Why I cannot recommend Google Hangouts the way I recommended Talk
I was really curious about Google Hangouts. Their previous solution Google Talk worked a lot like I wanted it to, like the fact that it was based on an open standard (XMPP) or had XMPP federation enabled (so you could use it with people that didn’t use Googles servers.) But there were also things wrong [...]
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Tiny Tiny RSS: More open source Google Reader alternatives
I posted about selfoss last week, an open source and self hosted rss reader as alternative to Google Reader. After installing it and posting about it, I stumbled across an even feature richer software: Tiny Tiny RSS. Despite the name, TTRSS really isn’t tiny, it’s features are for example: Very good import from Google Reader [...]
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selfoss: Self hosted alternative to Google Reader
Update: I switched to Tiny Tiny RSS, which already has far more features I wanted, I also blogged about my experiences. Since Google Reader announced that it is going down, lots of articles describing alternatives came up. I wanted to host my own RSS-Reader for some time so this was the final reason to do [...]
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Changed remote layout for my samsung tv with raspbmc
When you connect the Raspberry Pi with Raspbmc to a CEC enabled TV like my Samsung UE40ES6710, it is possible to control it directly with the TV remote without the need for another remote and the quest to find a working IR receiver. Sadly some buttons on the remote were not mapped in a useful [...]
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Switch from Unity to XFCE
I tried using Unity since Ubuntu removed Gnome2. I don’t like Gnome3 so I stuck with Unity for quite some time, hoping I would get used to it. But I did not and bugs that hide the dock depending on uptime (Bug) really got me over the edge to look elsewhere. (I’m ashamed to admit I [...]
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XMBC in my car
Today I went through my things looking for a device with composite video output, since that is (in 2012!) the input the display in my Seat Altea XL understands. The only and yet so fitting thing I could find was my Raspberry Pi. I installed Raspbmc (an XBMC specially prepared for the Raspi) on an [...]
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100% CPU usage with vdr and epgsearch
A few days ago I noticed that my server is at 100% cpu utilization, caused by vdr. I found out that epgsearch, a plugin to automatically schedule recordings, was at fault. To make a long story short, the solution is quite simple: I accidently removed localhost from the /etc/vdr/svdrphosts.conf, which caused the plugin problems. Simply [...]
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Geektum fängt an der Haustür an
Mein erster Kontakt mit getDigital-Produkten vor ein paar Jahren war eine Fußmatte, “There is no place like 127.0.0.1.” Die liegt immer noch bei uns vor der Tür. Aber letztens hab ich eine eine andere Fußmatte für Geeks in die Finger bekommen. Die hat weniger Netzwerkbezug und ist mehr für Leute, die den ganzen Tag Katzen-Videos bei [...]
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Futter für den deutschen Geek: getDigital
Ich denke jeder Geek kennt ThinkGeek, den Online Shop mit fast allem was das Geek-Herz begehrt. Ich hab leider noch nie etwas bestellt, da die Versandkosten meinen Geldbeutel überstrapazieren würden, aber ich lese mir manchmal die Artikelbeschreibungen durch, weil sie einfach nur lustig sind. Aber zum Glück gibt es seit nun bald 10 Jahren das [...]
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