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
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.
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
Features:
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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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