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My ZFS Home NAS/HTPC Box Build
I was looking to build a NAS (Network Attached Storage) to store all my music, photos, files, e-books and important work related files. I also wanted to have a central place for my backups and to be used sometimes as HTPC. So, a “two in one” solution (NAS and HTPC).
Even if there are many ready-to-go [...]
Yahoo Mail and free IMAP
If you are using yahoo mail, like me, then you missed for a long time IMAP access for your inbox. They provide just POP3 access and I don’t want that. I would like to have/access the messages also via web interface and also to have them on my computer for offline access. So, the solution [...]
OpenSUSE 11.1 and Plesk 9.2.1 update
After more than three years of using Suse 9.3 with Plesk 8.1 on one of my VPS, I decided that it is time to update to OpenSUSE 11.1 with Plesk 9.2.1 control panel. The update process went very well, here are the steps involved:
1. create a full backup of your vps (databases, websites, accounts, emails, [...]
dd command “progress bar”
I am using sometimes
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$ sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdd1
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd1
and I would like to see the progress of dd command. So, do the following:
1. open a new terminal/console and type:
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$ sudo killall -USR1
2. open the terminal/console where your dd is running and you will see something like this:
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2242867712 bytes (2.2 GB) copied, 396.007 [...]
My USB Memory Stick Companion
I have a Kingston Data Traveler 4 GB USB Drive, and a few days ago I decided to use it also as a rescue boot device (to be bootable in order to recover data when needed), as storage device (to move around some files, used on windows, mac, linux, freebsd), to have on it some [...]
Combining pdf files in Linux/Unix
Just to show a few examples how to combine pdf files. Let us assume we have three pdf files and now we need to combine them:
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=finalcombinedpdf.pdf -dBATCH 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf
joinpdf myfinalFile.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf
pdfmeld file1.pdf, file2.pdf, file3.pdf resultcombinedfile.pdf
Some of the other tools available for merging PDF files include pfdtk, Multivalent, and pdcat.
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Using LaTeX in Scribus for posters
I am using LaTeX and beamer class to make presentations and posters. A short introduction to start with latex is available. Sometimes I am using LaTeX just to produce eps/pdf text boxes and after that Scribus for poster layout. In the last development version of Scribus, which is 1.3.5svn, there is possible to use latex [...]
Mod_python on OpenSUSE 11.0
Mod_python is an Apache module that embeds the Python interpreter within the server. Here is step by step what I did to configure it for OpenSUSE 11.0:
1. Install mod_python:
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$ sudo zypper in apache2-mod_python
2. Enable mod_python: edit /etc/sysconfig/apache2 and add python to the APACHE_MODULES line, so your line will look like:
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APACHE_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_file authz_host [...]
Software I am using …
If you would like to see what software I am using on my desktop, laptop, workstation (Windows, Linux, Unix) in order to get my research/scientific work done, or if you want to know what software I am installing on my servers for customers, check this section of my website.
Scientific Software
If you are working in Scientific Computing, like me, then the next links are for you:
Free Software :: Scientific Software
Graphics Software
Numerical Analysis Software
Scientific/Engineering Software @SourceForge.net
Scientific/Engineering Software @Freshmeat.net
Wiki du laboratoire MAS
Applications @Ubuntu
Applications @OpenSUSE
