When I visualised my upcoming holiday trip with Leaflet, a handy tool turned out to be OpenRailRouting. The GrassHoper fork is “a routing engine for railways.” It allows you to find a route between two or more points, and export it as a GPX file. However, this is not based on actual, real-life connections, but simply looks for a possible ...

Getting into model railroading just a few month back, I was (and still am) regularly overwhelmed by the complexity of the hobby. I had many questions like “What is DC and how does it differ from DCC?” or “Can I control my PIKO locomotive with the EX‑CommandStation?” Knowing the struggle, I decided to start a FAQ regarding DCC, and answer some of the questions a beginner of the hobby might have ...

Recently I’ve been looking to buy some 1:87 Eastern Bloc cars for my model railway layout. I’m nowhere close to put them there just yet, but I simply couldn’t wait start buying them (and seeing a nice Black Friday Deal, I ordered the ...

If you enjoy to play train simulators on your computer, there definitely was a moment where you asked yourself whether there are input devices to make the experience even more realistic. Turns out: there are some enthusiasts ...

I planned to get into model railroading for a while, and finally made the step 🤘

I ordered a PIKO Sm31 PKP, a fully assembled EX-CommandStation (I don’t like vendor lock-in) and started building my shelf layout in the now finished holiday ...

With GOG’s new policy to limit save games to 200 MB and delete files after August 31, 2024, I was looking for a tool to manage my save games. I came across Game Backup Monitor (GBM), a small program that allows you to backup your save games to a custom location. And importantly, it is free software.

After installing GBM, you can chose a folder where you want ...

Today when I wanted to update Matomo, I ran into the following error:

The update was unsuccessful and Matomo suggested to update ...

froxlor is a server management/web hosting tool released under the GPLv2. It will allow you to manage (sub)domains, MySQL databases, email accounts and so on. Since there is an official Ubuntu repository, you can easily install it on your Trisquel server as well. This guide will show you how.

Prerequisites

While froxlor will install all necessary services like Apache, BIND ...

Switzerland is one of the leading train nations in our world—the country ranks first in passenger-kilometers per capita, and sixth in freight rail by tonne-kilometres per capita. And despite only having 8.96 m inhabitants, Switzerland ranks 13^th by yearly passengers ...

There are several programs available that will help you to plan your railway model layout. One option is XTrackCAD, a layout builder licensed under the GNU GPLv2 that can be installed on Linux, Mac and Windows.

However, the Linux installation instruction from archive were not completely clear to me and it took me more than one attempt to finally install the program. Since I ...