See how to use ttf fonts in xterm in the NetBSD tutorial.

To get TrueType fonts by default in uxterm or xterm I added the following lines in .Xdefaults:

XTerm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Serif Mono
XTerm*faceSize: 14
UXTerm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Serif Mono
UXTerm*faceSize: 14

May 21, 2013 by eklausmeier

The New Digital Company: Distributed, Online, and Transparent

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Very good article on open company communication by Sara Rosso, who works for WordPress.

The article below centers around these headlines.

Be distributed

Be Online

Be Transparent

Work Hard, Play Hard

When I Have Time by Sara Rosso

Update: I gave a similar presentation at LeWeb about the Future Way of Working: the Distributed Company.

I gave a presentation in Italian at the Digital Communication Forum in Milan in February, and I spoke about “The New Digital Company: Online, Distributed, and Transparent.” I wanted to make those slides available immediately, but since the talk was an Ignite, a flash talk given in 5 minutes with 20 slides that appear on the screen for only 15 seconds, the slides are usually more visual than descriptive, so in lieu of recording my speech in English, I’ll walk you through a few of my slides.

At the bottom are both the complete Italian and English slide decks in Slideshare in case you feel the need to share or embed them. 🙂 There’s also a video of my presentation in Italian available.

The first few slides were…

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May 16, 2013 by eklausmeier

CUDA without X Window System

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Instead of starting X like

xinit /usr/bin/icewm

and therefore loading the NVidia CUDA environment, one can simply add

[ -c /dev/nvidia0 ] || mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0
[ -c /dev/nvidiactl ] || mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255

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May 15, 2013 by eklausmeier

Porting Source to Linux – Valve’s Lessons Learned

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Interesting slides from Valve on their venture to Linux: Porting Source to Linux – Valve’s Lessons Learned

May 6, 2013 by eklausmeier

John Raff / Dmitry Sandalov: Access Google translate from a terminal

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See an article by a guy named johnraff, Access Google translate from a terminal, or reblogged by Dmitry Sandalov here Access Google translate from a terminal.

Works great.

Here are some examples:

translate Weg
Way

translate "Ich gehe nach Hause"
I'm going home

May 5, 2013 by eklausmeier

Phoronix: NVIDIA vs. Nouveau Drivers On Ubuntu 13.04

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In Phoronix there is an interesting comparison between Nouveau and proprietary NVidia graphics driver, see NVIDIA vs. Nouveau Drivers On Ubuntu 13.04.