It was a total pain to try to have skype and ubuntu jaunty work happily together. My miscellaneous problems with mic just can never be resolved. The medibuntu package simply doesn’t work for me. I even go as far to uninstall pulseaudio. Unfortunately, even that doesn’t make my skype work. Mic worked for the first…
Like many others, I am very frustrated with the new Kile and Ubuntu Janty has chosen it as default. It is ridiculously slow and the text doesn’t do dynamic word wrap (YES, it doesn’t!). There is a tool to “auto-wrap” but it screws up comments if you use % often as I do. After several…
Just found a cool link to install windows journal into win xp…
I tried the following simple tvtk example but it kept hang my ubuntu 8.10 machine. #!/usr/bin/env python from enthought.tvtk.api import tvtk cs=tvtk.ConeSource(resolution=100) mapper=tvtk.PolyDataMapper(input=cs.output) actor=tvtk.Actor(mapper=mapper) #create a renderer: renderer=tvtk.Renderer() # create a render window and hand it the renderer render_window = tvtk.RenderWindow(size=(400,400)) render_window.add_renderer(renderer) #dreate interactor and hand it the render window # this handles mouse interaction…
As of Oct 11, 2009, I reinstalled OpenCV and ffmpeg again on Ubuntu Jaunty. The previous installation procedure doesn’t seem to work. I can install OpenCV but it doesn’t cooperate happily with ffmpeg. I came across this wonderful guide and it more or less solves all my problems. Below repeats some of the steps described…
IEEE always requires authors to embed all fonts for the final pdf submission. After some googling, the commands that works for me under Ubuntu are dvips -Pdownload35 -t letter -G0 -o paper.ps paper.dvi ps2pdf -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true paper.ps paper.pdf If you have eps figures that are generated from matlab, most likely some fonts in…
My old harddrive had 60 G for my Ubuntu partition and the free space left was less than 2 G (and it is going fast). I figured it was time for me to find a bigger home for my Linux partition. I followed the Backup and Restore post but it missed out a couple simple…
OU recently acquired matlab for all students and faculty. However, to use at one, one needs to setup vpn. The defacto cisco vpn provided on the OU website is really dated. It doesn’t work with ubuntu unless one does some patches. I gave up after a few tries but instead I found one post mentioned…
I accidentally found a very interesting course from Berkeley today. The title is Mesh Generation and Geometry Processing in Graphics, Engineering, and Modeling by Jonathan Shewchuk.
I was trying to install leJOS to my Lego minstorm brick. I used ubuntu and got into trouble when I tried to flash the lego brick. I realized that the problem is that I didn’t have write permission to usb device. If I used sudo, I didn’t know how to export the environment variable NXJ_HOME….