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1. Modifying a FreeBSD port

   Installing software on FreeBSD is made easier by the ports system; a collection of Makefiles and patches that contains instructions …

2. TeXcalc

   As an engineer, I often do diverse calculations that I want to save in my logbooks which I write in LaTeX. Up to now I’ve either formatted those by hand or used the listings package to include calculations made in IPython.

3. Stltools

   From the release of version 3.2, the py-stl software has been renamed to stltools. The reason I made this …

4. Generate random passwords

   One way of making hard to guess passwords is to take random data and encode it with base64 to make …

5. Repairing a color laserjet 2550

   Some time ago, my trusty old color laserjet 2550L more or less stopped printing, or at least I thought so …

6. Installing OpenProject on FreeBSD

   At work we want to run OpenProject. But since this a ruby-on-rails app and installation on Windows is not supported, I volunteered to set up a dedicated FreeBSD server for it.

7. Installing asymptote 2.35 in TeXLive 2015

   Since the previous article on this subject, I’ve updated my workstation to FreeBSD 10.2-STABLE. Compiling asymptot 2 …

8. Preventing the ~/Desktop direcory

   Some programs like e.g. Firefox have the annoying habit of creating a Desktop directory in your $HOME directory. It …

9. Keyword expansion with git

   One of the things I liked about the old rcs revision control system was that it supported keyword expansion in …

10. Initializing a new git repo for a project

    This article contains a list of things I do to set up a new git repository.