Linux
External monitor as Discrete
I use my laptop primarly at home with an external monitor as discrete, meaning that I have the laptop monitor turned off and I only use it. At times this is also called a dedicated monitor. GNOME can be set to disable the laptop monitor and enable the external but it wasn’t able to hotplug […]
Markdown to WordPress Format
When I discovered MarkDown I was in love, it was very nice to discover an easy, clean, well-thought-out markup language. I wanted a way to be able take my detailed notes, have them easy to read, and then to be able post them here on the blog that would be in a nice WordPress format. […]
Pandoc-flavored markdown: Perfect!
I’d been looking for a way to convert my notes to webpages. Typically I wrote my notes in .txt form and then went through them and added links, formatting… when I was ready to blog them. Recently, I had asked StackOverflow if I could convert MediaWiki format to HTML. I’m an Administrator for the Arch […]
Embedded Scripts in WordPress with GitHub Gist and Update Script
I asked at Stack Overflow recently if I could embed a text file into a webpage. My reason was basic: I wanted to be able to use my newly created GitHub script repository to be my source for scripts I posted on this blog. If I was able to do this, I reasoned, than my […]
Acer Aspire 5560G-7809 Laptop: A Gamble Worth Taking
Typically it hasn’t been recommended to buy an Acer, at least in my circles. From the surveys I’ve seen generally Acer rankings are last of the major computer manufacturers. Astonishingly they rank close to the top of units sold. When I saw this, I deduced that Acer likely made possibly shabby computers sold at basement-prices […]
Sudoers Permissions as a File
I learned that for granting root permissions to certain programs that it is easer and more constructive to use a separate file. sudo must be told to look in a separate directory in its configuration to be able to do so. sudo visudo Likely all distributions have this available and it will be listed at […]
Toggle Unity Desktop Effects
Not using desktop effects in Linux helps gaming a good deal, improving frames-per-second and smooth ability. Using Ubuntu’s Unity I’ve noticed gaming gets effected quite a bit. Here’s a script that can toggle them on and off (note that you have to login with desktop effects enabled for this to work). Thanks go to Mossroy […]
Samsung Syncmaster SA350 Monitor: Thoughts and Settings
The Samsung Syncmaster SA350 monitor is a 21.5″ LED monitor with 1920×1080 resolution. I had always wanted an external monitor for my laptop and it has turned out to be really useful. This isn’t a review because I haven’t owned many monitors but I have seen enough monitors to say that this seems to be […]
Allotting iotop
Recently, iotop has been moved to being only allowable to be viewed as root. iotop is a great program for measuring disk throughput and I am unable to figure the logic of why it has been moved to root-only. To be able to run iotop as regular user again root permission must be given to […]
Power Management from the Command Line
To be able to invoke commands like suspend and hibernate from the command line not so long ago required having root privileges or using the desktop environment built-in tools. Now to invoke suspend, hibernate, shutdown, or restart, D-Bus can be invoked as Regular user. I created a script called pwrman to ease the task (requires […]
