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Installing Dropbox on Debian Wheezy

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Taro

Go to the Dropbox download website and download the .deb package, here dropbox_1.4.0_amd64.deb. Then The program will be listed under the menu Applications -> Internet. On the first launch it will download the daemon and I will need to go … Continue reading →

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Installing Firefox 9 on Debian Squeeze

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Taro

The questionable move by Firefox to the rapid release schedule has me disappointed.  A little bugs here and there, incompatible add-ons, and so on.  Seriously, the major, if not the most important advantage of Firefox is all these add-ons we … Continue reading →

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Installing kcorrect (v4_2) for IDL Locally on Linux

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Taro

I usually stay away from IDL but wanted to test the new version of kcorrect which usually runs on IDL.  Fortunately a Linux box in the department has IDL installed, so I decided to test it there, installing kcorrect locally.  … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 11, 2011 by Taro

This is all I needed to use this: Love Debian.

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SciPy Weave Bug in Debian Squeeze

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Taro

I was trying to remove a bottleneck by converting a portion of Python code into C++ via scipy.weave.inline, and encountered a bug. Here is my code: And this is what I get: running build_ext running build_src build_src building extension “sc_1eb4d019edb4774720031f15557074a811″ … Continue reading →

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Installing Firefox 4 Beta 9 on Debian Squeeze

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Taro

I find the easiest way is to download a precompiled binary from this nightly build repository. For beta 9 on AMD64: $ wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-4.0b9pre.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 $ tar -xvjf firefox*.tar.bz2 $ sudo mv firefox /usr/local/firefox4-b9pre $ sudo ln -s /usr/local/firefox4-b9pre /usr/local/firefox4 $ … Continue reading →

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PS3 Media Server on Debian Squeeze

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Taro

My music collection consists of Ogg Vorbis files.  Rather than re-encoding them again for PlayStation 3, I decided to serve music files via a media server.  Fortunately this is very easy to do. Installation Mostly following this note: $ sudo … Continue reading →

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Installing Debian Squeeze from Hard Disk

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Taro

Unfortunately the Debian installer does not work on my Dell desktop box.  I still wanted to do a fresh install of Squeeze, and the only sensible option for me was to install off hard disk.  I have been having the … Continue reading →

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Installing JWM on Debian Squeeze

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Taro

To really save battery consumption when needed, I decided to install JWM on my laptop. As usual, I did $ sudo aptitude install jwm and just selected jwm at the KDM login menu. However, every time I tried to launch … Continue reading →

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SExtractor on Debian Squeeze (AMD64)

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Taro

Installing from Debian Repository $ sudo aptitude install sextractor This version is rather old (v2.4.4) though. Installing from Source I need FFTW and ATLAS installed already, and assume that FFTW was installed at /usr/local/fftw, and ATLAS at /usr/local/atlas following the … Continue reading →

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