In the following train of thoughts I’ll try to give the shortest possible answer to the question, how someone who is inclined to buying either the Supernote A5 X or the reMarkable 2 can decide which of the two is right for him. My answer is split up into two parts plus a resumée. Part…

… and then the download fails. You’ve experienced this problem with VirtualBox or are stuck just at the very moment you’re reading this post here? Here’s the solution: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds Click on the link above! At the bottom of the page you’ll find this: Both tables offer a download link for the image file of the…

Hewlett-Packard manufactured this crazy pocket calculator (not really one for the pocket, to be honest) between 1995 and 2000 at a relatively low price of about 80 US dollars. It broke with tradition in so far as it had no RPN logic. But that’s not what makes this device peculiar, I consider its overall design…

Foreword: I publish this tutorial on behalf of a dear guest author! I’m not familiar with the subject of this article but if you have any questions, post them as a comment below and I’ll do my best to clarify things in collaboration with the author. So, we hope that this is helpful to others,…

It all begins with 4K monitors HiDPI (4K or higher) monitors, standalone or part of a laptop, are fun to use but this fun is corrupted often either on the application level or even the system level, e.g., Java as the one instance being responsible for the execution of Java applications and thus being an…

This evening I have experienced the second case of ZKN3’s Preferences/Fonts and Colours dialog not functioning anymore. The first occurence took place on a Linux notebook: I could change the font settings as much as I wanted but no change in appearance could be seen. Nothing of the settings was transferred, neither font, fontsize nor…

When I load Google Maps in Google Chrome on my Kali Linux laptop, it shows this picture: Firefox displays the same part of the map like this: Chrome shows Maps pixelated with staircase-like artefacts whereas Firefox has a crisp and clean picture to offer. If you know about a workaround or have hints on the…