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Oct
19

D-Link DWA-140 and xubuntu – HOWTO

Jannich Brendle on October 19th, 2012

A friend of mine bought a new usb wifi dongle, but was not exactly plug and play. A quick lsusb shows the following: Bus 001 Device 005: ID 2001:3c15 D-Link Corp. Not much to go on, but still something. A google search later, and we know that the adapter is using an Ralink chipset. To [...]

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Jul
11

Difference between two lists in python – a simple solution

Jannich Brendle on July 11th, 2012

Sometimes, you have two lists in python and you need too know the difference between two lists. With a quick list comprehension, this is easy to find out: numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] even = [2,4,6,8,10] difference = [ a for a in numbers if not a in even ] print difference The output should be: [1, [...]

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Jul
7

How to disable the touchpad while typing in ubuntu

Jannich Brendle on July 7th, 2012

Most of us have tried to type on a laptop computer with a super sensitive touchpad. This can lead to excessive irritation and anger, which is not good. An easy remedy is to use the syndaemon utility. It lets you specify a timeout, in which the touchpad will be disabled after each keystroke. Start a [...]

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