Preamble
Youtube-dl is a wonderful tool to procure media from Youtube. You can retrieve video and audio in the formats of your choice.
First, check which format available
Following info is adapted from here. Another site with a similar instruction. If you do not have the software and drivers, a vender from amazon provides a link for download.
TIS Techstream V10 Setup Instruction ( !!! for 64 bit system !!! ) :
- The Techstream version 12* and above should be compatible with Windows 10 64 bit system.
- Installed and follow through instruction.
- Start Techstream and input Area, ...
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After rendering one of my old laptops into OS-less state by restoring the Arch Linux OS from another System without exclude the boot, following is what I did to recover the dual-boot system. I have to fix the MBR and Boot for windows first and then reinstall the grub ...
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Prepare Arch Linux Live Disc
- Make a bootable installation media for Arch Linux
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This laptop doesn’t have any CD/DVD drive so the first thing is to make a bootable USB drive.
Boot into Windows 10. In Windows, download archlinux iso from the following website
https://www.archlinux.org/download/
Use the mirror which is closest to you and download the Arch iso. archlinux-2015.12.01-dual.iso
Download Rufus from the following location https://rufus.akeo.ie/
Plugin any ...
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The Ultimate offline Dictionary with Dictd
Installation dict in Arch Linux
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dictd installation Follow instruction here.
NOV
Latex and Emacs
Posted by: mistan
Builtin Tex Mode in Emacs
I have been using the builtin Mode for a few months until I found out that Auctex is the ultimate Editor for Latex. I do not even know why people will use other Editor such as Lyx.
Emacs build in Tex Mode
Emacs provides special major modes for editing files written in TeX and its related formats. TeX mode ...
NOV
CTEX and Chinese language
Posted by: mistan
It turned to be not so trivial to setup Chinese for Latex in a Linux System. Hope this will help some souls.
CTEX Installation if not already
Installation Instruction
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Install Tex Live manually with tlmgr functioning.
Step-by-step installation instruction for Arch Linux is here.
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Set variable for Tex Live installation directory,
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OCT
Reference Manager and Citation in Linux
Posted by: mistan
Work Flow
Mendeley => Helm-bibtex => Org-ref
Pdf-tools and org-noter are used for note-taking.
Reference Manager Mendeley is used to:
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to rename files
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generate bibtex file
PDF-tools to render and annotate pdf, and generate notes in individual org files. see here for more info.
Org-ref to take care of the citation duty.
Notes: org-ref ...
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R Markdown
Posted by: mistan
What is rMarkdown?
R Markdown documents are fully reproducible. Use a productive notebook interface to weave together narrative text and code to produce elegantly formatted output. Use multiple languages including R, Python, and SQL. – rmarkdown official site
R Markdown supports dozens of static and dynamic output formats including HTML, PDF, MS Word, Beamer, HTML5 slides, Tufte-style handouts, books, dashboards, shiny applications, scientific articles, websites, and more. – rmarkdown official ...
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