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Inconsolata - programmer's (monospace) font

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:56:12 -0400

Inconsolata - programmer's (monospace) font

Magic SysRq key

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:08:13 -0500

Nice, complete, discussion of the “magic sysrq key”, which are a set of keystroke combination that can allow you to get out of a “frozen” Linux. Hold down Alt+SysRq+[REISUB] key to get fun stuff to happen.

Ouch. Too true… xkcd: Good Code

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:19:57 -0500

Ouch. Too true…

xkcd: Good Code

Geek And Poke: Old Geeks Yup, I really miss my HP-16c, although...

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:11:01 -0400

Geek And Poke: Old Geeks

Yup, I really miss my HP-16c, although the Android app I have, RealCalc, does an excellent job of emulating one on my G1.

Tramp not working in Emacs

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:12:33 -0400

Tramp not working in Emacs:

I’ve been having this problem for a few weeks now. The ‘sudo’ file editing hack I mentioned a couple of months ago stopped working with a strange error :

Wrong type argument: numberp, 1288700312.000000000.0

Looks like some bug in a returned value from the shell. Here’s a patch to Tramp.el to fix it.

"The more I write code and design systems, the more I understand that many times, you can achieve the..."

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:39:58 -0400

“The more I write code and design systems, the more I understand that many times, you can achieve the desired functionality simply with clever reconfigurations of the basic Unix tool set. After all, functionality is an asset, but code is a liability.”

- Taco Bell Programming

via i.imgur.com

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:56:46 -0400

via i.imgur.com

Write in C - Let it be Cover - Piano (via schoedav) Too funny!...

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:26:12 -0400

Write in C - Let it be Cover - Piano (via schoedav)

Too funny! And I surely agree - Write In C!

Programmer’s Limbo I hate it when this happens. via...

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:39:09 -0400

Programmer’s Limbo

I hate it when this happens.

via xyne.archlinux.ca

Mouse problem?

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:38:09 -0400

Having problems with a stuttery or even frozen mouse when playing Linux games like Doom, OpenArena or Teeworlds? Or a non-functioning mouse in your precious DosBOX games? Try setting an environment variable in your .bashrc file:

$ cat >> ~/.bashrc
# Set this to fix mouse problems in Linux & DosBOX games
export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0
^D
$ source ~/.bashrc
$ dosbox -conf master_of_magic.conf

Voilà, it should work! After digging deep into my Google-fu, I found that “DGA” stands for “Direct Graphics Architecture”, an XFree86 proposal for better dealing with fullscreen graphics. I guess it proposes some kind of hardware rendering for the mouse and other lowlevel things, but it looks like the latest X.org 1.9 driver broke things. My DosBOX games were working just fine and then the mouse stopped working. Setting SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE means to don’t use the “DGA” mouse and all of a sudden, my mouse was working again.

Hopefully, this is something that a later revision of the X driver will address, as I didn’t used to have this problem.

Useless Use of Cat Award

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:11:41 -0400

Useless Use of Cat Award:

Lot’s of funny little commandline anecdotes. Like don’t use ‘cat’ to view file contents.

Some .bashrc color defines

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:29:22 -0400

Some .bashrc color defines:

Someone on the #ArchLinux IRC was asking for some help in defining colors for their PS1 prompt and so I remembered some clever defines I had in mine. Mind you, they weren’t my idea, but copied’n’pasted a long time ago. But they make for much nice PS1 defines. Check it out.

Linux From Scratch, 6.7-rc1

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:01:14 -0400

Linux From Scratch, 6.7-rc1:

Man, I wish I had time to go thru Linux From Scratch! I did a bunch of it about a year ago, going so far as to get the toolchain done and a partition readied, but that was all. v6.7 has a release candidate and now would be a good time to begin anew. Hrm.

Try Google’s Android Mobile OS on Your Computer with Live CD

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:48:06 -0400

Try Google’s Android Mobile OS on Your Computer with Live CD:

Oh great, another “live” CD for me to spin my wheels on! This time, it is a full blown version of Android, as run on my (by now ancient) G1.

How a programmer reads your CV via stevehanov.ca Too funny!

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:27:43 -0400

How a programmer reads your CV

via stevehanov.ca

Too funny!

via www.makeuseof.com An Overview Of Computer Programming

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:44:14 -0400

via www.makeuseof.com

An Overview Of Computer Programming

googlecl - Project Hosting on Google Code

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:41:42 -0400

googlecl - Project Hosting on Google Code:

This looks pretty cool - Google Commandline. Only thing missing, really, is ‘google search’.

"rm ~/.titanium/runtime/linux/1.0.0/libgobject-2.0.* rm..."

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:20:16 -0400

“rm ~/.titanium/runtime/linux/1.0.0/libgobject-2.0.*
rm ~/.titanium/runtime/linux/1.0.0/libglib-2.0.*
rm ~/.titanium/runtime/linux/1.0.0/libgio-2.0.*
rm ~/.titanium/runtime/linux/1.0.0/libgthread-2.0.*”

- I really really really want to take some time and get to figure out Appcelerator. So I periodically install it, usually run into some kind of small problem, figure it out, run it a bit and then run out of time.

This time when I ran it I got:

./Titanium Developer: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_malloc_n

Simple fix was found here:

Appcelerator Developer Center - symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_malloc_n [SOLVED]

Too funny - fake trailer for the movie Java 4-ever. Not really...

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:45:00 -0400

Too funny - fake trailer for the movie Java 4-ever. Not really much of a Java fan either, though. Give me Pthon or Qt/C++ any time.

How it works: Linux audio explained | TuxRadar Linux

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:28:55 -0400

How it works: Linux audio explained | TuxRadar Linux:

As someone who has tried, and is trying, to implement an audio solution in Linux, this post has particular interest. Unfortunately, like Linux audio, there is no one solution :(