Har lært: Når eg skriv inn root-passordet mitt ein stad, må eg sjå etter at det går til den terminalen eg vil ha det, og ikkje till eit kjætteprogram. Særleg ikkje ein stad der folk kan utan alt for mykje strev finna ut kva for ein maskin passordet er til.
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ImageMagick comes with an utility called convert. One use I frequently have for it is to run my digital photos thru it, like so: convert image.jpg conv/image.jpg. So what I do is simply to uncompress and recompress it. This is of course a lossy process, but in practice I can’t tell any difference from original and recompressed even when I zoom quite far in. And the disk space saving can be quite significant, up to 50%.
Virtual desktops are a brilliant thing. Microsoft will probably invent them Real Soon Now. For these of you unfamiliar with the concept, instead of one desktop on the screen, you have several. Then you switch between them using the mouse or keyboard. Very convenient when you’re running many programs at the same time, since you can then have one desktop per program instead of having to pile all the windows on top of each other.
Normally, you don’t want the version control system you’re using to maintain your thesis programs to say segmentation fault every time you update, even if it’s a simple consequence of certain core libraries being updated when the computer was upgraded to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Luckily they’re not all upgraded yet.
UTF-8 er Vegen, Sanninga og Lyset. Ein glimrande måte å bruka ikkje-engelske teikn i tekst på, inkludert teikn som engelskmenn og amerikanarar brukar sjølve, ikkje minst aksentar. Det er frykteleg plagsamt med program som ikkje skjønar seg på slikt, og trur at alt er ISO 8959-1. For då ser det slik ut nÃ¥r ein skal drikka skjærgÃ¥rdsølet sitt, og det er jo berre dumt.
X Multimedia System is a fully misfeatured program with an awful UI, and no amount of skin is going to change that.
It’s Free, though.
The desktop is here, finally.
“Another 15 languages are partially supported, with more than half of their strings translated. Slovak and Norwegian Nynorsk are particularly close to “supported” status.”
2.6.1, it’ll be there. Go GPL!
Just in case there’s an unknowing reader: Lotsa URLs are simply too long. There are link-shorteners like tinyurl and makeashorterlink around, but the one called clno has the advantage of actually making short links. Oh, and no ads.
The short introduction to LATEX isn’t short anymore, but still useful. LATEX the rox0rs.
Better maths and figure handling than Word, looks better, smarter design, harder to do new things in.
The short introduction to LATEX isn’t short anymore, but still useful. LATEX the rox0rs.
Better maths and figure handling than Word, looks better, smarter design, harder to do new things in.
The short introduction to LATEX isn’t short anymore, but still useful. LATEX the rox0rs.
Better maths and figure handling than Word, looks better, smarter design, harder to do new things in.
