For editing LaTeX-documents I use exclusively vim with the great LaTeX-Suite. Usually I have an automatically refreshing pdf-viewer like evince next to my editor, and compile manually with pdflatex from another terminal, so after each compilation my changes appear in the pdf-viewer. Since I'm using a tiled window manager, this …
moreThe long lost art of automatic file synchronization with unison via ssh
I guess one of the reasons why many people use dropbox is, that it makes file synchronization trivially easy for the end-user. However, it only provides limited space and you have to trust all your data to a third party (or use some kind of encrypted files, which makes it …
moreSetting up Android Development-Environment without Eclipse
So, this is not really administrative, but since I searched very long for a solution, I wanted to document it at least for myself. All information can also be found on developer.android.com. First step is setting up the android-SDK. I assume you have installed the android-sdk-update-manager. Make sure …
moreSynergy, X and the German keyboard layout
Using phosphor xscreensaver for displaying htop
I guess everyone knows the default xscreensaver collection, and yesterday a friend of mine showed me that one can use the screensaver phosphor as terminal emulator via invocation of
/usr/lib64/misc/xscreensaver/phosphor -scale 2 -delay 5 -program bash
(the path might vary, this is for gentoo amd64). Having …
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