IT conservations

 Another of my favorite tools / apps is going... now it hit Pocket. I've written about it on this blog a bit . And quite a while ago. We...

Well, go to settings ... duuuh. Yeah, alright, but what if I have to run headless, i.e. not have a monitor or TV attached. So as long as you...

It annoyed me for ages that you cannot just double-click on an URL in Putty to open that URL in your browser. Even selecting an URL for copy...

 For some weird reason (including a 20MB text file to be precise) I wanted to turn on  shrinkResources true minifyEnabled true in my Android...

Today I learned that you essentially cannot concatenate ( concat, || ) nullable columns properly in DB2/SQL. To be honest, I should have kno...

A couple of weeks ago I got the Android 13 / OxygenOS 13 update for my OnePlus 9, looking forward to the per-app language feature from Andro...

So, Max finally did it. He found the HW to read our old floppy disks and got our 1985/86 software back and onto proper modern media ;)  And...

Not a lot happening here tech-wise these days. Except: an upcoming "archaeological" adventure. Max, my longest and dearest friend ...

So, last week I had my first (business) trip to the UK since the Kingdom in its infinite stupidity decided to leave the EU. It's been a...

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...