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 ...

Update:  * The systems is rock solid with nwchem and ADF.  Only G09 crashes * Gaussian has now released G09E, and the release notes say:...

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...

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

Update 3/7/2013: there are now *gnome-bluetooth packages (3.8.1-2) in the jessie repos now. While I haven't looked closer at them, I p...

For no particular reason (well, because of this:  http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=104566 ) here's a very brief how-to ...

update 6/5/13:  The first upgrades and dist-upgrades are now in jessie. Nothing particularly exciting, beyond a new lsb_release package. As ...

Recently I've been busy preparing lectures (phew!), which means I've been kinder to my computer than is normal. Still, I managed to ...