A useful gedit macro for LaTeX

tips 30 April 2008 | 0 Comments

Builds and displays your current LaTeX document, and removes all the temporary file spam. #!/bin/bash TMPDIR=$(mktemp -td)   rubber -d –into "$TMPDIR" "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME" && mv "$TMPDIR/${GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME%tex}pdf" "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_DIR"   if [ $? -eq 0 ] then evince "${GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME%tex}pdf" & fi   rm -rf "$TMPDIR"

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HowTo: Get a RT2500-based wifi card working in Ubuntu

Uncategorized 15 May 2007 | 9 Comments

This was easier than I thought it was going to be. Nice and simple: Download the RT2500 Windows Drivers, and unzip them somewhere. Ensure you have wireless-tools and ndiswrapper installed. Open a terminal and browse to the folder where you unzipped the drivers. sudo ndiswrapper -i rt2500.inf Edit /etc/modules (as root) and add ‘ndiswrapper’. Edit [...]

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About using Rosetta

Uncategorized 11 May 2007 | 0 Comments

Oh, that reminds me… I should really contact some translators to ask for updates and release Gnome Specimen 0.2. —Wouter Bolsterlee The Gnome Specimen product is not set up for translation in Launchpad. You might want to talk with Wouter Bolsterlee (uws), the project registrant, about using Rosetta. —Launchpad Done!

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Using OpenDNS servers with bind9 easily

Uncategorized 9 October 2006 | 1 Comment

The OpenDNS FAQ purports to have a solution to this problem, but it does something obscure to a file I don’t have on my system. So I quickly checked the man page and came up with this: /etc/bind/named.conf.options //Add this somewhere inside the options{}; section… forward only; forwarders { //OpenDNS 208.67.222.222; 208.67.220.220; };

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