Linux
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As usual, the default debian commands don’t do the job. I tried running pdflatex and got some indecipherable errors about a font not found. apt install texlive-latex-extra takes an inordinate time to complete, but it did the trick. pdflatex is now operative.
I thought about my privacy, but I really didn’t care. I just really needed e-mail, and they were giving it away free. A gift that keeps on giving, an offer I couldn’t refuse. The internet because of its machine to machine construction encourages one to feel anonymous. When you communicate, […]
As Don Draper says in MadMen — “I sell products, not advertising”. General Semantics (GS) is a philosophy developed by Alfred Korzybski, popularized by A.E. Van Vogt. The basic maxim of GS is “the map is not the territory”. It is the distinction between semantics and syntax. Meaning is communicated […]
I wrote vguitar as a ncurses application. So it has a terminal user interface. Running it inside emacs with M-x terminal allows one to copy/cut/print the visible notes using c-j and c-k modes. 00 ========================= O - - 0 - - - - - - - - - - X […]
Sometimes you want to access software that isn’t available on Linux. This seems to happen less frequently nowadays. So, the task is to install virtual box on my linux box, and then install Windows 10 on top of that. apt-get install virtualbox This led to a series of errors: WARNING: […]
Press F2 key during bootup for doing hardware tests. Example, your USB device or keyboard is malfunctioning. Press F10 Key during bootup for setting up include choosing Windows or Ubuntu for bootup.
Place the line in your .emacs file: (setq printer-name “ENVY_4500”) The name of your printer can be found typing lpstat -p -d This works in Ubuntu.
One recent cipher option in openSSH is ed25519. This is an Elliptic curve and is used in many public key cryptographic schemes. These curves are polynomials in two variables — (x,y), and of the second degree in y, and of the third degree in x. One can consider the curve […]