26 Oct 2015
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Tips & Tricks, Ubuntu
After a clean install of Ubuntu 15.10, all my custom
programs had disappeared.
26 Oct 2015
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Network, Tips & Tricks, Ubuntu, VirtualBox
A simple trick prevents VirtualBox host-only networks from disappearing after resume
5 Oct 2015
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NG, alpha
Alpha 15 of the XL Toolbox NG series is all about bug fixes.
25 Sep 2015
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Linux, Tips & Tricks, hardware, printing
I have an HP LaserJet P2015dn printer that used to cause me headaches and has been causing trouble for some time now again. …
21 Sep 2015
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CSV, NG, alpha
Title says it all. Download sf.net/projects/xltoolbox/files/alpha If you have a previous alpha …
21 Sep 2015
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Galaxy, Photo, Samsung, Tips & Tricks
Photos that contain 'garbage' text in their embedded comments can be repaired quite easily on Linux.
15 Sep 2015
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CSV, NG, R, alpha, import/export
The 13th installment of the Next Generation alpha series features a new CSV import and export feature that allows customization of field delimiters and number formatting and can be used for data exchange with other software, such as R.
11 Jul 2015
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Linux, OwnCloud, Server, troubleshooting
While upgrading OwnCloud to version 8.1, I experienced strange errors: www-data@server:/var/owncloud$ php occ upgrade
PHP Warning: flock() expects parameter 1 to be …
24 Jun 2015
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NG, alpha
Alpha 10 (released a couple of days ago) and alpha 11 fix a couple of bugs
that caused the XL Toolbox add-in to crash.
10 Jun 2015
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NG, alpha, code
Alpha 9 of the NG series sports new commands for CSV import and quitting Excel as well as a simple API for Visual Basic for Application projects.
17 May 2015
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Excel
An overview of Excel address formatting.
12 May 2015
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NG, alpha
Alpha 8 is a minor update with fixes to the worksheet manager and the
ribbon.
15 Apr 2015
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Horde, Ubuntu
Using `syncevolution` from the Ubuntu repositories makes it easy to synchronize data from a Horde Groupware server to a computer running Ubuntu.
15 Apr 2015
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Explorer, Fix, Windows
After reorganizing folders on my network shares, my Windows machine
(VirtualBox) would refuse to start the Explorer or ‘My Computer’. The
solution is to fix ‘User Shell Folders’ settings in the registry editor.
2 Apr 2015
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Linux, OwnCloud, Server
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ships with an outdated version of the PHP user cache
driver ‘APCu’. OwnCloud, if installed, will complain about this. Here I
describe how to upgrade APCu on Ubuntu.
30 Mar 2015
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Linux, OpenLDAP, Server, Tutorial, code
Setting up an OpenLDAP server on Ubuntu is quite complicated, and getting
SSL connection security to work may be the hardest part of it. Here I
describe what worked for me.
6 Mar 2015
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NG, alpha
Alpha 7 fixes batch export and numerous other things, and offers a new
screenshot-quality export function.
3 Mar 2015
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payments, website
Since March 2015, only Paypal can be used to make voluntary payments for the XL Toolbox. In this post I explain why.
3 Feb 2015
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NG, alpha
For alpha 6, the installer was updated once again in order to more
reliably handle different combinations of operating system and Office
version.
30 Jan 2015
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.NET, NG, VSTO
Depending on Windows and Office version, there are various different
scenarios of the prerequisites that need to be met in order to install and
run a VSTO add-in.
28 Jan 2015
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NG, alpha
Within a few days after the release of alpha 4, I received several bug
reports that evidently related to the install process. Today I release
alpha 5 which fixes these problems.
28 Jan 2015
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VSTO, troubleshooting
If an Office add-in that is created with Visual Studio Tools for Office
(VSTO) does not load, one has a hard time debugging since no error
messages are displayed. However, there is a remedy.
26 Jan 2015
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NG, alpha
Today I release the fourth alpha version of the Next Generation Toolbox.
This version features support for CMYK color space and color profiles for
graphic export.
8 Jan 2015
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funding, research
In this article I share an OpenDocument text template file for use in research project proposals to the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).
4 Jan 2015
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NG, alpha, license
The second and third preview versions (“alphas”) of the XL Toolbox offers basic
graphic export features. It is released under the Apache License V. 2.0
rather than the GNU General Public License.