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Im on the university net (Uninett) in norway, wich means mostly around 100/100MBit to many important servers in norway (including Ubuntu mirror) and...
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Im on the university net (Uninett) in norway, wich means mostly around 100/100MBit to many important servers in norway (including Ubuntu mirror) and...
For most of my plotting, I use gnuplot. Its commmandline, but the commands are easy to learn. gnuplot is all about plotting, with no mumbojumbo. It can output to just about any format you want,...
You need to install a VPN-plugin for network manager to use VPN with network manager. F.ex. network-manager-vpnc or network-manager-openvpn.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/17/216216
For cluster computing, check out open-mpi. Its a framework that allows a program to run in parallel on many computers connected on a network. The bad news is that you need to rewrite any programs you...
As far as I understand, the company investing most work in Ubuntu (Canonical) - plans to make profit in the long run by providing paid support for the system. If you want to deploy Ubuntu in your...
How are you connected to the net? Normally, both Ubuntu and Windows get these settings from a DHCP-service running on the network you connect to. If you are using the same connection with both...
For backup, I recommend "Simple Backup Solution". You can find it in the package manager (synaptic) as sbackup. When it is installed it will show up in the administration menu (or was it...
*Entering nostalgia-mode*
DOS 5.x (I think. ) with a menu my father had coded. There I could find Pacman, Space Invaders, Maniac Mansion plus a couple of other games I can't remember the name of...
It's a good idea to have a VOIP-program in there by default. And since this is Ubuntu, it should be FOSS. Problem is, the market-leader is not an open standard.. :( My main problem with Ekiga is that...
Did you try to run bibtex in the terminal to see if there is a more describing error message than just "[BibTeX] finished with exit status 2"?
Bibtex can be quite a hassle, because you first need to compile the tex. Bibtex will then use the aux-file and the bib-file you specified in the tex to make a bbl-file. THEN when you compile the...
250MB in 1983?? My father bought a 5MHz 8086 with 30MB HDD 640kb memory in 1986. And I think that was quite big at the time.
When it comes to harddrives, it seems we are able to fill them up...
Jupp, I remember the days when I used Word/OpenOffice under Windows 9x, constantly saving after every sentence after some very bad experiences.
Ah, LaTeX: Its like moving in with your...
Nvidia has taken notice of this growing use of their GPUs for science: Tesla
This is so cool. Now, howto make my fortran-program tap into my 6600GT..? Oof, I imagine its not trivial..
Games:
Neverball
UT2004 (Not lately though)
Graphics:
gnuplot
GIMP
F-Spot
Eye of GNOME
This is serious! In Norway, we have a (traffic neutral) main hub which is a collaboration between all the ISPs. Not long ago, the biggest ISP was planning to take their traffic to a hub they...
I thought this worked in TeXMakers structure-toolbox. But you are right, it doesn't. It would have been a good feature.
But: I know the programming IDE Eclipse has these features. Eclipse was...
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 47G 5,0G 39G 12% /
/dev/sdb1 459G 235G 201G 54% /home
/dev/sda6 46G 709M 43G 2%...
I want more Linux-users because:
-The current monopoly situation in the software industry is unhealthy. (In many ways. Low quality innovation, high prices <-> bad resource utilization.)
-More users...
Have you tried your login-password? The default keychain usually uses that one.
If you have changed your password after the installation, it might be that the keychain didn't update and is still...
The command for removing packages in apt is
sudo apt-get remove googleearth
Autoremove is for removing old dependencies that are no longer needed. I usually run remove first, and then I run...
Yup. You are using NVIDIA-drivers, am I right? This is the case for me as well: Whenever my screen is in a locked state, where I should be prompted for my password to unlock the screen, It is instead...
For dynamic IP, check out www.no-ip.com or www.dyndns.com. Here you can aquire a domain name (e.g. yourcomputer.no-ip.com) that points to your computers current IP. They work by having a daemon on...
Hmm strange. I haven't seen variable paragraph skips before. But I usually use only paragraph indents and no spacing.
This might be a setting in the style (the \documentclass) you are using. To...