During my engineering education and the start of my career, a lot of design and drafting work was still done on paper. During that time I also discovered computers, and how they could be an extra tool in my toolbox.
Although my training and career has been in mechanical engineering, there is not much about that on these pages. In this new category, I hope to remedy that.
By default, when you open vim it runs on the current terminal. When running X11, I want to start it in a new terminal.
As a real-world benchmark I rebuilt the FreeBSD OS after the most recent published vulnerabilities.
Although I have a battery indicator on the bottom of my laptop screen I don’t alway check that often enough. That’s why I wanted to add an extra warning in the form of an audio signal. So even if I’m turned away from the laptop, it should still catch my attention.
Detecting possible parameters.
> xinput --list-props 13
Device 'Kensington Kensington Expert Mouse':
Device Enabled (138): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (139): 1 …Detecting possible parameters. Updated for “styx”, a Lenovo ideapad 5
styx:~> xinput --list-props 11
Device 'MSFT0001:00 04F3:3140 TouchPad …On FreeBSD, ports save their configuration parameters under /var/db/ports.
When you de-install a port, this configuration remains behind.
This is how to clean old configurations up.