Enable/Disable Synaptics Touchpad on Ubuntu
A day working from home brought out another problem the new Thinkpad. I did not have a spare mouse lying around and had to fall back to the flawed Touchpad/Trackpoint mechanism on the new T440. My original idea was to disable Touchpad completely through th
Ubuntu 12.04 on Thinkpad T440
Being a slightly dated OS release, mating Ubuntu 12.04 to Thinkpad T440 hardware throws up a few challenges. This post lists these and how those can be worked around. Disclaimer: I don't claim to have solved all these issues by myself. Instead all of them
Adding timedelta to a datetime.time
June 26, 2014 |
python
One of Python's strengths is its exhaustive library. And date and time management is an integral part of this, provided by the `datetime`. Logic suggests that `timedelta`. That is code like this would produce an error: So how do you add (or subtract) a `ti
Convert time string to datetime.time object
June 23, 2014 |
python
I'm still finding my way around the rather vast Python standard library. And today, I discovered a quick way to convert a pure time string (of format HH:MM\[:SS\]) into a standard `datetime.time` object. That's it! A single, rather short line of code does
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