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gt – script to create a temp file in gedit 27 Aug 2013 | 02:17 am
I am really lazy with my editors. I have aliases in my shell configuration for gedit and vim that are very basic: This is very nice for me because I use my editors quite a bit. One thing I needed tho...
WTFM (Write the Fine Manual) with Pod2man text-converter 21 Aug 2013 | 07:09 pm
Disclaimer: I am not an expert on creating man pages but from the research I did I discovered this method to be very easy. It also worked for me as well because github has rendering support for this f...
xuserrun – Run a command on the currently-active user’s X.org server display 8 Aug 2013 | 05:16 am
xuserrun is a bash script to run a command on the active X.org server display. This is primarily necessary if from within another environment (different user, console, cron, boot script…). xuserrun...
No-think link (redone) 5 Jul 2013 | 07:20 pm
When I first used ln, I expected the behavior of ln source link to work. But ln is slightly more complicated than that. While learning it from the beginning, I discovered it does not always resolve th...
Encode an Audio file to Video file 18 Jun 2013 | 08:05 pm
I wanted to convert an mp3 file to an mp4 or avi file because I wanted to be able to use it on my PS3 ( the PS3 has a basic audio player that doesn’t save position [ particularly troubling for large a...
Encode an Audio file to Video file 18 Jun 2013 | 08:05 pm
I wanted to convert an mp3 file to an mp4 or avi file because I wanted to be able to use it on my PS3 ( the PS3 has a basic audio player that doesn’t save position [ particularly troubling for large a...
Handling display calibration 21 Apr 2013 | 07:14 am
Though it is the expectation that a monitor is ready as soon as it is removed from the box, most monitors need to be calibrated. A much more vivid, detailed, true experience can become available after...
Handling display calibration 21 Apr 2013 | 07:14 am
Though it is the expectation that a monitor is ready as soon as it is removed from the box, most monitors need to be calibrated. A much more vivid, detailed, true experience can become available after...
Doom 3 config (not BFG, Regular one) 26 Mar 2013 | 04:17 am
With BFG coming out and in the mood to play some Doom, I’d thought I’d try my old Doom3 and see it it works and it does. Basically I just changed two settings because they needed to be detected right:...
Doom 3 config (not BFG, Regular one) 26 Mar 2013 | 04:17 am
With BFG coming out and in the mood to play some Doom, I’d thought I’d try my old Doom3 and see it it works and it does. Basically I just changed two settings because they needed to be detected right:...