I was trying to add the edge browser to my RocketDock-bar I still use and had to find out that the system apps seem to use a quite differnt approach to start than normal applications do. Simply linking direktly to the “MicrosoftEdge.exe” does not fire up a visible instance of it, so there must the… Continue reading How to start Windows System Apps from commandline
Remove obsolete *.log-files from openLDAP DB-folder
If you use the openLDAP-server you will probably run into the problem that the *.log-files located in the DB’s folder will comsume more and more free space. It seems that the automatic maintenance service that should clean up no longer used log-files is somehow broken. Luckly there is a command that removes any log-files that… Continue reading Remove obsolete *.log-files from openLDAP DB-folder
The movement to rid the world of the Flash Player plugin
Flash Player is dead. Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn’t work on most mobile devices. It’s a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of web technology. Websites that rely on Flash present a completely inconsistent (and often… Continue reading The movement to rid the world of the Flash Player plugin
Invalidate all nscd caches at once
If you ever need to invalidate all chached object of the nscd-daemon at once, you could try this one-liner: for f in /var/db/nscd/*; do nscd -i $(basename $f); done
The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded
I recently got the problem with Virtualbox on Debian Jessie that vbox’s kernel modules were not loaded after updating my system. Every vbox-related command gave the following error output: WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module available for the current kernel (3.16.0-4-amd64) or it failed to load. Please recompile… Continue reading The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded
Some old stuff @ soundcloud
I just began to upload some stuff from days ago to soudcloud. Maybe you like it: Have fun 😉
Stop TTIP…
…because democracy needs to remain in people’s hands and not in the hand of coporations. All infos here: https://stop-ttip.org/ and here:
Free Tonmann DeEsser VST plugin
Update: I just finished the work on version 1.2, which I now offer as a free download below. This version brings an all new “decent” GUI, kindly created by DeLaMancha (www.delamancha.co.uk), the de-normal and multicore-problems are (hopefully) fixed. Also a few other internal improvements are addressed in this release. A screenshot of the current version… Continue reading Free Tonmann DeEsser VST plugin
Strange pink counters in Thunderbird after auto-update to 38.1?!
After the auto-update of my Thunderbird-installation to version 38.1 I noticed strange pink counters in the upper left corner of every TB-window: Digging in the “config editor” settings brought the solution: For some reasons the variable “layers.acceleration.draw-fps” was set to “true”. After re-setting it to “false” the counters immediately disappeared again. Infos about how to… Continue reading Strange pink counters in Thunderbird after auto-update to 38.1?!
adobe download manager – white screen of death – a solution
Recently the adobe download manager that is used for updates like the flashplayer browserplugin, doesn’t work here any more. All that is displayed is a blank white screen just like this here: Unfortunately there is no public link to full “admin downloads” visible on adobe’s flashplayer website. I had to dig for quite a while… Continue reading adobe download manager – white screen of death – a solution