Apr 28
2012
Lyx 2.0 and onwards on OS X will use spellchecker provided by the OS X. Note however that the language it will use for spellchecking is determined by the document's language setting, not your system language setting.
Furthermore, in version 2.0.3, if you change your document's language …
Jan 27
2012
- Create a virtual env and activate it
- hg clone https://code.google.com/p/pyglet/
- pushd pyglet; python setup.py install
- popd
- easy_install pyobjc==2.3 # the ==2.3 is required as of 2012-01-27, or pyobjc-core will not install
- python -c "import pyglet" # this step should not fail
Cheers,
Steve …
Jun 15
2010
Recently unboxed my Ben NanoNote, and I am impressed. The packaging was top-notch and classy as hell. I would not hesitate to put my name to it.
The NanoNote itself is tiny, and feels fairly solid despite the shiny-appearance which I have come to associate with cheapo devices. It's a …
Sep 21
2009
gnuplot can be used to fit a fourier series to a series of data points. In my case it was an observation log for the star BE Lyncis from the Bossom Observatory, curtsey of Geir Klingenberg.
Firstly one needs to define a time function t(x) such that as x …
Sep 21
2008
Ever since I got my 2nd monitor, I been using VNC to work on my laptop. Leopard's inbuilt VNC server isn't really VNC compliant, and has many issues when used with a normal VNC client. I have found Vine server to be an excellent replacement. The client side is a …
Jul 24
2008
Running grub-install with a XFS partition will likely fail - there is a reason lilo is used when XFS is root! The issue is grub-install creates the stage files in /boot/grub, which grub then expects to find when it accesses the disk directly using its own file system drivers. For …
Jul 16
2008
I have set up an unofficial git respository for libfg patches and new swig generated python interface, as Gavin Baker (the author) appears to be busy with other things. This is a maintance only repository as far as libfg goes - I don't plan on adding any more features (since all …
Mar 28
2008
Likes:
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nice and small
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all the hardware works, including sleep/suspend
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runs debian based OS by default
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can run an external monitor at decent resolution
Dislikes:
- uses fastinit which only boots into single user mode, so user "user" is always logged in. Endless frustration playing with X11 startup in vain …
Jan 06
2008
I have been looking for software to work with my PIC-PG2 programmer under Linux for a while now. Previously I have been using windows and PICPROG which while nice, still involved messing with windows and stuff. The situation back then (around 2006) was bleak - there were no up to-date and …