A Computer Person Journey
Recently i have successfully printing a test page from my HP printer on my OpenBSD 6.7 laptop after reading and practicing an article on website of mp-5 text editor (see it on my other post). I use following step.
1. add required packages using pkg_add cups gtk+3-cups hpcups hplip.
2. edit /etc/rc.conf.local as follow on pkg_scripts section.
3. restart openbsd. Continue reading “HP Ink Tank Wireless 410 Printer on OpenBSD 6.7”
Minimum Profit is a text editor for programmer available to download from https://triptico.com/software/mp.html. I accidentally found this software from article related to OpenBSD and the author is the creator of this mp editor. The downloads are available in source and windows executable (Wow).
I managed to compile mp 5.38 on debian 10 using ncursesw driver which is already available on my laptop. Compilation step as follow.
Continue reading “Minimum Profit : A Programmer Text Editor”
This is my first time upgrading OpenBSD. Usually i do full reinstall but it just too time wasting, so i tried these step.
sysupgrade will update your OpenBSD by rebooting and download installation package from internet (i think). Then pkg_add -u will update all of installed program (take a long time). Its a successful upgrade. Thanks to OpenBSD developer who make it so seamless and work beautifully. Great work.
Let say we have a table containing famous quote and we want to show a random quote. How do that in postgresql ? Try this.
Select * from quote order by random() limit 1;
for Mysql use rand instead.
Select * from quote order by rand() limit 1;
Emacs is an editor, but not just it. Thats what i read on internet. Emacs like in a battle with Vim, another editor. I have play with vi so many years ago, but with emacs it is just recently i learned to use it basic function.
Install it on ubuntu we can choose GUI or terminal version. I like the terminal version because it will be handy during my engagement with VM/Cloud which only can use terminal to manage it.
Open Emacs by typing on terminal emacs and press enter, it will show a welcome page like below.
We can move cursor to a hyperlink and press enter to go to particular subject, like tutorial or manual. Tutorial can also accessed using key combination C-h t, which mean press Ctrl and hold then press h, release keys, then press t. C is Ctrl and M is Meta (Alt/Esc).
Continue reading “Playing with Emacs – Open file, edit, save file.”