Category Archive For "linux"
Automatic Screen Detection And Configuration Under Awesome WM
Recently I’m mainly interested in automating my day-to-day tasks on Linux laptop. I’ve started with automating back-up process, now come time to automate external screen detection (and configuration). For couple of months I was struggling with ZSH history to find XRandR commands that enables and disables external screen. During that time I was almost sure …
Automatic backup in Linux
Some time ago I’ve started backing up my laptop hard drive in any case of failure. Until today I was simply connecting external back-up-drive and manually launching mount && rsync command from zsh history. But this requires that always after connecting this special device I need to go to terminal, log in as root then …
2.6.38.4 -ck3 + bfs401
I’ve recently move from vanilla kernel to -ck kernel flavor. What is -ck ? This is set of patches by Con Kolivas that improves desktop performance. By default -ck patches includes Brain Fuck Scheduler (bfs also by Con Kolivas); this scheduler is designed to improve system interactivity and responsiveness in small system, where “small” means …
Backported fix suspend/resume issue in brcmsmac
Few days ago my Macbook just died therefore I was forced to buy a new laptop cialis overnight. After a quick overview on marked I’ve decided to buy an Toshiba Portege R700 with Intel i5 processor. Unfortunately it has an Broadcom 4727 Wi-Fi card with is only supported by staging brcm80211 module. Generally it works …
Linux freak …
W sumie od dawana wiedziałem, że nie jestem normalny. Daaaawno temu pożegnałem się z Windows’em i jako głównego systemu operacyjnego od tamtej pory używam Linuksa. Dziś za to dopadła mnie dość refleksyjna myśl … na co dzień używam 4 urządzeń elektronicznych: macbook’a komputera w pracy telefonu odtwarzacza MP3 (a właściwie to MPC, nie MP3) Na …