My favorite podcasts
By jeltsch on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 10:00
My favorite podcasts. I enjoy almost every single episode:
English
The fact that everything looks different doesn't mean that all has changed...
Linux
Some useful PDF editing (and search) commands
By jeltsch on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 14:44- Insert pages with interleave:
pdftk A=input_odd_pages.pdf B=input_even_pages.pdf shuffle A B output collated.pdf(from the pdftk package) - Split an A2-sized PDF into two A3 pages for printing (no overlap):
pdfposter -m A3 -p A2 Periodic-Table_A2.pdf Periodic-Table_2xA3.pdf - Split an arbitrary-sized PDF into A3 pages for printing at 100% size (= 1), no overlap:
pdfposter -m A3 -s1 Poster.pdf Poster_split_to_A3.pdf
Disk dumps (dd) and copying over the network (netcat)
By jeltsch on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 19:33On the receiving machine (disk sda MUST be unmounted, e.g. by booting from a live CD or USB stick):
netcat -l -p 4778 | dd of=/dev/sda
On the sending machine (disk sdb MUST be unmounted, e.g. by booting from a live CD or USB stick):
dd if=/dev/sdb | netcat 192.168.0.4 4778
(-l listen; -p port)