Tag Archives: Linux

Note to self: get information about the camera in SailfishOS

Posted on 2016-02-27 by ruedigergad

This is just a brief note to self about getting information about the camera in SailfishOS with v4l-utils. This post primarily consists of a list of some commands that showed me some, hopefully useful, information and the corresponding output. Maybe … Continue reading →

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One Year with the Friendly Interactive Shell (fish) aka fish-shell

Posted on 2015-08-25 by ruedigergad

A little bit more than one year ago, I learned about the friendly interactive shell (fish) aka fish-shell and decided to give it a try. Before, I primarily used the Bourne Again Shell (bash) as my main shell. In this … Continue reading →

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Control #crazyflie with #zeemote

Posted on 2014-03-23 by ruedigergad

Recently, I got a Crazyflie. As I also own two Zeemote JS1 remote controls, using these for controlling the Crazyflie suggested itself to me. In a previous post, I introduced QZeeControl 2 which enables using Zeemote remote controls, e.g., on … Continue reading →

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QZeeControl 2: Zeemote JS1 Bluetooth Protocol Implementation in Qt5

Posted on 2014-03-23 by ruedigergad

The Zeemote JS1 is a small bluetooth joystick remote control. In the past, I already created some apps that allow the usage of the Zeemote JS1, like QZeeControl (for Harmattan/MeeGo on the N9 and N950) and Zeecontrol (for Fremantle on … Continue reading →

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Automatically clone all repositories defined in conf/gitolite.conf

Posted on 2013-09-07 by ruedigergad

In this post, I post a simple, hackish script to clone all repositories defined in a gitolite config file. There may be various reasons why one should want to clone a bunch of repositories at a time, e.g., in case … Continue reading →

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MeePasswords 2.0 for BlackBerry (BB10) and Desktop (Linux, Windows)

Posted on 2013-06-24 by ruedigergad

MeePasswords is a simple tool to securely store short snippets of sensible or confidential data such as passwords and the like. The new MeePasswords version 2.0 is now available for BlackBerry (BB10) Z10, Q10, and Q5 and desktop (Linux, Windows). … Continue reading →

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Q To-Do for BlackBerry BB10, Desktop (Linux, Windows), and Nokia N9

Posted on 2013-06-24 by ruedigergad

Q To-Do is an easy to use to-do list organizer. The latest version of Q To-Do is now available for BlackBerry (BB10) Z10, Q10, and Q5, desktops (Linux, Windows), and Nokia N9. Below are some screenshots of the BlackBerry version. … Continue reading →

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Hotplug an External Screen to your Laptop on Linux

Posted on 2012-01-28 by ruedigergad

With udev you can trigger actions when an external screen/monitor is connected. This is, e.g., useful when you want to automatically perform some actions when an external Screen is connected to a laptop. Such actions could be to automatically enable … Continue reading →

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