Interesting tools to have a look at
I found some tools in the internet that sound useful:
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SMPTE LTC (Linear Time Code) on Linux and MacOS with ltc-tools and Jack Audio Connection Kit
The following time code generation is based on real time clocks synced with ntp on mac or linux computers using UTC time. Make sure your machine has an internal clock source otherwise the time drift will be too big. This approach is a very cheap way to get proper time code into cameras. If your …
Reset reaper on a mac
Simply delete the folder <user>/Library/Application Support/REAPER.
MS Teams and external audio interfaces
After quite some weeks where I had to use my old Logitech headset again instead of my fancy Audient audio interface plus the Shure mic I finally tried to find the reason why my mic isn’t recognised in teams. The interface is listed normally in the dropdown and all other apps also work absolutely perfect …
log4shell – Log4j2 has major security problem (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45105, CVE-2021-44832)
log4j-core until version 2.15.0 has a major security leak that can be exploited by sending prepared strings that are logged with log4j. Potential candidates would be headers or often also simple form fields that are sent to java backends. The CVE can be found here. With a score of 10/10 this should be addressed as …
Stop firefox from changing your URLs automatically to https
As an admin I have to work with http and https sites quite often. Firefox started to put https in front of everything automatically and clearing the cache all the time is not what I wanted to continue. I found a quick workaround that avoids this issue. Open a new tab and enter about:config in …
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Chromium Flash Plugin
In the newer versions of chromium browser the flashplugin-installer that works for firefox is not supported anymore. To get flash installed use: apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
Privacy and social media buttons
See https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff for a two click like/tweet/+1 button implementation to share less data with the data crawlers.
Synchronize contacts – Carddav for Thunderbird
See and install SOGo plugin as file. Download from http://www.sogo.nu/downloads/frontends.html. After installation there is a point to add a new remote address book.