More useful snippets for your ~/.bashrc file to increase the efficiency of
your everyday terminal tasks.
If you are still using the good old
remind
for your calendaring needs (maybe even with
wyrd)
and happen to need to display Hungarian name days, just get
hu_namedays
and save it to ~/.remind/hu_namedays. In your ~/.reminders add the
following line (replace youruser):
INCLUDE /home/youruser/.remind/hu_namedays
The file also works correctly on leap years.
Hear ye, hear ye! For all those out there, using Gentoo Linux, let it be known that a new overlay is available for your compiling pleasure. The ‘Sinustrom’ overlay will kindly provide you with fixed as well as experimental and exotic new ebuilds. For more details please see the project page.
Using Midnight Commander regularly I found that a darker color scheme is easier on the eyes. I started from the darkfar.ini and made it, well, more dark.
Installing Gentoo on a computer with some previous Linux knowledge is pretty straightforward thanks to the well maintained Gentoo Handbook. However since Gentoo is a highly customized distribution there are always some machine specific settings that are not covered by the general guide. In this post I intend to cover these specifics required for Lenovo’s Thinkpad X230 laptop to complement the official handbook.