usona dvorak international keyboard in ubuntu / linux: esperanto "u" with breve/hoketo/luneto

se vi uzas linukson / ubuntu, kaj vi tajpas uzante internacian dvorak-an klavaron, vi eble ekkonsciis ke por fari ĝ, oni premas ^ kaj g, ktp por tajpi aliajn cxapelitajn literojn (kun la cirkumflekso).  sed por tajpi ŭ, ne tiom simplas.  ^ kaj u faras û, sed kiel tajpi ŭ?

RESPONDO:  unue premu dekstra-alt (AltGr) + shift + 9, kaj malpremu, kaj premu 'u'.

laŭ la dosiero "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us"

sub "dvorak-intl"

la "dead_breve" klavo estas tajpita per alt+shift+9.  "dead" signifas ke la hoketo/"breve" aperos sur la sekve tajpita litero.   la tria kaj kvara kolumnoj estas atingebla per la dekstra "alt" klavo--la tria sen "shift" kaj la kvara kun "shift".

uzu "sudo vim ./us" por redakti la klavaron.  trovu "u, U, uacute, Uacute" sub "dvorak-intl", kaj anstataŭ "uacute" tajpu "ubreve", kaj anstataŭ "Uacute" tajpu "Ubreve":

 key <AC04> { [         u,          U,        ubreve,           Ubreve ] };

tiel, oni povas premu dekstra 'alt' + 'u' por tajpi 'ŭ' pli facile.

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if you use linux / ubuntu, and type using the interational dvorak keyboard layout, you might've noticed that to make a ĝ, one presses ^ and g etc in order to type hatted letters (with the circumflex).  but to type û, it's not that simple.  ^ and u make û, but how to type ŭ?

ANSWER: first press right-alt (AltGr) + shift +9 and let go, and then press 'u'.

according to the file "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us"

under "dvorak-intl"

the "dead_breve"key is typed by pressing alt+shift+9.  "dead" means that the breve will appear on the next letter typed.  the third and fourth columns art attainable by the right "alt" key--the third without shift and the fourth with shift.

use "sudo vim ./us" to edit the keyboard. find "u, U, uacute, Uacute" under "dvorak-intl", and instead of "uacute" type "ubreve", and instead of "Uacute" type "Ubreve":

 key <AC04> { [         u,          U,        ubreve,           Ubreve ] };

this way, one can press right 'alt' + 'u' to type 'ŭ' more easily.

Sonos controller prevents standby / sleep / screensaver

Just wanted to let y'all know that Sonos Controller 4.2 on Windows XP prevents the computer from putting on the screensaver / locking your computer / going into standby/hibernate, or turning off your monitor.

This is only so when music is actually playing.  If you hit "pause" on the controller, the computer can do its power-saving tricks.

Workaround: pause the music or set the sleep timer in Sonos Controller.

I don't see a way to change this behavior, let me know if you find one.

"Error occurred during the SSL handshake: invalid SSL session" - Troubleshooting Perforce plugin error

The Perforce plugin for Eclipse may give the error "Error occurred during the SSL handshake: invalid SSL session" when you try to edit a file.

Some JVM distributions that are shipped internationally come with limited cryptography capabilities for national security purposes.  The 256 bit cryptography that Perforce uses may not be in the JVM that your Eclipse installation is running on.  Therefore you need to install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) for the Perforce plugin to work.

1. Determine which eclipse.ini file you should use (from joomla.org):
1. If you downloaded Eclipse IDE manually from internet the "eclipse.ini" file is just inside the unpacked folder
1. Open Eclipse as you normally do.
2. Click Help -> About Eclipse SDK
3. Click Installation Details
4. Go to the Configuration tab
5. Find "eclipse.home.location=file:<PATH>".  <PATH> is where eclipse is installed.
2. If you installed Eclipse via terminal or software center the location of the file is "/etc/eclipse.ini"
3. In some Linux versions the file can be found at "/usr/share/eclipse/eclipse.ini". Do not use this file if you found a config file at "/etc/eclipse.ini".
2. Determine the current version of the JVM that eclipse will use to run the Perforce plugin, not to be confused with $JAVA_HOME and Window/Preferences/Java/Installed JREs.
1. Open the eclipse.ini file directly inside Eclipse's installation folder.
2. Check for -vm and below, see the path to the Java VM installation on which Eclipse is running and determine the version from the path.
1. If there is no -vm line, eclipse is running on the default version of Java for your machine.
2. Open a terminal window and type "export"
3. Look for JAVA_HOME = ... in the output, and determine the version the version from the path.
3. If you are running Java version 6, update to the latest version of Java.
1. Download Java 7 or later, and extract.
2. Make sure you update eclipse.ini if the -vm is specified there.
3. Also update the JAVA_HOME environment variable if found in output of "export" command.  Look in ~/.profile and ~/.bash_rc files.  Prefer to specify it in ~/.profile file.
4. Alternatively, install JCE for Java 6 (google it).
4. Now that you have Java 7, download and install JCE for Java 7.
1. View the README to determine where to put the files.

gcc sparc v8 relocation error: value does not fit

in our case, we got this error when we tried to do:
load [label], register.

you have to set the label into a register, then do
load [register], register

or
load [register + offset], register

such as
load [%fp - 4], %l0

basically, just make sure your instructions are formatted properly!

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modelsim: Cannot open `include file "Constants.v".

was trying to use ModelSim to test my Quartus project, but was getting this error when i did "compile" -> "compile..." from ModelSim's menu.

vlog -reportprogress 300 -work work C:/lab4/ALU.v
# Model Technology ModelSim ALTERA vlog 10.1b Compiler 2012.04 Apr 27 2012
# -- Compiling module ALU
# ** Error: C:/lab4/IDEX_regs.v(56): Cannot open `include file "Constants.v".
# ** Error: C:/lab4/ALU.v(77): (vlog-2730) Undefined variable: 'constant 1'.
# ** Error: C:/lab4/ALU.v(77): (vlog-2730) Undefined variable: 'constant 2'.

verilog lets you use header files to share constants between modules.  the problem was that modelsim couldn't find where my header file / constants file was.   my constants file was in my lab4 folder with the rest of my project's files.  it was probably looking in the lab4/simulation/modelsim folder, which was the current modelsim folder.  how to help modelsim find your header files:

• in ModelSim, click "Compile" -> "Compile Options..."
• click on "Verilog & SystemVerilog" tab
• click "Include Directory..."
• move up a couple directories to get to your main project folder, or whatever folder your header files are in.
• click OK, OK

that should've been good enough, but it wasn't in my case.  i got this message:

# Modified C:\Program Files (x86)\altera\modelsim12.1\modelsim_ase\win32aloem/modelsim.ini

but then when i clicked Compile -> Compile Options again,  i saw that my changes were lost.

so, i used notepad to open the file: C:\Program Files (x86)\altera\modelsim12.1\modelsim_ase\win32aloem/modelsim.ini

one of the lines of the file said this:

OptionFile = C:/lab2/simulation/modelsim/vlog.opt

that's lab2!  it seems modelsim was permanently configured to pull options from one of my old projects.  so i changed it to say lab4 and saved.

at this point, you should be able to save changes made in Compiler Options (Compile -> Compile Options).

i used notepad to open the settings file in my lab4 folder:  C:/lab4/simulation/modelsim/vlog.opt

the contents should simply be:
+incdir+C:/lab4

hope this helped you!

linux mint, mate, panels: change desktop folder location

if you don't want mate to use the $HOME/Desktop folder as the folder it actually shows on your desktop, you can change which location it uses.

i couldn't find anything by searching for this until i remembered that mate is a successor of gnome2.  so, i looked up how to do it for gnome2 and it seems to be kind of the same:

here's how to do it with gnome:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17752/use-any-folder-for-your-ubuntu-desktop-even-a-dropbox-folder/

so, just go to your home folder, click "view"->"show hidden files", then click on the ".config" folder and then open "user-dirs.dirs" and change everything there.

alternatively (thanks anonymous),

1. gedit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
2. change the value of XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="/insert/path/here" and save it
3. killall nautilus