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Sometimes I want to redirect bash output directly into an X application for further editing. Normally this is done using a temporary file ...

As far as people show interest in this topic I decided to perform an additional measurement to the one I performed in Part 1 . This time...

I've played recently with the OpenGL Core Profile and QGLWidget to see if I can render a scene with only core profile functions and...

By default pm-utils changes power control parameters only for a subset of device classes. The classes id's are hardcoded into the /...

I have written the base64 encoding algorithm in Perl, Python and Lua to compare the performance in basic arithmetic and file-io operation...

I've been using ssmtp for a long time to send automatic notifications from all my embedded systems like routers or NASes and also to...

  Edit: I strongly recommend to continue with the Xubuntu 13.10 installation because many steps described here are obsolete. I spen...

I've started with a simple script to compress Firefox's sqlite databases before creating a backup of my $HOME directory alex...

Sometimes I use my Xubuntu notebook as a NAT gateway for my Windows 7 computer because its WLAN interface works in 5GHz band and Window...

I was looking for a cheap USB to Serial TTL cable that would have a 3,5mm audio plug on its end. Such a cable can easily be found on Ama...