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Reorganizing My Personal Programming Projects

Posted 08-04-2017 at 04:05 PM by ttk (Unpopular Positions: One Geek's Take)

I've been working somewhat directionlessly on my various programming side-projects, and decided to take a couple of days to organize them all a bit and decide on some priorities.

The numbers came up better than I'd feared -- of my seventy-one projects (11 C projects, 2 python projects, 50 perl projects), twenty-two are in working condition. That's nearly a third of them! Six of those projects have been published, either to CPAN or to github or to my own codecloset web page.
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SIMPLE! Write man pages / Docutils and tweaks

Posted 08-01-2017 at 02:59 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 08-05-2017 at 12:31 AM by Michael Uplawski (... bunch of bad wording. Categories missing)

Tags docutils, man, restructured text, ruby

Write a bunch of man pages with Docutils and a few simple tweaks
Subtitle: Do it now!

You can write man-pages in many ways, notably by just coding it with “Troff” or “Groff”. Anyway, the resulting man-page can always be opened in an ordinary text-editor or pager and may look a lot like my own man-page for Timequiz:
Code:
user@machine:/tmp$ more ./test.man 
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.TH TIMEQUIZ  "" "" ""
.SH NAME
TIMEQUIZ \- play a history

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Creating a urpmi distribution source

Posted 07-30-2017 at 05:21 AM by des_a

Thought I would document this, for the benefit of others - http://smileynetmain.createaforum.co...bution-source/.

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Gentoo Upgrade Script

Posted 07-27-2017 at 08:00 PM by lazydog
Updated 08-23-2017 at 03:41 PM by lazydog

This is a script I put together to update my system. I know a lot of people like to run a script and it do everything but I like to get user input to ensure the next step you really want to complete.

I'm sure there are easier way of doing some of the things and I have built in precautions to hopefully keep you from making a mistake.

I've made some minor adjustments to the script by adding color and looking for input to be one or the other.
Here is the...

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Firmware - BIOS vs. UEFI

Posted 07-22-2017 at 05:10 PM by hydrurga
Updated 08-07-2017 at 05:50 PM by hydrurga

Tags firmware bios uefi

A computer's firmware is low-level software, with an associated data area, that comes pre-installed in flash memory on the motherboard. The first software to be run when the computer is booted, firmware is generally customised to be motherboard-specific and designed to communicate with other hardware in the system. The two main firmware types used nowadays are BIOS and the more recent UEFI. This article does not cover other firmware interfaces such as libreboot and coreboot.

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