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Scilab Toolboxes

Posted on 28. August 2020

For personal purpose I wrote some toolboxes for Scilab for statistics and data management. My toolboxes are available as source and binary distributions and compatible […]

English Posts, Programming, Scilab, Software

iPhone does not charge wirelessly anymore

Posted on 23. April 2020

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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Thinkpad X230 suddenly turns off

Posted on 29. January 2020

Does your Thinkpad X230 suddenly turn off without any direct reason? It is not always a broken main board.

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CelestlabX for Scilab 6 on macOS

Posted on 17. November 2019

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. […]

English Posts, Programming, Scilab, Software

Stixbox on Scilab 6 for macOS

Posted on 17. November 2019

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 […]

English Posts, Programming, Scilab, Software

ISO 8601 Parsing in Excel and Calc

Posted on 20. November 2018

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 […]

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Huawei P8 Lite 2017 – Field Report

Posted on 27. July 2017

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

Posted on 8. July 2017

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

Posted on 2. July 2017

Nach dem Upgrade auf macOS Sierra (10.12) und MacPorts 2.4.1 scheitert sudo upgrade outdated.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. […]

German Posts, English Posts, How Tos, macOS, Octave

Scilab 5.5.2 running on macOS Sierra

Posted on 1. July 2017

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 […]

German Posts, English Posts, macOS, Scilab