A few years ago, I got some cheap 27″ korean display (strongly influenced by this). Getting it to work properly with Xorg was not straightforward due to some corrupted EDID. I’m not sure where I got the original instructions from (might be there). I suspect that this record might come by handy when switching to wayland…
While emacs is clearly the right editor to use, vim sometimes comes came up handy for quick edit of system config files (most of the time with sudo). The emacs philosophy of being it’s own operating system that’s you never leave doesn’t gel too well with switching to root.
I needed to use the positivity constraint on the Lasso regression from scikit learn. The problem is that is not there yet in the python-sklearn package available in debian testing: it’s still stuck at 0.14.1. I don’t really want to switch to unstable for that, neither do I want to mess up my whole system by installing it manually as root.
letsencrypt allow you to get ssl certificates for free. They make it pretty easy to automate the process, including the auto renewal (that’s the whole point).
I’ve just spent some time fixing wordpress after a system update and a VM migration (yeah, always snapshot first, lesson learnt).
I like to geotag my photos, but I don’t always have a GPS. A while ago, I got an eyefi card that can record some geolocation information. However, this is based on the wifi hotspots on the neighborhood and that does not work very well in the wild.
Ever had an emacs command mysteriously failing? That happened to me yesterday on a org-publish-project command that was failing with a cryptic message. It was on 5-6 org files with some more than 6000 lines… No way to go through these manually to spot the error.
After reinstalling from scratch on the SSD, I had some issues to get Picasa 3.9 up again:
Library mscms.dll (which is needed by LC:\\Program Files\\Picasa3\\Picasa3.exe) not found
The other day, I was helping my brother install Ubuntu on his brand new laptop (Lenovo ideapad). Since I’ve installed linux for the first time things have improved quite a bit (that was on a pentium 75 after printing 100 of pages of documentation as at that time, I had only one computer and no Internet). So I wasn’t expecting any surprises.
To quickly test some web development stuff:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
This serves the current directory on port 8000. Avoid that if you’re not firewalled, but on a local machine, that’s really practical for quick testing.