tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31969655276426498512012-06-02T09:46:55.868+02:00Articles about topics ranging from technology and software to scientific research. Occasional book reviews. Topics of general interest such as lifestyle, and nutrition. Exploration of blogs and the technical side of blogging.Benjamin Auffarthhttps://profiles.google.com/118440342400845052454noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196965527642649851.post-26997567043862873042009-06-05T12:53:00.019+02:002010-01-02T22:22:11.367+01:00

Tomboy is an open-source desktop note-taking application for Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Notes are connected over a wiki which makes it an excellent tool for personal information management. In this post I give a short introduction to tomboy. Tomboy supports synchronization, export to HTML and pdf, reminders, and todo lists, and formulae in LaTeX. A criticism to tomboy is that it is

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I was searching for a hosting service that I could use for remote backup, synchronization, and revision control. It should have reliable and easy access and allow me to use scp, rsync, and svn, among other programs. In this post I explain what I found and motivate my final choice. I started in wikipedia, checking the list of online backup services and the article on online storage, then I read

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In an earlier post I lamented how difficult it was to connect to the computer on my work place by ssh and the complete lack of support from the responsible IT department. In the same post I showed how to connect to the virtual private network at work by a ssh reverse tunnel. A meeting with a guy from the IT department later, there seem to have some changes and it seems to be actually possible to

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Suppose your computer at work is in a private network that does IP masquerading. You want to access that machine from home or from another computer outside the network. Suppose you have sent your admins about 30 mails in about 14 weeks about you wanting to access your machine from outside and suppose they answered about a third of the mails, but you haven't made any significant progress towards

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Subversion is a software for version-control that allows you to store changes you make to files, so you can revert edits, restore deleted files, and much more. If you are new to subversion you might want to start with my introduction to subversion, where I explain how to use subversion (svn) for making incremental backups of your data to a repository and keeping track of different versions of

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