Tue 02 February 2016

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What happen when a PGP key expire? Obvious answer: you can no longer securely use it. Nevertheless, you may not delete it as you must be able to read your encrypted files.

Basics step that should …

Category: network security Tagged: FAQs Help and Tutorials Mail tools

Thu 14 January 2016

Loop device (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Loop devices are used to acces any file as if it were a block device such as a disk. On GNU/linux, the canonical command to interact with loop devices is losetup . To list the next usable loop device : losetup -f

Category: how to Tagged: FAQs Help and Tutorials Linux tools Unix how to unix-like

Mon 04 January 2016

Multimedia keyboard (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The awesome window manager does not provide GUI configuration tool.

Here is a litte how to to provide a feature using global shortcut, illustrated with wolume control.

Category: how to Tagged: alsa ArchLinux awesome Configuration file FAQs Help and Tutorials Unix window manager tools unix-like

Sat 26 December 2015

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Few weeks ago, I wrote down about some unix tools. Here are some other multiple process using the same stdout/stdin file desricptor.

Category: tools Tagged: Application programming interface File descriptor Standard streams tools Unix

Fri 11 December 2015

mindmap needing clarification (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Few weeks ago, I wrote about mindmap in . Now I want to precise few ideas and to have all key ideas visible in one sight. I think the best layout is similar to a conference poster:

• key ideas are easily seen few meters away …

Category: LaTeX Tagged: LaTeX Poster how to tools

Tue 08 December 2015

Calendar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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 …

Category: tools Tagged: ArchLinux Command-line interface tools Unix how to useless

Mon 16 November 2015

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Wed 05 August 2015

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It may be hard to use \par\noindent to begin a paragraph without indentation just after a \section or \paragraph command. One can think of letting a blank line, but this may not work. A trick is …

Category: LaTeX Tagged: LaTeX Typesetting

Tue 09 June 2015

The canonical way to draw a mindmap in seems to be using the ad-hoc tikz module.

Category: LaTeX Tagged: LaTeX Mindmap how to tools

Wed 06 May 2015

Searching (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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 .

Category: tools Tagged: Arch Linux ArchLinux Search Web search engine