This post documents how to configure AWS S3 and duplicity to do encrypted backups to the cloud.

This paper is really hard to come by and all scans are either incomplete or include the empty backpages. Here's a cleaned up version: Download

I use the following snippet to spellcheck latex files:

#!/bin/bash
hunspell -d en_GB -t $1

Put it into a spellcheck.sh file. Then ./spellcheck.sh myfile.tex.

Assuming intellij has been installed to /opt/ here's how to create an application menu entry (on xubuntu). Create a file ~/.local/share/applications/intellij.desktop with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=IntelliJ
Icon=/opt/jetbrains/idea/bin/idea.png
Exec=/opt/jetbrains/idea/bin …

I use VirtualBox for the rare cases when I need a Windows OS. The latest Win10 updates failed to install because there's not enough disk space. Apparently 30GB is not enough for a whole OS and office... ;-(

Luckily that's easy to fix:

• Shutdown the guest
• Make sure there are no …

I'm a fan of Netgear's R7000 hardware. Not so much of the software. Since I bought this router I was not able to get IPv6 working with my Fiber7 internet connection. The Netgear firmware does not support DHCPv6-PD which is what my provider requires. Anyway, not having IPv6 was not …

If your CUPS printers do not show up in the Firefox printing dialog (but they do for example in Google Chrome) you may be missing the following package: gtk3-print-backends. Installing this solved that very annoying problem for me.

On my thinkpad I have an encrypted Arch installation setup similarly to my chromebook setup. Since I bought my a new wireless usb keyboard this thing never worked for decrypting the system. It perfectly works once Arch has started up, but for entering the password at boot I had to …

The latest addition to my server at home is a Gitlab Community Edition instance. I use the docker image provided by Gitlab behind a nginx reverse proxy. Below are some notes for setting up, configuring and troubleshooting the installation.

Docker command

#!/bin/bash

sudo docker run --detach \
    --publish 11180:80 …

UPDATE

intellij-jdk is now marked orphaned in AUR. I therefore stopped using this package and switched to a manual install of IntelliJ IDEA. This way the bundled jdk by Jetbrains is used automatically.

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Java fonts on Linux have been ugly for a while. Especially in an IDE it's …