Repacking ZIP-based containers
Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Command line, To remember
Several modern complex file formats are based on a ZIP container: this is at least the case of OpenDocument and EPUB. However, they are not simply a bunch of files joined into an archive, but they follow some rules in order to be easily recognized by tools such as file. As I had to unpack, modify and repack such a container, here is a recipe to do that.
rxvt-unicode: generate key symbols
Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Command line
rxvt-unicode is a terminal emulator with some interesting features. Here is one of them I find most amazing and elegant: it can generate the symbol characters corresponding to keyboard keys.
It works by pressing and releasing ⎈ + ⇧ (⎈ is the symbol for the Control key, and ⇧ is Shift, of course), then the key which symbol you want to get.
For instance, to get the Caps lock symbol, you type ⎈ + ⇧, ⇬, which gives you the following symbol: ⇬. Here are some other nice examples: ↵ (Return) ⇮ (AltGr aka Level3 Shift) ⌫ (BackSpace) ⎀ (Insert) ⌦ (Delete) ⇱ (Home) ⇲ (End) ⇞ (Prior) ⇟ (Next).
Beware that this will not cancel the effect of {Caps, Num} lock keys: you will get their symbols but also enter the corresponding mode.
Booting with UEFI
I have just bought a new motherboard, a ASRock E350M1/USB3 with and embedded AMD E350 processor. I was mostly interested in trying the embedded GPU and the UEFI firmware (UEFI is simply the name of EFI 2).
According to ASRock's marketing, the main benefit of that UEFI is its graphical interface that allows to use the mouse to configure the board. I cannot agree with that, because I think it is perfectly possible to implement that with a BIOS (and I think some BIOSes actually do it), and it is pointless anyway. For me, the main benefits are a faster and cleaner boot (no idea why it should be faster, but it is).
Des signatures en art ASCII
Comme j'utilise un logiciel de messagerie très configurable (Mutt, pour être précis), j'ai la possibilité d'utiliser plusieurs signatures selon le critère de mon choix. J'ai donc passé un peu de temps à dessiner quelques signatures thématiques en art ASCII, parfois en m'inspirant de modèles existants et parfois entièrement de moi-même (en gras). Espérant que celui puisse être utile, en voici quelques-unes :
Mise à jour du 2016-02-04 : ajout du skieur.
ASCII Art signatures
Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Command line, Miscellaneous, To remember, Vélo
Using a very customizable email user agent (namely, Mutt), I am able to use several signatures depending on almost whatever criterion I want. So I spent some time drawing several thematic ones in ASCII Art, sometimes taking inspiration on existing models, sometimes entirely by myself (in bold). Hoping that it may be useful, here are some of them: