Category Archives: Computer

Symfony2 projects – Quick Howto (not finished)

This is a quick Howto about how to set up a new symfony project. There will be only a minimal description of why. If you want to know more details, you should have a look at the very good tutorial symblog, which I used for inspiration of this post. Setup project Use PHP Composer to… Read More »

Data recovery

A few months ago the SSD in my laptop crashed. I missed to use the time it was working again for a month to backup some of the data. Yes, I know, this was careless. I just now connected the disk again for fun to see if I can access it. Luckily i was able… Read More »

Oracle Java with Ubuntu 12.04

Just for myself. http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/04/install-oracle-java-jdk-7-in-ubuntu-12-04-precise-pangolin/   Fast installation documentation: wget … tar xzf jdk-7u7-linux-i586.tar.gz sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0 sudo mv ../jdk1.7.0_07/* /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/ sudo chown root.root -R /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/ sudo update-alternatives –install “/usr/bin/java” “java” “/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/java” 1 sudo update-alternatives –install “/usr/bin/javac” “javac” “/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/javac” 1 sudo update-alternatives –install “/usr/bin/javaws” “javaws” “/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/javaws” 1 mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins/ ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Hotline Anekdoten: Jeden Augenblick aber Montag bestimmt

Ich rufe eine Hotline an, weil ich beim ändern meines Passwort Schwierigkeiten habe. Der nette Mitarbeiter hält Rücksprache mit den Entwicklern und berichtet mir deren Aussage: Die Entwickler sagten mir, dass das Problem bereits bekannt ist und auch dass man wisse, wo das Problem ist. Es solle jeden Augenblick wieder behoben sein. Sie können es… Read More »

RIP, Steve Jobs

Even though I was never an Apple fan and don’t like some of their philosophies, without Apple and specially Steve Jobs the computer industry would look very different today. Thank you for your courage to push endless innovations into the market and show that computers can look good. RIP

Lenovo Support

For the last month I started to have a big problem with the speed of my notebook (X301). Every time Windows wrote data to the swap the whole computer froze up for 10 to 60 seconds. Since this happened very often, working with the computer more and more got a pain in the a… I… Read More »

Youtube videos as RSS feed

Just to remember and for all who still stick to the good old and never really popular RSS feed technology. If you want to find out the RSS feed of a user you can get it like this http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/youtube_benutzername/videos.rss or of a youtube tag like this http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/youtube_tagname.rss  (found here)