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Exporting OneNote data to LaTeX format

So, it took a few attempts & steps, but I finally succeeded in exporting some of my lecture notes to LaTeX. I took them on my Surface device, in OneNote, as that is the easiest & quickest way...

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How to Create a Third-Party Symfony Bundle

Have an awesome library you want to integrate in your Symfony application? Share your code between different Symfony instances? Share your code with other people? Create your bundle standalone and...

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My first third-party Symfony Bundle

I created my first open-source Symfony bundle: PlaceholderBundle. It is an abstraction of Primitive and/or SQIP for use in a PHP respectively Symfony application. This way, you can automatically...

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Getting started with elastica queries in Symfony

When integrating Elasticsearch with Symfony, there can be a few troubles for newcomers. The easiest way to achieve integration is by following the setup instructions of the FOSElasticaBundle, in...

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sv: fail: runit not running

To fix this error, all I had to do is install runit-systemd. This error appeared after the upgrade from Debian wheezy over jezzie to stretch when trying to get the status respectively...

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Spotlight and Bing

Spotlight on Mac works with Bing, like Cortana! Well, not really, unfortunately. This funny trivia fact is not true anymore since 25.9.2017 .

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Cortana vs. Siri #4: Availability

It took a long time, but now this point also seems to go to Cortana: For not too long, Cortana has been available on Windows 10 devices as standard in Switzerland without having to be tricky, and...

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Use Apple Superdrive with Windows

The Apple Superdrive drive is easy to use on Windows. However, the appropriate driver must be installed for this. Here's how to do it: Download the Apple Boot Camp Support Software . The file is a...

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