Foivos (pronounced ['fivos]) S. Zakkak is a Ph.D. student at University of Crete and a graduate research assistant at the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory of FORTH-ICS. Foivos received his diploma and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Crete in 2010 and 2012 respectively. His research interests are focusing on Concurrency and Programming Languages.

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A Sync/BackUp script

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#!/bin/bash

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Getting started with Emacs

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So you want to learn how to use Emacs...

First of all install Emacs (I suggest versions >=24). Then start using it. It is going to be hard in the beginning, but day by day you will get used to it and learn new things.

Your friends

  1. Reference cards (will help you learn the most basic commands)
  2. The Emacs built in tutorial (Control-h t).

Using emacs and notmuch as a mail client

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This tutorial aims to help you setup notmuch for multiple IMAP accounts and use emacs as a frontend.
( At the time writing this tutorial emacs version was 24.3 and notmuch version was 0.15.2)

The stack

We are going to use the following stack to fetch, index and finally read our emails.

offlineimap --> notmuch --> emacs

Google PDF viewer on Chromium

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This is a tutorial (more like a code dumb) on how to enable the pdf viewer plugin from google chrome in chromium.

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
ar vx google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
rm google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb control.tar.gz debian-binary
tar --lzma -xvf data.tar.lzma
sudo cp opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/
rm -rf etc opt usr data.tar.lzma

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