December 2011 ~ Techmint Blog

37. Making posters in latex

As a scientist you may have discovered how much less swearing occurs when writing articles in latex rather than MS Word or other What You Se...

Update: There are newer posts here and here . Galley proofs of scientific articles are typically provided in the form of pdf files with amb...

22/12/2011 An explanation and solution is here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=67502&p=510197#p512994 SOLUTION -...

--------------------------------------------------------- Summary: * create an /etc/apt/preferences files * add the repos to /etc/apt/source...

You may have had problems playing flash videos recently and have been presented with a message saying that your player is out of date, and t...

For various reasons my beowulf has been dismantled and in boxes for most of the year, with only the six-core node seeing use a normal work c...

So, as seen in the previous post, mpich2 ver 1.4 and nwchem 6.0 don't play nicely together. Continuing with the virtual machine in the...

** NOTE: the nwchem build in the debian repos (6.0-1) does not support mpich. It will not run in parallel. It seems like 6.0-2 will, but it...

Here are some linux tools which I've found myself using: _Terminal/cli_: email -- mutt chat -- mcabber spreadsheet -- sc, sed + gawk, py...

I've used linux for a few years by now, and I find that how I do things have changed over this time. In other words, the way you use lin...

Empathy is the stock gnome chat client, gajim is a REALLY versatile python-based chat client which integrates with gpg/pgp and mcabber is a ...

While it comes more naturally to post a blog entry when you've just managed to fix a problem which has been nagging you, it helps newcom...

Edit: fastmail configuration added -- see beneath original post Here's my situation: I have a personal gmail account, and a google apps ...

So after the turmoil of being thrown into a new desktop metaphor, I've finally reached a stage where I'd feel less at home in Gnome ...