Perl script to check if HTU21 works.
Small Perl script to check that your HTU21 module is working if you happened to have a Perl-capable device with HTU21 attached to I2C bus.
Script depends on Time::HiRes Perl module and i2c-tools package.
Tag Archives: Linux
Linux, laptop and external HDMI display problem.
Not very nice workaround for a problem on Kubuntu 18.04 laptop when system doesn’t notice that external HDMI display has been disconnected if the speed which user plugs out HDMI cable is less than five speeds of light.
Zip compression on desktop Linux in 2018
I’m again and again trying to move to Linux. In this post I want to share my sad thoughts about GUI tools for archive management in contemporary desktop Linux system.
Workaround for Linux Mint (Cinnamon) 18.2 Power management
This post about my personal crusade against horrible power management in Linux Mint Cinnamon 18.2
I had been cursing this subsystem for two years and then found a workaround in 24 hours.
Acer C720, its swollen battery and RTC.
A few days ago I pulled my Acer C720 out of the nightstand and noticed that it has a strange shape…
It’s keyboard was bulged toward the screen so the laptop can’t be closed completely.
Battery was swollen.
After I have removed the battery everything seems to work well except the wifi. Wifi couldn’t connect to anywhere and somehow I understood that the problem is incorrect date in RTC. RTC really had some fake date in the far future. It seems that there is no separate CMOS battery in this laptop. And I was needed to find the way to fix it.
Setting up Vstarcam surveillance cameras in Zoneminder.
An intoductory post to clarify settings that I used for my Vstarcam cameras in Zoneminder.
PTZ controls in Zoneminder for Vstarcam C7823WIP camera
Connecting Vstarcam surveillance cameras to Zone Minder and creating controls to move them. Ubuntu 16.04 and Perl is used.
Watchdog for Vstarcam surveillance camera
Perl script for Ubuntu that check and correct settings of Vstarcam surveillance cameras.
AutoClicker
Scripts for Windows and Linux that helped me in book scanning. Actually they are automatic mouse clickers… BUT! They both have conspicuous indication for time, that left before the next click. So I always knew how much time do I have to turn the page.
Linux on a desktop
Linux… o, yeah… Actually, the main reason of this blog is to be the place where I can whine about my bad experience with Linux. I tried to use Askubuntu forums for this purpose, but my post was closed as not related to Ubuntu itself. I tried to write about horrible things in power management […]