In my last post about Haskell I showed how you can interact with the user via command line arguments without the need for complicated libraries, so you can quickly start hacking and explore the language. In this post I want to cover file interaction, which is, since on UNIX-like …
moreBeginning Haskell the practical way
I found many useful tutorials for Haskell which do a great job explaining the language details and the mathematical nature of it, however, almost none gets you hacking in a few moments so you can experience Haskells power in the real world. But since using a new language is at …
moreAutomate LaTeX compilation in vim with LaTeX-Suite
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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