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2021
Running Winlink and VARA on Linux
A quick and dirty summary of my Winlink installation on my linux laptop.
Running N1MM Logger+ on Linux
This is my attempt to properly install N1MM Logger+ on my main computer running Manjaro/Ubuntu Linux.
Win10, Grub 2 and UEFI
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I finally got my broken Grub configuration fixed. Booting Windows from Grub wasn’t very hard back in the days, but the old “version” doesn’t work with the newer UEFI-typed computers. Now… looking at it… it does not look very complicated either ;-)
2020
Forking GIT-repositories
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So this is working for me now. Keeping up-to-date with my upstream github repository.
My virtual windows machine from VirtualBox on Big Sur will not start
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A quick fix if your virtual machine will not start. As long, as you got the same configuration as me
Create your own DMR-ID database file
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Sometimes you just need to create your own files. Mainly for the GD-77 because of its limited memory.
Operating the Z-Shell
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This article is a summary of reasoniamhere.com/…/outrageously-useful-tips-to-master-your-z-shell/. The original article is from 2014 and the pages last entry is from 2015. In case the website goes down I want the important bits saved for my reading and learning pleasure 😉
Error with signed commits
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For some reason my git commits failed when I re-enabled gpg signing. This is how I finally fixed that problem.
Keep up-to-date on forked repositories
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I usually fetch the upstream repository and merge it into my local repository, then upload all the merges into the github repository. That works sometimes, but it also fails sometimes with me having an extra commit with merges leaving the git history different from the upstream…