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Re: Hacking a cable into the Microsoft Sculpt wireless keyboard

choffee — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:22:46 -0000

There are build instructions on the tmk site: https://github.com/blttll/t...

Then this keyboard should build now with UK/US keyboard support all working:

Re: Using Recoll desktop search database with Emacs

choffee — Tue, 05 May 2020 09:08:54 -0000

There is a debian package recollcmd that gives you the command line tools, recollgui for the gui version. Having said that I learned a bit about dired so thank you :)

Also if you are using gnome then you probably already have tracker running

tracker search -f wibble

Not sure how it compares with Recoll in terms of search though. You may need to tell it which dirs you want to index. "Search" in the desktop settings or there might be a way from the cli as well.

Thanks again. I'm going to look at recoll and have a play.

Re: Hacking a cable into the Microsoft Sculpt wireless keyboard

choffee — Mon, 20 May 2019 07:31:09 -0000

So the CAD file I used for making the PCB was the one from the github repo in the article. It's a bit tricky to find :)
https://github.com/blttll/t...

Re: Hacking a cable into the Microsoft Sculpt wireless keyboard

choffee — Mon, 20 May 2019 07:27:34 -0000

Hmm, I'm not sure. I have a suspicion that I just solder it to the board, just heating the holes up and letting the solder flow down. I would just give it a try before you solder up if you are making one. I did need to cut out a little bit of the case to fit it in. Mostly internal supports.

Re: Hacking a cable into the Microsoft Sculpt wireless keyboard

choffee — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:50:56 -0000

"FPC FFC 1.0mm Pitch 30 Pin Drawer Type Flat Cable Connector Bottom Contact" Is what I found on ebay. I'll add it to the page. Thanks.

Re: Netplan – How To Configure Static IP Address in Ubuntu 18.04 using Netplan

choffee — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:21:41 -0000

I would just use the networkmanager GUI if you are on a desktop machine and ignore netplan.

For servers it's probably easiest to just use systemd directly.

putting the following in /etc/systemd/network/mynet.network would achieve the same as the above. ( running "man 5 systemd.network" give a good help for the format of the file.)

[Match]
Name=enp0s3

[Network]
Address=192.168.1.100/24
Gateway=192.168.1.1
DNS=192.168.1.1
DNS=8.8.8.8
Zone=itszgeek.local

For wireless, if you really can't work with network manager then you can write a small systemd unit to start wpa_supplicant and use the same config above but with the Name changed in the match statement.

Re: Spike Grobstein's Blog - Testing Bash scripts with Bats

choffee — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:32:42 -0000

Hi Spike, Some really good info there. Helped me understand some of the finer points for bats. Thank you.

Re: How do you document your ops infrastructure?

choffee — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 05:04:14 -0000

One thing to watch out for with Google docs is file owners. When somebody leaves you must make sure they transfer all their ownership first. If you are using apps for business a year after they leave Google will delete all the files they own.
We mostly use Confluence for our docs as when you are in a rush trying to fix something then digging into puppet code can be too slow. We also do static dumps of the site for backup.
We quite often develop larger documents in Google but then transfer them to other places for storage.

Re: The 5 types of procrastinators

choffee — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:13:30 -0000

Can I be all five?

Re: Choffee

choffee — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:43:34 -0000

No Problem, Deniszh, glad you find it useful. Surprised it still works I must admit I no longer use it. If you do fix it or update it let me know and I can link to your copy or update mine.

Thanks

john

Re: WishList

choffee — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:28:55 -0000

Oh yes. I did update it the other day but totally missed that.

Re: Cadbury Urges Shareholders to Hold Tight for Sustainability

choffee — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:10:03 -0000

I don't understand why they need to sell if they are doing so well. Is it just the greed of the shareholders to make a quick profit?

Re: rssCloud news (Scripting News)

choffee — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:12:54 -0000

This is why the identi.ca model will scale a lot better. When there are a lot of people running their own servers but there is a common format for them all to communicate with, the smtp of microblogging, then you can't launch a single DOS bring it all down. It will also allow people to create more interesting applications and still let people keep in touch across services.

Re: Dropbox encryption

choffee — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:52:15 -0000

It may well do but I found that a link the other way did not work so I tried the above. As I now have my whole homedir encrypted I have moved to use encfs run from a script at startup for dropbox and that seems to be working okay.

Re: Choffee

choffee — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:32:13 -0000

Hi Joseph,

I have added a tip to the ikiwiki main site.

http://ikiwiki.info/tips/Ad...

I hope this helps.

Re: ToshibaPortegeR500

choffee — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:00:08 -0000

Hi Carl, To be honest I can't really remember but compiling it just now and it does not look like it is wanting much. It may want the kernel headers so on Ubuntu try installing 'linux-headers-generic' if you don't already have them installed.

Re: Outsoursing Comment

choffee — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:43:14 -0000

Wow this has doubled my yearly comment rate already!