The fastest Clojure REPL in the world – Lumo (by António Nuno Monteiro) From its announcement Lumo is a fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8. Thanks to V8's custom startup snapshots, Lumo starts up instantaneously, making it the fastest Clojure REPL in existence. Command prompt Ideally suited …

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Once upon a time, while using Debian I had a problem with Docker containers and suspend/resume. Docker resume/thaw problems? When you use Docker containers on your development system and experience problems after a resume from a suspend (or a thaw from a hibernate). On my Debian Stable KDE system –after a resume of my …

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Photivo is a free and open source (GPL3) photo processor. It handles your RAW files as well as your bitmap files (TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PNG and many more) in a non-destructive 16 bit processing pipe with gimp workflow integration and batch mode. Linux build instructions The instructions to build Photivo under Linux can be …

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If a low-level backup is required then use these instructions. Rolling release If your Linux distribution has a rolling release model (e.g. Gentoo Linux) then you'll probably have to install it only once. With a non-rolling release distribution you'll have to do a system upgrade every now and then. Either way, the OS …

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The KDE desktop environment supports environment variables. These are active when logged in to KDE. Contrary to regular bash environment variables, which are active only when a bash shell is started. To set KDE environment variables create a file in the .kde4/env or .kde/env directory, e.g. as follows: 1export …

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Under Linux, you can use the isohybrid command to attempt to fix an ISO intended for a USB-stick, but that does not boot (because e.g. it expects a real DVD). Warning and disclaimer: do make sure that you make a copy of your image file first and execute the isohybrid command on the copy. The command to use is as …

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