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lyx2html 0.2 Kubuntu mod

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Needed lyx2html to install Kat, but the sources weren’t 100% kosher, so I had to fix them:
* Fixed installation paths so that man pages are also installed
* Added “remove” option to make, so that “sudo make remove” uninstalls lyx2html

Download it here: Lyx2HTML 0.2 Kubuntu Fix.

Just a post scriptum for Google: This should work for any Debian-based system.

WiFi Roaming using the Shell

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

I’ve been wondering why the wireless connection managers out there, like kwifimanager and drakroam (the new one at least), do such a poor job at what they do. It seems to me that the core functionality is extremely simple, so how they manage to make it so hard to use (like kwifimanager) or so poorly constructed (like drakroam) is beyond me. Too much time spent on interface design, I guess…

Anyways, I got sick and tired of using these tools. I just need the simple functionality of roaming and connecting when a particular network is near. I don’t really want to have some large program running in the background, just because it doesn’t really roam and it wants me to manually connect to a new network once the one I was connected to before disappears. So I created a Bash script. (more…)