We recently bought this Ultra mini usb wifi adapter for our laptop that had it’s internal wifi card fried. Since this laptop was acting really bad with Windows XP, we installed Ubuntu on it. At first Ubuntu couldn’t recognize the adapter. Then I wanted to try ndiswrapper. All I had to do was to install [...]

So you wrote a macro in vim and you want to repeat the last macro multiple times and you don’t know how. You type @@ Now you know how.

Here is a bash script to create 100 random files with random sizes smaller than 400KB. I needed this to quickly generate 100 files to use it on a stress test. for ((i=1;i<101;i++)); do size=`expr $RANDOM % 400` dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/testfile.$i bs=1024 count=$size done Explanation: The for loop is pretty straightforward, it counts from 1 [...]

If you need to run native Linux client for Lotus Notes 8.5 on Ubuntu 10.04: 1) After installing your ibm_lotus_notes*.deb files, drop the following files under /opt/ibm/lotus/notes libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 You can get the files here. 2) Install msttcorefonts package: sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts 3) Go to File -> Preferences and choose Windows and [...]

I needed to see a word file on my ssh session this time… If you have a similar need try to use antiword. It basically parses the word document and sends the output as a text file to your console. Of course don`t expect it to render the graphic files in your word document