Technical notes, my online memory

A breadcrumb for the internet: it turns out percent (%) signs get converted to newlines inside crontabs. This is one of those things that I...

For some bizarre reason the default behaviour of pip is to download the package every time. So try: pip install matplotlib and see how mu...

Mythmote is an android app you can install to act as a mythtv remote. No more messing with lirc. To get it working you need to first enab...

Say you want to regularly start up a screen session with a bunch of different commands running in windows. You can achieve this with a .scr...

Say you have a section of text and want to paste something at the start of every line. How do you do that easily in vim? text line 1 text...

I recently had a fight with a Broadcom wireless driver (BCM4313 [14e4:4727]), which was eventually solved by forcing the OS to use the brcms...

This just annoyed me enough to figure out how to stop it. Ubuntu turns on 'use-agent' by default now: # For Ubuntu we now use-age...