Mobile OS alternatives and european sovereignty
Sailfish (not OS) (photo credit: wikipedia)
OS for mobile devices has evolved over the pasts years.
Once, European actors (e.g. Nokia) were in lead position.
Now it's hard to find non-android mobile OS.
Each OS mobile comes with its software and hardware environements, and its
geopolitical considerations.
Here is a report on the
Strategy Behind Sovereign Mobile Operating Systems Adoption.
LaTeX makefile updated
My default LaTeX makefile evolved. Here is an update:
The makefile looks like:
LATEX=pdflatex
BIBTEX=bibtex
BIB=
RERUN='(There is undefined reference|Rerun to get (cross-references|the bars) right)'
%.pdf:%.tex
${LATEX} $<
@if [ -e $*.bbl ]; then ${BIBTEX} $* && ${LATEX} $< && ${LATEX} $< ; fi
@if egrep -q $(RERUN) $*.log ; then ${LATEX} $< ; fi
%.aux …
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Back online
I've migrated the blog from wordpress to pelican. Static files, quite easy to
use.
The migration process went well. The pelican import tool is easy to use
and my rst linter highlighted the few errors done by the import tools (mainly
empty sections).
There are still few artefacts due to …
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UTF8, base64 and other encoding conversion
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="100" class="zemanta-img"] encoding conversion (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]
A common way to represent binary files in ascii-only diplay is to use base64. This is also done a piece of software does not handle unicode: it manipulate its base64 representation.
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random unix notes (part II)
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="75" class="zemanta-img"] Specific file descriptor (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]
Few weeks ago, I wrote down about some unix tools. Here are some other multiple process using the same stdout/stdin file desricptor.
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quick and easy calendar
A quick post to share something I was looking for for several month: a
quick way to see a calendar.
A simple tool using the command line
interface is
the `cal <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_%28Unix%29>`__ command
that display a calendar in …
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search engine part II
Few month ago, I wrote a post about
search engines . I
recently tested a meta-engine. I think it is time for an update. This
search engine is searx .
installation
There is a AUR package called searx-git . I just
installed it as an AUR. No unusual difficulties …
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HTML to TXT
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This is an incomplete collection of tools to perform some transformations such from and to HTML, TXT, [latex]LaTeX[/latex] and markdown.
** **
| HTML
| TXT
| [latex]LaTeX[/latex]
| markdown
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HTML
| |
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DHCP server setup
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="350" class="zemanta-img"] neighbours' discovery (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]
My server's OS is an Archlinux, and I want to pratic a DHCP server set up both in IP v4 and IPv6
IPv4
The dependencies may already be install. It only consits of dhcp, as explained …
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evaluation of exploration values
For some application, it is usefull to evaluate some physical value over a grid. For each dimension of the grid, the order of magnitude to use is not obvious.Watch movie online The Transporter Refueled (2015)
grid evaluation
the function …
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