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Cygwin Portable

1. The portable versions has some problems

   • Vim, edit mode, backspace doesn't work sometimes (identation related)

2. Cygwin portable scroll doesn't work after Vim is opened and then closed. but if …

1. JabRef is an open-source cross-plotform software for managing scientific references. Mendeley is a good cost-free cross-platform software for managing scientific references. It introduces the concept of social research.

2. If you use bibtex in your LaTeX code, you have to compile your code using pdflatex/latex, bibtex, pdflatex/latex and pdflatex …

pandoc is a general purpose tool for converting between different type of documents, however, it is not good at converting LaTeX code to word. tex4ht is a better tool for converting LaTeX code to word. The following are instructions to use tex4ht to convert LaTeX to word.

1. Compile your LaTeX …

The following are ways for a Vim session to interact (copy/cut, paste) with other Vim sessions or other applications.

Use X Windows Clipboard Directly

If you prefer to use X windows clipboard as the default buffer for Vim, put set clipboard=unnamedplus in your .vimrc file. This obviously makes …

Install Pulseaudio if you only have ALSA. ALSA alone does NOT work with skype whatever people on the #Debian channel might think and tell you.

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

Install pulseaudio volume control

sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

Run Skype.

Go to the Sound devices sections. Click on the Open PulseAudio …

1. Make a new C++ project

2. Default options for everything

3. Once created, right-click the project and go to "Properties"

4. C/C++ Build -> Settings -> Tool Settings -> GCC C++ Compiler -> Miscellaneous -> Other Flags. Put -std=c++0x at the end.

5. C++ General -> Paths and Symbols -> Symbols -> GNU C++. Click "Add..." and paste __GXX_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX0X__ …