Category Archives: computers

Linux Desktop Rebuild Checklist 2 – Web Dev Tools

Posted on Tuesday, 5/14/13 by

Following Linux Desktop Rebuild Checklist 1 Sublime Text I’m a Sublime Text convert. Official docs are sparse, but there are great unofficial (community) docs for Sublime Text. It’s quite easy to install on Ubuntu/Kubuntu via webupd8. LiveReload Change a file in your project … Continue reading →

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Linux Desktop Rebuild Checklist 1 – Base System

Posted on Monday, 5/13/13 by

Install via Unetbootin (I’m using Kubuntu these days) Fix monitors (important to do before next step) Install synergy Add synergy to startup (see http://askubuntu.com/questions/15212/start-synergy-on-boot) Connect to NAS Additional repositories Additional codecs, fonts, tools, etc. Install Chromium and extensions: Adblock Plus, … Continue reading →

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Network Traffic on Ubuntu 12.04 vs Fedora 17

Posted on Saturday, 12/15/12 by

Recently, I started obsessing over network traffic on my (recently upgraded) Ubuntu 12.04 system.  This is what it looked like, with only a few user processes (just chromium and synergyc). I could never pin down a process that was causing … Continue reading →

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What’s Causing that Network Traffic on Linux?

Posted on Tuesday, 11/27/12 by

I noticed some periodic network traffic on my Ubuntu 12.04 box. Naturally, I wonder what was polling like that… Then I realized netstat -ap  will tell me the process using a port, but just doesn’t provide enough info to figure … Continue reading →

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G-code tools

Posted on Tuesday, 9/27/11 by

Links for further investigation: ShopBot Command Reference dxf2gcode program MCAD tools via Twin Cities Makers GCODE tools via Twin Cities Makers (great info!) RS274NGC G-Code Programming Basics EMC (Linux CNC controller software and good reference) List of free CNC-related software

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ShopBot CNC at the TechShop

Posted on Monday, 9/26/11 by

I took the ShopBot CAD/CAM and SBU at the TechShop on Sunday. Here are too few pictures of the fun. I really wanted to build a box with tabs and slots, but was rightly convinced to scale back my expectations … Continue reading →

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In Yahoo! Pipes how can I return a single value from a loop that’s built with values from every item?

Posted on Friday, 9/16/11 by

For example, I have a list of items and each item has a name. I want to build a single string that contains a comma-separated list of all the names. In most programming languages, I would loop over the items … Continue reading →

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Monitors won’t sleep (power management) if synergy is running

Posted on Wednesday, 9/14/11 by

Similar question to Monitor won’t enter power save mode, however I only experience the problem under synergy. Screensaver settings work, but the monitors never go to sleep. When synergy is not running, monitors go to sleep at the interval set … Continue reading →

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USB Boot Error [Solved]

Posted on Tuesday, 8/23/11 by

A USB key I’d used on several other computers was suddenly having “Boot Error” problems right out of BIOS on another PC. I was surprised to find that like this post by x13es my problem was also solved by formatting … Continue reading →

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Development Environment Software on Ubuntu

Posted on Monday, 8/22/11 by

Here’s the list of dev stuff I install on my Ubuntu box. It’s just for my reference, but maybe another would find it useful. Some of this should be installed out of the box, but it doesn’t hurt to list … Continue reading →

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