14. Automate 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 …

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15. The 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 …

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16. Setting 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 …

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17. Synergy, X and the German keyboard layout

    One of the little tools I really learned to love is synergy. It allows one to share one physical keyboard and mouse across several machines, so you can just move your mouse cursor to the edge of your display (or set up a keybinding by your choice) and magically your …

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18. 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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