Archlinux

I am using Linux as a desktop system for quite some time now. Starting with a distribution of SuSE dual-booting on my Windows 95 gaming machine some years past, it eventually became my main system, although I also had short stints with Windows 2000, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 (which I think is a really good operating system).

Evolution

I prefer Evolution as client for my mails, addressbooks and calendars; although I tried other clients - claws, Thunderbird, geary, mutt - I always move back to Evolution. Switching was a matter of functionality most of the times. The look and feel of Evolution was always great for my personal taste, but when I changed from local calendars and addressbooks to online services or from POP3 to IMAP, evolution fell short of other clients. Everything was implemented rather fast, but sometimes, things just did not work properly. Calendars would not sync, buttons in Evolution just did nothing or at least not what they said.

Last week RTJolla, one of my main sources for information about Jolla on twitter has died - probably not forever, but maybe for a longer period of time.

I am not big fan of creating listings and searches on twitter, I just want to read my timeline, so I created a twitter to account to jump in until RTJolla returns. This bot has been created for my personal usage will retweet everything it finds about Jolla and SailfishOS - the operating system powering the Jolla smartphone.

Vor ein paar Tagen ging in meinem Rasperry Pi die SD-Karte kaputt und ich hatte die Wahl: Nochmal openELEC mit XBMC aufspielen oder etwa anderes probieren. Wer sich die Überschrift sorgfätig angesehen hat, ahnt schon: Ich habe mich für etwas anderes entschieden!

Nach kurzer Recherche habe ich mich für den Plex Media Server entschieden und diesen auf meiner MSI Windbox installiert - es gibt im AUR en Paket für den Server (ist nicht Open Source), der Client, das sogenannte “Plex Home Theater” ist frei und in den Archlinux Standard-Repositories enthalten. Für das Raspberry Pi gibt es mit rasPlex eine auf openELEC aufsetzende Distribution, die sehr einfach und schnell erlaubt, einen Client für den Plex Server aufzusetzen. Schön fand ich dabei auch, dass ich die SD-Karte nicht manuell anpassen musste, damit die Partitionen sich der Größe der Karte anpassen - das erledigt rasPlex beim ersten Booten automagisch!

It’s probably Jolla’s fault, because following my purchase of this beautiful phone from Finland I started to using more software created in Europe.

I have recently moved my online storage from Dropbox to Younited which is a service provided by F-Secure, a Finnish company known for data security software and services (the first ever anti-virus software I used on a DOS-powered computer was f-prot…). Younited is pretty straightforward and works much like other services you might use. There are clients available for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. There’s even a client for Linux, so I can sync folders from my Archlinux-powered Laptop at home! Younited offers just 5GB of online storage for free, but purchasing more space is cheap compared to Dropbox or box.com - 200GB are ~75 Euros per year.

Since LG presented their (cool!) new Smart-TVs powered by webOS, my beloved operating system is trending again. Reviews were positive in general and one must admin that the system looks very promising. In hope to fuel webOS rising again (at least in social media), I have played around with twitter bots on my MSI Windbox running archlinux and created a little bot retweeting things tagged with the webos-hashtag. Due to a bad coincidence of a similar term existing in (Mexican?) slang, there also might be tweets in that timeline not quite covering technology, but hopefully, those are not taking over…