rdiez

Change the background colour

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I used to have Ubuntu MATE 18.04 with the Git PPA at https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ubuntu/ppa . I recently upgraded the system to 20.04.1, and with that PPA I now have git gui...

Improve documentation editing experience on GitHub

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I wanted to contribute a simple documentation improvement: https://github.com/stylelint/stylelint/pull/5275 I do not know much about node.js , and I do not use JavaScript much myself. So I did some quick...

Some Git issues talk about usbmount version 0.0.24. I would like to have a Git tag for that version, so that I know I am building the same version on...

I want to monitor the upload and download bandwidths, so I am using a command like this: $ bmon --policy=wlp5s0 --use-si --output format:fmt='$(element:name)\t$(attr:rxrate:bytes)\t$(attr:txrate:bytes)\n' wlp5s0 0.00 0.00 wlp5s0 53.99 81.99 wlp5s0...

How to detect clock skew or lack of system clock synchronisation

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Is there a way to detect clock skew or lack of system clock synchronisation? The 'time' collector is documented to work only Windows Server 2016 or newer, but I want...

Cannot get pidstat -e my_command to work

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I want to automatically benchmark a program that is heavy on both disk and CPU. It is complicated: [Understanding par2cmdline performance](https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline/issues/151) I wish to run the program and collect accumulated...

I recently wrote the following script to help unskilled users connect to my listening VNC client: https://github.com/rdiez/Tools/tree/master/VNC I am using x11vnc version "x11vnc: 0.9.13 lastmod: 2011-08-10", which is what comes...

Reducing PDF size by splitting the image and compressing each area differently

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I have a big Canon printer at work. When I scan a document as PDF without the 'compact' option, the PDF has just one big JPEG inside. However, when I...

"ensure" fails if the package version has changed on the remote repository

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I am not sure whether use-package is the right place for this bug report. I wanted to install the "which-key" package, so I added this to my config: (use-package which-key...

Cannot pass NULL to WriteFile() in lpNumberOfBytesWritten, should use JNA definitions

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While investigating issue #118, I realised that we should pass NULL to WriteFile() in lpNumberOfBytesWritten. According to the Microsoft documentation: "Use NULL for this parameter if this is an asynchronous...