Saturday, June 16, 2018

xrandr: why not just have --setcvtmode 1920x1080@60

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I have fiddled with xrandr a lot and I wish that it'd be easier to just specify a resolution and refresh rate in one line. Something l...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Mysterious unscannable barcode on my service tag

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So I was fiddling with my barcode scanner and was scanning the barcode of my Dell Service Tag. There were actually two barcodes on the tag,...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Soundbar is so irritating

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So I got a soundbar for my TV. It sounds great with deep sound, but it's kind of irritating too. Sometimes I don't want the ...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Switching the VT from the command line

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Just for fun, I wondered how to change the virtual terminal from the command line. You can switch with CTRL+ALT+F1 through F7 (or go as hi...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Debian 9.3 weird video problem with ASUS Eee PC 701

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I tried my USB Debian 9.3 32 bit hard drive install on my ASUS Eee PC 701 with a Celeron M 900mhz. The LCD screen is so scragged that you...

Debian 9.3 weird video problem on bootup with ASUS 900A Eee PC

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I decided to try my USB hard drive install of debian 9.3 32 bit on my Asus Eee PC 900A (which is an Intel Atom N270 @ 1.6ghz). But weird ...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Stupid bioses that won't boot Debian off an external usb drive

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I have a usb hard drive that I've installed debian 9.3 on. It's pretty useful to boot off the usb, and I've been able to move ...