Work environment
As with most projects, one of the first steps to take is to set up a working environment, since I want to read and take notes on some books and other PDF documents I’ll try “I Librarian”. Being an open-source software it’s possible to set it up on any Linux server, it doesn’t seem that it takes a lot of resources either, so an f1-micro VM (Free!) on Google Cloud Platform should be enough to host it.
Using a Debian as the base system, installing I Librarian was pretty straightforward, only thing is that such setup is designed to serve by default at 127.0.0.1, it was necessary accessing it using a tunneling port 80 from my computer:
sudo ssh -L 80:localhost:80 -i ~/.ssh/gcp-lzrdc lzrd@34.72.155.167
Also “my” computer is another cloud instance, also free, but in Amazon (AMI 2 with Mate accessible via VNC)
Why this last Amazon VM?… it’s a long story, including a chapter where my only available hardware is a very old HP Semptron 32 bits laptop with no hard drive that miraculously works perfectly if you only run a VNC client, it’s funny if you consider COVID-19 lockdown, but I guess you had to be there.
Since yet another VM on AWS is serving as my “processing” unit to run python NLP and text-processing code, the need arises to connect to this headless server, ssh from my “Desktop UI” instance works great with MidnightCommander (mc) along with Micro (text editor) giving me a very easy and confortable way to browse folders and edit files using only the terminal end even with mouse integration.
UPDATE:
Later I realized that a simple flag on Google VM Instance and a change in the configuration of the virtual service config file allows me to use I Librarian directly pointing to the VM public IP; which is cool because I can now read the PDFs from my phone. Also I librarian seems to have some kind of AI plugin that I need to check later.
NOTE:
Since English is not my first language (which could be obvious by now), I’m using the help of Grammarly to help me while writing these posts.
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