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mvidner / gist:eeb88c01a9a03f52974e009fa0ba4ce7
Created October 13, 2020 08:25
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mvidner / screenshots-tui-all.txt
Created September 30, 2020 08:33
$ cd yast/yast-ycp-ui-bindings/examples/screenshots-tui
$ grep . *txt
Alignment1-1.txt: YaST2 - ./../../Alignment1.rb @ ohmu
Alignment1-1.txt: ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
Alignment1-1.txt: │[This is a very long button - it reserves extra space for the label.]│
Alignment1-1.txt: │[ Stretchable button ]Label│
Alignment1-1.txt: └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
AutoShortcut1-1.txt: YaST2 - ./../../AutoShortcut1.rb @ ohmu
AutoShortcut1-1.txt: ┌────────────────────────┐
AutoShortcut1-1.txt: │┌Software Selection────┐│
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mvidner / yast-size.txt
Created September 18, 2020 13:59
YaST takes up 258 MiB on disk
YaST takes up 258 MiB on disk.
Starting with a 2020-09-01 openSUSE Tumbleweed that already has Cockpit installed,
these are the byte sizes of packages installed by "zypper install yast2"
218922718 glibc-locale
16627072 ruby2.7
9940016 ruby2.7-rubygem-nokogiri
3427518 hwinfo
3413184 libruby2_7-2_7
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mvidner / installer-memory-consumption-ideas.md
Last active July 7, 2020 07:53
installer memory consumption: where to look next
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mvidner / ps.console
Last active June 10, 2020 08:47
table_to_csv.sh: Convert a space-delimited table (where the last column may contain spaces) to CSV (comma separated value)
$ ps -f | tee /dev/stderr | ./table_to_csv > ps.csv
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
martin 12310 3022 0 09:36 pts/13 00:00:00 /bin/bash
martin 13255 12310 0 10:18 pts/13 00:00:00 ps -f
martin 13256 12310 0 10:18 pts/13 00:00:00 tee /dev/stderr
martin 13257 12310 0 10:18 pts/13 00:00:00 /bin/bash ./table_to_csv
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mvidner / bug-reporting-trio.md
Created March 16, 2020 15:23

Thank you for the report!

  1. What steps did you take?
  2. What was the expected result?
  3. What was the actual result?
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mvidner / unlocking-the-clubhouse.md
Last active January 13, 2020 08:30
Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing

Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing

Margolis, Jane and Fisher, Allan (2002). Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/unlocking-clubhouse

This is an expanded table of contents.

Introduction: Women out of the loop

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mvidner / lazy_enumerator.rb
Created May 9, 2019 14:06
#!/usr/bin/ruby
# https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132650
# https://github.com/yast/yast-packager/pull/434
def file_properties(filename)
print "."
File.lstat(filename)
end
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mvidner / emacs-regexp-escaping.md
Last active April 8, 2019 09:03

Emacs has an ususual way of escaping special characters in regular expressions, which I keep forgetting, so here's a summary

Literal Special Emacs bare Emacs escaped
* \*
* 0 or more *
+ \+
+ 1 or more +
? \?
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mvidner / bidi-problems.md
Last active April 8, 2019 08:00

Problems with Bidirectional (BiDi) Text

If the whole paragraph contains only right-to-left text, it poses no problem. Problems are much likelier to occur if we mix the text directions.

Here I want to write down my knowledge so that the simple parts are easily accessible to beginners, and terms are defined for reference when sorting and solving bugs

TODO: show example fixes to the problems (and note that they may look wrong,