mac

Syncthing is currently my preferred tool to keep folders in sync. Previously I had affairs with git annex, and rsync scripts.

Recently I reactivated a 2009 Mac Mini as headless server under El Capitan. Homebrew is the tool of choice - it complains a little about the old OS but things work out nicely.

Just recently got my hand on Crossover. It’s essentially the commercially supported wine. I am impressed how polished things feel nowadays. I gave it usually problematic scientific programs like the TofDaqViewer from Ionicon and the Nist library and it produced nicely running libraries.

(tldr;) use PDF to Keynote to convert a tex presentation for convenient presenting.

I did have a presentation on my PhDs topic last week. Took me some collecting data from recent paper drafts and old slides to create something polished.

As you would expect I prepared the presentation in beamer latex. I found the metropolis template to my liking.

Great was my shock as the slides would show up blurry in full screen - well for the first second - and then “jump” to nicely rendered. I tried in Preview as well as Skim. They would render nicely but still slow in Acrobat Reader - however I don’t like that one.

On the last day I found my lifesaver: PDF to Keynote. Not only would it transfer my slides into sharp images, I then could also use the fancy Keynote controls and the moderator screen for notes.