SpeedCrunch is an awesome calculator. Good history, variables and realtime calculations. Missing was currency conversion, which is available in other calculators. I was trying to find plugins for it but no go. So the strategy here is to use an … Continued
Very smooth setup. Plug in usb and power. Kernel recognized the usb device but no drivers were present. Head over to https://www.polono.com/pages/driver-user-manual Then grab the linux drivers for the PL60. If it doesn’t work, you can grab my local backup … Continued
Holy, this took a while. First thing first, leave the USB off. When you first plug in the power, if the “Editor Lite” light is on, then hold the button until it turns off. Editor Lite causes it to mount … Continued
Bit of a headache. Apparently DYMO stopped supporting the drivers because the repo version (and even their downloadable version) do not work. Luckily there are some fine souls updating a fork of the repo. At the time of writing, it … Continued
Related to the number of files able to be watched by a user. I need to run this on every fresh install!
This is a simple timer script, implementing the pomodoro technique for time management. There are tons out there already but I didn’t like how they auto- started breaks. And most lacked shortcut abilities, so that was a dealbreaker. The script … Continued
The Spotify app for Linux seems to trigger a cascading failure with Cinnamon on my machine, where it balloons up sucking up all my ram and cpu power. Great! So let’s switch it to a single instance app using Chromium.
The AskUbuntu question was: How do I SSH to machine A via B in one command?
Quick reference for linux on how to output the stdout/stderr to the term window and to a file at the same time:
For some reason, they took away the ability to change the title of bash within a gnome-terminal window in the new Linux Mint 18 Sarah. I needed it to identify certain windows. Add this bit to your .bashrc to get … Continued