Summary Osra is a a utility designed to convert graphical representations of chemical structures create by Igor Filippov at the National Cancer Institute. This page documents how to compile and install Osra on Ubuntu Linux 11.10. These instructions may work on other versions of Ubuntu Linux and on Debian Linux.  Please leave a comment if [...]

See this forum posting for a potential fix, if your using an ATI graphics card: http://forum.lazy8studios.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=h1d37r13a2d2ccnk5c5j6b2c94&topic=475.msg837#msg837 This is a fix for the bug where Cogs launches with the following output: Shader compile log for data/effects/TextureBumpCubemap.fsh: Fragment shader failed to compile with the following errors: ERROR: 0:41: error(#132) Syntax error: ‘smooth’ parse error ERROR: error(#273) 1 [...]

If you want to install Oracle’s SQL Developer on Ubuntu (or another DEB based system such as Debian) you can do one of the following: Download the RPM package and install using rpm (not advisable). Download the RPM package and convert to a DEB package using alien Download the ZIP file titled “Oracle SQL Developer [...]

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These are rough notes on how to compile Eigensoft 3 on Ubuntu Jaunty. Update, Eigensoft 4 is available and should compile on more recent versions of Ubuntu: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/alkes-price/software/ Create a location to build the code: Warning: /tmp is for temporary files, and any files & directories you create there will be remove upon some subsequent [...]

This is a brief HOWTO on compiling OSRA, (Optical Structure Recognition) on Ubuntu Jaunty. To quote the OSRA home page, OSRA is … is a utility designed to convert graphical representations of chemical structures, as they appear in journal articles, patent documents, textbooks, trade magazines etc., into SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification – [...]

On Ubuntu it used to be that ctrl-alt-backspace would kill X (the backend of the various graphical user interfaces on Linux). In an aim to be user friendly this is now disabled by default. This can be a real pain if X locks up, you can’t kill it nor change to a console. On Debian [...]

I use Kayak.com whenever I’m planning a trip any where, it’s a good source to determine who flies to what destination and whose got the lowest price. Today, there’s a wee bug on their website where they tell me I should upgrade to Firefox 2.0.0.16, this would be sound advise except for the fact that [...]

I have a Red Hat 9 server that I have to support for a wee while longer. I needed to install some packages and I didn’t have the original install CD’s nor access to Red Hat’s repositories. After lot’s and lot’s of searching I found the ISO images at: ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/ But, there’s too many users [...]