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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 [...]
Encrypting External HDD with LUKS
I am using OpenSUSE on my main computers, so LUKS is a good option to encrypt my external hdd. I can use Truecrypt if I want to use the hdd with mac or windows, but here is not the case. You can also use LUKS under windows with FreeOTFE.
Here are the steps to encrypt [...]
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 [...]
Parallel Programming with MPI in Bristol
I spent the last 4 days in Bristol to attend to “Parallel Programming with MPI” course, provided by HECToR which is the UK’s high-end computing resource, funded by the Research Councils and available for researchers at UK universities, and by NAG – The Numerical Algorithms Group specialized in the provision of software for the solution [...]
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 [...]
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.
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
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
% [...]
