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Showing posts with label debian wheezy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debian wheezy. Show all posts
28 July 2014

587. Very Briefly: Getting pictures off of a corrupted Compact Flash card using testdisk

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Nothing terribly complicated here. My CFII card (above, at /dev/sdb1 )  is about a decade old and occasionally becomes corrupted. To recov...
15 May 2014

577. Skype and webcam on debian wheezy: black screen

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This is another shameless re-posting of a solution published by others. See e.g.  http://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/Webcam-is-not-working...
03 April 2014

569. Briefly: Dual monitor set-up on Debian Wheezy with Gnome and a single nvidia graphics card

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This is very easy, but I might as well document it here anyway. This morning another group threw out two functioning monitors and I grabbe...
25 April 2013

395. Compiling the ck-kernel 3.8.x on debian (and patching i915)

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What is the ck kernel? In short it is a patch for the mainline kernel which is supposed to render it more responsive for desktop use. See h...
15 April 2013

387. Compiling Wine 1.5.28 in a i386 chroot on Debian Wheezy amd64

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UPDATE 16 May 2013: See here for Wine 1.5.30:  http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/416-wine-1530-in-chroot.html UPDATE: for those who...
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21 March 2013

366. nspluginwrapper on debian testing/wheezy

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I only recently realised that nspluginwrapper wasn't in the debian wheezy/testing repos -- and it is absolutely necessary if you want to...
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19 March 2013

363. Generating an image in PyMol

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For some reason I needed to quickly generate a publication quality figure of a protein. Deep View (SWiss PDB viewer) isn't available f...
02 February 2013

330. Installing Arch linux: installing from existing linux onto an external USB HDD

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Update: You might want to look at this post instead:  http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/331-full-linux-install-on-usb-stick.html  -- i...
24 January 2013

326. Compiling Thunderbird 17.0.2 on Debian Testing

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I tested this compile in a bare chroot, so the dependencies should be pretty much hammered out. The build is easy but fairly slow. sudo ap...
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23 January 2013

325. Compiling ECCE 6.4 on Debian Testing

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!NOTE!  If you provide ECCE with 'localhost' as the hostname, be aware that this will block outside access:  http://www.nwchem-sw.or...
22 January 2013

324. Setting up a private git server

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Update 11 Feb 2013: fixed a typo that ruined everything. I've recently moved one of my more mature projects to sourceforge.net, which ...
20 January 2013

323. Wine 1.5.22 on Debian Testing/Wheezy. Compiling using multiarch

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UPDATE 16 May 2013:  See here for Wine 1.5.30:  http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/416-wine-1530-in-chroot.html Another update:  It s...
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18 January 2013

322. Libreoffice and zotero for reference management

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I'm happy using latex and bibtex whenever possible, and I'm forced to use Microsoft Office and Endnote in most of my collaboration...
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16 January 2013

320. Wsearch32 in Wine

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Wsearch32 is a windows program that does what it's supposed to -- open mass spectrometer data files. Because our students use it quite ...