[release] Sidewinder X6 MacroKeys on GNU/Linux

Posted by Ktoso under coding, freedom, fun, terminal heroes (No Respond)

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 [...]

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G73 keyboard backlight scripts

Posted by Ktoso under coding, freedom, fun, gaming, guide, terminal heroes (18 Responds)

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 [...]

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Awesomely create an pdf #…

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

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[song] Every OS sucks!

Posted by Ktoso under freedom, fun (No Respond)

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 [...]

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Kill only Tomcat

Posted by Ktoso under coding, java (No Respond)

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 ~]$ [...]

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MySQLIntegra: dbfiller & wiki

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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 [...]

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Aiming Higher…

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…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 [...]

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(Almost) Automatically convert files into PDF

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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..?). [...]

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AWK and multiple lines from shell command

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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” | [...]

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Fixing Blender problems on IntelGMAX4500

Posted by Ktoso under coding, freedom, guide (No Respond)

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 [...]

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