All ingredients for a water/glue mix to ballast your tracks: glue, water and dishwasher soap.
Since I ballasted my tracks some days back, I was looking for a good glue/water mixture that does the job properly. After doing some online research, I came across a YouTube video covering exactly ...
I noticed that my phpMyAdmin installation displayed the following message every time I logged in:
The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret).
The $cfg['TempDir'] (/var/lib/phpmyadmin/tmp/) is not accessible. phpMyAdmin is not able to cache templates and will be slow because of this.
A close-up photo of the finished tracks.
I’m finally done with the tracks on my model railroad shelf layout. I went with the Tillig H0-ELITE-track system since I heard only good things about it, and must say that I’m more than happy with the outcome.
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 ...
Last updated: 05.04.2025
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tyskie Browary Książęce. Bartosz Prusko/CC BY-SA 3.0 PL
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:
Update error: Incompatible archive: NoName (-17): Filename [matomo folder]/tmp/latest/piwik/[some html special char code] is already used by an existing directoryThe update was unsuccessful and Matomo suggested to update ...