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About the author

Hello! My name is Jörg Hau, and I'm living in one of the most beautiful parts of Switzerland: Near Lausanne.

I have a university education as analytical chemist, holding a Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D. equivalent) since 1994. Employed for 14 years in industrial R&D, I worked in fields as diverse as fundamental and applied research, scientific instrumentation, software development (in particular using Linux), project management, quality management, training and coaching.

Recognizing that my experience will be valuable for more than one company, I founded my own Consulting business in 2009.

Since early 2009, I am also owner of the Swiss branch of pfranc.com, providing plugs and cables - primarily for Garmin GPS receivers - to individuals and to companies.

You can also find me on LinkedIn. I am not on facebook.

Contact

To get in touch with me, simply write an e-mail ...

• You can use English, French or German; I speak all three languages fluently.
• Make sure your e-mail has a valid "subject" line, and a valid return address which is delivered to an actual human being.
• If you need encryption, get my PGP Public key.

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Donations

I emphasize that the content of this site is - and remains - freely available (under the terms and conditions mentioned here), so you do not have to pay anything. However, I certainly appreciate any donation, since it is a "return on investment" for the time and effort that I put into these pages.

FAQ

A few questions that I receive pretty regularly:

Gibt es auch eine deutsche Version dieser Website?

Obwohl ich einige Seiten in Deutsch und/oder Französisch übersetzt habe, lautet die Antwort "Nein". Der Hauptteil meiner Leserschaft kommt aus dem englischsprachigen Raum, und eine Fassung kann ich noch bequem in meiner Freizeit warten. Wenn ich dazu aber noch eine französische und eine deutsche Fassung erstellen und vor allem aktuell halten wollte ... nein, es gibt wichtigeres, als jeden Abend vor dem Rechner zu verbringen ;-)

Is there another language version of this website?

Albeit a few pages of this page are available in German and/or French, the general answer is "No". Most visitors of this site are from english-speaking countries, and this is the version that I can keep updated fairly easily. Adding one or more versions in other languages would consume too much of my free time ... life is more than just sitting in front of a computer ;-).

I am trying to open a file from your website, but I'm getting an error message like "Error reading header ...". What am I doing wrong?

Most of the archive files that I make available on my site are in gzipped tar format, either with the extension .tar.gz or .tgz. From time to time I get reports that these files "do not open" in Winzip under Microsoft Windows XP; the reason is apparently that either Windows XP or Winzip breaks the filenames if you try to open a file on-the-fly. As a workaround: Right-click on the link, "Save Target as ...", and most important: make sure that the file extension is preserved correctly! You can then open the downloaded file normally (Winzip will probably unpack the .tgz to a .tar first, which you have to unpack further).