Archive for the ‘Debian’ Category
inputlirc
Just found a package for a bit of software in ubuntu called inputlirc.
Ubuntu lists it as:
Zeroconf LIRC daemon using input event devices
This is a small LIRC-compatible daemon that reads from /dev/input/eventX
devices and sends the received keycodes to connecting LIRC clients. Inputlircd
needs no configuration, it uses the standardised names for the keycodes as
used by the kernel. [...]
July 11, 2007
Posted in: Debian, Linux, Software, Thumbs Up, Ubuntu 
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HOWTO: NUT & CPU Throttling/Frequency Scaling
After a couple of power cuts lasting long enough for my UPS to shutdown my PC, I’ve been meaning to get NUTs to set my CPU to lowest speed possible when running on battery power, this week I finally got round to it. Please note these instructions are based on Debian 4.0 (Etch) [...]
May 21, 2007
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WUFTP Rule for fail2ban
I’ve put to gather a rule for wuftp for fail2ban v0.6 (ie the version in backports for sarge – http://backports.org/). The regexp is straight from the version available in debian unstable. Seems to do the trick.
[WUFTPD]
# Option: enabled
# Notes.: enable monitoring for this section.
# Values: [true | false] Default: [...]
December 2, 2006
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GVIM/Ubuntu/Debian Syntax Highlighting
It appears in the Edgy Eft and Debian Etch that Syntax highlighting in gvim has been switched off by default.
To add it back add the following line to /etc/vim/gvimrc
” Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
if has(“syntax”) && (&t_Co > 2 || has(“gui_running”))
syntax on
set hlsearch
endif
November 20, 2006
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