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babylon and stardict

Submitted by aleswa on Sat, 2008-10-25 00:06.

http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/dica/Convertendo-os-dicionarios-do-Babylon-para-o-Stardict/

instale o stardict e stardict-tools:

synaptic or apt-get stardict startdict-tools

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working with aliases

Submitted by aleswa on Thu, 2008-09-25 22:05.

Aliases are custom commands which can be used to make the work with the shell easier.

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configuring portuguese keyboard on ubuntu

Submitted by aleswa on Mon, 2008-09-22 19:52.

- to change keyboard layout, choose the menu System->Preferences->Keyboard. If you want to switch between several layouts, you might also add Keyboard indicator applet to your panel.

fix on opening .r extensions with nautilus on Ubuntu gusty

Submitted by aleswa on Tue, 2008-08-26 01:09.

I don't know if it's a bug or what, but an error message will pop-up when trying to double click on a .r extension file.

to fix it:

cd to ~/.local/share/applications

nano defaults.list

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link on conecting R to PostgreSQL

Submitted by aleswa on Tue, 2008-08-19 23:49.

http://grass.itc.it/statsgrass/r_and_dbms.html

don't forget

Sys.setenv("PG_LIB_DIR"="/usr/local/pgsql/lib")
Sys.setenv("PG_INCLUDE_DIR"="/usr/local/pgsql/include")

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link on PostgreSQL instalation

Submitted by aleswa on Tue, 2008-08-19 23:27.

http://www-css.fnal.gov/dsg/external/freeware/pgsql_Install.html

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adding a host to permanent host list

Submitted by aleswa on Mon, 2008-08-18 19:24.

sudo nano /etc/hosts

#add the host followed by the host name

problems with root login - su

Submitted by aleswa on Thu, 2008-08-14 22:32.

If you want to use 'su' instead of sudo to gain root privileges, you must:

1) assign a password to root: 'sudo passwd root'
2) setuid /bin/su: 'chmod 4750 /bin/su'

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Installing R packages

Submitted by aleswa on Thu, 2008-08-14 21:13.

As you may already know you can download and install R packages in R using the install.packages() command.

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small note on aptitude-upgrade ubuntu

Submitted by aleswa on Thu, 2008-08-14 19:31.

safe-upgrade
Upgrades installed packages to their most recent version. Installed packages will not be removed unless they are