Autarchy of the Private Cave

There are several ways to do that, I’ll describe the one which worked for me. Please note, that printing from CLI has an advantage of being able to print out something at work from the comfort of your home and ssh (provided that the printer is on and is loaded with paper).

To extract a single page (or a range of pages), I used pdftops:
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For some period of time, I had to switch to my Windows installation when writing articles with references, because I keep my references database there and there is an extremely convenient add-on for MS Office to insert citations and format bibliography on the fly.

However, it is quite inconvenient to make/run programs/scripts under Linux, and then switch to Windows to describe the obtained results in the article-like form. Thus, I briefly investigated available citation managers for Linux.
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I love Debian, too.

Though I prefer ‘testing’ (which is currently codenamed Lenny) over ‘stable’ (aka Etch).

If you get Segmentation fault when trying to run fgl_glxgears in your Debian desktop environment, most often this would mean that 3D acceleration isn’t enabled.

For the case of ATI (and ATI Mobility) Radeon series, the easiest procedure would be (doing all as root, or prepending sudo to all commands):

1. aptitude update, to ensure you’ve got the list of latest packages
2. aptitude install fglrx-driver fglrx-control fglrx-kernel-src, for the actual driver; I also installed fglrx-atieventsd and fglrx-glx (these are driver-recommended packages)
3. aptitude install module-assistant, required for building the kernel module
4. module-assistant prepare, to verify that you have everything needed for the module build procedure
5. module-assistant update
6. module-assistant auto-install fglrx, to build and install the fglrx kernel module
7. depmod -a
8. modprobe fglrx, to load the fglrx kernel module
9. aticonfig ––initial, to configure ATI’s device section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (for more options, see aticonfig ––help)
10. reboot

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One of the benefits, offered exclusively by the Windows Vista Ultimate (not even by the Windows Vista Business), is

running UNIX applications (via SUA, Subsystem for UNIX Applications) , which provides higher flexibility for Windows workstations.

Where is the world going?

And how soon will all the Windows users (not only Ultimate Users) benefit from the higher flexibility by running UNIX applications?

I’ve tried it already under Windows, but as my main OS is Debian, I can’t use it

You can sign up for updates on Linux version.

After reading the Google Chrome book, it is a long time waiting for it to be released for Linux….

Also, I’m looking forward for the plugins to enhance Chrome. Although it did import my settings/passwords(?!)/bookmarks from Firefox, but it has no Foxmarks, AdBlock and some other goodies I’m now used to on all the computers I regularly use.

http://debian.org.ua/ and ftp://debian.org.ua/

What is on offer (mirrors):

• backports.org
• cygwin
• deb.opera.com
• debian – stable, testing, sid
• debian-archive (starting from 1.1!)
• debian-multimedia
• installation media (CDs/DVDs)
• debian-security
• even debian-volatile is here!

All this goodness is only 3 hops away from my DSL modem…. (ISP UkrTelecom)

Gone editing /etc/apt/sources.list

P.S. For non-ukrainian IPs, access might be slow/bandwidth-limited; for Ukrainian IPs, speed might be up to 100MBit/sec.

Update: some time after publishing this post, debian.org.ua was down for some reason. When it was up, it was serving me packages with a mere 3 kb/sec . I found that ftp2.debian.org.ua mirror is faster at the moment.