operating Systems, ubuntu

Fixing brightness in Ubuntu 13.10

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Ever since I installed Ubuntu 12.04 (maybe even before that) I had trouble adjusting the screen brightness for my Vostro3700. I tried a lot of different things to solve it but without avail until recently.

Finally I stumbled across the tweak in grub.conf with the appropiate video parameters.

I found my answer here

The two lines that got it working were these:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 quiet splash pcie_aspm=force "
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=Linux"

I have BURG and just in case modified burg.conf with the same parameters.

web development

Creating a Personal Page

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Some time ago, I tried to create a personal page for myself and it’s been an interesting process from the moment I decided I would do it.

I have something I could call a design made in Inkscape and I tried to implement it in a flash-like tool called SwishMax. That didn’t get too far though.

I have done a previous version of a “flash site” for myself and I was pretty content at that time with the result [link to the page should be here] (isn’t it annoying when you can’t find stuff on your personal archive?). But times change, and after being away from the computer for a little while I came back and have been learning all sorts of interesting things about web development ever since.

So here I am, trying to somehow document the webpage I have built to kind of put some technologies and concepts I’ve been reading about into practice.

It is a very very basic site. On the content side of things I tried to keep it simple: full screen background images, some text that serves as a kind of a bio and I wanted to make sure it was in both English and Spanish. I based the code on this project right here.

The technologies I have built into the page are the following:

  • AngularJS: more specifically a module from a project called AngularUI
  • jQuery and a plugin called vegas.

I really care for minimalistic designs, and I thought this would fit very well with my personality. It also had to have some links to other sources just in case people were interested enough about my professional profile.

So, that’s it. A personal webpage.

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Welcome

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This is actually my second attempt to start a blog.

I have convinced myself that I should really have one in order to keep track of what I learn and the things I find interesting while surfing the web.

It will mostly serve as a repo for those little things I do and problems I solve that might come to pass again anytime in the future and hopefully will help others in their quest to save the world one line of code at a time…

I’m a native Spanish speaker, and so I will most likely try to write in both languages.. doing this in English so I can keep practicing my language skills. (Because as they say… “use it or lose it…”)

Ubuntu desktop, may of 2013
operating Systems, tools, ubuntu, web development

Starting to use Ubuntu (again…)

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This is my third week working on Ubuntu 13.04. I must say it has been an interesting experience so far. I have installed and used Ubuntu on one of my laptop’s partition since version 9.04, and although most of the work I did at College could easily be done in Ubuntu, I didn’t really have a need to use it as my primary OS. Now that I want to learn more in depth about web development, I can tell that the industry is using *nix systems as a rather default option. So, here I am… trying to follow the convention and re-learning the console commands and concepts that linux has to offer.

Many things have improved since version 9.04, I must acknowledge, and it’s been quite a comfortable three weeks so far. Some minor things that I still have to work on the solution are that the laptop freezes when on battery and I can’t change the brightness, but I’m sure I will sort that out.

Some things I have already done to “customize” my experience with the “new OS” have been installing kinds all of sofware like:

  • BURG (Brand-new Universal loadeR from GRUB): A graphical way to present my dual-boot installed OS
  • Gnome 3 desktop environment. Not that I don’t like Unity, but I think I get more done using this.
  • Skype : well, skype :p
  • Sublime text 2: an excellent text editor I came across a few months ago and haven’t let go ever since.
  • Inkscape: an awesome vector art creation and editor tool.
  • Filezilla: an FTP client.

For some of them I had to add special repositories and I might add a post later that encloses all those installations. Also Sublime text would take me a whole other post so I can describe all the packages I installed to customize it.

As part of my researching on web development I have installed node and a couple of npm packages as well (like jade, stylus and cofeescript ) that I’ll be working on learning hopefully not too far from now.

Finally, the one fullstack framework I fell in love with: meteor. I am currently working on a project to learn how to develop with it, some of my posts might be related to this in the future (also some related to AngularJS, which I also really liked when I saw it for the first time :) ).

stuff I'm learning….

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