Next meeting, Oct. 18, agenda

The next IT-club meeting will take place on Friday, October 18, 3:15, room Å74118. Theme of the meeting: new TeX environments.
Come few minutes earlier if you want to discuss setup on your personal laptop/tablet/phone. Coffee will be served. 

We plan some hands-on walkthrough for selected connectivity issues, such as

• Eduroam configuration in different OS's;
• Http proxy setup in browser settings;
• Tips for setting up a SIP account; 

TeX environment topics:

• cloud and native TeX installations in Android, 
• a more detailed walkthrough of the warmly appreciated LyX editor,
• Math email. How to write TeX code in the mail text and get - or not get - actual formula. See https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gmailtex/gjnmclkoadjdljnfmbnnhaahilafoeji?utm_source=gmail
  

For your own LyX install, all you need is to have a working Miktex or Texlive  and run the lyx installer (from LyX.org) or setup the LyX meta package for Linux.

Also, let's do some troubleshooting. For example, I have encountered the following problems:

1. I don't know how to connect to the Internet from the Ubuntu partition on the laptop. (From the  Windows partition it works.)
2. I frequently use http://libgen.org/ (and so do many others). However, downloading to a smartphone or to the ASUS tablet given to us by the department keeps failing. Solution: change on the frontpage of libgen.org the download type to "display  in browser". It won't display in browser on a mobile device of course, but a copy of the file with very descriptive name get.pdf will land in your Downloads directory. Apparently the "download type" appeals to the browser API, so if the browser does not have the invoked command, it gives a default response, which for a fancy command is "i donno" and for a simple command is the nearest similar action.