How-To's, Field Reports and Position Papers
A quarter of a year after the introduction of Linux Mint 20 I finally managed to adapt my Java Swing correction script swing-menu-corr to version 1.2.4. For those who don’t know it yet: It corrects display problems of Java programs […]
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Sometimes maintainers of toolboxes for Scilab do not provide their packages for the desired platform or Scilab version. Because I use Scilab on different platforms […]
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Since I got a iPhone 8 I switched after some time to wireless qi-charging for convenience. I cannot remember when it stopped working but some […]
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Does your Thinkpad X230 suddenly turn off without any direct reason? It is not always a broken main board.
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Fortunately the astrodynamics toolbox Celestlab is available for macOS on Scilab 6.0 and 6.1 as a binary. Unfortunately the extension module toolbox CelestlabX is not. […]
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The popular statistics toolbox STIXBOX for Scilab cannot be installed via ATOMS on Scilab 6.0.x or 6.1.x on Apple’s macOS. Binaries of the dependent toolboxes […]
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If you have comma-separated data which has timestamps in ISO 8601-format (e.g. 2018-11-20T14:26:12+01:00) collected e.g. by a datalogger as SerialLogger and you want to use […]
Continue reading »To replace a simple carriage return with a paragraph end mark Microsoft Word® offers a solution out-of-the-box. LibreOffice does not provide any functionality for this […]
Continue reading »Since LibreOffice 5.3.2 the main menu was flickering while hovering in Microsoft Windows®. This is gone since version 5.4.3. Only the toolbar flickers when resizing […]
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To use foreign local Prepaid-SIM cards without resigning your normal SIM I was looking for an inexpensive smartphone for e.g. holidays outside the European Union. […]
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After a macOS Upgrade MacPorts does not generally work properly. A fast sudo port selfupdate does not do the work either in almost all cases.
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