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I’ve released my keyboard event mapper for the Microsoft Sidewinder X6 in an quite usable state right now. Take a look at sidewinder-x6-linux-macro-key-events on github. Here’s a quick description what it does: As the Sidewinder is an Microsoft keyboard, it obviously does all it can to not work at it’s full potential on GNU/Linux systems [...]

I’ve upgraded my desktop and laptop last week. By “and” I mean that I’ve bought an desktop replacement class notebook – an Asus G73 series. Amongst many nice parts it has I’m very happy about the harddrives – Seagate Momentus XT, click the link to see an very interesting benchmark of it. Anyways, that’s not [...]

Awesomely create an pdf #slideshow from images: “convert *.png slides.pdf” #linux #bash #terminalheroes

An very amazing and beautiful song I just had to share with you guys! It’s by http://www.deadtroll.com/ so feel free to get over to their site if you liked it :-) It’s my second favourite GeekSong – I’ll link my favourite next week (by VoidMain and an special guest!)… :-) Download the MP3 file: three_dead_trolls_in_a_baggie-every_os_sucks.mp3 [...]

There is sometimes the need to kill some JVM, I usually use “killall java” and that works fine as long as that’s in fact what I want – kill ALL. But let’s say i just want to kill Tomcat and not my IDE? The below method works quite well in such an situation: [ktoso@homunculus ~]$ [...]

I passed all my exams at my first attempt and should have now some time to relax, right? Well something like that, I’m actually doing quite a lot these days. We’re on the roll with MySQL Integra. Our server “Kopiec” is somewhat online (running CentOS off course) – we’re able to start/stop if thanks to [...]

…is exactly what I’m currently trying to do. Thus, I’m out of Mediaframe, and got involved in a fascinating and very cool project. Under the lead of Dr Marek Długosz me and 2 of my friends will be tackling the topic of “MySQL Data Storage Engine Comprehension – with focus on Automatics use cases”. It’s [...]

I’m learning Numerical Analysis right now and a friend of mine found some really nice PS files by dr Marian Bubek ( http://www.icsr.agh.edu.pl/~mownit/mownit.html ). I was really happy to see some *.ps but some people from my fellow students started complaining that they’d rather have pdf’s and not ghostscript files (who knows why they’d do..?). [...]

Let’s say you want to read the ps output inside an AWK script, it’s not so simple since system returns an exit code and not the string you want – it’s being sent to stdout, here is a simple trick to read multiple lines from a shell command inside awk: awk ‘BEGIN{while (“ps aux” | [...]

I’ve recently bought a new laptop, a 15.6” HP Probook, that replaced my netbook Asus EEE 900 (needed some bigger hardware to work on “on the move”). One problem I encountered was blender not displaying correctly if I’d expand any dropdown menu etc. The fix is very simple yet powerfull, just set the following: LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 [...]