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Hi there! I'm Ruben Schuller and here you'll find some notes about how I've done things, so I can safely forget about them ;) At the top you can also find links to my GitHub and Sourcehut repositories.

If you want to write me you can use mail ate rbn.im for emails or ate rbn colon orgizm.net using matrix.

rrsync Setup Notes

 25 February 2019 config

rrsync is a wrapper script which limits the access of rsync to a sub-hierarchy of the filesystem. this is useful for automated tasks like backups or deploying things. i bet there are plenty other write-ups on this, so i have to add mine.

Rarely Used Go Constructs

 9 September 2018 go

There are some constructs in Go which are not commonly used. The first can be used a bit like pattern matching, the second is function values of type methods.

locking xscreensaver before suspending

 11 July 2018 config

xscreensaver takes a little duration when resuming to lock the screen. to fix this, the screen has to be locked before pm-suspend is called.

setting up a matrix homeserver

 3 March 2018 matrix

matrix is another take on federated messaging, supporting fancy features. this roughly shows how to setup a homeserver with matrix synapse and serve the riot web ui for matrix.

radicale setup

 11 November 2017 config sane-way-of

how to setup a current radicale on a server with no existing python 3000 and staying sane in the process.

syslinux on usb key

 11 November 2017 config

steps to install syslinux to an usb key. shown here is how to boot memtest.

upspin suffix setup

 23 September 2017 config

basic setup for servers and clients is described at upspin.io/doc/. to use suffixes (normal and +snapshot), a bit more setup is required on the client side.

using ttf fonts with plan9ports acme

 24 June 2017 config
this assumes that plan9port is installed like this git clone https://github.com/9fans/plan9port cd plan9port ./INSTALL PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)/bin now you can start acme using different fonts with 9 acme -f /mnt/font/'Go Regular'/11a/font -F /mnt/font/'Go Mono'/11a/font

iwlwifi

 15 June 2017 b0rken config

i recently noticed that my wifi was really slow. checking it revealed that i only had 1Mbit as bitrate, while the link quality was fine.

The sane way of .. trackpad scrolling

 29 April 2017 b0rken config sane-way-of

i use thinkpads and really like the trackpoint. i also like middle clicking. this leaves one in a state where no sane scolling is possible, hold-middle-scrolling-trackpoint just seems wrong. so heres how to use the wretched trackpad for scrolling, disabling it as mouse.

bolt usage

 26 January 2017 go bolt

Most of the time I’m too lazy to use a real RDBMS and it would be overkill anyway. bolt offers a nice embedded alternative.

Using KDM with window managers

 26 January 2017 config

Using a window manager with KDM as login manager can be a bit tricky. This is how I’ve got dwm and ssh-agent with prompting for passphrases to startup correctly.

slackdemand

 26 January 2017 slackware

My repository of slackbuilds can be found at Bitbucket.