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Technik & mehr von damals und heute

The storm glass – the weather forecast

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Some time has passed since the last blog entry. On the one hand, I put this down to a lot of work, both professionally and privately, so that a bit of the energy for blogging was missing. The last days is the beautiful weather to blame. I preferred to spend my time riding a motorcycle…
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Beware of electrical goods from the far east

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The other day I noticed with a cold-device connection cable that the cable sheath has come loose in the area of ​​the strain relief. The wires came out. By itself, this is nothing special, if not here, apart from the unusual colors, the unusually small diameter of the wires in the eye would sting. Normally,…
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WordPress to Word.doc

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If you wanted to save your Blogposts from WordPress, you will definitely know the XML export function in the Dashboard of WordPress itself. Here you can create and save an XML file in the menu “Tools” under “Export data” , This XML file can be used in a – for example – server error again…
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X-Mas 2016

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Merry Christmas to the visitors of the blog! Now it is already two years, in which I feed the “technology and retro blog” with contributions. Who would have thought that … By now some readers have strayed here and asked if I could introduce one or the other device here. Of course I will try…
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YouTube, and interesting technology favorites

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This time, I’m not going to talk about a project or an “old equipment concept”, but would like to introduce some interesting users or their contributions from the YouTube portal. These are contributions from the field of computer, technology and science, which I personally like to look at. First and foremost, I would like to…
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mini quadcopter drone … HUBSAN X4

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A new gadget from the technical area is the radio quadrocopter Hubsan X4. (thanks Ralf and Nadja: D) Here is a short test testflight… It is a miniature quadrocopter, the size of the palm of your hand, which turns out to be a real powerhouse. It is controlled via a 2.4GHz handheld transmitter in six…
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Taster day in technology

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In the last two days we received a visit from two young gentlemen from the fourth year of the Villach High School Sankt Martin. Mr. Martin Ungermanns and Mr. Fabian Treu came to us as part of a “taster program” of the middle schools. The two students can participate in the “world of work” and…
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When the cablediameter is insufficient

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… or in short words, too much current flows through a too thin wire, then it can get very hot. How that looks then, you can see very well in the picture. The insulation of the 1.5 mm² stranded wire has completely dissolved in smoke here in the area of ​​the terminal … So you…
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The old repair shop

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While browsing the digital archives, I noticed the following pictures again. Meanwhile, more than ten years have passed since I had to initiate the end of the television repair shop. Look in the old workshop Almost at the same time as the widespread use of flat screen televisions, orders were down. Except for a few…
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something for the home network

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I recently updated my home network a bit and swapped the old Netgear ReadyNAS Duo for a QNAP TS420. Since the supplier wanted to have a “rating” on the article, I indulged myself in the five minutes and wrote a few lines …   I opted for Qnap based on a recommendation from an IT…
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