(This article was originally published by Datormagazin. Republished with permission) Fusk med FPM Om du någon gång pakekterat ett program i enlighet med ett operativsystems pakethanterare, vet du att det kan vara ganska arbetsamt. För att göra det ännu mer komplicerat finns det i Linux-världen ett antal olika …

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I have a lot of old notes that I sometimes copy over to this blog. So, its not really a Blog, because it grows backwards in time as well as forward. So its a Golbblog then? Also I like to ammend my old entries when I spot something I dont like. I do as I please.

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My son wanted some help with some homework. He had an assignment where you listened to birds on a birdsite, and identified them. The site lets you type a name of a bird, shows an image and plays the birds song. My son wanted the birds to appear in random, withouth titles and so on. The site didnt allow for any …

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For my Sylt project https://github.com/jave/overtone-sylt, I wanted a very simple and robust way to stream the output from a jackd sound server to a client machine on the network. There are many ways to do this, but a pretty simple way is to use VLC. An advantage over netjack, which is another method, is that you can …

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The 'technology steamroller' is a concept that comes up in engineer circles now and then. The analogy is pretty obvious, but let me explain it anyway. If you don't learn things all the time, the technology steamroller will capture you and crush you beneath its steel clad wheels. I dont dispute that this can happen, …

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I made a see-through LCD screen. It is very easy, if you have the right screen to begin with. I had several cheap VGA LCD screens. I took one apart, and removed the back-lighning. Then you need to consider where the electronics are situated. I my case the electronics are on a circuit board, which you can put in an L …

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I like using emacs as a launcher for other programs. However, it's inconvenient when Emacs crashes for some reason, and all your programs die as well. So, here is an example how to use dtach to avoid having the program die, and be recovered by emacs next time around. 1(defun bankid () 2 (interactive) 3 ;;important! …

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After having used Fedora on the MS Surface pro 2 for a couple of months, I have some gripes with it. It works mostly okay, but the battery behaves weirdly. Sometimes the charging level is not reported properly, and then the machine tends to shut down randomly. So perhaps this was fixed in a UEFI bios upgrade Microsoft …

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Warhammer 40k books are my guilty pleasure. The Mechanicum books are fun, because if a relevant character can be named tota-mu 32, machines can be posesed by demons, it has to be a great book right? W40k books can be a bit formulaic in their plot. You know the protagonists will go somewhere and fight against fantastic …

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systemctl is nice, but has some tedious aspects if you run your shells in emacs, as i do. you can do export PAGER= this is nice, since emacs is a much better pager than more or less. also, by default systemctl elipsifies output, which i prefer emacs to handle. -l helps, but how do i avoid always typing it? ive been …

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