Research and Technology
In den sozialen Medien lese ich immer wieder, dass viele den Corona Lockdown zum Lernen genutzt haben. Ich habe das gleiche gemacht und versucht, den perfekten Caipirinha zu erzeugen. 😉 Rezept: Caipirinha Zutaten Crushed Ice (je feiner, desto besser) 1…
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Introduction The company ThinxNet GmbH from Munich offers the product TankTaler. It is an OBD-II compatible device that you can plug into your car. For people living in Stuttgart, Germany the device used to be free. It offers the following…
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I use my QNAP NAS to download backups from my root server. The backups are downloaded via rsync and are piling up on an external HDD of the NAS. For this, I have to ensure that there is always enough…
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The 33rd Chaos Communication Congress (33C3) in Hamburg is over – and it was (again) a great conference. In this post I list the talks that I liked most with a short teaser for the talk to allow you to…
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I recently bought a QNAP TS-219 II NAS and am quite happy with it. The best thing is, that you can log in via SSH and do your own stuff. This own stuff includes installing packages using ipkg and even…
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Each year I watch the talks at the Chaos Communication Congress and feel especially inspired by @ioerror and @RogerDingledine talking about the Tor network. “The Onion Router” (Tor) is an Internet anonymity tool that allow to establish network connections without…
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PS3 Media Server on an ARM-based QNAP NAS is a very handy tool to play various kinds of media types on your playstation 3. Especially the live transcoding features are awesome. They essentially allow to transcode a video file on-the-fly…
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In may day job, we have some 20 old iMac G5 standing around. Those are no longer supported by Apple and the newest Version of Mac OS X that runs on them is so old, that it is so fun…
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Quite often I try to play videos encoded in mkv on my playstation 3 over the network. I use PS3 Media Player on my Mac. Unfortunately, PS3 Media Player tries to transcode the mkv video to mp4 before streaming it…
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At work, I have been working with the Raspberry PI and some additional hardware lately. We have a board that we call raspINGA that goes onto the extension pins of the Raspberry. The board contains an Atmel AT86RF231 radio chip…
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