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Please Make a Note is a collection of science & technology tips and derivations that will make it easier for research scientists & engineers to perform the various tasks they are faced with. These notes cover a wide range of scientific topics, software, media, and data analysis utilities.

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Showing posts with label Linux. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Linux. Show all posts

Monday, August 16, 2010

Picasa Installation Error on Ubuntu

So Picasa has failed to install on my Ubuntu box. The caveat is that it also prevented me to install any other packages and gave the followi...

Friday, August 13, 2010

How to Change Computer Name or Hostname in Linux

The hostname is stored in the file /etc/hostname You can edit that with your favorite editor. I use emacs: sudo emacs /etc/hostname You wi...

Thursday, August 12, 2010

How to Start emacs Inside a Terminal

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Extract Multipart rar Files in Linux

Open up a terminal and browse to the directory where the multipart rar files are and type unrar x thefile.part1.rar

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

How to Kill a Process in Linux

First, identify the PID for the process that refuses to end. Open up a terminal and type top To close top, type Ctrl + c now you're ba...

Friday, July 30, 2010

emacs, vim, svn, doxygen, and friends - Stocking your Unix Toolbox

Charles Reid, a doctoral candidate at the University of Utah and a very good colleague of mine, has kindly agreed to post some lectures from...

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

How to Get CPU Info on Linux

Try: cat /proc/cpuinfo There's a lot more to this. You can learn about the /proc directory from this post: http://www.linux.com/archi...

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