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Your Linux flavor of Microsoft OneNote installation You know, you love Microsoft OneNote. But there is one small problem. It is for windows only. And there is another one. You really, really prefer to write markdown, and see it rendered to life. 5 minute search on uncle DuckDuckGo gave you the result: Notes-Up program, for Elementary OS. All nice and shiny, but there is a twist. You use ubuntu, the PPA archive on their Github is old and does not have Release file. There is only 1 thing left: compile it from sources. ...

Introduction As per KM4ACK’s great video tutorial, I’ve decided to set up Pat (the Winlink client) on my notebook. It worked flawlessly, so I’ve decided to re-do it - just this time, on OrangePi PC2, running Armbian Buster. The tutorial in the video is not quite straightforward for this platform. It’s written for Raspberry Pi, and the main problem we’re having with it, that we use arm64 (or aarch64) architecture. Files, compiled for Raspberry Pi, are armhf. ...

Converting SVGs to EPS so so pdflatex can convert them to pdf and embed them to your document,… overhead, ikr? find . -name "*.svg" | xargs -I% inkscape --without-gui % -E %.eps --export-ignore-filters --export-ps-level=3 for f in *.svg.eps; do mv "$f" "${f/.svg/}"; done or #!/bin/sh for file in "$@"; do if test "${file##*.}" = "svg" -a \( ! -e "${file%.svg}.eps" -o "$file" -nt "${file%.svg}.eps" \) then inkscape "$file" -E "${file%.svg}.eps" fi done

With the time of covid-19 quarantine (or as i say it - corontine - because, seriously, screw that thing), here’s a list of web meeting tools and their limitations to my knowledge, to date: Google Hangouts (We all know them - registration required) Google Classrooms (feedback needed - registration required) Microsoft Teams (licencing required, feedback needed) Skype video calls (Claimed up to 50 people - registration required) Facebook video calls (Reportedly, up to 8 people, - registration required) Jitsi meet (free hosted at meet.jit.si) (Up to 10 people flawlessly, works on Chromium browsers on Android as well - registration not required) Cisco WebEx (covid-19 times: up to 100 people - registration required) Zoom (Free plan: time limit (>2 people reportedly limited to 40min on free plan?) - registration required for host only) GoToMeeting (pricing, feedback needed) Discord (works also with webcams, tested for group of 15 people, registration required) BigBlueButton (feedback needed) Free Conference Call (feedback needed)

Note: All of those commands are Mac compatibile. (use brew to install pdftk-java and imagemagick) I’ve had a bunch of scanned documents “name 01.jpg”, “name 02.jpg”, “name 03.jpg”, that I wanted to push together into a nice PDF file. Documents had to remain separated from each other, so all-to-one concatenation was a no-go. Also, there was a freaking setload of them (20+ different document) to get done, and they seemed to differ in length. ...