How to set up simple, out of the box git user management for multiple teams?
One of my latest projects was setting up the Git source code management system on a customer's server, so that different developers can have different access rights to repositories. How to do that? For...
View ArticleCommentary on Dr. Harald Wozniewski’s “mass purchasing power” argument
This is my commentary on the analysis of monetary inflation and income development by Dr. Harald Wozniewski, as presented on kiwifo.de, especially on page "60 Jahre Währungsreform - 60 Jahre...
View ArticleWhere to get instant human translation for text?
For example, you might be able to read and understand a foreign language website sufficiently using machine translation (like Google Translate), but machine translation is mostly not sufficient for...
View ArticleHow to integrate Casetracker with Drupal Commons 3?
Acquia Drupal Commons 3 is a great Drupal 7 distribution to create a social network type site. Casetracker is a nice, extensible support ticket management system for Drupal 7 that can also be used as a...
View ArticleHow to record video and audio from a Linux desktop?
Recording a video from Linux desktop content, like for creating a screencast presentation, is quite simple with recordmydesktop or its GUI version gtk-recordmydesktop. However if you want to capture...
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EarthOS 0.13 released!
Has been nearly a year since the last release. But then again, it's just a for-fun project for me at the moment where I put in some spare hour to relax by indulging into creative technological thinking...
View ArticleHow to migrate e-mails from KMail to Thunderbird?
Instructions These are instructions how to import messages held in KMail 2 into Thunderbird. Versions were KMail 4.10.5 and Thunderbird 17.0.8, but should not matter for this to work. Install...
View ArticleHow to dimension a stand-alone photovoltaics installation?
This applies for example when you want to add a photovoltaics installation to your campervan, expedition vehicle, garden hut, off-grid house or similar. For having enough electricity year-round from...
View ArticleHow to fix Magento cron job crashes with “Allowed memory size exhausted at...
Symptoms The exact error when executing the cron job manually (/usr/bin/php -f /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/cron.php) was: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted...
View ArticleHow to fix when an Android phone stopped showing the “mass storage”...
Just rebooting the phone should fix this if this option is at least usually shown when connecting the phone by USB cable to a computer. It does not help to use the feature in settings to "Safely Remove...
View ArticleWhat is a recommendable free web hosting control panel?
Requirements I got quite annoyed by the vendor lock-in of Plesk Panel, so now I'm looking for a free and open alternative. The requirements were quite straight-forward: good software quality free and...
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How to install a 3G stick on a Flytouch 10 tablet?
These instructions were tested on a Flytouch 10 (more specs here), also known as Flytouch X, Superpad 10, Superpad X. The model naming of this Shenzai stuff is a mess, so be sure to check the linked...
View ArticleHow to disable USB mode-switching on Huawei 3G sticks?
Huawei 3G USB sticks ("dongles") support a special command to control the mode how they will appear to a host computer. This allows to switch off the flipflop USB capability, also called USB...
View ArticleHow to fix that ISPConfig 3 does no longer process its job queue?
There are two main reasons for this: the next job causing an error, or a stale lock. How to fix a job queue stuck with a job that causes an error Check for errors. Go to "Monitor -> Show System Log"...
View ArticleHow to disable open_basedir for one website in ISPConfig?
Edit the website record in ISPConfig 3, there go to the options tab and in line "PHP open_basedir" set the value "none". Save, wait a minute for the job to disappear from ISPConfig's job queue (Monitor...
View ArticleHow to fix the login loop in ownCloud?
Symptoms This happened right after the installation of ownCloud 5.0.13, when trying to log in for the first time. This failed, and the login page was simply served again (without any error message or...
View ArticleHow to fix “530 Login authentication failed” for ISPConfig FTP logins?
Symptoms You have installed the ISPConfig server admi panel (in my case, version 3.0.5.3), all according to their guidelines called "The Perfect Server". In this case, I used the setup instructions for...
View ArticleIt all. Nothing short of it all.
In your twenties, you were a visionary. You wanted to learn it all, and fix it all. All the world. Ever realized that you cannot do everything that is meaningful in your life? When you dedicate your...
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Hiding ham in spam: Deniable communication under total surveillance
This is an intellectual challenge: how to design a generic, many-to-many communication system that prohibits surveillance entities from proving that you (1) read some website or (2) contributed content...
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How to configure HTTPS securely?
Wait, the *Secure* Socket Layer in HTTPS can be insecure? Yep, in the age of total surveillance, it can. Good news: To the best of our knowledge, there is also secure SSL still. (But don't trust me on...
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