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 on Ubuntu Jaunty. 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 reboot. cd /tmp; mkdir EIGEN; cd  EIGEN; Get the Eigensoft source code: wget  http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/alkes-price/files/EIG3.0.tar.gz; tar xzvf [...]

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 [...]

This is quick’n’dirty writeup to help others who might have the same problem. I’ll clean this up later in the week … Ubuntu Jaunty is the new beta version of Ubuntu. It comes with a new version of X.Org and the ATI drivers have been incompatible with this version of X.Org. ATI recently released drivers [...]

I was in the process of figuring out and documenting the process of  compiling and installing an Xen enabled kernel on Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10. This was for a specific project that’s not going to come to fruition. I’m not going to bother as I also don’t feel like having my laptop burn a gaping hole [...]