Posts Tagged ‘Linux’
Plustek OpticSlim M12 sheetfed scanner on Ubuntu
Posted on April, 3 at 3:11 pm | Filed Under Asus eee
Just a quick post to remind me how to setup the Plustek OpticSlim M12 sheetfed scanner on Ubuntu. This is actually the scanner used by NeatReceipts, which i have purchased. Their software, though, is less useful to me and i have been looking for a way to use their very travel friendly sheet fed scanner [...]
Consolas Programmer Font Family [Microsoft]
Posted on October, 6 at 11:00 pm | Filed Under Software
I’m rather jealous of Mac coders with their fancy TextMate editors. It seems every python screencast I watch features that darn editor! I can replicate most of the textmate features I care about on linux using either gedit or kate. Scribes is specifically aiming to be textmate on linux On windows I use VIM or [...]
Linux turns 17 … how time flies …
Posted on October, 6 at 9:56 pm | Filed Under Reading
Seems like it was only yesterday I was building kernels, downloading source onto diskettes… and now you’re 17! Well Happy Birthday linux. Doc Searls being nostalgic …
Booting Linux in 5 seconds – custom Asus eee Edition
Posted on October, 6 at 8:37 am | Filed Under Asus eee
A pair of Linux programmers demonstrated a 5 second complete boot on as Asus eee. They used modified versions of fedora and Mobiln. The 5 seconds boot time included loading the network manager but not bringing up the network. They used a number of tricks including: All unnecessary services were eliminated (like sendmail). Kernel built [...]
Python DJango lxml and xslt … problems with apache
Posted on October, 5 at 11:11 am | Filed Under Jython, Python
lxml is a beautiful library for handling xml and xsl transformations. Thanks to the blog readers for their excellent suggestions. I put together a quick DJango app to test it out and locally everything works great. Deploying my app to my webfaction account though was a bit tricky. In the end, due to an old [...]
Give Firefox 3 some Chrome on Linux!
Posted on September, 4 at 8:31 pm | Filed Under Asus eee, Web Tools
Lamentably, Google hasn’t released their new browser beta for linux yet. Â This is too bad, since it appears to be an interesting fit with my Asus eee 900 with its challenged screen size. Â Chrome definitely uses the screen real estate to its best advantage. Â For us impatient types, there is a solution. Â Someone has figured [...]
