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Screen brightness
Have you ever had your screen reduced its brightness after resume from suspend-to-RAM? Doesn't adjusting the actual backlight brightness change anything? Sometimes, some of the GPU registers aren't reloaded with the correct values, so you need to do that yourself:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --brightness 1
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Automated manpages generation
Good utility to help package maintainers: help2man -
VIM and Literate programming
Recently I started using Noweb literate programming tool for my C projects. The resulting code is self-documented, easy to read and well-structured. I've chosen Noweb over other tools (primarily, Donald Knuth's CWEB) because of its simplicity and language independence ( Read more... ) -
Velobahn lights, part two
Finally, we've got a reply: http://shadoura.com/stuff/velobahn-answers.pdf -
Velobahn lights
Kicking some official asses may help sometimes. Kicking them in a way so they start kicking each other sometimes helps even more. Anyway (tada!) we have one more particularly lengthy segment of our "Velobahn" cycleway lighted. If this is a result of this, we can hope the whole cycleway won't have any dark places in the meantime. -
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ditaa.org: ditaa is a small command-line utility written in Java, that can convert diagrams drawn using ascii art ('drawings' that contain characters that resemble lines like | / - ), into proper bitmap graphics. This is best illustrated by the following example -- which also illustrates the benefits of using ditaa in comparison to other methods ( Read more... ) -
Auto-configuration for network interfaces in Debian
Yesterday after I moved to another laboratory for some time, I've written a script to detect network configuration automagically, because I got tired of re-configuring network interfaces manually (there are some labs here that don't have DHCP).
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Tcl and lazy evaluation
(1) tclsh8.6 [~] time {::tcl::mathop::** 24234234234 3 ( Read more... )
