pgtan

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   by pgtan 9y ago

   I _really_ miss archie!
2. 152.▲
   by pgtan 9y ago

   no idea, really. Apparently the film should be already out in the Russian cinemas. There is also a documentary from Roskosmos about the operation[1]. The beginning is boring, but then they claim, the Shuttle "Challenge" visited Sa
3. 153.▲
   by pgtan 9y ago

   A russian film is just made on this topic. Here a link with trailers on the page: http://ctb.ru/en/films/salyut-7/
4. 154.▲
   by pgtan 10y ago

   mailx is a phantastic tool for scripting and automatic processing of mails and mailboxes.
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   Comedy of errors: Ленинград – Кольщик(theverge.com)

   3 points by pgtan 10y ago|0 comments
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   by pgtan 10y ago

   well, running heavy multiprocess pipes (netpbm, imagemagick, tesseract, TeX) in the background does not slow down the graphic apps, mainly emacs, firefox, gimp, feh, etc. Even watching a video with mplayer is mostly without any freezing. Di
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   by pgtan 10y ago

   I use the non-preemptive (server) scheduler on my linux desktop machines with fvwm as favorite long-time WM. At work: RHEL with dwm, which I'm starting to love, also forced to use Windos 7. Boy, this MS sh*t drives me mad. The focus st
8. 158.▲
   by pgtan 10y ago

   here is a bulgarian one: electricity and water meet in a typical socialist apartment building. Sorry, I'm here only up to the second floor, says the water. No need to excuse, says the electricity, I'm here only for two hours.
9. 159.▲
   by pgtan 10y ago

   The owner is named G Marconi maybe after Guglielmo Marconi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi
10. 160.▲
    by pgtan 10y ago

    > I took it as basically nobody else used METAFONT. yeah, well, same true for Multiple Master fonts. It ended up that Adobe gave the font metrics to the TeX[0] community. The complexity of the fonts was obviously too much for the "g
11. 161.▲
    by pgtan 10y ago

    what about tmux users on systemd free machines? Do they expect, that everyone have to run systemd now?
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    by pgtan 10y ago

    GENTOO has sys-fs/static-dev. With some effort I have server running without systemd, without udev, d-bus, pulseaudio ... plus not compiled support for ipv6, nls, ldap, etc.
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    by pgtan 11y ago

    better example would be the netpbm stack.
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    Netpbm Program Directory(netpbm.sourceforge.net)

    2 points by pgtan 11y ago|1 comments
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    by pgtan 11y ago

    Same here. I have couple of old Opteron based servers which I start only for massive parallel ImageMagick/netpbm/tesseract computations. I think this has the best price per CPU ratio.
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    Intelligence, friends, happyness

    1 points by pgtan 11y ago|0 comments
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    by pgtan 11y ago

    > [...] 2down\9up [...] 150down\10up the backslashes from hell reminds me of, although not completely related https://xkcd.com/727/ SCNR PS: or, maybe he is a hardcore TeXnician, who knows.
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    by pgtan 11y ago

    This website is the TeX/Web combination I ever dreamt of!
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    by pgtan 11y ago

    Automatic typography isn't! Let's suppose for example, there is $P_A$ in the text. According to the rules of math typesetting if A stays for description like "Alice", it should be set in the current math roman font i.e.
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    by pgtan 12y ago

    My latest gentoo discovery: sys-fs/static, took me some time though to setup the system. Server runs for couple of months now without any problems. And completely free of systemd, pulseaudio, and udevd.
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    by pgtan 12y ago

    2015 and Windos still has no proper working virtual desktops. Not to mention all the other, say, fvwm functionality.