting a little pet project of mine over at Scalingo. Last evening I had a look at their blog only to find out that they are disconinuing their free plans. Ouch! Of...
Category: tech
openSUSE 13.2: When YaST does not open anymore
Out of the blue I had been confronted with non opening YaST modules in my openSUSE install. Neither did opening up yast with the console/ncurses interface work, no, not even yast2 sw_single. No output...
Middleman hiccup on Windows
I’ve been trying to help out on some parts of the Scalingo documentation which is based on middleman. But all this ruby dependency madness on windows including partially non available binaries is driving me...
openSUSE 13.2 lock screen unlocks without password prompt
Having the same issue? Look no further then here and uninstall fprintd. What? Yes, you read correctly. Apparently fprintd got installed as the openSUSE install detected a laptop. I drove me crazy having my workstation...
A new music management app
It all started out with ripping my Christmas present CDs… And of course, the good old AudioGrabber didn’t like to find the new Rotersand Truth Is Fanatic Again, nor Superstition from The Birthday Massacre...
Don’t mess with your Windows Mobile Notification Queue
I’ve bought a HTC Touch Diamond2 recently and started discovering it like with every new device. Of course a lot of software from 3rd party made it onto the device. Also the FdcSoft Task...
A historic day … or not
Earlier on Monday I was asking kindly in our little chat if Windows 7 RC is going to screw up the MBR of my harddisk like with any other Windows installation in the last...
Updated ipro1000 driver for Haiku
After my main box died, I got a very decent replacement for it. A Lenovo ThinkPad T500 – Model 20553AG/NK13AGE. As I like working natively under Haiku, wired networking is a must. (Not thinking...
Goodbye Old Companion
After 4.5 years my Samsung X20 laptop kind of refused to stay with me any longer. I turned it on as usual and all I saw was screen garbage – be it in text...