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Written by Batuhan Osmanoglu   
Monday, 26 October 2009 14:13

Editing EPS files in Ubuntu

I prepare my papers in LaTex and I like to keep my figures in EPS format. Quite often I need to edit couple things here and there, and for that purpose I use Inkscape. However it can not import EPS files directly. So here is how I open EPS files in Inkscape.

Last Updated on Monday, 02 November 2009 14:28
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Written by Batuhan Osmanoglu   
Thursday, 15 October 2009 18:51

Rotating Axis Labels in Matlab

For a figure I need to prepare for a paper I needed to rotate the x-axis labels which were generated by "datetick" function in Matlab. I found some scripts at the Matlab Central, but none of them really did what I wanted without tweaking. I decided to write down how I modified the code -Rotate Tick Label- by Andrew Bliss . 

Last Updated on Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:01
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Written by Batuhan Osmanoglu   
Wednesday, 16 September 2009 13:11

Ubuntu Thunderbird-Lightning Calendar

Sometime ago, probably around the time I upgraded to Ubuntu Jaunty Thunderbird-Lightning stopped working and I didn't get a chance to give it another go. I re-installed it the other day only to see that I still couldn't see my google-calendar. Here is how I solved it.

 

Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 September 2009 13:20
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Written by Batuhan Osmanoglu   
Thursday, 10 September 2009 11:31

High-Res GMT Coastlines in UBUNTU

 Apparently the GMT full and high resolution coastline packages were too big for debian/ubuntu servers. So you can not get them with a single apt-get command. Here is how I installed them.

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Written by Batuhan Osmanoglu   
Monday, 31 August 2009 18:11

SuSE can not Find Library

 Recently we had to relocate our computers from one computing facility to the other. All the computers had to get a new static IP address. Which was easy to change through YAST. But on one system we could not get yast to work. It kept giving this message:

computer:~ # yast
warning: the qt frontend is installed but does not work
warning: the ncurses frontend is installed but does not work
You need to install yast2-ncurses to use the YaST2 text mode interface
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