On this sunny day I was in Dorsten, a little town in the north of Essen / Düsseldorf and Cologne. In the past I was very often in Dorsten due to the Women Basketball team BG Dorsten or the Men ice hockey team EJ Dorsten. My favourite teams was playing here often, so that I was often for the sport here but sometimes for watching the town. I decided to take the train line RE14 of the private railway company…
In the last night I woke up and could not sleep. Near my bed stands a desktop pc with my Bodhi Linux (an Ubuntu deviate). I launched the pc and want to listen to music. Most of the time in the evening I listen to a radio station on Saint Martin, an island in the Caribbean Sea. On the French part there is a very nice radio station that plays very good songs. I decided to turn it on. But…
Yesterday (Sunday, 3/12/2017) I was at the Müngstener Bridge in Solingen. It’s the highest railway bridge in Germany, with a height about 107 meters. It was open in 1897. Today it’s a regular train line runs over the bridge, the S7 from Wuppertal main station to Solingen main station. The S7 is now operated by Abellio GmbH, that the Nederlands Spoorwegen (the Dutch railway company) has an interest, too but in former times by the Deutsche Bahn AG with the…
I have still boot problems with my Mageia 5. The Linux distribution had installed in the past the „new“ kernel 4.4 but with this kernel the Netbook DELL Inspirion Mini 1018 stopped while booting. Yesterday a colleague of me gave me a magazine where it wrote how I can show all the text messages in the boot process. The magazine is oriented to Ubuntu and his derivates. But a lot of information you can use with the other Linux distributions,…
On Sunday noon I wanted to go by tram (line 107) to the main station of Essen. Near main station there is the town library and I gave three books back. All books had the title with computer science but my shift-work plan will designate me that I can’t go to the library before and after work. Before I will forget the books, I gave they back. One book costs 0,25 Euro per day penalty charge after the deadline. Another…