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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IRC CLIENTS
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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If you use tools such as GNU Privacy Guard to sign and or encrypt e-mail then you have the facility in Thunderbird, with the Enigmail extension to attach your public key (.asc file) to your e-mails. This is found as an option within the e-mail compose window. Enigmail Menu — > attach My Public…
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More updates to the ToriOS manual. Starting to add information on the various applications that come with the Operating System and also update and maintain other parts of the manual. Help with this and documentation for free software generally is always welcome. https://github.com/zleap/ToriosManualv21 forks.1 stars.0 open issues.Recent commits: README.md updated from https://stackedit.io/, Paul Sutton add…
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I spent a few hours last night (12/1/2018) re-writing the ToriOS manual in LaTeX using Overleaf. This is and important step forward. ToriOS is now based purely on Debian, due to the continuing support for older systems. This has gone well. Overleaf allows projects to be downloaded the project (zip file) and the pdf…
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Following my recent Debian 9.5 install, I was looking for a nice text editor. It seems since I last saw this gedit has had a major overhaul. Well done to the development team. Lot of what look like nice features. I have set the colour scheme to dark. Some of the menu options are…
Continue readingjoe text editor – enable line numbers
When using a text editor it is sometimes really useful to have line numbers. This is especially useful when programming as sometimes an error message will indicate which line has a potential problem, it may not always be this line but it is a starting point. If you are using the joe text editor…
Continue readingCode Club – Week 2
Code Club week 2 went well, I am going to run a session this coming Saturday 6/10/2018 in order to take code club back to the first and third Saturday of the month. As a result of this it is synchronized with the flyers that the Library service have produced. This week the attendees…
Continue readingCodeClub Paignton – Update
Just a quick update. I will hopefully running the Paignton Code Club from 15th September 2018. I am NOT taking over on a permanent basis, but want to keep the club running until the group leader is able to take over and carry on. I can then go back to just helping out…
Continue readingMore Google and Privacy problems
If you are still using google for e-mail, then you should read the recent article disclosing that 3rd parties may be able to read PRIVATE e-mail, the fact that this is NOT against their policies is rather worrying. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44699263 If you want real privacy, then perhaps it is time to dump Google, if you need…
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