Setting up the PDF Tools package for Emacs on Windows

Unknown — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Emacs</a> text editor can be extended with a plethora of packages. One of these packages is PDF Tools</a> which allows PDF files to be rendered and viewed from an Emacs buffer. PDF Tools depends on a server program to perform the rendering step. In this article, the server program is installed on Windows and the Emacs package is configured to use this program.</p>

Uploading ISOs to Proxmox via the command line

Unknown — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Proxmox Virtual Environment</a> allows you to run virtual machines in all shapes and forms. It features its own web-based user interface to manage VMs and the resources they use. These include ISOs, which can be uploaded so that they can be used with a VM. But what if your ISO is currently stored on a machine with access to your Proxmox server, but without an internet browser? In this case, you can use scp</code> to directly copy and ssh</code> to otherwise manage your ISOs.</p>


Building a Custom NixOS Installer ISO via Docker
Unknown — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Custom NixOS</a> installer ISOs can be created using the nixos-generators</a> project. However, as nixos-generators</code> is built on top of the Nix package manager, it needs to be available. But what if you're using an OS which is not compatible with Nix or don't want to install it on your current system? In this post we'll use the Nix Docker image</a> to resolve this issue.</p>