I copied the excellent Vim cheat sheet “Secrets of the Vim Ninja” from Ben Crowder and changed it a bit. I added some commands and removed the plugins section. Maybe I should add some sort of search function too.

My version of the Secrets of the Vim...

I’ve always used laptop-mode-tools on Ubuntu to enance the power consumption on my laptop. It worked fairly well but one thing it didn’t do too wel is handling suspend/resume. After a resume laptop-mode-tools was often confused in which state the laptop...

Upgrading all packages on OpenWrt with the opkg command isn’t possible. There is no opkg upgrade --all command or anything similar. opkg upgrade expects a package as the first parameter that then gets upgraded. But with a little bash scripting we can...

I’ve updated my OpenWrt router to the Trunk version (Barrier Breaker). I made a backup of the configuration before installing the new firmware. After rebooting the router openvpn stopped working. It turned out to be that only registered files are begin...

I’ve never plugged someone else’s site before but I really liked this one: http://alexpeattie.com/

I was searching how to solve a specific problem in Middleman App (the new syntax highlighter Rouge) and I came accross his site. I really like the design...

I’ve been using OpenWrt on my Netgear WNDR3800 for a while now. It’s lovely and with all the additional software you can install on it it’s even better.

I’ve got for example Privoxy installed on it. Privoxy is a (non-caching) proxy with filtering...

I was trying to use the Plex Queue extension for chrome for a while but I was having some problems. Every time I tried to use it I got this error message: You need to sign in first.

I tried reinstalling it and that didn’t work. Then I tried the Plex...

I’ve been using Thunderbird with outlook.com / office 365. So basically Thunderbird with Exchange via IMAP.

It’s been working relatively well. One little annoyance was that difference in naming folders:

• Trash vs. Deleted Items
• Junk vs. Junk Email

I’ve started experimenting with mutt. I like mutt but it’s a bit conservative. There are a lot of good patches for mutt floating on the web that aren’t beging added to the mutt core project.

For example: mutt sidebar, notmutch and the mutt trashfolder

I was looking for a way to extract two pages from a pdf. I could “print” the pdf and then export it to pdf again but I wanted a better way. Preferably something I could run from the commandline and could possibly automate.

Google returned pdftk so...