I work as the IT guy of a school that runs free software on all our computers. So far majority of our computing needs has been met by free software. ( all of them if we exclude matlab and some freedom hating multimedia codecs.) One area that has b
Read MoreIn case you dont know what a pastebin is, here is a brief description. Pastebin is a web application which allows its users to upload snippets of text, usually samples of source code, for public viewing. It is very popular in IRC channels where past
Read MoreIntroduction Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Scilab is an open source software. Since 1994 it has been distributed
Read MoreBack in late 2007 i started seeing news about some revolution that was coming to sound in Linux . I remembered reading about it being the: next generation sound server for Linux, making all sorts of “ear-candy” possible: from dynamically changin
Read MoreSGeMS is a software for 3D geostatistical modeling. It implements many of the classical geostatistics algorithms, as well as new developments made at the SCRF lab, Stanford University. SGeMS relies on the Geostatistics Template Library (GsTL) to imp
Read MoreI wrote a guide earlier on how to share your internet connection on ubuntu. But the guide was for non wireless sharing . well here is an updated version that allows you to share your internet connection wirelessly to other wireless devices in your
Read MoreFor many moons ever since i started using Linux i have always wanted an easy way to share my internet connections between two computers. anyway i finally found a way to get it to work. Now i can share internet connection between my work laptop and my
Read MoreUpdating 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
Read MoreOne problem i had with my dell is not really a critical issue more of an annoyance. The fancy eject button just above my the dell’s keyboard those not work. I would have to manually right click and eject any mounted cd from its icon on the desktop. i
Read MoreInstalling Hardy heron on my laptop was quite a breeze. the only thing i had to configure was the finger print reader. but even that went quite well after following an easy guide. However Ibex was not that easy. Ibex was released some 6 days after i
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