Create a valid SSL certificate
Posted by Eric Scheibler at April 25, 2015
This article describes briefly, how to create a valid, self signed SSL certificate, which for example is required by web servers. Tested under Debian Wheezy.
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Disable CapsLock at the Linux console ant the graphical desktop
Posted by Eric Scheibler at April 24, 2015
Script to extract text from images and scanned PDF files
Posted by Eric Scheibler at April 13, 2015
For the friends of the text console I’ve created a small shell script, which extracts text from images and scanned PDF files. You can specify as many input files as you want. The results are merged into a single text file. You can open it in your favorite text editor or pipe it to stdout. The program Tesseract is used for the text recognition.
Sync calendars and address books between the Linux console and Android
Posted by Eric Scheibler at October 14, 2014
Calendars and address books contain sensitive data. It is therefore advisable not to upload them to the cloud. To keep the datasets synchronized between multiple devices nonetheless, you need to operate your own calendar and address book server.
This article first covers the setup of the calendar and address book server and then presents calendar and address book applications for the Linux console and the Android operating system.
The article was last updated on August 13, 2025.
Create a multilingual website with nanoc
Posted by Eric Scheibler at September 10, 2014
Last year I’ve converted my blog to Octopress, a static website generator. Although I appreciate the general advantages of a static website generator I miss two features now:
- Octopress doesn’t support multilingual websites
- It’s mainly for blog’s. Other website layouts are difficult to realize.
The layout adaption would be fairly time consuming. So I searched for an alternative website generator which allows a more flexible design. I found what I searched for at nanoc. This article contains the created nanoc theme for this website.
Mailcap file for mail client mutt
Posted by Eric Scheibler at August 8, 2013
This article contains my mailcap file for the console mail client mutt. With the defined rules in the file it’s possible to open PDF, DOCX, HTML and other documents in mutt directly.