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Balance Columns in Latex

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

We can use the latex package balance.sty (or flushend.sty) to level the columns on the last page of a latex document, this is also referred to as “equalization”.

\usepackage{balance}
… and at the end of the page to balance
\balance

I’ve also read here other ways of doing it.

Manually add \newpage command to where you think the document should [...]

Using Subversion and Eclipse in Windows

Friday, May 27th, 2005

The process of setting up Subversion in Eclipse under Windows is rather convoluted compared to how straighforward it was in linux, which makes me I wonder if I’m not doing something wrong. Nonetheless, here’s how it works for me.

In a nutshell,

Install Subclipse
Install JavaSVN or Subversion command line binaries
Configure SVN in Eclipse
Install Tortoisesvn
Download PuTTY binaries
Set SVN_SSH [...]

Browsing remote cups server

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

I setup polling for cups on my laptop to browse available printers on the network I was connected to. So at work I get office printers and at home I get home printer.

First we need to setup cup server at home to allow browsing:

Port 631

BrowseAllow 192.168.10.*

<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.10.*
</Location>

Then on [...]

Compiling JavaHL for Subclipse

Monday, December 6th, 2004

“Subclipse 0.9.14, we no longer ship native libraries (libsvnjavahl) for the Linux and OSX versions… Linux users will either have to build their own, or pester their packager to include the SVN javahl subsystem with their builds”
– Subclipse people.

First of all, %$%@^!

Once you have expressed your objections, download subversion source code (> v1.1).

Update: Check user [...]

ECB - emacs code browser

Thursday, November 25th, 2004

ECB is a emacs code browser. It displays a number of informational windows that allow for easy source code navigation and overview. It includes:

directory tree
a list of source files in the current directory,
a list of functions/classes/methods/… in the current file
a history of recently visited files,
output from compilation (the compilation window) and other modes like help, [...]

Access Reiserfs partition in Windows

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

rfstool is a tool to access ReiserFS partitions from a Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. There are also gui interfaces to it. I like YAReG.

For ext2/ext3 there is also explore2fs.