For some unknown reason to me, Aptitude is unable to update its repository due to a signature verification error. The quick solution I found while googling was to clean up the repository. From a terminal type sudo apt-get clean cd /var/lib/apt sudo mv lists lists.old sudo mkdir -p lists/partial sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get update [...]
I love portable apps. I run Thunderbird on an encrypted USB drive, that way I am secure, safe and so on. Since there is a version of TrueCrypt for Linux, I decided to check whether the portable version of Thunderbird for Windows would run using WineHQ. And it did. And I love it. PS I [...]
I successfully installed KeePassX on easypeasy. But like any decent geek, I wanted to try to install KeePass for Windows using WineHQ. The installation was succesful yet the program crashes every time I try to open a file. I was simply trying to test this, I am not willing to find the bug. I may [...]
I am installing easypeasy, an Ubuntu flavor especially designed for netbooks. I own an Acer Aspire One. I have, in the past, ranted about the Linpus Lite Linux distro that comes with that. I don’t like it. I have tried Kubuntu in the past and I was certainly happy. Let’s see what happens. Post Footer [...]
Rating: Graph 4.3 is one of the best open-source applications I have used in my life! And that is not an overstatement. Yes, I have used Matlab, Maple, Mathematica, Maxima, Octave, R, … the list continues. But if you are a math tutor, a teacher or a graph enthusiast this application does exactly what it [...]