Smartcard authentification in Chromium

My university's website for exam enrollment needs smardcard authentification, but only contains instructions how to use it with Mozilla Firefox. If you prefer Chrome/Chromium over Firefox and don't want to keep a Firefox installation around, you can do so - here are the instructions.

OT: The Ruhr-University of Bochum (RUB …

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ODROID-C1 issues finally fixed

When I decided to replace my beloved Raspberry Pi media center with something more powerful, I didn't expect so many issues. I purchased Hardkernel's ODROID-C1 and was rather excited. The Kodi Entertainment Center worked much smoother than before (especially since I compiled it to use the Framebuffer instead of X11 …

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Working around UEFI madness on a HP ProBook 6465b

It's past 6 o'clock in the morning and - while writing this blog post - I'm wondering why manufacturers seem unable to implement stuff properly. If I had known what pain UEFI would cause me, I would have sticked to my good ol' BIOS boot setup.

But first things first: Since I …

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ODROID-C1 post-installation tips

Some weeks ago I decided you replace my old and rusty Raspberry Pi (serving as a media center) with something faster (and less likely to suddenly lose ethernet connection). I stumbled over the dirt-cheap ODROID-C1, which outruns the Raspberry Pi (and even the brand-new Raspberry Pi 2) thanks to its …

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Ogg videos on RPi/Kodi

I recently wanted to play an OGG video on my Raspberry Pi with XBMC (which has been renamed to Kodi recently). Unfortunately, it didn't work out of the box. This is how I solved the problems.

Problem 1: Ogg video file not recognized.

If you try to open your file …

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