Thorwil's

Two Girtoises about to feast on cloud-rooted Bananeries on the plains of the seastern continent. These animals are also known as Toraffes or by their scientific name: Giradinoides. In German, the...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/giraffe-tortoise-girtoise/

Backstory In 2016, RC-car company Arrma released the Outcast, calling it a stunt truck. That label lead to some joking around in the UltimateRC forum. One member had trouble getting his Outcast t...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2017/03/20/hobby-harder/

Ardour is an application for recording, editing and mixing music. It is licensed under the terms of the GPL 2. The upcoming 3.0 release seemed like a good opportunity to take another look at the ...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/new-ardour-logo/

Sugar-coated electronic rasp. This project started as a test of Ardour 3’s new MIDI and synth-plugin features (still in beta). In this role, it served in uncovering and fixing a number of issue...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/music-gleshnor/

Dave Phillips recently published a great Blues track in a not so great mix and made the material available on request. Since others covered the gentle just bring out what’s there (by Fons Adria...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/get-on-board-the-blues-guicussion-remix/

Plans for the next iteration of the network status menu in Unity include the use of switch widgets. As has been brought up on the unity-design list, their placement on the right is likely to make...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/switches-in-unity-menus/

Summary: If you have performance problems using the JACK Audio-Connection-Kit and the fglrx ATI grpahics card driver, switching to radeon may solve them. Unity 3D and radeon can work, but leftove...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/fun-with-graphics-card-drivers-in-ubuntu-12-04/

José Luis Romero L. asked me for a Logo for LinuxMaya, the honduran Linux users group. I said yes, mainly because it was an interesting opportunity, stylistically, and a welcome break from my cu...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/linuxmaya/

I bought a new bicycle, recently. My first with drop-bars. The additional brake-levers ease my mind, but make it more difficult to attach any more stuff. So I went looking for a well-reviewd, cer...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/3d-printing-to-the-rescue/

Microsoft Windows gets a new Logo for Version 8. It no longer tries to be a window or group of windows and a flag at once. My first impression was that the perspective looks off. I found out it i...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/strange-new-windows-logo/