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- Thomas Jansson - Geophysicist and Linux user (RHCT)
Yearly Archives: 2008
Using listings to include code in LaTeX
Introduction
During the last year I have written several small Matlab programs which I needed to include in my masters thesis which I am writing in LaTeX. The easiest way to do this is using the LaTeX package called listings.
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Supporting non-technical users through remote desktop
The problem
In ideal world every user knows how to forward ports in NAT routers, use perl-scripts to knock on firewalls, establish ssh-tunnels and start a vncserver. The world is indeed not ideal and from time to time I wish to … Continue reading
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Lenovo X200 and suspend under Ubuntu 8.10
I had the problem that my brand new Lenovo X200 wouldn’t wake up from suspending under Ubuntu 8.10. My laptop would go to sleep just fine and display the green moon but when waking up again the computer would freeze … Continue reading
Controlling fanspeeds in Linux on PWM motherboards, Thinkpads and ASUS Eee PC
Introduction
In Windows I controlled the fanspeed on my stationary computer by using a ASUS program that read the temperatures. I wanted the same temperature/fanspeed scaling in Linux, so I decided to setup fancontrol, which is a small script that monitors … Continue reading
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Using latexmk, vim spell checking and vim latex-suite
I was originally doing my thesis writing with the Latex editor kile but since it doesn’t have in-line spell checking I decided to try vim which I already use for anything beside .tex files. While playing with the spell checking … Continue reading
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