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  1. Re: What's your internet speed? Let's see who has the fastest internet

    http://www.speedtest.net/result/480975562.png

    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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    Re: Mathematical graphing, etc.

    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,...
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    Re: VPN in Network Manager?

    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.
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    [all variants] Re: Face Recognition for Ubuntu Login

    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/17/216216
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    Re: Using two PCs as one?

    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...
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    Re: ubuntu funding?

    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...
  7. [SOLVED] Re: Networks. 'DNS and Search Domains' settings

    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...
  8. Re: What's the deal breaker for (potential) new users of Linux?

    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...
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    Re: Your very 1st OS

    *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...
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    Poll: Re: Do you use Ekiga?

    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...
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    [all variants] Re: Bibtex Issues

    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"?
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    [all variants] Re: Bibtex Issues

    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...
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    Re: The Future of Computers?

    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...
  14. Re: Best alternative to MS Word Outline View? For LaTeX?

    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...
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    Re: FASTRA: desktop super computer

    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..
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    Re: What software do you use?

    Games:
    Neverball
    UT2004 (Not lately though)

    Graphics:
    gnuplot
    GIMP
    F-Spot
    Eye of GNOME
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    Re: The Year The Internet Might End

    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...
  18. Re: Best alternative to MS Word Outline View? For LaTeX?

    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...
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    Poll: Re: How big is your...

    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%...
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    Re: Why do we need more linux users?

    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...
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    [all variants] Re: keyring password

    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...
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    [ubuntu] Re: remove google earth

    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...
  23. [ubuntu] Re: Compizfusion error with switch user

    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...
  24. [all variants] Re: Any Howto's for an Ubuntu "Back to my Mac"

    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...
  25. Re: latex: eps and hyperref do not work together

    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...
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