My little daughter wants to listen to music and audiobooks in peace in her children’s room. Therefore, I have built an RFID Kids Audio Jukebox with USB Arcade Buttons and Joystick for Volume Control, Based on Volumio.
All Windows versions as image for different virtualization solutions (for free)
UPDATE 2023: The virtual machines are no longer listed on Microsoft site. But there is now a Windows 11 virtual machine available.
Microsoft is becoming increasingly unsettling. A year ago, Microsoft made its Visual Studio development environment available as a free community Edition. This can be used without restrictions, even for commercial projects. But that’s not all.
Read Windows key from BIOS under Linux
Windows licences are like gold dust – valuable but volatile. Fortunately, the OEM keys or product keys acquired when purchasing the device are usually stored in the BIOS (UEFI only). The Windows product keys can also be read very easily under Linux. For example, if you want to install a virtual machine with Windows guest and do not have the Windows licence key at hand.
Lenovo Yoga 3 11 WLAN (Atheros QCA6174) under Ubuntu Linux 15.10
If you want to use Linux, you should always buy „well-hung“ hardware. That is, hardware that has been on the market for longer than 6 months and whose required drivers have already made it into the Linux kernel. Well, I’ve known this wisdom for 10 years now and still don’t manage to stick to it…
Download: WordPress Theme von Philipp Bytes Bugs
UPDATE 2023: Theme is still in my GitHub repository and can be downloaded, but surely is outdated. The Blog Philipp Bytes Bugs is nowadays powered by Hugo ;)
For all those who are looking for a very reduced WordPress theme or also a starting example for the development of an own theme I provide the theme of Philipp Bytes Bugs for download
Ubuntu Screen Rotation Indicator for Lenovo Yoga 3 11
UPDATE APRIL 2017: Canonical will stop the development of Unity and thus the „Screen Rotation Indicator“ is obsolete. It is also no longer needed, since GNOME Desktop supports automatic screen rotation by default (tested with Yoga 3 11). This also really works 1a and is a much better solution 🙂 However for educational purpose the GitHub repository is still there.
I have owned a new toy in the form of a Lenovo Yoga 3 11 for a few months now. The Yoga is a convertible, also called a multimode notebook by Lenovo, where the touchscreen can be folded back 180 degrees. This turns it into a tablet.