Enter Unicode Characters from the Keyboard

📅 March 29, 2016
Unicode is convenient for inserting special characters into text files. Did you know that Linux provides an easy way to add them to your text compositions?

 

 

 

 

Make Your Terminal Burn with aafire

📅 March 28, 2016
Are you seeking a curious program that does nothing except add a cool factor to your terminal?

You are? Great!

Try aafire – a program that displays ASCII art flames.

ncal – A Command-Line Calendar

Need a quick calendar? Try ncal – a command-line program that displays a calendar in your terminal.

 

 

 

RetroPie 3.6

📅 March 18, 2016
RetroPie 3.6 was released a short while ago, and, after installing and spending time with it, 3.6 performs as good as version 3.5.

The installation instructions written for RetroPie 3.5 apply to 3.6, so there is almost no difference.

On the surface, 3.6 includes a few changes to its configuration menus, but other than that, it appears to be a bug-fix version of 3.5.

RetroPie 3.6 works well with a USB audio adapter, and the wireless Dual Shock 4 support still suffers from input lag. However, the Dual Shock 4 input lag is probably a hardware issue with the controller itself, not with RetroPie.

Full details about the improvements to 3.6 can be found on the RetroPie web site. If you are installing RetroPie for the first time, then this is the recommended version.