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Disable Bell in VIM

Filed in Linux, Programming, March 9, 2010, 10:22 am

" Disable both beep and visual flash
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Linux 101 Hacks

Filed in Linux, February 14, 2009, 2:07 am

I haven’t read it yet, but it seems a nice Linux book.
Here is the release announcement:

I’m happy to announce the release of my first Free eBook — Linux 101 Hacks. There are total of 101 hacks in this book that will help you build a strong foundation in Linux. All the hacks in this book [...]

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Patch to Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver for Kernel 2.6.27

Filed in Linux, Programming, October 14, 2008, 2:53 am , , , ,

Update 2009-01-04: As Jose mentioned, the latest driver (ver. 5.10.27.12) no longer needs this patch!
If you have problem to compile Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver (version 5.10.27.6) on Kernel 2.6.27 and get error message like the following:

/home/ye/downloads/bcm4328/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.c: In function ‘wl_iw_get_scan’:
/home/ye/downloads/bcm4328/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.c:934: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘iwe_stream_add_event’ from incompatible pointer type
/home/ye/downloads/bcm4328/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.c:934: warning: passing argument 3 of [...]

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Big Day: Wine 1.0

Filed in Linux, June 17, 2008, 9:25 pm

Beside Firefox 3 officially released today, Wine also released its long waited non-beta/RC version, Wine 1.0.

You can download Wine 1.0 source code here; or you might want to wait for your distro’s update, I believe they all will update very soon!

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Solution to Lenovo Y410 Sound Problem On Ubuntu 8.04

Filed in Linux, Programming, April 27, 2008, 4:21 am ,

Update 2008-11-20: In a comment, Ace pointed out that Ubuntu 8.10 already has this problem fixed.
Update 2008-10-6: please don’t use the y410_sound script from this article since I don’t own a Y410 anymore, so I couldn’t test and maintain the script. Instead, please follow the solutions given in the comments. They seem to work pretty [...]