Stixbox on Scilab 6 for macOS
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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ISO 8601 Parsing in Excel and Calc
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 »LibreOffice – Search and Replace extented
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 »No menu flickering in LibreOffice 5.4.3 anymore
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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Huawei P8 Lite 2017 – Field Report
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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MacPorts Update after macOS Upgrade
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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Solve transfig-updateproblem of MacPorts on macOS Sierra
Nach dem Upgrade auf macOS Sierra (10.12) und MacPorts 2.4.1 scheitert sudo upgrade outdated. Das Problem ist der Port transfig. transfig wurde durch fig2dev ersetzt. […]
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Scilab 5.5.2 running on macOS Sierra
After the upgrade to macOS Sierra (10.12) Scilab 5.5.2 did not start and displayed the following error message: This version on Scilab will probably fail […]
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Lightroom 6 – Solve Updateproblems – Manual Download
My Update of Lightroom 6 fails with the following error message: Lightroom CC (2015.10.1) / 6.10.1 Installation failed. Error Code: U44M1P7. To solve this and […]
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Install Octave 4 on Mac OS X El Capitan
To install GNU Octave on a Mac is not as easy as on Microsoft Windows® or GNU/Linux.
Ready-to-use App bundles are outdated and/or do not run reliably. The installation with a package manager as MacPorts or Home Brew does not work out-of-the-box.
This How-To describes how to install Octave 4.0.3 with MacPorts (Version 2.3.4) on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan). It shows how to avoid pitfalls and workaround bugs.
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