Until we meet again, Slackware
Posted: 2021-09-19 Filed under: misc 14 CommentsIt seems I have come to the point where I no longer find Slackware fit for me. This post is not intended as some “I’m leaving Slackware! Farewell!” drama, that you may find at LQ. I believe no one cares about what I choose to use. I just feel that if I am going to give up maintenance of my SlackBuilds, I should at least provide some reasoning. Also, I am sad it all came to this and just want to vent. I guess my own blog is the right place.
Rotate text in Inkscape
Posted: 2021-11-27 Filed under: drawing | Tags: inkscape, rotate, text Leave a commentI am preparing a figure where I need to label several violin plots. I do not have enough space under the figure to fit everything without looking cluttered. So, I want to make the labels slanted at 45 degrees. How to do it in Inkscape?
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Spreadsheet cells’ contents length
Posted: 2021-11-07 Filed under: office | Tags: gnumeric, spreadsheet Leave a commentI need to compare a list of UniProt identifiers to a database of protein-protein interactions. All IDs in my list are 6 characters in length, while the database I am comparing to has many entries that are longer. I want to clean these up, since nothing from my list will match to them and I also want to speed searches by making the database smaller.
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Use local time
Posted: 2021-10-02 Filed under: system | Tags: hwclock, localtime, utc Leave a commentI dual-boot Linux and Windows. I want to make Linux use the local time from the BIOS, because this is what Windows uses. I searched around and all I found were tutorials for systemd. This is useless for CRUX so I resorted to reading the manual…
Own ports and packages repos for CRUX
Posted: 2021-09-01 Filed under: system | Tags: apache, CRUX, pkg-get, prt-get, repo Leave a commentI’ve been using CRUX as my main system for couple of months now. My PC has an nice CPU and lots of RAM, so compiling stuff on it is not a problem. This is not the case with my old ThinkPad x230, though… So, I want to turn the packages created on my PC, into a packages repository for the laptop, running the same distro.
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