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qemu

phil (phil@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-11-18T15:37:13+00:00

QEMU A few notes on best practices regarding [|qemu] or the (still) standalone [|kvm]. Specify The CPU Model To Emulate The default CPU emulated by qemu is meant to be as compatible as possible. This has the drawback that certain, possibly useable features of the host system's CPU will not be available for the guest to use. So when there is no need to migrate between host CPUs of different type, one can enable all possible features by use of the

insttructlab - created

phil (phil@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-06-27T15:59:11+00:00

Running InstructLab on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 12 This notebook's hardware is advertised as Powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra processors, with integrated AI and indeed there seem to be dedicated devices present for that purpose: % lspci [...] 00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P Gaussian & Neural-Network Accelerator (rev 20) [...] 00:0b.0 Processing accelerators: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake NPU (rev 04) [...]

ffmpeg - Added section about MP3 encoding

phil (phil@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-02-20T10:38:15+00:00

ffmpeg ffmpeg is a powerful tool for video conversion. Recording Screencasts Screencasts are basically animated screenshots and therefore a very nice way of illustrating things. Here is how to record them using ffmpeg: ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1024x768 -i :1.0 -c:v huffyuv screencast.mkv

grub - Add savedefault hint

phil (phil@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-02-06T13:58:22+00:00

Grub Grub is a bootloader for X86 machines. Booting Floppy Images The syslinux package contains a loader for floppy images that can be booted using grub. When both packages are installed, the procedure is quite straight forward: * optionally create a subdirectory in

256colors

phil (phil@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-03-21T16:56:23+00:00

256 Colors Once upon a time, having a colored terminal displaying whole eight different colors was subject to the geeks amongst all the terminal users. Nowadays, this is nothing special anymore. Consequently, one has to go further: 256 colours! rxvt-unicode

stty

phil (phil@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-01-24T12:54:49+00:00

stty stty gives control over the terminal settings. To view the running settings, use: stty -a Custimization Defining Control Sequences The syntax is: stty * Signal is one of the predefined ones, see stty(1). * Sequence maybe anything possible, but a good choice is defining an Escape Sequence (starting with

qutebrowser - Add paragraph about CA certificates

phil (phil@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-05-18T14:56:05+00:00

qutebrowser qutebrowser is based on qtwebengine and one of the better lightweight browser alternatives. vim as external text box editor This is simple: c.editor.command = [ "urxvt", "-e", "vim", '{file}' ] c.editor.encoding = "utf-8" From a focussed text box, pressing

git - Added some info about SSH as transport

phil (phil@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-27T15:42:52+00:00

GIT - The Stupid Content Tracker Here are some thoughts about git. No basic stuff, mostly best practices I discovered by (and for) myself. Juggling Around Remotes Assume a local project named proj and a new remote clone at [git:bla.org/proj.git]. First add the new remote: ~/git/proj % git remote add bla git:

vim - [Helpful Settings] Added fileformat option description

phil (phil@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-14T18:50:53+00:00

vim vim is not an editor with killerfeatures included, but a killerfeature with an included editor. modelines Using modelines, you can define per file settings inside the file itself. Cause modelines are disabled per default, they have to be activated first: