links, files, HOWTOs, and other cruft

google

• to avoid being redirected to "regional sites": http://www.google.com/ncr
• to display full results: add filter=0 to (URL) options
• to open gmail in "basic html" mode: [1] [2]

some soft stuff

• chrome wrapper
• dir2tarxz (requires /usr/local/lib/sh/functions)
• pdfsplit, pdfmerge, pdfrotate, pdfinsertimg - split, merge, rotate, insert image into pdf files; uses PDF::API2
  pdfsplit and pdfmerge also illustrate how to use LaTeX + pdfpages (part of texlive) for the same purpose.
• ruler
• settitle
• translit2tex, a (quick and dirty) perl script using Text::TeX to convert in a (La)TeX file Russian text from translit to koi8; uses translit2koi8.pm.
• words files:
  English (to be used with look; to be put in /usr/local/dict/)
  Czech (a trimmed version of Czech.dic)
  
• a (better) way to start cygwin X server: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe XWin -multiwindow (or just XWin -multiwindow 2>/dev/null & from the command line)