*BSD
Access a running X session via x11vnc
I am using FreeNX but here is a solution to access a running X session with x11vnc.
* install the package:
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$ sudo zypper install x11vnc
* ssh to remote machine and:
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$ x11vnc -display :0
* ok, now on local machine:
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$ vncviewer your_remote_ip:0
For more details and some comments (password option, …) check the following link and try: man x11vnc
Enthought Tool Suite – Eggs, available for OpenSUSE 11
Today I have found some time to install and configure a subversion repository. I added the Enthought Tool Suite – Eggs files for OpenSUSE. I hope that they will work also for you, if not, please let me know. Here is the link to my repo. See the README file before to install them.
About Programming …
I would like to point out just a few links about “Programming”:
Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
How To Become A Hacker
Hacking and Refactoring
C++: the Ugly Useful Programming Language
C++ Considered Harmful
Why Python?
LaTeX useful Tips/Tricks
In my previous post I discussed a “small” but, I would say “complet” template to start your document. If you want to include also movies in your pdf documents, then this post can help you. If you need a good program for bibliographic management check this post.
Below I will post a lot of tips, tricks [...]
Starting with LaTeX/PdfTeX, a small template
Just a short template with some packages included:
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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
% let’s use some nice packages
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
% set all margins to 2.5 cm
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry}
% for fancy and easy modification of header and footer
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
% include hyperlinks in pdf file
\usepackage{hyperref}
% decide if run PdfTeX or LaTeX
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
% we are running LaTeX, not pdflatex
\usepackage{graphicx}
\else
% we are running pdflatex, so convert .eps files to .pdf
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\fi
% [...]
Installing Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) on OpenSUSE 11
Today, I tried to install Enthought Tool Suite on OpenSUSE 11, with the help of my old post. For the moment there are no packages for OpenSUSE. I had to checkout their repository and build the eggs, in order to install the suite. The mentioned tutorial worked but of course that I had some minor [...]
Personal bibliographic management software
Handling references and bibliographic information is an essential part of all research. If you are writing just one article or just your diploma thesis maybe you don’t need to use this kind of software because you will not have a lot of references. BUT, if you are writing A LOT of [...]
Quick configuration for Munin
From project website:
“Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After completing a installation a high number of monitoring plugins will be playing with no more effort.
Using Munin you can easily [...]
Installing wget on Mac OS X
Wget is a great command line for grabbing things from the web, but it doesn’t ship with macs. So if you want to install it here are a few steps:
1. download the source file: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.11.tar.gz
2. compile and install it:
tar -zxvf wget-1.11.tar.gz
cd wget-1.11/
./configure
make
sudo make install
Now the binary file is located in /usr/local/bin/. If you use bash [...]
Opera 9.50 ready for download, enjoy a new experience
Yes, it is true, my favourite web browser is ready for download, I really like the new look and its new features. Look:
More than 2x faster than Opera 9.2 in rendering JavaScript and HTML
Faster handling of third party plug-ins
Much faster start up time
Superior support for Web standards
Check their web site for more. Download and enjoy [...]
