Posts on Frank Ridderbusch

Link Collection Update for September 2020

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The links here were collected from Reddit, Hackernews, The Hottest Repos on Github newsletter from the Changelog and whatever I came across and they reflect my personal interests; only that. No need to send me suggestions, which in the end only have SEO in mind.

I’ve changed my procedure somewhat. The topical pages simply became to large for org-mode. There where enough links in the big files, that editing became somewhat sluggish. In the future I will simply rely on ripgrep to find anything in the whole collection of links. I will continue to publish the freshly collected links in one of these posts and not add to the topical pages. And I kept the tags from collecting these links with Emacs org-mode and the capture protocol.

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Link Collection Update for June 2020

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Link Collection Update for March 2020

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Link Collection Update for December 2019

Mon, 23 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Link Collection Update for October 2019

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Link Collection Update for August 2019

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Link Collection Update for April 2019

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Link Collection Update for January 2019

Sat, 19 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Link Collection Update for November 2018

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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Link Collection Update for August 2018

Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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Link Collection Update for April 2018

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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Link Collection Update for February 2018

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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Recent Updates to Link Collection

Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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Recent Updates to Link Collection

Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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Recent Updates to Link Collection

Sun, 11 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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Recent Updates to Link Collection

Sat, 08 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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Recent Updates to Link Collection

Sat, 04 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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Recent Updates to Link Collection

Sun, 04 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Recent Updates to Link Collection

Sun, 25 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Recent Updates to Link Collection

Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Photomatix for Linux

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Recently HDRsoft released Photomatix for Linux. With an introductory price of 19.50€, I immediately purchased it.

Recent Updates to Link Collection

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Nascom continued 1

Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Here is a link to the Nascom schematics again as a reference.

At this point, when I build the boards below, my Nascom still existed as the original board. The board was roughly the size of a DIN A4 sheet of paper. With the help of the Z80 buffer and the parallel bus cards shown here, I was able to move the Nascom piece by piece to a card system consisting of a couple of 100x160mm cards.

Recent Updates to Link Collection

Sat, 11 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Serial connection for Odroid

Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Recently, I purchased an Odroid C2 board with the intention to replace my current Odroid C1 board. The C1 is currently in use as my constantly running micro home server. The C2 builds upon the ARM A53 architecture, which is 64bit as compared to the 32bit A7 architecture of the Odroid C1. The C2 has 2Gb of RAM and the CPU runs at 2GHz.

Digitising Slides

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Some time ago my wife came home from a visit with her parents with a box containing all the slides her dad had shot during the late 50s, the 60s and the 70s until he switched from slide to negative film.

I’m going to present my solution to digitise a sizeable amount of slides in a reasonable amount of time in this post.

Importing and Organizing Photos with exiftool

Wed, 25 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Until recently I’ve been using Digikam to organise and rename my digital photos, sorting them into directories and so on. With my recent move to the KDE5/QT5 desktop environment, the stable 4.x Digikam needed uninstalling due to some dependency collision on my Gentoo Linux installation.

But in the meantime, I’ve found, that ExifTool is actually quite superior for importing and organising for photo files from the camera. Here is how I do it.

Recent Updates to Link Collection

Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Recent Updates to Link Collection

Mon, 18 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Digitising Cookbooks

Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The following post outlines how I digitised two of my most frequent used cookbooks.

While it’s actually nice to have the “real” cookbook open during the process of cooking in comparison to an Android tablet or iPad, which frequently needs to be unlocked to display the recipe again, it’s also useful to have the recipe online as well. In particular if you’re away on a holiday, where you are doing the cooking yourself.

Recent Updates to Link Collection

Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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IPv6 @Home

Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Intro

In an effort to learn more about IPv6 I created an IPv6 tunnel with SixXS in April 2013. The FRITZ!Box 6360 supplied by the TV cable operator, who also provides the internet access, has all the necessary setup options to operate this tunnel with SixXS in parallel to the standard IPv4 connection.

Odroid Kernel Update with root on disk

Sun, 13 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

TL;DR

How to update the kernel on an Odroid C1, which is running off an USB hard disk as root-fs.

Bookmarks - From Services to Markdown

Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Of course in the beginning of the web everything started with managing your bookmarks within the browser. There wasn’t not too much content, that you couldn’t cope with it through the browsers bookmark management. However syncing your bookmarks between work and home was already a problem. At the time I used Xmarks.com, which was later bought by Lastpass. That would have been around 2006 and 2007.

Firefox was my browser of choice then, which must have been the versions 1.5 and 2.0.

This post basically lists the various stations of my bookmark keeping and explains, what I choose as my final solution.

New Start

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

So, finally after long period of procrastination I finally managed to update this website.

Nascom Circuit Diagrams

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Continuing the process of cleaning up the basement I found the original Nascom circuit diagrams. These diagrams originate from 1978 and I got the actual Nascom hardware beginning of 1981 second hand.

Python easy.install with Chocolatey

Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In my company I’ve basically completly moved to the Windows platform. My company is the typical Microsoft shop and since I’m doing more management stuff with slides and “official” documents Linux wasn’t simply an option any more. My company deploys a method to completly remotely install a PC/Laptop with all the required standard set of software. However there are those very nice to have programs like Notepad++, CCleaner or ConEmu, which make life under Windows bearable or if you want to add a programming language like Python or Ruby.

Emptying the Basement: My Computer History

Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve started the process of emptying my basement. There is still stuff there, that I’ve build during my apprenticeship years with the company then called “Nixdorf Computers”, basically my computer roots from more than 30 years ago. To remember everything I photographed every note worthy item. Then I will junk everything. My computer history started with a NASCOM 1 single board computer using the Z80 microprocessor. According to Internet wisdom, this board was designed in 1977 and then sold from 1978 onwards. The size was about a single A4 paper. I bought my system used from a friend of a friend in early 1981.

Darktable 1.4.x Shortcuts

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Darktable allows the export of the complete keyboardrc, which would create a roughly 80k file containing tons of lines like the following:

Multiple Sound Cards under Linux

Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

End of last year, I decided it was time for a hardware update of my desktop computer. I exchanged the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 motherboard and the Core2 E6350 processor with an ASROCK Fatal1ty H87 motherboard and an Intel i5-4670 quad core processor.

Comparing analog and digital radio on the cable.

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Out of curiosity I decided to compare the audio quality of a local radio station (1Live), which I can receive in analog and in digital via my local cable operator. The privately owned radios on the cable are encrypted and can only be received with the appropriate CA Module and a SmartCard for the DVB-C card. The publicly funded station are however available unencrypted.

Inkscape keyboard and mouse reference as a booklet

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve used Inkscape on a couple of occasions. Inkscape is such a powerful program, but I think, it’s it’s not one of the easiest to use. Somehow, each time I’m using Inkscape I’m again struggling with the same basic concepts. I can’t really say, how things would need to be changed, to make it really more simple.

Sun Type 6 Keyboard

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve written about my issues with my SUN Type6 keyboard in the company. I’ve finally found a 100% satisfactory solution. In the end, all fiddling with xmodmap and setxkbmap didn’t really help. To really fix my issues I needed to edit the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev to shuffle some keycodes around.

A4 Paper CD Case in SVG

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

If you search on delicious for “paper cd case” apart from other you’ll find these two pages (1, 2), which present Web forms. The forms allow you to enter some text and after submitting offers you to download a PDF file, which, when printed, allows you to fold a CD case from paper. Another alternative is this page.