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Mendeley and Ubuntu 11.10
Posted by on 12.02.2012
Mendeley is a free reference manager and desktop/web program for managing research papers. When I recently installed Mendeley on my laptop I could not connect to the Internet. The program got stuck just after start, requesting information about a proxy server. The solution was to install the libqt4-webkit and libqt4-svg packages. This is the command [...]
How to install BankID on Ubuntu 11.10
Posted by on 01.01.2012
The BankID certificate files has a short lifetime, and when it is time to renew the certificate a new Ubuntu version has probably been installed. This may create a problem depending on whether a distribution upgrade or a new clean installation has been made. I installed my new BankID certificate today on two of my [...]
PSPP (free replacement for SPSS) and Ubuntu 11.10
Posted by on 26.10.2011
As a statistics student during the 1970′s and independent consultant during the 1990′s I worked with several different software packages, mostly SPSS, SAS, BMDP, and GLIM. SPSS is probably the package that has been mot successful in terms of number of academic licenses. However, I personally stopped using it more than 10 years ago. Both [...]
Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, Gnome 3, and Dell Vostro 3350
Posted by on 24.10.2011
The installation of Ubuntu 11.10 on a Dell Vostro 3350 turned out to be more problematic than expected. First, the installation program stopped working during keyboard selection. The solution to this was to install without downloading updates and third party software during installation. Second, after installation the screen kept flickering. The solution here was to remove the two [...]
Epson Photo Perfection 4490 and Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
Posted by on 23.10.2011
Setting up Epson Photo Perfection 4490 (and many other Epson scanners) under Ubuntu 11.10 is very similar to the setup under Ubuntu 10.10 as described here. Download these files from Avasys. There is a questionnaire to be completed first. 1) iscan-data_1.11.0-1_all.deb 2) iscan_2.27.1-4.ltdl7_i386.deb (or if you have the 64-bit Ubuntu, iscan_2.27.1-4.ltdl7_amd64.deb) 3) iscan-plugin-gt-x750_2.1.2-1_i386.deb Start by [...]
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