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2010-05-28: blog.volker-lanz.de
There's a blog now with mostly technical content under http://blog.volker-lanz.de. more...

2008-09-18: KDE Partition Manager
KDE Partition Manager allows you to manage your disks, partitions and file systems: Create, resize, delete, copy, backup and restore partitions with a large number of supported file systems
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2008-08-03: BoxMonster
BoxMonster is a call monitor designed to work with the AVM FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7170 and compatible models.
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2008-06-28: QSynergy
QSynergy is a comprehensive and easy to use graphical front end for Synergy, written on top of the Qt Toolkit. It runs on Unix, Apple Mac OS X and MS Windows. more...

2006-01-18: SUSE Linux 10 and an Apple iPod
If you want to get your iPod running with SUSE 10, you probably expect everything to work just out of the box without further tweaking; after all, SUSE is a mature distribution and the iPod has both been on the market and supported on Linux systems for a while now. Unfortunately, this is not at all the case. more...

2005-11-07: The Black Art of Optimising
Optimising program code for maximum performance is often considered to be some sort of black art. Also, quite a number of programmers believe in micro-optimisations that rarely ever improve program execution time, but nearly always introduce subtle bugs or obfuscate the code, or both. In the following we will have a look at optimisation possibilities that help cut down execution time considerably while still keeping the code clear and easily maintainable. more...

2005-10-22: Inf2ATR
A little program to convert Infocom Z-Machine story files (like Zork, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Planetfall or Leather Goddesses of Phobos) in version 3 to an Atari ATR disk image for use with the Atari800 emulator. more...

2005-05-07: The Nokia 9500 Communicator
The Nokia 9500 Communicator comes packaged in an unimpressive box. Inside this box, one finds a manual, the battery, a charger, a docking station, a CD-ROM, a headset (wired, one earplug) and the phone itself. First impression: What a brick is this! more...

2005-04-10: Thinkpad function keys on SUSE Linux 9.2
If you have read my essay on running SUSE Linux 9.2 on an IBM Thinkpad T41p, you know that the Thinkpad's special function keys (like Fn+F3 for "backlight off" or Fn+F12 for "suspend to disk") don't work by default after installing SUSE Linux 9.2. They can be made to work, however, this requires quite some effort. more...