Articles about problems

1. Reading an RSS feed

   Based on a question from Bill Seymour, this is what I came up with.

2. Gnumeric build fix for FreeBSD

   Problem

   Trying to update gnumeric to version 1.12.50_1, the following errors occurred during installation:

   pkg-static: Unable to access …

3. Decoding temperature data logger files

   At work, we recently bought an EBI 40 TC-01 6-channel temperature logger. It saves data in a file with the ed3 extension. It comes with a ms-windows program to show the data and export to CSV and ms-excel.

   However, I want to be able to use the data on my FreeBSD workstation. So I have to figure out the data format of the ed3 files.

4. Building an epub from a single ReStructuredText file

   The sphinx documentation generator is a an excellent tool. It was written to generate documentation for Python, but is used by many other projects as well. Its source format is ReStructuredText.

   These webpages are written in ReStructuredText as well, and I also use this format for other bits and pieces. On occasion, I want to convert a single ReStructuredText file to an epub. This article documents how to do that.

5. Xinput settings for Kensington Expert Mouse

   Detecting possible parameters.

   > xinput --list-props 13
   Device 'Kensington Kensington Expert Mouse':
       Device Enabled (138):  1
       Coordinate Transformation Matrix (139):        1 …

6. Xinput settings for Synaptics TouchPad

   Detecting possible parameters. Updated for “styx”, a Lenovo ideapad 5

   styx:~> xinput --list-props 11
   Device 'MSFT0001:00 04F3:3140 TouchPad …

7. Switching vim to use native package management

   This documents how I switched to vim’s new native package management.

8. Disable firefox DNS

   Some spam, tracking and ad servers are blocked at the DNS level on my network. For me it is therefore undesirable that programs use their own DNS.

9. Converting RCS history to git

   Before the rise of git, I used rcs as my version control system. Because I want to standardize on git, I am slowly converting old repositories.

   In this article, as an example, I’ll be converting my old perl scripts in ~/src/perl.

10. Moving scripts to a private repo

    Some of the scripts in my scripts directory are private because they contain personally identifying or security relevant information, or are just not useful for others without modifications. So I decided not to publish it on github as-is, but to make a private repo for scripts that are not for general use.