Category Archives: Tools

Using UTF-8 with fithesis

Posted on December 26, 2009 by Lukáš Lalinský

My faculty has it’s own thesis LaTex style, which makes it very easy to get a decent looking thesis out of LaTeX without too much effort. The problem is that the style requires you to use ISO-8859-2 in your document, … Continue reading →

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Resizing a LVM swap volume

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Lukáš Lalinský

Another post mainly for myself, just so I know where to find the information quickly the next time I need it. If you have swap on a LVM volume, these commands can be used to resize it (in this case, … Continue reading →

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Bazaar commit metadata

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Lukáš Lalinský

I maintain a few open source projects that use SVN, so notes like “Fixes bug #123, patch by J. Random Hacker” in commit messages are more than usual. When I started using Bazaar for Picard, I thought it would be … Continue reading →

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Disabling sound in GDM

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Lukáš Lalinský

I often have to turn on my laptop in a situation when I need it to be quiet. It’s easy to disable the login sound in GNOME, but in the new Ubuntu release it became quite hard to disable the … Continue reading →

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Where is my one gig of RAM?

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Lukáš Lalinský

I got a new laptop last week and it came with an extra RAM module. I thought it would be fun to have more RAM in laptop than I have in my desktop machine, so I put it in and … Continue reading →

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