Stuff for nerds and geeks
If you are on the look for an aesthetic worldwide topographic map (with contour lines, ) OpenTopoMap is worth a visit (https://opentopomap.org). With XYZ-Connections it is also a quite usefull basemap within QGIS projects. OpenTopoMap is a topographic map out of data from OpenStreetMap and SRTM (see https://github.com/der-stefan/OpenTopoMap). How to use it in QGIS: Open Quickie: Using OpenTopoMap…
Heureka, Fedora 38 Beta with Kernel 6.2.x supports RTL8852BE Wifi and Bluetooth out of the box 🙂 The manual work like described in Kubuntu 22.04 on Lenovo ThinkBook 14 G3 ACL is not necessry anymore.
Multiple tools exist for managing and reading scientific publications with open source and standards in mind; only Zotero, JabRef and others remain. Manage and read everywhere related to PC/Tablet/Phone, but for an easy solution with Zotero, you need a paid subscription if you exceed 300MB of online storage, which I do. Solution requirements Zotero online Scientific literature: Manage Read…
Are you one of those who ended up with this nice banner every time you use a Microsoft Office product on an iOS/iPad device? Most likely, you ended up in one of those threads in the Microsoft forum: Authentication Constantly Required on OneNote iOS After Turning on Two-Step Verification Repeated sign-in prompts in OneNote for [Maybe Solution] Microsoft Office iOS/iPad Authentication Hell with 2FA…
The Lenovo ThinkBook 14 G3 ACL is a well equipped device with a Ryzen 7 CPU and decent built-quality. The keyboard has a backlight feature, but not the quality and key drop a typical ThinkPad keyboard has and the typical ThinkPad Trackpoint is missing 🙁 Installing Linux (Kubuntu 22.04, Kernel 5.15) works well if Kubuntu 22.04 on Lenovo ThinkBook 14 G3 ACL weiterlesen
Some apartments and houses sometimes have a terrible placement of light switches. Therefore, drilling and placing new cables do not seem worth it. For example, a different solution is to set up a smart home system to control smart lights. The ZigBee standard provides a perfect solution that allows for smooth integration of different devices Smart Lightning weiterlesen
Thanks to the FOSS4G speech FOSS4G Cloud optimized formats for rasters and vectors explained, I got first contact with the vector-format FlatGeobuf and surprise also QGIS supports it 🙂 . That was an obvious starting point for testing it with some vector data and a poor network connection (~16 MBit). Besides the information FlatGeobuf vector performance for the cloud (tested with QGIS 3.24)…
Since the end of october 2021 the meteorological service of Austria (ZAMG) provides datasets for free on the ZAMG Data Hub . In addition to typical meteorological data from weather-stations, also a category with spatial data is available so let s have a look on the data with QGIS and the NetCDF datasets with timestamps. Download Using Austrian weather climate data with QGIS ZAMG Data Hub…
How to set up a simple static markdown-based blog for a personal journey diary and more? Simple, use an offline CMS such as Hugo or Ghost and host it via GitLab or GitHub. Let s see how to do that. Hugo Let s start with Hugo, which provides a command-line tool for creating and setting up Automated Blog weiterlesen
Altough the HP Elitebook 745 G2 (AMD Hardware) has some age, it s a nice working-tool with good built-quality and mine works fine after 6 years intense use. BUT: HP reports the most recent BIOS versioned 1.48 the BIOS internal update tool reports no update available based on V 1.44 Accidently I visited the HP HP Elitebook 745 G2 (AMD) Reports no BIOS-Update to 1.48 available weiterlesen