Archive for the ‘Configuration’ Category

MySQL CLI pager tweaks

Monday, July 30th, 2007

The default settings for the MySQL command line client are a bit annoying. There’s no output paging; columns with more than 80 characters are wrapped making matching field name to field data difficult. Here’s a way to make life easier.

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P7120D xorg.conf

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Yeah, it’s ugly, but I thought others might make use of the xorg.conf from my groovy little fanless laptop, the Fujitsu Lifebook P7120D, running Gentoo Linux and xorg-server 1.2.0. I based this off of an xorg.conf I found on the web last year, and has been edited (a lot) as I found new information. This also requires use of 915resoultion, at least with xorg-server 1.2.0 (I’ve heard rumors that 1.3.0 will eliminate this dependency), to handle the non-standard resolution of the laptop’s LCD (1280×768). Switching between dual screens and single screen still requires editing of this file and uncommenting the desired configuration in “ServerFlags” and commenting the other section lines before restarting X.
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