If you're getting "AnyConnect was not able to establish a connection to the specified secure gateway. Please try connecting again....

 Sometimes only the onboard audio devices show up as being available in gnomeusing pulseaudio. Your usb devices for some reason don't sh...

 My old GT210 has served me well, but I've had a few odd freezes recently, coupled with weird graphics behaviour. It's a pity, since...

 I have a BlueParrot  B350-XT which is causing issues on linux. It pairs fine, and shows up as a sound device, but it won't actually pla...

Not much to say. I wanted to do some Bader-type AIM analyses, and I don't have AIM2000/AIMPAC. Multiwfn can do this, and a lot more. ...

My free dropbox account has 6Gb storage, whereas my google drive has 15Gb. Dropbox pro is way too expensive, so here's what you can do t...

Update: The only thing that worked for turning off screen-blanking when using youtube or vlc was an ugly little hack: I installed xdotool ...

Note: you may want to install awscli and euca2ools . I didn't, so I don't actually know whether they are useful. My instructions ...

And another update: * I've set up an Amazon EC2/AWS instance and have done some benchmarking there too: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au...

Nothing odd here, but providing instructions is never a bad idea. Note that ORCA is binaries only i.e. no source code . It's one reason ...

NOTE: * I've confirmed that ECCE built like this installs and works perfectly on a Thinkpad SL410 with intel graphics * It also compi...

Curse blogspot and the lack of revision control and backups! I lost my post when it was almost finished. So here's a briefer version. ...

This post probably isn't interesting unless you live/have lived in Sweden (Scandinavia)/deal with Swedish(Scandinavian) banks and their ...

As shown here: http://firstin-lastout.com/2013/07/how-to-test-wifi-speed/ Install iperf: sudo apt-get install iperf Open two terminal wi...

A new version of nwchem is out now, and this time we're seeing a new solvation model: SMD! Given how long it took to get COSMO right, th...

NOTE: * I did this on debian jessie which at the time has gnuradio v 3.7.3-9+b1 and rtl-sdr v 0.5.3-3 * I'm having a lot of trouble ...

Yet another little usb device from PC sensors (I seem to have been giving them a fair amount of money recently ). This is the device in qu...

UPDATE 1 May 2014: I've rewritten the code now to properly deal with the presence of both a 0c45:7401 and a 0c45:7403 simultaneously. N...

I've been using me-tv (and occasionally kaffeine and vlc ) to watch DVB-T on linux for the better part of two years. While it's work...