Thursday, May 30, 2013

(Linux) Who is using my serial port?

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Having problems to connect to a serial port? There might be other process already using it. Let us check it (using "list open files...

(Linux) minicom Quick Start

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To connect to "COM1" at speed of 9600 bauds: $ minicom -D /dev/ttyS0 -b 9600 To see what you type, use: Ctrl-A E Enter comma...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

New GMail message composer - keyboard shortcuts strongly improved

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I use GMail daily and keyboard shortcuts are helping me to do things quickly. Today GMail proposed me to use new compose window and I have ...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Show special characters in vim properly (Windows 7 with Czech locale)

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Learning vim editor, I got a problem with showing special Czech characters properly. E.g. characters "ě" and "á" occupi...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Split large text file into pieces with defined number of lines each

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Use command split, which is part of *nix, can be installed on Windows too. First count number of lines we have in the file: $ wc -l alls...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Ohh - my large download have stopped - How to continue?

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Downloading DVD ISO image of Debian takes some time. I started in Google Chrome and used http link. As time of my Skype telco came, I suspen...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

12 handles for changing systems

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Do you face system behaviour, which you do not like and would like to change it? Here is very systematical point of view to this sort of ta...