Debian Promotion In an effort to help promote the Debian Operating system, I had a look for some suitable presentations. It seems, that the last one produced was back in 2013, others are not in English. which is understandable as Debian has a world wide development community. I decided to create my own. Started with…
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LaTeX TikZ Periodic table
LaTeX TikZ Periodic table About six months ago. I found a really nice Periodic table of the Elements ( PTOE ) created using LaTeX and TikZ on http://www.texample.net/. This however, due to the pace of developments within chemistry was incomplete. I have since used Overleaf to both edit and update this so the table is…
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South Devon Tech Jam – Mar 2019 write up. A quiet but interesting and certainly productive meeting. We set the room up so that we had tables with information, books, magazines, stickers and other freebies. We also had a table with the event pack items sent from Overleaf. Overleaf is an online collaborative LaTeX editor. …
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Anyone wanting to get involved with free software development, may need to start using IRC (Internet Relay Chat). To help new users or even those of us who already use IRC. There is a list of IRC clients on Linuxlinks. IRC CLIENTS Which is really useful. It is also nice to see Hexchat and…
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On 14/2/2019, I attended a course presented by SEAP ( https://seap.org.uk/ ) aimed at raising awareness of Veterans’, their needs and how their life in the military can impact their life out side of the military. For example finding jobs can be harder veterans may not be used to interviews, within the military finance such…
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The Paignton Code club commences on Saturday 29th September 2018 at Paignton Library and Information Centre. We will be using Scratch 2.0 which is freely available but having an account may be helpful so you can store what you have created for the next club or work on at home. I have printed Module…
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As part of the overall effort to reduce single use plastic usage. Recycle Devon have a phone app and website map that shows people where they can get free water refills in Devon. This is a really good scheme as it really encourages people to reduce waste. The map seems to also be world…
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