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connecting to a NAS on my LAN – Firefox shows”This Connection is Untrusted” – how to use it anyway?
“I Understand the Risks“, “Add Exception“, “Confirm Security Exception” – but they still don’t let you procede – they think for you it is better, not to “Permanently store this exception“, so please uncheck that box, and then “Confirm Security Exception“. A while ago I wasn’t really aware of that checkbox, and I did not…
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upgrading openSUSE again: openSUSE-13.2
As decided during my last upgrade (…->13.1) I am now taking the “complete DVD” approach. I will have this upgrade resp. installation on exactly 2 (virtual) machines (MacBook Pro + Mac mini “Alternate Edition”) The ISO image download takes less than one hour. I am expecting a far faster installation – less than 3 hours…
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upgrading my Macs to Yosemite …
Lessons learned from Yosemite upgrades: back up your Pictures, Documents, and Downloads directories (just below $HOME) yourself, before starting the Yosemite upgrade! All my Macs got their Xcode packages and their Fink installation updated beforehand, as apparently that helps preserving a properly functioning Fink installation. The first “fink selfupdate” on an upgraded OS X Yosemite…
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Joni Mitchell – interviews
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/186723/joni-mitchell-malka-marom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEJuiZN3jI8 – extended version of interview with Q host Jian Ghomeshi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUu1MvnAecc – short version of interview with Q host Jian Ghomeshi
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with the old Skype on my MacBook Air I was inaudible, after the update to Skype 7.1 everything is fine
With the old Skype on my MacBook Air I was inaudible, and I had no idea why and how to change it, I guess, it was flawed somehow. Now with Skype 7.1 it’s just fine. I have no idea, why after all these years this piece of software is still not stable. Or did Apple…
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“Google Fit” wants to be the central store of my fitness data
http://www.google.com/fit https://fit.google.com https://flow.polar.com – why not replace this one at all? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fi.polar.beat – already uploads data to Google Fit my Polar V800 is not yet associated to Google Fit
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Eric S. Raymond is a gun rights advocate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond Raymond is a member of the Libertarian Party. He is a gun rights advocate. …
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air pollution linked to children’s attention problems — Environmental Health News
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2014/nov/attention-problems-and-air-pollution Rather interesting correlation made public here.
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my Polar V800 and flow.polar.com and two different accounts
I have been uploading data to flow.polar.com from my V800 and also from the “Polar Beat” app on my Android phone, a Samsung Galaxy S5. I got my V800 replaced around the end of September because of a couple of problems. New V800, new “deviceid” of course. Ever since apparently I have not been able…
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Speak & Learn Esperanto in Berlin
http://www.meetup.com/Speak-Learn-Esperanto-in-Berlin/events/213159622/