Making small changes in my day to day work as ‘indie’ game dev really helps. Today I decided I should work in the smallest room in the house on my laptop while listening to Al Bano & Romina Power.
I don’t know why, but it really increases my productivity, and I’m moving faster toward releasing the public alpha of my new mobile game.
Just a gadget that I have for a long time now, but I think it wort mentioning. The Logitech Lapdesk N315.
The lapdesk is quite comfortable to work on while lying in bed or on the couch. It preserves your legs from the laptop heat, also provides your laptop good ventilation and most importantly you can use an external mouse. It has rubber surface making you laptop stays still.
In general it’s a good addition in my programming environment. After 8+ hours at work, doing some more hours on personal projects on the desktop PC at home is not an option. I like to lay down on my coach and work on the laptop.
UPDATE: There is some strange lag while copping files from or to the SD card!
I recently reinstalled my laptop (Acer Extensa 5620z) with OpenSUSE 11.4. Everything worked out of the box, (which is impressive) except the card reader.
If you look at /var/log/messages when you insert a card, you will see something like this:
tifm_core: MMC/SD card detected in socket 0:1 |
It means that the kernel has detected your card but it don’t think it’s memory card or storage device. Here the setpci command comes handy.
NOTE: You need to be root in order to preform the steps required
1. List your devices with lspci and find your card reader entry:
0f:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) |
Notice the first colum 0f:06.2. This is your device ID, you will need it later.
2. Execute the following command:
Replace 0f:06.2 with your device ID!
setpci -s 0f:06.2 4c.b=0x02 |
Your card reader should work now. In order to make this change permanent, you may place the command from step 2 in /etc/rc.d/after.local.
P.S: Here is my laptop Smolt profile.