Decided to give my blog a new look. since its mostly a guide oriented blog i wanted something easy on the eyes and that would not make my post crammed. i hope its cool i would appreciate feedbacks
New Look for My Blog
Sunday, December 7th, 2008Upgrade / Downgrade your Dell Bios On Ubuntu
Sunday, December 7th, 2008Updating or Downgrading your Bios is pretty straight forward on Ubuntu. Ok maybe not as straight forward as double clinking to install. But not that difficult all the same.
for this guide we will be using the commandline. But that should not scare you, i have tried to make the guide as easy as possible. first we open Terminal /Application/Accessories/Terminal
Now since we will be running every command as root(as administrator), we sould need to become an admin. so that we wont need to been adding sudo infront of every command. so first copy and paste this in terminal
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How to install scilab 5.0.3 on Ubuntu 8.4
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008THIS GUIDE IS NOW DEPRECIATED, A MORE RECENT AND EASIER VERSION CAN BE FOUND HERE
They say if u want something done you’d better do it your self. Since there was no deb package for the latest scilab 5.0.3. I had no choice than to build one from source. it wasn’t easy hunting down the needed dependency many of which are not available in the hardy repository. I had to download online from the intrepid repo . here are the things i did to get it to compile.
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