Fetch German laws

In this part of series, I will describe, how to fetch German law texts from https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de. Four formats The (federal) laws in Germany are published by the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection on https://www.gesetze-i...

Generate German laws

In this series, I am going to describe, how to build a generator of German laws. First things first: I am doing this for my own amusement. Because of 1., I will not necessarily seek simple ways to do things. You will most probably facepalm repeatedly ...

Convert German laws from XML to text

For a small project, I needed to convert German laws, found at https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/, from XML format to text format. The XML format is described here and is defined by this DTD file. The source code in the following XSL file is pretty st...

Links to Windows SFU and SUA

Should you want to use Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) within Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, you need SFU 3.5, which you will currently (October 2019) find either in the Internet Archive as an ISO image or at Microsoft as setup executable...

If you want to run Docker on local Linux box

If you would like to run Docker on a Linux box in your LAN, and you already configured the Linux box hostname as computer1 and a user account there as me, and your current Docker environment is Docker Toolbox on Windows together with docker-machine, pe...

Starting with Intel Galileo

Intel Galileo is a Intel Pentium-based platform, which is supported by Arduino IDE. It runs Linux, and it is possible to install a PCI-Express card (most often the Intel Centrino Wi-Fi board gets installed). It is also one of the Arduino-certified pla...

Office in Vagrant VM

I wanted to use office software in a VM, while being able to edit files on the host machine. Usually, people create a VM in VirtualBox and map the host directory into this VM using shared folders. But, because it is a long process, I decided to automat...

Run IDLE (Python IDE) in virtual environment

Imagine: you are running software implemented in Python and there is a problem you would like to debug or edit away. The software resides in a virtual environment and apart from this virtual environment and a standard Python installation nothing else i...

Python shebang

Currently, in the interregnum where Python 2 and Python 3 may co-exist on the same system, the PEP 0394 recommendations for the shebang line in Python programs run in short like this: Use #!/usr/bin/env before Python interpreter Use #!/usr/bin/env pyt...