Mon, 06 Nov 2006
man xpdf
Uwe
explains how he uses latexmk
and xpdf when creating documents in LaTeX. I would like to add a small
correction: You don't need to go back and forth one page to make xpdf
reload the document. Just pressing the r key (like reload
)
does the same.
Haven't looked at latexmk, yet, but perhaps you can tweak it, so it calls xpdf -remote -reload (or something like that) whenever you change your tex source?
PS: Before we start a discussion about the death penalty, habe you seen 12 Angry Men?
PPS: Does anyone know a pdf viewer, which has a loop option?
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Tue, 24 Oct 2006
Who said Debian wouldn't be easy to use?
I heard it often... Well... In a lecture (Programming I: Java) today the assistant professor felt the need to use more than 20 slides, just to show how to download Java and Eclipse and install it on a Windows box... And all I had to do was running aptitude install eclipse sun-java5-jdk...
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Sun, 15 Oct 2006
I'm back
The good news are, that after moving from Frankfurt to Hildesheim the other week and visiting my first preparation course at my new university, I found the time to unpack nearly all boxes and build up my furniture again. Hard work, but it's done, and I'm (theoretical) again able to do some work.
The bad news: My notebook is still broken and I just saw the results of the recent GRs. Damn! I should have found time to send my vote!
postet at 13:12 into [Debian] permanent link
Tue, 03 Oct 2006
Moving to Hildesheim: Final phase
While I was working on it for quite some time, I reached now the final phase of my move to Hildesheim. While I'm already marked as being on vacation already for some time, I'll be really absent for the next days. Sorry, but I broke my notebook the other day and have no net back at my old flat in Frankfurt.
Don't worry, I'm sure I'll make it back for the release party ;)
postet at 14:23 into [Debian] permanent link
Sun, 01 Oct 2006
How to give back, part deux
Joey kindly
mentioned one of my regular talks titled payback time
. I just uploaded
the slides of the talk to people.d.o. (Slides
made with latex-beamer; source-code availabe, too, licensed under GPL-2; feel
free to do your own talks based on this or to contribute new ideas.)
BTW: I did that talk twice in English, at DebConf5 's debianday and before that at Asian mini debconf 2005 in Beijing. Might be easier to understand for non German readers ;)
The DebConf-5 session was filmed by the video team. It's available on meetings-archide.d.n in different formats mpeg (111M), low resolution ogg theora (57M), high res ogg theora (123M). Kudos again to the video team :)
Oh, and I should mention, that it wasn't my fault, that I look a bit like a clueless idiot in that video. We had technical problems on the first day, distracting me a bit. Really!
BTW: I always planed to write a good documentation regarding that topic, but never had the time to do this. I have still some notes on paper. If someone would like to help me with this, please drop me a mail.
postet at 13:28 into [Debian] permanent link
Wed, 27 Sep 2006
If you travel in Germany...
... on the railroad, and forgot your luggage (like your girlfriends birthday
present you just bought) in the train just leaving the station and it's a small
station in the middle of nowhere (like the main station in a city counting
officially more that 100'000 inhabitants) and late in the evening (like 7pm)
and there is no service personal to find anywhere, you should call the
zentrale Fundstelle
; don't search for their phone number at reasonable
places (like the closed information point) or a phone booth (if you ever find
one with a phone book).
The Number is: 01805-990599.
But it's quite useless; they will just take a note, give you a number and ask you call back in a couple of days, instead of doing something useful (like calling the personal in the train, to get my fucking birthday present I spend the last money I don't have from my credit card, and ask them to leave it at the next bigger station, where I would have picked it up).
DAMN!
postet at 21:46 into [Debian] permanent link
Sat, 23 Sep 2006
Note to myself:
When linking something to planet, make sure that Joey wasn't faster than you.
postet at 00:16 into [Debian] permanent link
Fri, 22 Sep 2006
A small forward...
... from the debian-user-list:
From: Jason Martens <xxx@xxx.xx>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Debian Love
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500
It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I
thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian
is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works.
I love the quality of the packages. I love that it lets me do what I
want to do, and does not try to dictate how to do things.
To all of you Debian developers, thank you. I really appreciate the
work you do. Keep it up!
The other mails in the thread are nice to read, too :)
postet at 23:40 into [Debian] permanent link
Wed, 20 Sep 2006
Haha
Seen caveman. Much funny, much Ha,
ha!
Thanks to woman, bought
tickets.
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