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DigiKam 4.10 on Ubuntu 14.04

May 30, 2015, 9:09 am

These are the steps I found are required to install DigiKam v4.10 on Ubuntu. In my case I ran into problems with libavcodec (ffmpeg/libav) and issues stemming from the ffmpeg project fork. YMMV. First...

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Monitoring files with vim

November 16, 2015, 9:59 pm

It turns out that monitoring a file with vim is harder than it should be. Scripts such as Tail-Bundle and WatchForChanges rely on vim’s CursorHold events which only trigger once. Unlike tail -f, they...

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Import Tellico books into Calibre

April 23, 2016, 11:57 am

I used to maintain my dead-tree book collection in Alexandria. When that stopped being developed I switched to Tellico. Tellico however doesn’t have a simple way of retrieving cover images, so recently...

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Alternatives for clang

October 21, 2016, 11:09 am

In Ubuntu, installing clang-3.6 doesn’t provide you with clang or clang++ links to the clang-3.6 or clang++-3.6 executables, or a way of easily selecting the active clang version when you have multiple...

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Vim Syntax Highlighting for Firewall Logs

January 6, 2016, 7:24 pm

Firewall logs are verbose, and utterly boring to look at. It’s hard to pick out the important parts, like what the IP or destination port was. If you use vim/gvim to view the logs, there’s a syntax...

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