Saturday, July 28, 2012

Lubuntu 12.04 slow resume from hibernate? Try updating your video drivers

I recently installed Lubuntu 12.04 on my Toshiba A305 laptop and immediately ran into the "slow resume from hibernate" problem; the laptop was going into hibernate very quickly, but resuming was taking over 3 minutes!

What seems to have fixed it in my case is updating to the proprietary video driver (ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX driver under Preferences > Additional Drivers), which I had neglected to do. Now resume takes a more reasonable 1 minute or so from the BIOS screen to the login prompt.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Using Grails to create static HTML sites

From time to time I've had to update static web sites, and after editing identical html over and over again in multiple pages I wished I could use Grails features like templates or taglibs.
And of course you can use Grails to generate static html sites. From an old post by Robert Fischer here on the Grails mailing list archive:
If you want to use Grails to generate a static web site, build your website, run grails run-app (locally), and then execute: "wget -m -k http://localhost:8080/yourapp" (assuming you're on a *nix with wget) 
Obviously you have to either refactor the site to use templates and taglibs or start it from scratch that way in the first place. Wget can be used on a Windows system by installing GnuWin32 or UnxUtils. The only issue I've run into is that images specified in css don't get pulled through by that wget command line above, but I just copy over all the resource folders (css, images, javascript) anyway.

http://getgnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/