Tag: linux
Update: This post is out-of-date. Please head over to the newest post for Powerlevel9k, here. Original post: A few months ago, I published the first version of the Powerlevel9k Oh-My-Zsh theme. Shortly after its release, I made some significant improvements with the help of Tom Upton. More recently, a lot…
Update: This post is out-of-date. Please head over to the newest post for Powerlevel9k, here. Original post: In the post where I first announced the powerlevel9k Oh-My-Zsh theme, I lamented the fact that the powerlevel9k theme displays less information about git repositories while you were working in them than does…
I use a pretty large list of Vim plugins - currently, the count is at 45. I went through a lot of these as part of this post last year, but the list has changed a bit since then. Using My Configuration Using git, you can easily download my full…
Update: This post is out-of-date. Please head over to the newest post for Powerlevel9k, here. Original post: Powerline-Inspired OMZSH Themes About two years ago, I made the 'hackersaurus' theme for oh-my-zsh. It still suits my purposes very well - it looks decent, and provides exactly what I need / want. That…
Introduction I have been a LaTeX fan and evangelist for years. I've used it for slides (Beamer class, of course), reports, academic papers, resumes, random documents, and my graduate thesis. I've always encouraged others to use it, and preached the "separate the content from the formatting" sermon. Over the last…
This is an update to this post. The Short Story Drivers for the Lenovo 'ClickPad' have been mainlined, and everything will work out-of-the-box. The 'Clickpad' is still horrible, though. The Long Story A while ago, I wrote about the new Lenovo 'ClickPad' design, and how broken it was on Linux.…
Update: The new Lenovo 'ClickPad' now works in Linux, out-of-the-box. You can read my update, here. After becoming more and more frustrated with Ubuntu lately, I finally decided to migrate to Fedora. The latest and greatest is Fedora 20, so I grabbed that. My work laptop is a Lenovo T430s.…
I recently purchased a Lenovo T440s for my personal use. I require both Windows and Linux, and wanted to dual-boot. Unfortunately, the T440s comes with Windows 8 by default. I really don't want anything to do with Windows 8, so I ate the $50 fee to buy it with Windows…
Introduction Vim's reputation is that it is extremely powerful once you learn it, but the learning curve is so steep, it's essentially a discontinuity. This is obviously hyperbole, but I would say it's more exaggeration than truth. Vim is certainly harder to learn compared to popular mouse-driven editors like Microsoft…
At the GNU Radio Hackfest that took place at Virginia Tech in early June, a few developers introduced a cool new project they had been working on called "PyBOMBS". It has since been announced on the GNU Radio list, and more people are beginning to experiment with it. There is…
Due to some USB issues, I recently had the need to go hacking around in the Linux Kernel USB code. Since my goal was to make a fix, I wanted to push the patch upstream once it was done. Thus, I Googled around for the ViM formatting commands that would…
[N.B. The hokietux theme has since been renamed to hackersaurus and lives in its own Github repo, which you can find here] I'm a huge fan of the ZSH shell, and have been using it for years. Robby Russell's incredible oh-my-zsh configuration system is an awesome way to configure…