Hello Family and Friends!
What a treat! What a surprise! What an awesome birthday!
I had no idea that Heather and my mom could keep a secret for so long. I had no idea they were flying to town to be with me on my birthday, but there they were!
Heather, Todd, Sam, and myself were meeting at the Rainforest Cafe. As Heather and I were walking in, I was trying to spot Todd and Sam who had already been seated. Then, I saw somebody that looked an awful lot like my dad, and sitting next to him was somebody who looked an awful lot like my mom. Then, everybody else at the table started to look familiar and by golly, they there were! I could not believe they were right here in Arizona. Wow. Thanks for the awesome weekend you guys. I won’t forget this one.
Oh, and I wanted to add that there was another night at a pool outside where it started to rain, and then rained harder and harder and harder until it started to hail! I thought the pool was going to overflow with water, but we kept our bodies warm as the cold rain hit our heads. That was a really neat experience and another memory I won’t soon forget.
Hello Family and Friends!
It was a pretty slow month, but there were a few pictures taken. Sorry it has taken so long to get uploaded and posted for ya’ll, but some of you already found ‘em long ago! ;)
Again, I tried to use comments in the photos for everybody to get a little more “story” out of it so you’re not all thinking, “why am I looking at this again?”. Enjoy!
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This is an important blog update! There have been some changes as to what this blog is about. As of today, I’ve been posting a mix between my personal life and my computer interests, including Linux guides and tutorials. From now on, the subject of this blog will be for my friends and family as I talk about my personal life. The subject of my computer and Linux interests will be updated over at the TheLinuxDaily.com blog.
If you’re a general subscriber, you will want to change your RSS feeds and/or email feeds to point to The Linux Daily’s RSS Feed and/or The Linux Daily’s Email Feed instead. Otherwise, you’ll always hear about my boring personal life. ;)
If you are a part of my family and friends, and you would like to continue getting updates on my personal life, then you don’t need to worry about changing anything! The only thing you need to be aware of is that I will start making my posts private after one (1) week of it being posted. This is a good grace period to give you lots of time to check it out. If you want access to the private archives, you will need to email me and request an account.
Any post made after 1/11/2010 will automatically be redirected to the appropriate TheLinuxDaily.com post and you won’t have to do anything. Posts before this date have been kept here at this blog (for now).
Again, I highly encourage you to update your RSS feeds.
A hard word wrap or line break feature isn’t included in gedit by default, but it’s easily added by using the ‘External Tools’ plugin and a two-liner shell script. This will allow you to format your documents with a line break at column 80, or whatever you’d like it to be, by selecting the text, paragraph, or entire document and applying the shell script. Here’s how…
1. Open gedit
2. Navigate to Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins
3. Enable “External Tools” and press “Configure Plugin”
4. Press “New” and enter “Line Break at Col 80″ (or any name you like)
5. Paste the following script in the “command(s)” text area (you can choose to leave out the #comments, these are only here as a reminder in case you want to modify it to fit your needs):
#!/bin/sh
BREAK=80
# fmt [-WIDTH][OPTION]... [FILE]...
# --uniform-spacing -- one space between words, two after sentences
# --split-only -- split long lines, but do not refill
# --width=WIDTH -- maximum line width (default of 75 columns)
# when FILE is -, read standard input
fmt --uniform-spacing --split-only --width $BREAK -
6. Choose “Current selection” as Input
7. Choose “Replace current selection” as Output
8. At this point, you can choose to create a shortcut key such as “ctrl+m” for easy access.
8. Close “External Tools Manager” by pressing the “Close” button
9. Now this script is executable under the “Tools” menu. Alternatively, you can use your shortcut key for quick access.
The next step would be to somehow get gedit to automatically perform these hard wraps as your typing (like the evolution email client does). If anybody has a suggestion, I’d love to hear about it in the comments below. I’m very surprised that this isn’t included in the already many featured gedit program by default, but thankfully it’s very easily remedied with the method described above.
If you’re using the Busybox environment common in embedded linux systems, and you come across a situation where you need to refresh the /dev device nodes, simply use the command ‘mdev -s‘. The description from the Busybox help file states:
Scan /sys and populate /dev during system boot
I ran across this scenario today where I had a USB thumb drive plugged into a Technologic Systems SBC. I could see that the device node was assigned as /dev/sda1 after the appropriate modules were inserted, but it didn’t appear in the /dev directory until I used mdev -s. I could then mount it as usual.
I believe the same would be true for typical Linux systems with the udev deamon running in the background, but if the situation did ever come up, I would probably try to simply restart the udev service by using /etc/init.d/udev restart. I haven’t actually come across this situation yet, so obviously, this hasn’t been tested personally.
