Re: Linux and accessibility

2018-10-05 Thread Brian Christiansen
I broke my wrist this summer and was limited to one handed typing for a month or so. I found a small/mini keyboard that helped a lot. It provided a lot less travel between keys -- compared to using my Microsoft ergonomic keyboard. On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 9:37 AM Barry Roberts wrote: > So, I broke

[JOB] Linux/C Software Engineer

2016-10-19 Thread Brian Christiansen
Hey All, My company, SchedMD, just moved to Lehi from California. We are the maintainers of an open-source workload manager for super computers called Slurm (https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm) -- yes, it's highly addictive. We are looking to hire a couple of engineers that are familiar with Linux a

Re: New laptops with hybrid graphics

2016-04-21 Thread Brian Christiansen
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:23 PM, John Shaver wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Brian Christiansen > wrote: > > BTW. I can switch between the different cards using nvidia-prime (e.g. > > Usage: /usr/bin/prime-select nvidia|intel|query > > ). However, nvidia se

Re: New laptops with hybrid graphics

2016-04-21 Thread Brian Christiansen
BTW. I can switch between the different cards using nvidia-prime (e.g. Usage: /usr/bin/prime-select nvidia|intel|query ). However, nvidia seems work the best for me. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:48 AM, John Shaver wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Brian Christiansen > wrote: >

Re: New laptops with hybrid graphics

2016-04-21 Thread Brian Christiansen
I have the new Dell XPS 15 9550. This thread has helped a lot in getting it running: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2301071 I can get mine to display through a USB-C dongle at 1920x1200 @ 60hz. I haven't been able to get it to display 2560x1600 at 60hz through the Dell Thunderbolt dock

Re: Monitoring software question

2013-10-07 Thread Brian Christiansen
You can also use NSCA to have the server forward the results to Nagios. You can configure Nagios to alert if it doesn't get a response, good or bad, from the server in a certain amount of time. NRPE: Active check (Nagios initiating the check) NSCA: passive check (the server initiating the check)

Re: vim for people who would rather not use vim

2013-01-28 Thread Brian Christiansen
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Jonathan Duncan < jonat...@bluesunhosting.com> wrote: > > On 26 Jan 2013, at 07:13, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > > On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 00:18 -0700, Dave Smith wrote: > >> On Jan 25, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > >> > >>> Pedantic stuff like "you can't move

Re: [OT] Mobile App Dev for dummies

2012-09-29 Thread Brian Christiansen
> And a book or two? > > Standford's iOS course is available through iTunes U. I've enjoyed the first couple of lectures -- need to finish the rest. http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-development/id473757255 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscrib

Re: [OT] Josh's secret

2012-07-13 Thread Brian Christiansen
> > > Mmmm... I have not searched yet, so there may already be such a resource, > but it would be nice to have a wiki or something for all these "little > things". Since apparently we all learn differently and could probably > benefit greatly from sharing things like this. > http://www.commandlin