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Smartphone | A Lost Place

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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. I bought a Smart-me Plug. About a year ago. Here some thoughts:. Setup was very simple and straight-forward. The app looks a bit outdated – definitely no Material design. Especially the graphs could be a lot nicer (interaction, zooming, filtering). The temperature sensor worked initially – but after a couple of months showed values with an offset (e.g. 13 C instead of 20 C). I got the unit replaced in the end. Running Apps & Services. A great service an...

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Linux | A Lost Place

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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Set up Brother MFC-7820N as network scanner under Kubuntu. I’ve set up my Brother MFC-7820N ages ago to print and scan over the network from Kubuntu. Once in a while the router decides to change the IPs of my network devices. So just as a note to myself, here’s how to set up the scanner again:. Delete the old entry:. Determine new IP (as an exercise for the reader). Set up new entry:. See also Brother’s guide. Sun Java JDK & Avahi on Debian.

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Lollipop | A Lost Place

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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Nexus 4 frozen while charging. When charging my N4 overnight, every now and then it would freeze (screen stays blank/black although LED still works). Only a reboot helps. Since I installed the App Safe Charge. These problems are gone for good. Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Proudly powered by WordPress.

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Avahi | A Lost Place

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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Sun Java JDK & Avahi on Debian. When trying to install sun-java6-jdk on a Debian server (Lenny), I noticed that it automatically installs libnss-mdns as well as avahi-daemon. I’ve got no idea why it would do that as Avahi. Is the free implementation of Apple’s zeroconf which allows automatic detection of local network devices. On my Debian server it managed to interrupt DNS resolution with local hosts (using a .local address). Continue reading →.

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Hardware | A Lost Place

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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Fixed HP Compaq 6715b Power Issue? I had a HP Compaq 6715b laptop lying around which I thought was dead. When pressing the power button, nothing happened, not lights, no beeps, nothing at all. If this really fixes the problem for good will have to been seen. There are reports on the internet about low-quality motherboards (especially power connection) in the HP laptops of this generation. Set up Brother MFC-7820N as network scanner under Kubuntu. Disabl...

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Computer | A Lost Place

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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Fixed HP Compaq 6715b Power Issue? I had a HP Compaq 6715b laptop lying around which I thought was dead. When pressing the power button, nothing happened, not lights, no beeps, nothing at all. If this really fixes the problem for good will have to been seen. There are reports on the internet about low-quality motherboards (especially power connection) in the HP laptops of this generation. Flash: Data files for some packages could not be downloaded.

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Scanner | A Lost Place

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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Brother MFC-7820N under Kubuntu 14.10 Utopic. Install Brother driver brscan2 (including adding the line. Showed “no sane device found”. Tells you to copy libs from. But sane is looking in. Device `brother2:net1;dev0′ is a Brother MFC-7820N SCANNER. Hint: for debugging of scanimage, use. SANE DEBUG DLL=3 scanimage -L. Set up Brother MFC-7820N as network scanner under Kubuntu. Delete the old entry:. Determine new IP (as an exercise for the reader).

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Nexus 4 | A Lost Place

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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Tag Archives: Nexus 4. Nexus 4 frozen while charging. When charging my N4 overnight, every now and then it would freeze (screen stays blank/black although LED still works). Only a reboot helps. Since I installed the App Safe Charge. These problems are gone for good. Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Proudly powered by WordPress.

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A Lost Place | My personal scratchpad | Page 2

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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. Disable Services on MBWE. Continue reading →. Fix Non-persistent Window Size for Thunderbird. For a while (it might have started in the days of Intrepid/Kubuntu 8.10) my Thunderbird window never remembered its geometry between restarts. When starting TB, I always got a small window which I then had to resize to the desired size. No changes to. Seemed to make a difference. Today, I came across a post. Click on Window Behaviour. It’s ...