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YAML Template

Today, I reworked my article about the template set. I hope, it better understandable now. Enjoy!

However, I am currently looking into YAML3, so I hope that I soon can present an update to the "bullet browserproof" template set.

BTW: If someone is using my templates, I would like to make a small gallery... So please post your link!

FinePix 9600

Now, some thousand pictures (10 Gigabytes) later, it is time for a first resume.

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ReCaptcha Plugin

Welcome to the official recaptcha-for-lifetype-plugin development article

After the first release of the plugin, I decided that it would be better to have a dedicated article to the plugin development. Well, this is it.

Installing themes manually in firefox

The filtering proxy used here is sometimes just too stupid (lots of false-positives, inserting a (program) confusing and on bigger downloads unreliable progess bar, etc). This weirdness also jeopardized an automatic updated of my favorite theme. What I learned, is, that you can install themes manually. The problem is, that the instructions on http://wiki.mozilla.org/Installing_Extensions are wrong: There is no "Tool" menu.

But its even simpler: Just drag & drop the downloaded .jar file into the Themes manager, and Firefox will do the rest.

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smartmontools on SATA

I had an annoying problem with my smartmontools. The startup script kept telling me, that it fails upon starting. Well, this was annoying but not critical.

But now that there is a new smartmontools package upstream, this discovered a bug: After installation, smartmontools barks in its postinst script as it fails to start. (See bugreport) 

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NavIT on Debian

Short and Quick: I packaged NavIt 0.0.2 for debian, and well, here is the NavIt Debian package: 

(update: read on where to get the latest version) 

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GCC for the AT90PWM316

BTW: I uploaded updated versions of my avr-gcc builds as debian packages: The files linked inlcude my patch to support the AT90PWM316*. The patch is already upstrea, and according Jörg Wünsche, it will be applied to the upcoming release of the official toolchain.

As the PWM316 chip is just a great device for lightning. I used the patched gcc already for a commercial project.

The story why I needed to create the patch reads as a WTF, and is therefore noteworthy: The hardware-team accidentially soldered the PWM316 into the circuit, instead of the PWM3B. As time was tough and new hardware not feasible in the projects timeline, I had to get the gcc running...

 Well, thats off-topic: Here are the files:

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