Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, Cygwin, and can probably be compiled on many other UNIX-like operating systems. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts. The design of Tarsnap was guided by the following four [...]
This is the size of a file that can surely fit on a DVD-R formatted with a UDF v1.02 filesystem. (I just tried it)
I use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup the Mini to an encrypted sparse image. OS X 10.6 used to mount the image automatically but quit doing so and I can’t figure out why. In lieu of that I built an Automator script to mount the share so that CCC could mount the image. That worked [...]
For connecting Windows to OSX via VNC; UltraVNC seems to work the best. The other clients drop frequently.
If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Need to generate a man page from a markdown file? No problem. LaTeX to Docbook? Sure. HTML to MediaWiki? Yes, that too. Pandoc can read markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, textile, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write [...]
ExpanDrive is a favorite application of mine for things that TRAMP doesn’t quite address. It is totally worth the very small fee they charge.
JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format. JabRef runs on the Java VM (version 1.5 or newer), and should work equally well on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
function prompt { $user = [Environment]::UserName; $computer = gc env:computername; $dir = [Environment]::CurrentDirectory=(Get-Location -PSProvider FileSystem).ProviderPath; $user + "@" + $computer + ":" + $dir + ">" } This post helped with the last part.
My friend at work struggled for hours to get Graphviz on Windows 7 64-bit working. We tried everything, and finally narrowed it down to one difference: he was using Powershell and I was using CMD.
TEXINPUTS Extra paths to locate TeX \input and \openin files. (via docs.miktex.org)