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  • How to create a DIY HUD display for a smartphone?

    This is just an idea I explored today – I have not done this. The idea is to attach a pico projector to the side of your head, and hack its optics to provide a small heads-up display for you. Available commercial models for the pico projector: Samsung EAD-R10, 20 ANSI Lumen, ca. 300 USD […]

  • What PHP based git web interface can be recommended?

    The following PHP-based frontends for git were found from looking at the "official" list of git web interfaces. Evaluations were superficial and subjective, by looking at specs, demos (where available), project history. GitList and Indefero have been installed and tested as well. Requirements were: Written in PHP. Features for viewing git repos on the web […]

  • How to fix KMail’s akionadi resource being stuck on “connection established”?

    The symptom is that KMail won't fetch mails for one of your IMAP accounts anymore, and if you open Akonadi Console (akonadiconsole), it shows there "Connection established" for the resources in question, rather than "Ready" as it should say. To fix this (until it recurrs), open the Akonadi Console (akonadiconsole) and restart the akonadi server […]

  • What are best practice principles for web server security?

    There is no such thing as perfect security. And in practice, the time resourced needed for hardening a server are an additional limitation for the security level you can reach. That's why I searched for adequate security principles to guide us when securing a web server. Here's my proposal, feel free to discuss. To develop […]

  • Interview: Mental and cultural aspects of struggling with the crisis in Spain

    First interview on this site – feels quite special 😉 This interview is with Gayane and Karine Akullian, two sisters from Barcelona, Spain, currently working on their latest book "Lucha" ("Struggle"). I like it a lot for being this fresh, out-of-the-box approach to the Spanish economic crisis: they focus on the personal, mental dimension of […]

  • How to fix the screen backlight of the HTC Desire HD?

    First, to diagnose whether the whole screen does not work or just not the backlight, you can do this: Power up the phone, it will vibrate shortly to acknowledge that it starts. Wait for 2 minutes to let the phone finish booting, so you can be sure there "should be" something on the screen. Use […]

  • Where in the world can I use a HTC Desire / Sensation phone?

    You can, but potentially only in the GSM (2G) network (then, you would get only GPRS / EDGE data connections, no UMTS (3G) ones). To make sure you can use a North American smartphone also in Europe, you have to look at what frequency bands are supported by the phone, and what frequency bands are […]