I need to install Octave using SuiteSparse. I have written a post last time on how to build Suitesparse. But this time the server that I am installing doesn’t have gfortran, but rather it has intel fortran compiler.
Moreover, I would like to use Metis 4.0 within Suitesparse. You can download it from this page.
first copy [...]
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I am using Kubuntu Hardy, and installed Adobe Reader 8.12. I got this problem that whenever I open pdf from a website using firefox, after a while it will take 100% CPU.
I found that this is a known problem, check this blog.
The current solution is to run Adobe reader, go to “Preferences”. Click the tab [...]
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I have an account in Box.net but I can’t use the java applet to upload the file. It turns out that it is due to the GCJ java webplugin used by my firefox 3. This is the default in Kubuntu Hardy.
In order to enable it, I need to use the Sun Java plugin. To install, [...]
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I am not sure what happen, but recently I couldn’t run my Wikindx3, and got this error :
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_pconnect()
It could be due to the update in php Ubuntu package.
What I did to solve this is
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
Then go to
/etc/php5/apache2/
and edit the file php.ini
find this Dynamic Extension and make sure [...]
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Download the .deb file from
http://desktop.google.com/linux/
click to agree and save the file. Then go the folder where you download the file, and right click. Choose “Open With”->”GDebi Package Installer”.
This will install the google desktop, and you will see an applet on your tray icon. You can right click and see the index-> index status
from there you [...]
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After I ran Strigi-daemon to index my folders, suddenly KDE gave a warning that my free space is only 4% left. I was quite surprise to see this. I checked and realized that the folder
~/.strigi/clucene
eats a lot of space, 20GB and more.
This is already filed in launchpad, and you can find some thread in Ubuntu [...]
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If you have been upgrading ubuntu/kubuntu for several times, you will notice that the list in the boot loader increases. By default Kubuntu keeps the previous Linux kernel for you to boot. So when you have upgraded the linux kernel, the old kernels will stay there in the boot loader.
So if you have windows, you [...]
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You can run Internet Explorer in linux by installing IEs4Linux.
You can download the script from this page.
and untar the file:
tar xzvf ies4linux-2.99.0.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-2.99.0
and type :
sudo ./ies4linux
this will download other components and run IE using Wine. This by default will install to
$HOME/bin/ie6
so to run it go to your home directory/bin
and type
./ie6
the program is slow, it’s not [...]
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I found this tool Bibutils to convert various bibliography format, such as from RIS to Bibtex, or Endnote, etc.
Mostly we need to convert to intermediate xml format first before we convert to other formats. For example to convert from ris to bibtex, we do
% ris2xml mybib.ris > mybib.xml
% xml2bib mybib.xml > mybib.bib
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