For little over 9 years I am a proud owner of Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Si 1520. Nice little 12.0” laptop with 1280×800 resolution weighting just over 1.7kg and it even has DVD burner. I got this way back when small laptops / netbooks were not that mainstream. Continue reading “Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 7 on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Si 1520”
Installing Plexmediaserver on Xbian / Raspberry Pi 2
[UPDATE] Now instructions are fit for Debian Jessie.
I have been running Kodi on my Raspberry Pi 2 for some time as my primary home media center. Previously I used a normal PC in fancy casing, but since I moved all my files to NAS it made no sense to run full blown PC and waste electricity. Continue reading “Installing Plexmediaserver on Xbian / Raspberry Pi 2”
Ultimate iCade Raspberry Pi bartop arcade mod – Part IV – Stick
The iCade cabinet comes with arcade stick with 8 push buttons with micro-switches which are good enough for my project.
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Set syntax highlighting in Vi/Vim with dark background
I always forget how to do this and I need to write it down:
Turn on syntax highlighting with:
:syntax on
If highlighting looks to dark, then you are probably using dark background, so set it to achieve better readability:
:set background=dark
To make these two changes permanent, edit ~/.vimrc file and enter:
syntax on set background=dark
To turn of syntax highlighting do:
:syntax off
To go back to light background do:
:set background=light
or delete the lines from ~/.vimrc file.
Bash check if process is running if not start it
I have several scripts that start when my Raspberry Pi is booted, one of them is to start screen session with IRSSI, but sometimes it can happen that two irssi processes are running.
To avoid that I am using a wrapper script eirssi.sh with just:
ps -C irssi || irssi
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