fix annoying auto-save of PDFs on firefox

 Mozilla crackhead-devs setup by DEFAULT to save any online PDF you open, so in fact this is spamming your Downloads folder with unwanted crap. 

Solution: 

set browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline (about:config) to TRUE

[debian] back to minimal....

full desktops are no-go for me...  too much even XFCE.. darn, so 'custom' openbox + my usual apps (wine/arduino/libreOffice, also Lotus123Unix/WP Unix ) + custom scripts, launcher? dmenu of course.

To be honest there are some nice light debian flavours like Lilidog

but FFS I am a cat person!!1 sorry ... 😂 

[FPGA] MiSTeryNano

This is an ST/E FPGA implementation on Tang Nano 20k FPGA board , 'cheap' as chips hah (ok not exactly... sort of)

The core runs on other boards as well : Tang Primer 25k and Tang Mega 138k  (more expensive options, esp as you need extra RAM/SD etc modules for them.)

Project on github

[update after a lot of tests]

CONS

- current dock no THT, ordering a ready one (SMT) will increase the total cost to about £80 (more or less the half price of MiST)

- The M0S dock may function with certain mouse/keyboard/hubs

- USB compatibility (upd. 29 APR '24)

• Trust wireless MSE/KBD : only keyboard works
• HAMA wireless MSE/KBD: only keyboard works
• Logitech wired KBD + wired logi MSE : mouse bit fast, keyboard OK
• Logitech wired KBD + Logi wireless MSE: mouse does not work.
• Logitech wireless K400+ (combo): both work fine

Good project anyway, there is also SNES,  NES, Amiga, C64 cores \o/  

(yeah Till Harbaum rulez !)

 

multi compress Amiga directories and their .info under linux as separate archives

a/ using LHA under linux :

 

for i in */; do lha c "${i%/}.lha" "$i" "${i%/}.info" ; done

 

b/  using tar
 

for i in */; do tar -cvf "${i%/}.tar" "$i" "${i%/}.info" ; done

 

both of them will create individually archives 

enable copy/paste from clipboard on xterm

just enter those into your .Xresources

XTerm*vt100.translations: #override \
    Shift Ctrl <Key> C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
    Shift Ctrl <Key> V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)

don't forget to   xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

This will enable copy/paste from Clipboard to xterm

Rhythmbox crash when connecting/sync with iPod

in the case you see the error below:

** (rhythmbox:35015): CRITICAL **: 13:28:51.141: playlist_track_removed: assertion 'track != NULL' failed

 

there is "some" fix , delete the ipod sync config file from ' .local/share/rhythmbox/sync '  YMMV

fix ID3 on mass mp3s

both my ipods - hacked to RockBox started to freak up and stop on multiple mp3s , the error ? something like ?kbps - (noID3)

the solution: strip any ID3 - eg via DeadBeef - and convert to v.2.3

via eyeD3

(DO NOT strip other vers of ID3 using eyeD3 as it will del the v2 as well!

eyeD3  --to-v2.3 *.mp3