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Author Biography Alongside Pictures in Latex

Some journal publications require you to put author biography for each author with their pictures. For this I found the _picins _package. To install this package you can run the following commands sudo mkdir /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins sudo wget -O /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty http://ctan.imsc.res.in/macros/latex209/contrib/picins/picins.sty http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex209/contrib/picins/picins.sty sudo /usr/bin/texconfig rehash So, then you can use the following latex code for biography of an author: …

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Feeling excited about attending ApacheCon Big Data and…

I’m excited about attending ApacheCon Big Data and ApacheCon 16 at Seville, Spain. Only a few days are left. Talked with my mentor at Apache Allura, @brondsem today about his experiences at ApacheCon NA Denver 14 and what all I could do at ACEU 16. We’re hoping for improving the exposure of Apache Allura within …

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A tip on using fsck

A tip on using fsck when you are stuck in emergency mode. Whenever you are using `fsck -y` and it does not allow you to run because a certain device (say /dev/sdaX) is mounted, it does not mean you can’t run `fsck -y /dev/sdaY`. That is you don’t unmount that device.

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