Tag: Mac OS X
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Proprietary software as a false economy
I recently had to fill in a form for the Computer Science Department at the University of York. Like, I am sure, any computer science department in any major world university, York is a “Unix shop”: research servers all run Linux and I guess the academics who aren’t using that are – as I am…
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It’s Friday afternoon…
…and I could really do with an answer to this question I have posted over on “Superuser”: I am seeking to back up an encrypted volume used by Virtual Box on one OS X machine to another using rsync (I will eventually stick this into cron). This is the command line (I am…
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Smaller PNG graphic files from your LaTeX
I use LaTeX (LyX as the front end) to generate the occasional bits of mathematical script that appear here. Is it bad to admit it gives me a small thrill to see how the LaTex is transformed into something mathematical – makes me feel like a proper scientist/mathematician. Well, I’ve done it now… WordPress.com will…
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