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Configuring Xorg via HAL
Back in the days you had to configure Xorg using xorg.conf. This had the drawback that it was very static and you had to restart Xorg when plugging new peripherals. With the new xserver you can use HAL...
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HP LaserJet 1020 on Fedora 10
I have always struggled to get my HP LaserJet 1020 printer to work under linux. Furtunately this is always possible by manually installing the foo2zjs printerdriver and the firmware manually. However,...
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More on arrows in matplotlib
There still doesn’t seem to be an easy way to do this, but at least there is a way now. With the introduction of matplotlib.patches.FancyArrowPatch it is now possible to draw a decent arrow like this:...
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FreeBSD on my laptop
I am currently trying to get FreeBSD up and running on my HP nc4400 laptop. Up until now it’s going pretty well, but there is lots of small tips and tricks to remember. Therefore I’m writing a series...
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Usable tcsh
This post is part of the series: FreeBSD on my laptop In this post I will try to document how I set up tcsh to my liking by modifieng .tcshrc. I have left out a lot of stuff, like how I have set my...
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Sound and multimedia keys on FreeBSD
This post is part of the series: FreeBSD on my laptop This on is pretty easy. Basically I just had to load the driver. This is done permanently by adding: snd_hda_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf. In...
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pptp vpn from FreeBSD
I need to connect to work using pptp vpn from my FreeBSD laptop. This can be done using mpd (version 5, in net/mpd5). I just created the sections startup: and default: and copied pptp_client from...
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FreeBSD: Networking. LAN and Wireless.
This post is part of the series “FreeBSD on my laptop” LAN pretty much just works. In rc.conf I have the lines: hostname="fynkyhostnamegoeshere.domainname" ifconfig_bge0="DHCP NOAUTO"...
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Encrypted container in mountable file on FreeBSD
This post is part of the series FreeBSD on my laptop The disk encruption chapter in the handbook [1] is not fully applicable as it only talks about encrypting real partitions. However a file can be...
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Printer / scanner
This post is part of the series FreeBSD on my laptop I have a HP LaserJet 1020 which is shared from my linux workstation (CUPS). To use the printer from my FreeBSD laptop I have to add the driver,...
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