Month: Jul 2014

Smaller brightness steps with the Asus N56VB and Ubuntu

Ubuntu on the laptop is definitely maturing. We're way past "at least it boots" and now that survival is ensured, it is time for luxury illnesses. One of those on the Asus N56VB is handling of screen brightness which, for my taste, comes in too steep steps. Especially the minimum brightness is still too bright … Continue reading Smaller brightness steps with the Asus N56VB and Ubuntu →

Using gitub as a maven repository

If you shun the work that comes with uploading JARs to the central maven repository, here's a simple way to host your own maven repository on github [1].I'm copying the bare essentials from Christian Kaltepoth's article, you should read it for the details:Setting up----$ pwd/home/ck/workspace/jsf-maven-util$ cd ..$ git clone git@github.com:chkal/jsf-maven-util.git jsf-maven-util-pages$ cd jsf-maven-util-pages $ git symbolic-ref … Continue reading Using gitub as a maven repository →