A unoffical LineageOS port for the Sony Xperia 10 VI. LineageOS is a free and open-source operating system for various devices, based on the Android mobile platform.

A Linux configuration tool for Endgame Gear wireless mice (OPiw and XM2w), based on a reverse-engineered USB protocol used by the Endgame Gear Windows-only configuration tool.

Deshrouding a Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT NITRO+ and using regular Noctua fans decreases the fan noise to just ambient noise levels. However, Sapphire uses a special cable to connect its fans to the PCB. The single 8-pin header controls all 3 fans.

Resx Formatter is an extension that allows to define the sort order of the XML data nodes when saving a resx file. Therefore, this extension can help to mitigate merge conflicts by sorting the resx keys in a particular, well-defined order. Additionally, it’s possible to remove the XSD schema or the document comment during the sort to save space.

wpa-supplicant is WPA supplicant for Linux, BSD with support for all major WPA version. However, being a user space demon it has performance issues resulting in lag spikes every few minutes. Switching to iNet Wireless Daemon (iwd) results in stabler ping times preferred in gaming and real time applications.

TumblThree is the code rewrite of TumblTwo, a free and open source Tumblr blog backup application, using C# with WPF and the MVVM pattern. It uses the Win Application Framework (WAF). It downloads photo, video, audio and text posts from a given tumblr blog.

TumblTwo is a downloader (crawler) for the Bloghoster Tumblr.com based on TumblOne. After supplying a url, the application will search and download all types of images and videos in a given resolution. It’s possible to download only tagged images and download simultaneously from multiple blogs and enqueue others.

I’ve got a new notebook, the Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E330 (Intel i3 31110M modell, around 500EUR), which is quite exact covered in in this review. I just wanted to add a few things I’ve noticed concerning Linux compatibility.

The POD HD Preset Tool can convert preset, setlist and bundles between different POD HD models without modifying their settings. Optionally, It also can mass change some settings of all presets, setlists, bundles like setting all amps to preamps or changing the microphone.

One thing thats annoying at my selfmade nas is, that the harddisk drives keep park thier heads. Any recent hdds do this to save power, and some systems even have motion detectors, that will park the head at forthcoming crashes, to prevent damage. WD offers a tool (WDIDLE3.exe) to increase the idle value till the head parks, or you can completely disable it. So, I’ve made a custom iso image of the recent UBCD (v5.03) with the WDIDLE3 from WD included. Read more in the article.