I use snipMate as addon to my favourite editor, vim. The Vim-addon-manager and the Vim-scipts package give you an easy way to administrate your plugins. For some reason, I could not find any valueable information about integrating additional vim scripts into vim-addons. That is why I am writing this little howto…
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I have got some issues when installing the Debian package for Vims Latex Suite. Finally, it is working now. Using the Vim Addon Manager instead of adding the plugin manually was the solution.
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I have had to write a record containing some tables and use this for table calculation, gnuplot and latex. So I decided to create a Open Office spreadsheets, export to csv and then convert this file to a Latex includable snippet. Thus a small bash shell script converting csv-files to Latex was needed.
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Today I want to give some hints at creating a working backup of a typo3 installation.
Installing an additional typo3 extension can obviously be a good possibility if you have to backup just one or two setups. There seem to be a few really handy ones. But in my case this would be very ineffective. First, you have to install another extension for every running typo3. Then doing the saving stuff on console can have some advantages like cron tabbing etc. That is why I decided to do it “by hand”.
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Last night I had to connect to an Cisco VPN server for the first time. All my computers use 64 bit operating systems. And this fact excludes using the original Cisco VPN client in its actual 5.0.01 version: It supports 32 bit only.
So I will show how to install and use the VPNC on the example connecting to the HTW Dresden.
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