I was trying to show some slides in my dropbox folder to my collaborator with my android tablet. I only have the pptx file and it displays so slowly on my ASUS transformer. It came to me maybe I can connect to my desktop in office remotely to convert the slides to pdf. I did…
This post is a real life saver. Tested on 10.10 64 bit HP 1320. Works like a charm!
It took me quite many hours. There are many posts online but at the same time many of them lead to dead ends. As mentioned in this post, the instruction described on help.ubuntu.com allows one to setup custom key but at the same time leaves a big security hole on ssh. Because everyone can ssh to…
Measuring Measures suggests a cool trick to download the lectures from videolecture.net. Below is the verbatim of the original: Not to fear, it turns out that you can just use a couple parameters to mplayer at the command line. example: mplayer -dumpstream mms://velblod2.ijs.si/2009/pascal2/ssll09_canberra/reid_leth/ssll09_reid_leth_01.wmv -dumpfile /home/bradford/lectures/reid_learning_theory1.avi
Our GPU computer crashed the day before yesterday. Since there are multiple users on that machine, I don’t know who made the mess. Anyway, we simply could no longer start gnome. So we ended up reinstalling everything. This link is helpful. But installation did not work in our case. We had the nasty “low-resolution” problem….
Even though I love Ubuntu, I can see why many people will never switch to Linux at this stage. It took me a while to try to do as simple as changing the time zone of my laptop when I have a short vacation back home in Hong Kong. Some Linux lovers will probably disapprove…
ssh is great. But sometimes I just need a desktop. The remote desktop functionality offered by Ubuntu is kind of limited. For example, I just don’t know how I can enable remote desktop easily in the first place if one is not in front of the host already. Moreover, Ubuntu’s remote desktop is limited to…
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…
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…