Category: linux
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Xorg.conf configuration — solved font size problem
Awhile ago I started having problems with some of my fonts on my computer at work. Interestingly enough, it only seemed to affect a very small minority of programs and situations, namely on startup, when Fedora is going through and telling me all the services it is starting, the fonts were so tiny I could…
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convert pdf to png with imagemagick
Imagemagick is a swiss-army knife of command-line image conversion, but can be a bit complicated to actually use. I have been making most of my figures with R lately, and printing them to pdfs, which I can include very easily into documents with pdflatex. I like pdf because it is scalable, fairly small file size…
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vi key bindings in R
I am working on learning R. For those that don’t know, R is a programming language and program a bit similar to Matlab, but is particularly designed for statistics. It is free and open source, and pretty fast and flexible. It has a pretty nice library interface, with lots of user contributed libraries at CRAN…
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Kubuntu Gutsy with Compiz
I upgraded my home computer from kubuntu Feisty to Gutsy yesterday. This was actually my second attempt. I tried once a couple weeks ago, but my satellite internet connection crapped out after downloading about 95% of the packages, and the upgrade process quit. So I decided to download a .iso at work and burn it.…
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Monitoring and automatically restarting services
Over the weekend, the network my server lives on went down. Apparently it was a planned outage that no one told me about. So I got a call Saturday night from my friend Daniel Reeves, who uses my server. I happened to be at a friend’s house, and couldn’t do anything about it at the…