yet another tech-blog - made in Switzerland

Brother compatible vs. original laser toner cartridges: Is the cheaper price worth the lower quality?

Published on June 19th 2023 - Listed in Hardware Personal - 0 comments

Annoying Android SMS (text message) not sent problem finally fixed! (Not sent, tap to try again.)

Published on April 14th 2023 - Listed in Personal Android - 1 comments

I am now a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)! Yay!

Published on February 16th 2023 - Listed in Kubernetes Personal - 0 comments

How to hide certain HTML elements in mobile view only (and solve CLS issue)

Published on January 11th 2023 - Listed in HTML Internet Personal - 0 comments

Replacing my old webcam (Creative VF0700) with a new model (Foscam W81) on Linux Mint

Published on November 24th 2022 - Listed in Personal Linux Multimedia Hardware - 0 comments

How to fix unparsable structured data issues detected by Google Search Console

Published on November 20th 2022 - last updated on November 29th 2022 - Listed in Internet PHP Personal - 0 comments

Invoice Ninja v5: How to make the Account Management setting available to additional (admin) users

Published on April 29th 2022 - Listed in Internet Personal Databases - 0 comments

IMHO: Toshiba hard drives are underrated (expanding NAS with larger disks)

Published on April 23rd 2022 - last updated on April 25th 2022 - Listed in Hardware Linux Personal - 0 comments

The pressure shock-wave from the Tonga volcano explosion caught by Adafruit/Bosch BME680 VOC sensor monitoring

Published on January 20th 2022 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring Personal Influx Grafana - 0 comments

Hardware upgrade: ASRock B550 and AMD Ryzen 5 3600 on Linux Mint 20.1 with Kernel 5.8

Published on March 12th 2021 - last updated on August 7th 2021 - Listed in Personal Hardware Linux - 2 comments

After upgrading to Linux Mint 19, all text characters are now shown as bracket boxes

Published on March 11th 2021 - Listed in Linux Personal - 0 comments

How to use SUM function across multiple rows matching several criteria in LibreOffice Calc Spreadhsheets (SUMIFS)

Published on March 8th 2021 - Listed in Personal Cloud Internet Office - 0 comments

A new and multi-author technology blog is online: Announcing Geeker's Digest

Published on January 13th 2021 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

How to force a restart of a (frozen) Huawei smartphone (tested with Mate 20 Pro)

Published on November 11th 2020 - Listed in Android Personal - 1 comments

Ansible playbook run fails due to Python version problem: How to force a Python version on the client

Published on September 10th 2020 - last updated on March 20th 2023 - Listed in Ansible Linux Python Personal - 5 comments

Implementing Swiss Payments Code (SPC) and QR code invoicing with Invoice Ninja

Published on June 30th 2020 - last updated on May 23rd 2022 - Listed in Internet Coding Personal - 13 comments

How to create a visual status progress bar in a Google Sheets spreadsheet

Published on April 21st 2020 - last updated on August 27th 2021 - Listed in Internet Cloud Personal Office - 12 comments

Convert movies/clips to VTech Kidizoom Touch 5.0 video format using ffmpeg

Published on December 2nd 2019 - Listed in Multimedia Linux Personal - 3 comments

Change call ring duration before forwarding to Combox (Voicemail) for Swisscom and M-Budget Mobile

Published on July 8th 2019 - Listed in Android Personal - 0 comments

The more than 10 year challenge: The blog has a new (responsive) face!

Published on March 11th 2019 - Listed in Personal Internet HTML - 0 comments

ArchiCAD 17 fails to install on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Published on April 3rd 2018 - Listed in Macintosh Personal Apple - 0 comments

Samsung UE55KU6400 defect picture when using external sources

Published on July 4th 2017 - Listed in Multimedia Personal - 0 comments

Rename video files to filename with recorded date using mediainfo

Published on January 16th 2017 - last updated on January 11th 2023 - Listed in Personal Linux Multimedia - 6 comments

TVHeadend Mutex Scan Settings for Cablecom and Thurcom (Switzerland)

Published on December 6th 2016 - Listed in Personal Hardware Multimedia Kodi - 0 comments

Downgrade Mac OS X on a new iMac? Forget about it!

Published on November 21st 2016 - Listed in Personal Hardware Mac Apple - 0 comments

AMD stock in 2016: Doubting the so called financial technical analysts

Published on September 2nd 2016 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

When the OS says you are old

Published on August 2nd 2016 - Listed in Linux Personal - 1 comments

Reviewing 6 months with Linux Mint 17.3 as desktop OS

Published on July 11th 2016 - Listed in Linux Personal - 0 comments

Downtime happens fast, especially if NIC (domain registry) deletes your domain by accident

Published on April 18th 2016 - Listed in Internet Personal DNS - 0 comments

How to play Age of Empires (AoE) Multiplayer in 2015

Published on October 15th 2015 - Listed in Windows Personal - 1 comments

Improving Gmail spam filter: All it needs is a barking Linus Torvalds.

Published on July 22nd 2015 - Listed in Internet Personal - 0 comments

What are the tasks of a DevOps engineer?

Published on May 27th 2015 - last updated on August 27th 2019 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

Changed internet access from DSL to Cable - gained a bit of speed

Published on May 2nd 2015 - Listed in Internet Personal Network - 0 comments

Cannot read Audio CD in Hifi/Audio CD player but works on computer

Published on March 9th 2015 - Listed in Multimedia Personal - 0 comments

One year of collected data - a review of temperatures in Zurich

Published on July 25th 2014 - Listed in Personal Internet - 0 comments

Photoshop fi written together as one character - how to disable ligatures

Published on February 13th 2014 - Listed in Graphics Multimedia Personal Internet - 0 comments

Transfer contacts, media and messages from iPhone to Android on Samsung

Published on January 20th 2014 - Listed in Android Personal - 0 comments

Federal statistics: A must for Swiss citizens

Published on January 11th 2014 - Listed in Personal Rant - 0 comments

A different kind of hack: IKEA BESTÅ cat litter furniture

Published on January 5th 2014 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

Dear Gmail: What is going on with your spam filter?!

Published on December 19th 2013 - Listed in Mail Internet Personal Rant - 0 comments

Car Bluetooth issue on Galaxy S2 with CM 10.1.3 (upgraded to 10.2)

Published on December 16th 2013 - Listed in Android Personal Rant - 0 comments

Google Analytics vs. AWstats: Thats a big difference

Published on December 12th 2013 - Listed in Internet Personal Rant - 0 comments

Joy without technology: I am a father

Published on November 15th 2013 - Listed in Personal - 1 comments

How to test if a SDHC card is defect or is dying

Published on October 5th 2013 - Listed in Personal Linux Hardware - 0 comments

Bad admins: When the abuse mail address does not work (MTNL Delhi)

Published on September 4th 2013 - Listed in Internet Personal Mail Rant - 0 comments

July 2013 in Switzerland - a hot month (graph)

Published on August 6th 2013 - Listed in Personal Nagios Monitoring - 0 comments

Facebook did it again - just a bunch of bad programmers?

Published on June 24th 2013 - Listed in Internet Personal Rant - 0 comments

A dying SDCard (EMMC) causes strange effects on Android

Published on June 19th 2013 - Listed in Android Hardware Personal Rant - 2 comments

Treasure hunt

Published on June 3rd 2013 - Listed in Linux Windows Personal - 0 comments

Philips' explain their Smart TV possibilities. Or not.

Published on November 5th 2012 - Listed in Internet Personal Rant - 0 comments

Download Speed

Published on October 1st 2012 - Listed in Internet Personal - 0 comments

Fixing slow Wireless LAN - the damn Multicast Rate setting

Published on July 25th 2012 - Listed in Internet Windows Android Hardware Personal Rant - 3 comments

Anti-(Blog)-Spamming technologies: Captcha vs. Questions

Published on April 1st 2012 - Listed in Internet Personal Mail - 1 comments

New website frischer-wind-im-thurgau.ch online

Published on March 26th 2012 - Listed in Personal Internet - 0 comments

The fun of video-surveillance

Published on February 24th 2012 - Listed in Personal Internet Surveillance - 0 comments

Cold, colder, hatchuum

Published on February 7th 2012 - Listed in Personal Rant - 0 comments

Current project: Website for political candidate

Published on January 14th 2012 - Listed in Internet Personal - 0 comments

EOL of my SIMM

Published on December 1st 2011 - Listed in Personal Android - 0 comments

Certified Linux Engineer

Published on August 19th 2011 - Listed in Personal Linux - 0 comments

Intelligent Blog-Spamming

Published on June 21st 2011 - Listed in Internet Personal - 0 comments

What the countdown 'until Death of Computers' means (the Y2K38 problem)

Published on June 17th 2011 - Listed in Personal Internet Linux Unix - 3 comments

Testing some Swiss Online-Shops for Hardware Upgrade

Published on June 7th 2011 - Listed in Personal Hardware Internet - 0 comments

Firefox Sync is a blast!

Published on April 25th 2011 - Listed in Internet Personal - 0 comments

ALL = Archive, and this is post 150!

Published on April 11th 2011 - Listed in Personal Internet - 0 comments

Object moved. Is it?

Published on March 16th 2011 - Listed in Internet Personal Rant - 0 comments

Why Philips DVP 3360 has problems with large DivX files

Published on March 13th 2011 - Listed in Hardware Personal Rant - 0 comments

Magical ethernet interface (network card not detected - electrical circuit issue?)

Published on September 19th 2010 - Listed in Hardware Personal Network Rant - 0 comments

100

Published on August 25th 2010 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

Flying Cat Part II

Published on August 19th 2010 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

Windows in public

Published on July 29th 2010 - Listed in Windows Personal Rant - 0 comments

I don't believe you!

Published on June 3rd 2010 - last updated on April 29th 2022 - Listed in Personal Rant - 0 comments

The iPad has arrived - and this is serious!

Published on May 28th 2010 - Listed in Hardware Internet Personal Android Apple Rant - 0 comments

Wintertime

Published on October 25th 2009 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

Flying cat

Published on August 19th 2009 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

Ghostbusters return!

Published on July 21st 2009 - last updated on April 29th 2022 - Listed in Personal Rant - 0 comments

Eureka is back!

Published on July 18th 2009 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

New mobile phone - a difficult decision

Published on June 19th 2009 - Listed in Personal Hardware - 0 comments

Ready for the new challenge!

Published on April 30th 2009 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

Funny support call!

Published on March 19th 2009 - Listed in Personal Internet Windows - 0 comments

I've refound my favourite childhood movies!

Published on February 17th 2009 - Listed in Personal Internet - 0 comments

The calmness before the violations (Anti WEF)

Published on January 29th 2009 - Listed in Personal Rant - 0 comments

Danger in the Rush Hour!

Published on January 28th 2009 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

My part of Obama's Inauguration: A chocolate bar!

Published on January 22nd 2009 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

Why I hate Blade servers

Published on November 30th 2008 - Listed in Hardware Personal - 0 comments

Pictures of USA-trip 2008 online

Published on November 25th 2008 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

Snow!

Published on November 23rd 2008 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

Changes in news/blog display

Published on November 22nd 2008 - Listed in Internet Personal - 0 comments

The chance to prove your wiseness or stupidity

Published on November 4th 2008 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

Welcome to Switzerland, future!

Published on October 28th 2008 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

Back from vacation and exciting last week

Published on September 22nd 2008 - Listed in Personal - 0 comments

Computer = Style

Published on August 5th 2008 - Listed in Personal Internet Hardware - 0 comments

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