tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31969655276426498512012-06-02T09:46:55.868+02:00Articles about topics ranging from technology and software to scientific research. Occasional book reviews. Topics of general interest such as lifestyle, and nutrition. Exploration of blogs and the technical side of blogging.Benjamin Auffarthhttps://profiles.google.com/118440342400845052454noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196965527642649851.post-13338297917502298022012-05-17T15:53:00.001+02:002012-05-31T18:54:13.844+02:00

Every so often it's time to upgrade to a newer release of your operating system of choice. If you are using linux and you are working in research, this might be an article just for you. Here are some instructions about the installation of Precise Pangolin 12.04, the ubuntu long-term support (LTS) release which has just come out and is to be supported until 2017. I wrote two posts before, which

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At work I now work a lot with Visual Studio on Windows 7 Professional. While I have to use Windows, I don't want to loose the functionality and power of Linux, so I run a virtual machine with Ubuntu Maverick. Both Windows and Linux run smoothly on my machine and I can share files among them. In this post I give some help for setting this up. I chose Oracle's VirtualBox (also: VBox) as virtual

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Please see the updated version of this article about installation of software for research in Ubuntu 12.04. Some time ago I wrote a post about Ubuntu for PhD students, where I gave instructions on how to set up programs and libraries relevant for research on the Ubuntu linux distribution. This was for Ubuntu 8.10, so now I think it's time to update the information for Ubuntu 10.10 (codenamed "

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Fed up hearing and reading about Google Chrome I wanted to try out Chromium in Ubuntu, the open-source version of Chrome. There are several ways to install Google Chromium in Ubuntu. Downloading from Google automatically adds Google to your repository list[1]. Other ways to install it are over Personal Package Archive (PPA) or building from source code. Using the repository is safest, fastest,

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Ubuntu 8.10 is released. You might want to read the release notes and the press release. I waited until today to try out the ibex on my laptop, because my wireless card from intel had some firmwire issues with the new linux kernel (2.6.27) which weren't fixed in 8.10 for the beta version. A lot of people are downloading from the servers. Before you start, make sure you have configured a

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Please see the updated version of this article about installation of software for research in Ubuntu 12.04. This post is about ubuntu software installation for scientific computing and research in general. I wrote this post some time ago (with hardy heron in mind), but I update it every now and then with new software and links. It is updated for intrepid ibex (ubuntu 8.10) and most should still

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