Backlit keyboards are pretty usual these days, beside being cool looking, they are very useful at night. When I first installed Fedora 18 ‘Spherical Cow’ in my new ASUS N56V, the keyboard backlight was working perfectly. After updating to (I believe) kernel version 3.8.x the keyboard backlight stopped working, bummer. I did my research and […]
ASUS N56VJ Subwoofer in Linux
So I bought an ASUS N56VJ to install linux on it, and as expected, not everything worked right out of the box with Linux. This laptop in particular comes with premium audio which includes a small subwoofer, (great for watching movies) and to my disappointment, it was not working with Linux. Had to make some […]
Righteous Living – From Joseph’s Life
From the life of Joseph, we can see that he was a righteous young man, well rooted in his beliefs at 17 years of age, when he was sold into slavery by his own brothers. (Genesis 37) Later on in Genesis 39, Joseph finds himself serving under Potiphar’s command, an officer of Pharaoh. It was […]
What is your life’s vision?
When there is no specific vision, man lives to please himself. When there is a God given vision, every decision of one’s life should be to fulfill that vision. Take Nehemiah’s life, his God given vision was to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls and every decision was taken with that vision in mind. Ultimately man’s goal should […]
IntelliSense in Eclipse
By setting up some preferences in Eclipse, we can achieve an IntelliSense-like behavior in Eclipse. If you have ever used Microsoft Visual Studio, then let me explain what IntelliSense is. IntelliSense can speed up your coding by auto-completing your words as you type, lets say you have aVeryLongVariable in your code, as soon as you […]
How to install updates in Fedora Linux
You can check and install updates in Fedora Linux using the Software app or thru command line. Personally I like command line better since is faster and less trouble some than having to go thru Software.
Cleaning Up GNU GRUB – Removing Old Kernels
I had Fedora 17 installed and decided to upgrade to Fedora 18, upon upgrading I noticed in GRUB menu options Fedora 17 was still listed. As a good and organized computer user, I started looking and asking how to clean this messy looking GRUB and found the solution. Update: Now I know these are the […]
Wait For Trigger File – Unix Shell Snippet
So recently I was doing doing some bash scripting and required a functionality that would allow my script to wait for for a trigger file in order to execute. After some thinking, I was able to some up with a function to perform the required action.
How to Send Email – Unix Shell Snippet
I’m sharing two code snippets that will send an email. These snippets accept three parameters: a subject, an email address and a text file containing the email message.
bulkGetter – A Script Wrapped Around wget
Basically bulkGetter functions as a downloading command line tool accepting an input file as a feed with the desired link(s) to download. It can download files, save them to a specified location, rename them and it also supports resuming downloads. For this tool to work, you need to have ‘wget’ tool, if you have Linux, […]