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Patriot Memory low-level format tool.
I had to use this to fix a Patriot Tab 32GB flash drive I had. The drive would only mount as read-only. Here’s a copy in case that site ever goes down or changes.
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Chief, I need…
Chief, I need… – Those ship repairs ahead of schedule – Those gravity actuators replaced – The food replicators on deck 7 calibrated – The Alamo simulation reworked – That Changeling detector ASAP – Keiko’s birthday party delayed, something’s come up – you to help Julian with his Section 31 business – Figure out a…
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Disable Screen Blanking on Raspberry Pi (with kbd)
sudo nano /etc/kbd/config Change BLANK_TIME and POWERDOWN_TIME to both be zero. Then, to apply changes: sudo /etc/init.d/kbd restart Note that this is different than this method, which should probably work with most other Linux systems.
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Playing video on Raspberry Pi
Using omxplayer: omxplayer -r -o hdmi <video file> You may need to use sudo, if you can’t get stuff to work. Or maybe try the first thing from this post. And here is some info on controlling omxplayer.
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Muting the speakers in Linux from the Terminal
Tested in Elementary OS Luna (based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) on a Lenovo Yoga 13. To mute: amixer set Master mute To unmute: amixer set Master unmute This is useful if you want the volume to always be muted on boot, in case you start up the computer in class or whatever.
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Bash Prompt Colors
This is currently my bash prompt. Locate this code in any script run by bash at startup. I have it in ~/.bashrc GREEN=”\[\e[1;32m\]” BLUE=”\[\e[1;34m\]” YELLOW=”\[\e[1;33m\]” CYAN=”\[\e[1;36m\]” RESET=”\[\e[m\]” BRANCH=$CYAN PS1=”$GREEN\u@\h $BLUE\w $BRANCH\$(git branch 2>/dev/null | grep ‘^*’ | colrm 1 2 | parens | tr -d ‘\n’)$BLUE\$ $RESET” This relies on parens, a simple program that…
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Elementary Tweaks
This will be all about getting Elementary OS set up the way Brandon likes it. To install Elementary Tweaks: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:versable/elementary-update sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install elementary-tweaks To install Wingpanel Slim: sudo apt-get install wingpanel-slim More information about Elementary add-ons can be found here: What happened to Elementary Update? Elementary Update PPA Many…
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Getting Linux working with the Lenovo Yoga 13
This worked for me with the Elementary OS, a distribution of Linux based on Ubuntu, which in turn is based on Debian, but you may have luck getting this to work in other distributions as well. For the WiFi, you must download and install the wireless driver. Instructions can be found at the GitHub repository…