Category: Ubuntu 8.10

xrandr screen names in Mint 8 (Ubuntu 9.10)

December 1st, 2009
When using Ubuntu 8.04 I changed between display settings using the xrandr command line interface. For example, I had a script which included the line: xrandr --output VGA --auto --right-of LVDS However, none of these scripts were working after u… more »

Posted in Linux, Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 9.10

Running a script on suspend (hibernate/resume)

August 14th, 2009
At home I have an IOmega network harddrive with several shares that are mounted by cifs. I use these to copy my backups from my laptop to the harddrive when I'm at home and also to download my wife's backups, which I then copy to a usb harddrive at work.… more »
Tags: acpi, pm-suspend, script, suspend

Posted in Linux, Ubuntu 8.10

Installing arpack 1.0.8 in Octave for Ubuntu 8.10

June 16th, 2009
The arpack library in Octave provides access to two functions, eigs and svd, which are used in the Matlab package PACE for extracting functional principal components. Installing this package required two steps: 1) installing the arpack library and 2) ins… more »
Tags: arpack, octave, pace

Posted in Ubuntu 8.10, Octave