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The Tale of “Nitecore” Keychain LED lamps …

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 2 years ago in Blogs

Once upon a time there was an overly enthusiastic browser of ebay items, instigated by “BigClive” to buy stuff. He purchased two Nitecore knock-off lights, a bit too cheap to be true! The packaging looks surprisingly good. Guess which one...

Tasty Durian

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 2 years ago in Blogs

 Cat fails vegan test. #durian pic.twitter.com/jSMubAVdPR — 🅕leischistmeinGemüse🅒 (@fralongva) January 1, 2019

Happy New Year 2019

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 2 years ago in Blogs

Created with xscreensaver‘s “fireworkx”

Forcing kdesu / xdg-su to honour ‘sudoers’

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 2 years ago in Blogs

[crayon-5c83aa086f0a9438513120/] You can also just add this to $HOME/.config/kdesurc [crayon-5c83aa086f0b5470964878/] Source from 2008 :-)

VirtualBox mischief – getting rid of too many pesky users

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 2 years ago in Blogs

This requires VirtualBox guest additions to be installed. [crayon-5c83aa086fad1375300598/]

A bit of VirtualBox scripting – NAT & DHCP

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 2 years ago in Blogs

Maybe someone will find it useful… [crayon-5c83aa086ff02713655047/] Please note, as of today (2018-11-03) there appears to be an annoying issue with the DHCP server (5.2.20) for “NAT Network” (not just “NAT”). If you change the settings for the built-in DHCP...

Happy New Year 2018

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 3 years ago in Blogs

Source To Life!

Sleep is vital

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 3 years ago in Blogs

Bad sleep or poor quality will do you in. Don’t go down that path. LLAP

Not So Half-Arsed Attempt At Aircraft Spotting — MUC Again

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 4 years ago in Blogs

Parking on “P52” is free for up to 30 minutes. Then they charge 2€ for up to 2h I guess. Getting up the hill is another 1€ per nose. Not too bad. Supposedly this place is open 24/7. Stairway to...

SuSE museum — 7.3 to 9.1

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 4 years ago in Blogs

SuSE Linux Professional 7.3 SuSE Linux Professional 8.0 SuSE Linux Professional 8.1 SuSE Linux Professional 8.2 SuSE Linux Professional 9.0 SuSE Linux Professional 9.1

2017

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 4 years ago in Blogs

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjWLxMVdnv4 Real fireworks this time.

A Ghost from 1995 – Good Riddance

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 4 years ago in Blogs

It’s free !!! Communication charges may apply. Oh, well… AOL4.0 PDF (450kb) But wait, there’s more! Genuine Windows95 (with USB support !!! Wow !!!) I didn’t even bother to pixelize the numbers. NOBODY in their right mind will use this...

The worst Android tablet — Failed attempts of …

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 4 years ago in Blogs

As You can see, there’s nothing of interest here. This post was cancelled due to lack of material & motivation. Please proceed to the next post in this mini-series. If you’re a user of headphones, you may want to turn...

IWATSU LeCroy 9350A — bringing back old memories…

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 4 years ago in Blogs

This “beauty” appeared on my desk today. Just testing & playing with it. I used the arb sig-gen of a PicoScope 2204A for generating a unpleasant test-signal. Trying to trigger on it was “interesting” :-) But before all of that...

ERSA I-Con Nano — A pico review

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 4 years ago in Blogs

Well… the device I got at work was a sad case of “dead on arrival”. Temperature regulation was totally crazy, touching the case moved the measured value from about 350°C to 60°C, with a subsequent massive overshoot. So we have...

Attempted Aircraft Spotting — MUC

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 4 years ago in Blogs

Since I hear the effing aircrafts all the time, I might as well go and take a closer look at them, no? An impromptu Sunday trip to ‘MUC’ (or FJS). A complete failure! I didn’t get to photograph any planes...

Relocating…

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 4 years ago in Blogs

Still busy with stuff. BUT, there is a functional dishwasher! What a great device !!!

Triple Teardown Tardiness — Long Forgotten Boxes Of Stuff

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 4 years ago in Blogs

Moving == carrying heavy boxes, lots of them. Suboptimal. Getting rid of stuff is imperative! If You’re so inclined, You’ll find sloppy teardowns of 3 devices below. Mostly images and a bit of video footage at the end. 1) DNT...

“Six Sigma For Dummies” — An attempt of a book review

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 4 years ago in Blogs

To make one thing clear, I was looking for a book describing the concept, methodology and application of “Six Sigma”. So you now know my expectations: facts, recipes, some math & statistics primer, NOT a lot of prosa / wall...

The worst Android tablet — A quick teardown

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 5 years ago in Blogs

Expectations. When buying a cheap device, I don’t expect a display with “Retina” quality, but it should still be usable and not something the engineers who designed it have to be ashamed about. It shouldn’t be a piece of shit...

Fire… a friggin’ fire — Well, just lots of smoke really.

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 5 years ago in Blogs

When I got home today at about 5pm or so, I smelled the characteristic BBQ smell. Burning wood. Quite A LOT of burning wood. Very odd, or at least very unusual for this neighbourhood. Upon entering the staircase the smell...

When it rains it pours…

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 5 years ago in Blogs

Shooting in Munich. As of now (2016-07-22 20:12 CET) not much is known about how many were hurt or killed. The media are going crazy. ENOUGH! 9

In light of recent events in Nice

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 5 years ago in Blogs

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kqARwz9EAY //www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2GHapjwOlY Believe whatever you want. But please, make sure it stays inside the head. It’s your own private folly, no need to include everybody else.

So many catz…

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 5 years ago in Blogs

If you hate cats skip the 1st video! //www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNtYHswzFzM //www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBSOudvuSdw //www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVtEpSXhh8c “Magic Fly” – Space 1977

BORG Backup — Deduplicating Archiver

From blog.spitzenpfeil.org 5 years ago in Blogs

The documentation is very usable, easy to understand. Getting the basic things going is very easy. The code is on github. It’s worth taking a look and having a go at it! You do know that you NEED a backup,...

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