Category Archives: ubuntu
.local is the Shit
… accidentally I stumbled about something I really wished for. User-specific site-packages (python-talk). As specified in “PEP 370 — Per user site-packages directory” a user’s home directory might now have a directory called .local which contains lib/python<version>/site-packages and also bin/. … Continue reading
Send fax from the commandline (capifax for Windows, Linux)
This really nice project promises to send faxes from the command line under both Linux and Windows. The capifax command is part of a suite which also offers sending faxes via FritzBox-Phone from Linux - great.
Ubuntu’s vim and vim-latexsuite
Since the default gvim-application-menu-entry in Ubuntu starts gVim via “gvim -f” it is not able to execute a couple of vim-latexsuite commands properly, for example |lv and |ls just don’t work. Changing the menu-entry fixes this issue (also for starting … Continue reading
Wubi rocks …
… afraid of GRUBing your Computer? Try Wubi – install, and run Ubuntu just like any Windows application. This is really a nice alternative to VirtualBox for those who want to start soft.
Launchpad got Podcast
Here comes the New Launchpad podcast actually there already two episodes online (here is the second one) – hope you enjoy it as much as I did.