bioRxiv docx template
Posted: 2021-02-28 Filed under: Academic, office | Tags: bioRxiv, doc, docx, template Leave a commentI’ve been working on a manuscript in the last couple of months (more, actually). I am not going to discuss whether pre-prints are cool or not, however, they sometimes are necessary. For example, when writing a grant application, it definitely looks better to show the actual work in progress, rather than just stating “manuscript in preparation”, “submitted” or “under revision”.
Average every n number of rows in a spreadsheet
Posted: 2021-02-27 Filed under: Academic, office | Tags: gnumeric, spreadsheet Leave a commentI have a long column of data that I want to make into a chart. The problem is that the column has over 50000 rows and processing it gets problematic. I looked for a way to average every Nth number of rows, in order to speed up things.
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Chrome Theme Creator
Posted: 2021-01-31 Filed under: desktop | Tags: google chrome, GTK2, gtk3, murrine, theme Leave a commentI want to make Google Chrome, a GTK3 application, match the colour scheme of my GTK2 theme that I am using with Xfce 4.12. I am using Murrina Gilouche, which has been among my favourite ones for many years. I can’t compile, say Chromium, against GTK2, so I want to make at least the colours of Chrome consistent with it.
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Multiple SWAP partitions
Posted: 2020-12-05 Filed under: system | Tags: swap Leave a commentWhenever I do an install, I always create a swap partition. But how about, if I have several hard disk and I am not sure which one would be best? Or if I do not want to waste too much space of a single hard disk? Or just because.
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