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Installing Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) on OpenSUSE 10.3
The Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) is a collection of components developed by Enthought to construct custom scientific applications. It includes a wide variety of components, including: an extensible application framework application building blocks 2-D and 3-D graphics libraries scientific and math libraries developer tools MayaVi Data Visualizer It is available for Linux, Mac OS X [...]
Parallel scientific code development
If you are interested in a short overview about what is Scientific Programming and which are the tools used in general, here is a short but very nice article: A case study on large-scale parallel scientific code development. Just a short summary: “All codes use the message passing interface (MPI) library to achieve parallelism. In [...]
A few useful sysctl variables in FreBSD
FreeBSD is my primary choice when I need to install a new server and if I don’t need virtualization (OpenVZ, Linux-VServer, XEN, Vmware, …). If I need to implement a virtualization solution then CentOS is my friend. Only I would like to point some interesting sysctl variables which you can set on a FreeBSD box: [...]
Order and enjoy your Ubuntu Cola
I spent the last week in Leeds, for a conference. Leeds is a quite nice city, I like it. I took some photos, they will be available soon on my flickr page. Below are two photos with Ubuntu Cola. I don’t know if there is something between Ubuntu Linux and Ubuntu Cola, but it is [...]
Installing Edimax EW-7128G Wireless Lan PCI Adapter on OpenSUSE 10.3
As you saw in my previous post, I have this wireless card, so let see what I did to have the wireless connection working on my OpenSUSE box. The card is coming with some drivers for linux, on the box is mentioned that it has support for Mac OS, Windows x64 Edition, Linux Debian, Fedora, [...]
Set up a wireless network in the new house
As you read in my previous post , we arrived in UK already. I have internet connection at work, but I need also at home internet, because during the evening I am reading news, emails, messenger, …. I prefer now, to set up a wirelesss network for my home, because I don’t like to have [...]
Disconnect idle users on FreeBSD
 If you are trying a solution to disconnect idle users automatically from your server, take a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/idled. Maybe also is possible to activate this option directly in sshd but I don’t find that option. Please let me know if it is possible. But, idled works well, and can be used with all types [...]
SOCKS proxy with SSH
Today, I tried to connect to irc network but I realized that the ports are blocked. Using ssh -X you can forward programs on your computer but if you have a slow connection it doesn’t work very well. Reading the manual for ssh I found that it is possible to use -D option to create [...]
Choose the DVD ripper that’s right for you
… a very nice article about DVD ripping available at linux.com. Here is only the final conclusion: “Each DVD ripper has its strengths and weaknesses. If you want to use a ripper without libdvdcss2 (which has questionable legality in some countries), HandBrake is your only option. If you don’t mind installing the extra library, dvd::rip [...]
Introduction to FreeBSD 7.0 @ slideshare.com
First to mention what is Slideshare. To cite from their website: “SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations on the web. And it’s free.” So, you have to register for an account, login and upload your powerpoint presentation for example. They will convert your slides in flash format. All you need is to [...]
