Blog Archive

A catch-up post after a year away from the blog — workshops, Pycon India, Hackjam, and side projects like Kickchat and Buff-tweet.

April 25, 2013 (Updated on August 4, 2014)

How to disable a discrete AMD graphics card in a switchable graphics laptop setup on Linux using vgaswitcheroo, to cut heat, fan noise, and power draw.

Fedora 16 dropped rc.local by default after moving to systemd — here's how to bring it back so you can still run commands at boot.

A quick walkthrough of adding a user to the sudoers list with visudo, plus a note on the security tradeoffs of granting full root privilege versus scoping it to specific commands.

Notes from a Mozilla #mozcafe workshop at college covering Webmaker tools — Popcorn Maker, Thimble, X-Ray Goggles — and Mozilla localization.

A pointer to a friend's Python script for fetching a company's share value from Yahoo! Finance.

A pointer to a friend's writeup on efficiently using the VI editor from the DGPLUG summer training series.

A quick primer on the Linux File Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and what each top-level directory under / is for, from a DGPLUG summer training session.