http://www.epr.ch/brb/wiki/ 2012-02-05T19:07:13+01:00 http://www.epr.ch/brb/wiki/ http://www.epr.ch/brb/wiki/.epr.ch/brb/wiki/lib/tpl/dokubook/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-01-26T10:56:22+01:00 brb http://www.epr.ch/brb/wiki/blog/ubuntu_11.04_fingerprint?rev=1327571782 Fingerprint Reader There are apparently two ways to activate the Fingerprint Reader with 1) ThinkFinger (<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinkFinger> from Synaptic) and 2) Fprint from here <https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprint> (fprint is also in Synaptic but something is missing). Long story short (kinda): Quick installation guide text/html 2012-01-26T10:42:00+01:00 brb http://www.epr.ch/brb/wiki/blog/thinkpad_middle_mouse_scrolling?rev=1327570920 One of the best features of my laptop [Thinkpad t61] is these laptops have trackpoints which helps you to handle the keyboard and mouse without getting your hands of the keyboard, so that you handle your jobs faster. With ubuntu the trackpoints’ scrolling property does not work out of the box, but if you follow the steps under this post, you can have fully working trackpoint functionality. text/html 2012-01-22T10:07:09+01:00 brb http://www.epr.ch/brb/wiki/blog/installing_sage_on_ubuntu_11.10?rev=1327223229 Install prerequisite libraries sudo apt-get install build-essential m4 readline-common libreadline-dev texlive xpdf evince tk8.5-dev gfortran Download the current version of the sources and compile them wget http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/sagemath/src/sage-4.8.tar tar xvf sage-4.8.tar Once text/html 2012-01-19T07:30:33+01:00 brb http://www.epr.ch/brb/wiki/blog/ubuntu_11.04_vnc_access_screen_repaint_problem?rev=1326954633 This has to do with compiz bug in 11.04. You can 'fix' it by setting xdamage off (effectively sending the whole screen on every update :/ ) gconf-editor Then navigate to: desktop / gnome / remote_access. Enable the “disable_xdamage” setting. text/html 2012-01-19T07:16:05+01:00 brb http://www.epr.ch/brb/wiki/blog/firefox_and_chrom_cache_on_ramdrive?rev=1326953765 Add to fstab: tmpfs /tmp tmpfs mode=0777 0 0 Firefox: browser.cache.disk.parent_directory=/tmp/ram Chromium: just change launcher to /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --disk-cache-dir="/tmp/ram/" Ref: <http://www.linuxreaders.com/2011/01/11/firefox-chrome-cache-on-ram-drive-fedora-ubuntu/> text/html 2012-01-16T11:30:41+01:00 brb http://www.epr.ch/brb/wiki/blog/find_ubuntu/debian_package_containing_a_given_file?rev=1326709841 apt-file search filename or apt-file search /path/to/file To install apt-file, use: apt-get install apt-file you will need to update its database before you can use it: sudo apt-file update text/html 2012-01-09T20:10:09+01:00 brb http://www.epr.ch/brb/wiki/blog/vmware_ubuntu?rev=1326136209 VMWare and Ubuntu: ACPI: I/O resource piix4_smbus error on boot After installing a brand new Ubuntu 64bit on VMWare i got the message: ACPI: I/O resource piix4_smbus [0x1040-0x1047] conflicts with ACPI region SMB_ [0x1040-0x104b] Resolved this by adding text/html 2011-12-19T13:31:48+01:00 brb http://www.epr.ch/brb/wiki/blog/install_windows_codecs_and_support_for_encrypted_dvds_in_ubuntu?rev=1324297908 Install Mplayer in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) You have to make sure you have enabled universe,multiverse repositories Now you need to run the following command to update the source list sudo apt-get update Install w32 video codecs and libdvdcss2 in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) text/html 2011-12-14T08:15:31+01:00 brb http://www.epr.ch/brb/wiki/blog/word_footnotes_have_undeletable_extra_lines?rev=1323846931 Possible solutions: * Try to copy the entire file to the clipboard, minus the last paragraph sign. Paste to a new empty file. * In NORMAL VIEW (NOT Print Layout view), VIEW>FOOTNOTE and select FOOTNOTE SEPARATOR from drop down list. Now you can edit the separator. You'll probably see some blank lines before and/or after the little horizontal separator line itself. Delete those and close and go back to Print Layout view and the extra white space should be gone. Found answer deep in a MS si…