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Ever wondered how to get the large clock on your lock screen with the new iOS 26? Well, I did, too - but found it! For me, in all cases my lock screens didn't offer me a resize handle or similar to customize the height of the clock, like this: The reason was the font I chose which in that screenshot is the 2nd in the list - I like the rounded edges more than the default one, but this [...] 

I am not posting a lot about tweaking Windows, so please appreciate this one  When I have to use Windows I only use it in a VM on my Mac with Parallels Desktop. These machines are just tools to develop with HCL software, so security is something I care less in this setting. I wondered if it's possible to login automatically to the Windows VM - and actually it is. Open the Registry E [...] 

During the transition of various apps to be fit for 14.5 we very soon encountered a problem with the newly integrated TinyMCE editor which replaces the old CKEditor for richtext controls on Xpages. To reproduce create a new XPage and paste this code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core">    [...] 

After some days I revisited a project I have been working on for ages, and for some reasons it welcomed me with this error: javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: java.lang.ClassFormatError: JVMCFRE113 unexpected EOF; class=de/mekos/MekosUtils, offset=0 at com.sun.faces.el.ValueBindingImpl.getValue(ValueBindingImpl.java:184) at com.sun.faces.el.ValueBindingImpl.getValue(ValueBindingImpl.java:134 [...] 

I am not at all into cars, but today I had to say "farewell" to my old lady I spent the last 15 years with until the TÜV us do part (TÜV = technical check department). It happened last week. I checked out a new (used) car then, bought it and today acquired it finally and here it is. Again, a Czech car which I am very satisfied with again. The Octavia is the most popular [...] 

Since I always forget about the timezone settings when spinning up Domino in a container, I just wanted to document it here for my own records. The key here is to provide an environment setting directly when issuing the run command. For me this would be the Central European timezone like so: docker run -d --name domdev -v /local/notesdata:/local/notesdata --hostname domdev.local --cap-add=SYS_P [...] 

Today marks my 25th anniversary working in the IT industry and esp. with a product which once was called Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino. My first contact was Notes 4.5.x which came with the Designer part integrated, not as a separate app. It was fast. Holy cow, how fast it was! I made my first certificates using the brand new version R5 (“Super Human Software”) and one year later in N [...] 

It’s 2025, I was thinking about a new webcam. I was using a Microsoft (!) 1080p webcam for ages and it’s crap - esp. on a Mac. I had to use a utility called WebCamSettings to get this even working with Teams etc. Webcam My decision was buying a “real” webcam like an OBSBOT or an Insta 360 Link. These are not cheap and these are “only” webcams. Since iPhone [...] 

In my recent post I mentioned a new (beta) voice assistant device for the use in your Home Assistant system. There are others available on AliExpress based on ESP32 etc. but this one is "the official". More information here. Today it was delivered. Yes, it is not the sexiest device on earth, it attracts dust as crazy and I absolutley want to hide it (and you could because mics and spe [...] 

This post is about on how I managed to transform my Smart Home from using vendor-based solutions to open-source and local-only systems. I am actually cheating. Although my solutions work entirely local, the fact that I want to use it remotely, also requires a cloud account to access it, namely the Nabu Casa account which is 75 bucks per year. Where I came from My first Smart Home steps based [...]