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Using LaTeX Computer Modern type1 fonts with OpenOffice in Linux

July 19th, 2010 admin No comments

Today, I found a great Howto on using LaTeX Computer Modern type1 fonts with OpenOffice in Linux:

http://www.monperrus.net/martin/using+computer+modern+type1+fonts+with+openoffice+on+linux

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June 23rd, 2010 admin No comments
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Virtualbox Virtual Machine with Eclipse and Android SDK 1.5 r2 Preinstalled

June 22nd, 2009 admin 11 comments

Installing the SDK for google’s Android platform can be a rather cumbersome process. To save you some time, I have created a Virtualbox Virtual Machine with Eclipse and Android SDK 1.5 r2 preinstalled.

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Introducing Sinthgunt : an open source graphical user interface for ffmpeg

June 11th, 2009 admin No comments

This post announces the creation of the Sinthgunt project, an open source graphical user interface for ffmpeg, a computer program that can convert digital audio and video into numerous formats. Sinthgunt is now running code, is under active development, and is looking for both developers and testers.

Home page: www.sinthgunt.org



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Howto: Automatically spin down external usb hard drives in Ubuntu

April 4th, 2009 admin 5 comments


Spinning down external usb hard drives in Ubuntu doesn’t allways happen automatically in Ubuntu. To force a spindown, you can issue the command

sync
sdparm --flexible --command=stop /dev/sdX &>/dev/null

where you should replace the sdX entry by the correct name of your external hard drive (usually sdb, sdc or similar).
To do this automatically every 5 minutes, save the code below as e.g. ~/bin/spindown/spindown.sh.
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