Recently I have been looking for a linux distro that runs sufficiently fast on my trusty thinkbad T42 (2373). Kubuntu 10.04LTS so far meets my needs, and in my opinion is superious compared to the Mepis distro.
Previously, I used Kubuntu 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10 but these distros dont run as smooth as the LTS one. As you can see from other posts, Ubuntu used to be installed on the thinkpad - up to 8.04. I find Kubuntu better fit for my needs, and in fact I find that the present Kubuntu outperforms the older Ubuntu in terms of userbility, speed and stability.
Besides the mandatory packages that comes with Kubuntu, I find the following tools useful:
Common tools
*) Filelight - a neat little program to locate those folders that take up too much HDD space.
*) Krusader - file manager.
*) emacs.
*) latex and auctex.
The digital photo trilogy
*) Digikam - to import and manage photos.
*) Gimp.
*) Photivo. An absolutely excellent Linux alternative to Adobe Lightroom.
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Live webcam of Katla:
Pictures
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It is not the most elegant tool that the world has ever seen, but it works quite nice. If you change toe Sample signal lenth and/or Sample frequency, you need to restart the code by toggle twice. By the way - the two frequencies show is the most dominant, and half this value.
To use it, you should download these files and put them in your Matlab root/work folder.
readsoundgui.m
readsoundgui.fig
Be careful not to fry your mic input!!!!
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Then open Skype with the command
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
or make an executable as described in the link.
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Hopefully It will do the same for others.
]]>Producing graphics for TeX documents is quite easy following the previous post. However, Matlab (7.2.0.232 (R2006a) and others) has a bug preventing the root command
set(0,'defaulttextinterpreter','latex')
to affect the font in the legend box. A workaround to enforce latex typesetting of the legend box is including the following to your plot command:
[L,Obj] = legend('legend entry 1','legend entry 2','etc...');
t = findobj(Obj,'Type','Text');
set(t,'Interpreter','latex');
Problem solved!
Note: On a Matlab running on a Windows platform, text with LaTeX-math does not print correct to neither paper nor pdf. I have not bothered to solve this, one workaround is to save the figure to an eps and print that.
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path = 'e:/matlab_stuff';
cd(path)
display(' ')
display(' working directory changed to')
display([' ',path])
format compact
set(0,'defaultaxesfontsize',18,'defaultaxeslinewidth',.7,...
'defaultlinelinewidth',.8,'defaultpatchlinewidth',.7,...
'defaulttextfontsize',18,'defaulttextinterpreter','latex',...
'defaultaxesfontname','century')
clear all
The first line sets the working directory to my preferred working directory. The interesting command is line 11: Here I specify the font size on figure axis and text. I’ve found that size 18 usually works fine, but this is up to personal preference. A piece of advice, though: I tend to forget that people older than 28 (say, a professor) has limited sight. Thus, use a BIGGER font than you thought!
The argument ‘defaulttextinterpreter’ produces text (axis labels, text) being typeset in LaTeX = beautiful! I still havent figured out how to enforce Latex interpretation of axes numbers, so for now this is done by setting defaultaxesfontname to century (this looks like Latex font the most).
Foruroligende! Aftenens planer er hermed erstattet af pizza, cola og computerspil iført tennissokker og grå, stumpede træningsbukser fra start-90erne.
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Her i kølvandet efter Gustav er der allerede tre nye lavtryk under opsejling - Hanna, Ike og Josephine.
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