Notes
From Sven Kreiss
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[edit] UoE Physics LaTeX styles
Notes about LaTeX and JaxoDraw.
[edit] Eagle transparency problems with compiz
After the switch to compiz-fusion, I could not use Cadsoft's Eagle anymore. Apparently I ran into this bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227337
Using export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 and opening eagle from the same terminal solved the problem for me.
[edit] OpenOffice Calc Alternating Background
There is an excellent description at http://www.openofficetips.com/category/using-openoffice-calc/page/3/ which describes how to get alternating background colours in an OpenOffice Spreadsheet. I would like it to be simpler (like a single button for it), but this is the easiest -- and once you know it very quick -- method to get alternating background colours. Look at the flash animation for a step-by-step description.
[edit] Suggestions for improvement
Set styles for your table content, e.g. Default, and create a second style, e.g. Default_dark which is "Linked with" Default. Only change the background of Default_dark. The conditional formatting then can be applied with two conditions:
- First condition: mod(row();2)=1 will be Default_dark.
- Second condition: mod(row()+1;2)=1 will be Default.
[edit] 31/05/07 - Testing EmbedVideo Extension
| Multi-touch presentation. | Compiz Fusion rocks! | Finite Simple Group | Kill -9 |
[edit] 22/05/07 - Permanent Changes in GRUB
When I installed Dapper, I needed the option vga=771 for the splash to work. That changed during some update and I had to remove it. The annoying thing is, that it changed back to vga=771 each time a new kernel was installed. To remove it permanently do not change the boot menu entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst directly. The right thing to do is to change this line:
# kopt=root=UUID=some numbers ro vga=771
Although it is a comment, it is used by the debian update-grub script. So try and remove vga=771 in this line and do
sudo update-grub
afterwards. Now, your menu entries should not have a vga=771 anymore.
I guess similar irritations occur with other options. The important bit is that options with a single hash are not comments to the update-grub script which is run after each kernel update.
[edit] 01/05/07 - Cadsoft's Eagle
It just took me an hour to find the name of the ulp-script I used a while ago to create Bill of Materials (BOM) with eagle. Now I found it: bom-am-11.ulp from http://www.cadsoft.de/download.htm