IT conservations

Very nice read on ArsTechnica ... for people my age ;) “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C

 Got me a OnePlus 9 yesterday, which already comes with Android 11 installed. Migration of apps over there was rather smooth, many thanks ag...

 I've already shown how to create a year-month function in DB2, which - when it comes to date arithmatic - is quite straightforward, be...

I have to admit, I did not know about that: The  shell:  command can be used to open a special folder directly from the Start, Search me...

Well, the other day I noticed that my USB charging cable for my Amazon Fire Stick was broken. So I just dug into my USB cable carton and ge...

Just found this on engadget. If you type in cal.new or meeting.new in the address bar (sorry, awesomebar, or whatever it is called thes...

The latest update on my OnePlus 5T (to Android P) make OnePlus Gallery the app that opens when you click on the gallery/image icon at the l...

I have to admit that I don't know how long this has been there, I just noticed it last week. iOS (on my iPad) can finally use LastPass...

I quickly needed to check the monthly progress of a certain variable over time. Problem was that those bookings/incomes are spread over the...

So I posted two (only 2 !!) pictures of a garden on instagram, and all of a sudden I get dozens of followers with garden-related accounts/n...

So, haven't posted here in a while... sorry 'bout that... Here's what happened most recently: My Nexus 5X decided to get stuc...

Just two weeks after I upgraded my DSL line to 100/20 Mbps, my employer was nice enough to move our mobiles to a new contract where we fin...

After a chat with a friend (and former colleague of mine) I decided to trust my telco (A1 Telekom) to upgrade to a higher speed, though I o...

So, as every year, just after CES the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is starting right now. Time to go offline for a week... or be bore...

Last week my son approached me, because his Samsung all of a sudden started to show networking errors for YouTube, the PlayStore and G+ app...

So, as you noticed, I did not really blog a lot this year, i.e. 2015. Let me quickly recap what I was busy with in the last couple of mont...

So for various reasons (mainly the 64bit v 32bit problem with the native driver) I changed my DB2 JDBC driver to type 4, i.e. the Universal...

Usually I hate and hence avoid to slam an app or service like this, but the podcast player in iOS9 really sucks. At least for video on an iP...

With DB2 on my home PC[1] I have a service account for the DB2 instance, makes life a lot easier than trying to map it to you actual user(s...

While I finally made it to a Mac (MacBook Air 13) at work, I gave in and let Microsoft install Windows 10 over my Windows 7 on my home PC. ...