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cs:archlinux_installation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-05-02T14:08:19+0000

Installation The installation guide of Archlinux is very good for a simple and “vanilla” setup. But if you want a bit more customization it is not enough, since the wiki is very large I write here what I do need to perform installations. Installation media Archiso page.

cs:codeoss

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-05-28T06:34:22+0000

go back Here we describe how to start a new independent copy of Code-OSS. First of all you need to decide a directory where Code-OSS will store its data, for example let us say ~/projects/myprg/code and create the directory code will be empty. The command line may be:

cs:double_sided_printing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-04-14T01:05:20+0000

go back Double-sided printing It is still necessary to print documents. Many printers are able to print one side of the sheets, here I describe the procedure to print both side correctly. The procedure depends on the kind of printer. How-to Make an empty .pdf page:

cs:imagemagik

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-04-19T02:14:28+0000

Convert pdf pages to a picture $ gs -sDEVICE=pngalpha -o -r1200 -dFirstPage= -dLastPage= n.b., the resolution of 1200 pixels for inch is quite large. Probably one wants to convert the result in smaller files.

cs:internet_great_again

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-08-05T10:08:55+0000

go back Problem Nowadays the Web has become barely usable. Invasive advertisement are rampant, tracking is basically normal, to reveal our preferences and tastes to the big companies appears unavoidable. Yet, we can do something to make the web almost as good as it was.

cs:linux_any_to_x360c

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-03-06T14:34:54+0000

go back In Windows one can use x360ce a good way to remap buttons and axis in a virtual 360 controller. But in Linux, even in wine, the option seems out of the question. In theory one can use the dll based x360ce version (i.e., version3) in wine (installing with

cs:losetup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-11-26T22:45:32+0000

losetup In Linux everything is a file, so it is possible to use files as virtual disks with ease. losetup comes in when you want to use one virtual disk and partition it. losetup will read the partition table inside the file and prepare device files to use them.

cs:old_wine

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-04-07T11:04:24+0000

Set up an old Wine It happens than a newer version of Wine works worse than a previous one. It can be a regression or new features makes the execution slower, yet you do not need them. In any case, you want an old wine to execute a Windows program. Archlinux is a rolling distribution and it gives you the newest and most recent version of software, but you can compile yourself and use the old versions.

cs:oldwin

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-28T21:36:56+0000

Tools * QEMU/KVM (packages qemu, libvirt, ebtables, dnsmasq, dmidecode, virt-manager, and possibly qemu-arch-extra) * Windows CD image * Universal video drivers * Official Fedora Qemu virto drivers * KVM-Qemu Virtio storage and network drivers Notes To use virt-manager, the user needs to be part of the libvirt group: # gpasswd -a $(whoami) libvirt

cs:pdf_to_pictures

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-02-11T16:30:32+0000

Convert PDF to pictures Seldom printers fail to print a PDF file, a possible solution is to convert the file to a sequence of pictures; basically this means to do the whole process that decides where the inks should go in your computer; before sending the result to the printer.

cs:scripting_gimp

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-01T10:14:21+0000

go back Gimp Gimp is a libre and gratis program to do photo editing and drawing. It is powerful with a strong a vibrant community. Gimp also allows to use scripting in Scheme or Python2 to add functionalities, and most of the tutorial one can find on the web are directed to this idea: to have a new element in the menus that give you the functions you implemented yourself.

cs:start

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-11T08:47:47+0000

Computer Science related data. Let's make the Internet great again In Linux use any controller as an Xbox 360 controller Setup Code OSS Wireguard intro How to script Gimp To make Windows usable How to make svg icons with Qcad and Inkscape Convert a PDF to pictures Double sided printing losetup allows to use files as hard drive easily Set up an old Wine Personal notes about installing Archlinux How to format an interoperable disk Vim commands Imagemagik useful recipes Setup an old…

cs:svg_icons

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-21T08:28:35+0000

go back What is page about The .svg format allows to store a picture keeping its vectors information. Here we speak how to make .svg files starting from the cad program Qcad. The process is simple, but there are few subtleties one has to be aware about.

cs:usable_windows

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-04-01T05:01:23+0000

go back Windows is infamous to make everything as difficult as possible. Here I write the steps to make the experience of using Windows a bit less of a pain. Command line cmd.exe is terrible, Powershell is a monstrosity... What can we do? MSYS2 is a software distro and building platform for Windows It gives bash and a pacman implementation for Windows. Don't forget to add

cs:usb_stick_format

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-10-20T12:13:10+0000

Format disk Windows and MacOS are very fastidious about the kind of disks they can open and it is really annoying when you have to copy a file to a colleague and the system refuses to open the disk. Matthew analyzed the situation. But in my experience, what he wrote does not work as-is.

cs:vim

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-14T13:02:58+0000

To set up gq(movement) word wrap: tw=72 fo=cq wm=0

cs:wireguard

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-27T07:43:07+0000

go back Wireguard Intro Wireguard is a free and libre software that allows to set up virtual private networks (VPN). Wireguard adds virtual interfaces that manage encrypted traffic to and from other wireguard interfaces. Physically the traffic is sent via UDP datagrams, but applications treat the wireguard interfaces as any other interface.