Raul Monsalve Jara

HP Elitebook 8560p and Linux Mint 10

raulmonsalve — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:08:12 +0000

I posted some basic instructions to get Linux Mint 10 working on the HP Elitebook 8560p here.

VIDEOS Section

raulmonsalve — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:41:45 +0000

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Sharing folders between Ubuntu 10.04(host) and Windows XP(guest) with VirtualBox

raulmonsalve — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:52:41 +0000

1) Share a folder normally in VirtualBox and remember the name you assign to it, NOT the path but the name.

2) Once in Windows go to the command prompt and type:

c:\> net use e: \\vboxsrv\NAME

3) Now you can use folder NAME in Windows as drive E:

Office 2007 on Ubuntu with Wine

raulmonsalve — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:18:29 +0000

After installing Wine, install Office 2007 normally. When it finishes go to the ‘Configure Wine’ option in the Wine menu, then select the ‘libraries’ tab and add a file to override; this file is ‘riched20.dll’. Apply and close. Now everything works!.

Fan control for Macbook Pro 13 inch 7.1 under Ubuntu 10.04

raulmonsalve — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:15:18 +0000

After following this guide, the devices of the computer will be almost totally working, except for some trackpad functions.

In order to control manually the fan speed just type at the terminal (it is only one line):

echo 3000 | sudo tee -a /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_min

Adding code highlighting to VIM in Snow Leopard

raulmonsalve — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:05:24 +0000

Open a Terminal and and enter these commands to open vim’s configuration file:

cd /usr/share/vim sudo vim vimrc

Press the ‘i‘ key to switch vim to Insertion Mode, then enter these lines below the ‘set backspace=2‘ line:

set ai " auto indenting set history=100 " keep 100 lines of history set ruler " show the cursor position syntax on " syntax highlighting set hlsearch " highlight the last searched term filetype plugin on " use the file type plugins " When editing a file, always jump to the last cursor position autocmd BufReadPost * \ if ! exists("g:leave_my_cursor_position_alone") | \ if line("'\"") > 0 && line ("'\"") <= line("$") | \ exe "normal g'\"" | \ endif | \ endif

Press the Escape key to take vim out of Insertion Mode, then press ‘:‘ (colon) followed by ‘x‘ to save the file and exit. Enter this command again:

sudo vim vimrc

… and you’ll see that vim now automatically indents code, displays the cursor position, has syntax highlighting, etc.

Information taken from here.

Hidden files in Mac OS X

raulmonsalve — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:15:39 +0000

To view hidden files use the following command within a terminal window:

$ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE $ killall Finder

To hide them again change TRUE to FALSE.

Working installation of Python on Snow Leopard

raulmonsalve — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:50:38 +0000

Snow Leopard comes with its own Python and Numpy installation, located in /usr/bin, but in order to install Scipy it is necessary to install a “generic” version of Python.

Run the Python 2.6.4 installer.
Run the NumPy 1.3.0 installer.
Run the SciPy 0.7.1 installer.

It will be installed in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6

This information was taken from here.

Scripting gnuplot

raulmonsalve — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:50:53 +0000

Using bash,

$ more test.txt|gnuplot -persist

The gnuplot commands are stored in test.txt.

Gnuplot in Snow Leopard

raulmonsalve — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:01:26 +0000

To compile gnuplot in snow leopard use the following command:

./configure --with-readline=bsd --x-include=/usr/include/X11 --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib

and then use make and sudo make install.

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