As I’m now using git for version control of my latex documents that I am writing I have automated the committing to git. This is the script that I’m using, called gitcron -

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I’m moving all my files and stuff to ‘Bitbucket’ as I think that they provide a better service than Github, so I’m shortly closing down the Github site. Do come and look at the new bitbucket site which is at https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots

I’ve long been interested in git, which is described as - ‘Git is a popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used for many high profile open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel’. It scales very nicely for home use ...

In my usermenu in Part 2 you’ll see that I have these two lines in the Quit submenu.

      [exec] (Reboot) {gksudo /sbin/reboot}
      [exec] (Shutdown) {gksudo /sbin/shutdown -h now}

which are quite special ones. This requires the following two lines to be put into /etc/sudoers very near ...

Recently I’ve been using various pdf tools to watermark pdf’s and generally play about with them. They are pdfForts from https://github.com/sjau/pdfForts and have various tools, like -

addPasswdPDF

This script adds a password to the PDFs.

bookmarkPDF

Lets you edit the current bookmarks and apply ...