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2020


useful command line tools for uni

This blog post is a collection of useful (linux) tools for PDFs, like slides or problem sheets at university. For every use case I give one example that should make the usage clear. Make sure to have the tools installed.

My favorite Anki addons

A list of anki plugins I like. This list is in no particular order. I use anki primarily for my studies of computer science. For more detail check the official pages of the plugins @ AnkiWeb.

Use Firefox on Ubuntu with touchscreen

By default Firefox had pretty bad touch support for me. E.g. no scrolling or zooming. But this was easy to change. Go to about:conifg in Firefox and set dom.w3c_touch_events.enabled=1. Then test this by running the following:

2019


Die ATIS am KIT, drucken vom Laptop

Die Abteilung Technische Infrastruktur (ATIS) gehört zur FakultĂ€t fĂŒr Informatik am KIT und ist unter Informatikstudenten hauptsĂ€chlich fĂŒr das kostenlose Drucken beliebt. Anders als im SCC (da muss man lange warten und zahlen) hat man in der ATIS 200 Freidrucke pro Semester auf den direkt zugĂ€nglichen Druckern. Außerdem gibt es dort Rechner mit Linux und Windows mit denen man bei Bedarf arbeiten kann.

How I stopped my ubuntu from waking up from suspend

My Ubuntu 19.04 Laptop had the annoying property to wake up about 1 sec after being suspended (e.g the lid was closed). It took me some wasted battery charges to fix this problem. So for everyone who has similar problems (and for future me) here is how I fixed it.