Installing Onetab in Palemoon

The amazing and absolutely essential onetab extension is only available for firefox and chrome, not for the stripped-down firefox version palemoon. But with the help of archive.org and a text editor it is possible to install an older (but fully functional) version. A pre-patched add-on file is included in this posting.

Converting an Existing Linux Installation to UEFI Boot

Due to a hardware failure I had to move my Linux installation to a new Laptop that was configured for UEFI boot instead of the conventional BIOS boot.

Transfering the partition data from the old to the new laptop is straight forward. The problem is: How to add the existing installation to the UEFI boot menu?

As it turns out, this task is way easier than expected.

Migrating from avra to avr-as

The main advantage of avr-as over avra is the possibility to generate linkable .o object files that can be mixed with C files.

Unfortunatly, the syntax differs slightly between these two assemblers. And it turns out that the syntax differences are big enough to make the conversion of existing source code a non-trivial task that tends to take way longer than expected.

To save others some troubles in similar situations, here are my findings about porting the SMC3 project from avra to avr-as/gas.

PXE Booting Puppy Linux

PXE booting Puppy Linux is actually quite easy if you already have a PXE server up and running. The idea is simple: Add the *.sfs file containing the file system into the initrd and use this for booting.

freetz auf einer Fritzbox 3170 installieren

Meine aktuelle Fritzbox macht Probleme, deshalb will ich die uralte 3170 zumindest vorübergehend wieder in Betrieb nehmen. Freetz bietet mehr Möglichkeiten als die normale Firmware, also mal ausprobieren. freetz-Image compilieren Es gibt keine fertigen Images, sondern es muss erst selbst aus den svn-Sourcen compiliert werden.

Binaries for plotkicadsch

Compiling plotkicadsch from source is a little bit complicated. To make your life easier I uploaded my compiled binaries here: for Mint 19/Ubuntu 18.04, 64 bit Unpack the file to a convinient location like /usr/local/bin:

SMD reflow oven: lessons learned

(Sorry, no english version yet.) Der Ofen funktioniert und tut genau das, was er soll. Gut. Aber der Weg dorthin war länger und umständlicher als er hätte sein müssen. Was ich heute anders machen würde Immer eine eigene Platine Am Ende sehe ich mich wieder bestätigt: Niemals ohne richtige Platine.

SMD reflow oven from the dumpster

A while ago I found a toaster oven in the trash and now I converted it into a reflow oven for soldering of SMD circuit boards.

SMD-Reflow-Ofen vom Sperrmüll

Umbau eines einfachen Mini-Backofens in einen Reflow-Ofen zum Löten von SMD-Platinen.