My first production level shell script is out. Yes, after two decades spent in the depths of code, I have finally published a shell script that is worthy of being called 'code'. It's something that started as a few lines hack to update a Linux box with a series of …

My first production level shell script is out. Yes, after two decades spent in the depths of code, I have finally published a shell script that is worthy of being called 'code'. It's something that started as a few lines hack to update a Linux box with a series of …

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 the x.org conf files …

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 were solved by other …

Here's another thing that I learned today -- command output redirection syntax. > redirects the program's output to the specified file which is specified afterwards. If > is preceded by ampersand, shell redirects all outputs (error and normal) to the file right of >. If you don't specify ampersand, then only normal output is …