Archlinux - A GNU/Linux distribution, on the always on the edge like Gentoo, but less risky (and faster to install/configure).
Firefox - It's not only an alternative to Internet Explorer (the web browser of your ancestors), it's the browser to use (free software, dynamic development team, web-standards compliant - not fully but work is in progress, it's always better than in IE).
Zotero - A wonderful add-on for Firefox, that is free-software. It's a bibliography collector, manager, citation-exporter, ... It takes place of the expensive EndNote (or others). It can grab all the informations of an article with only one click (also grabs the pdf if the article is in open-access or if you have subscriptions for it).
TexLive - A distribution for TeX/LaTeX (soon an article about this). All I need is included inside...
Show up - A bash script using Wmctrl to show the application given as argument (useful if you want to show an window just by a keystroke). If the application is not running, it starts it up.
pdflatex.desktop - A desktop file for KDE 4 (to put in /home/user/.kde4/share/kde4/services or /usr/share/kde4/services for system-wide usage), allowing to pdflatexize a file with a right-click action. It launches the script pdflatexer.sh twice (because I needed to get right pages numbers for some of them). It also runs bibtex.
Putting [export TEXINPUTS=".:/home/user/path_to_custom_style:"] in your /etc/environment allow Latex to check for custom styles and packages in the directory you choosed. /etc/environment is read by the pam_env module (on ArchLinux indeed).
NEW A way to copy the content of a vdi (containing ntfs partitions) from VirtualBox to a bigger one (also true for real disks resize) :
Add the new hard-disk to the virtual machine, insert the iso and boot on cdrom (at this point, don't forget to leave your OS cleanly ! As if the NTFS has a dirty flag, you wouldn't be able to resize).
Create a clone of the disk (even if the second one is bigger)
Move and resize your partitions
Type in a shell : dd if=/dev/disk1 of=/dev/disk2 bs=446 count=1 (where disk1 and disk2 are the devices nodes of respectively the source and the destination disks)
Remove the cdrom and the old image, and that's done
I'm playing with an Arduino and made a little modification for the LCD Display library in order to get it working for my 4 lines display:
Link to the forum message
I Made an 3d Irc client (this project was forgotten for years in a dank place on a lost planet) with the help of Python and Soya 3d: Files - Screenshots : 1234.
