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Scilab Toolboxes

Posted on 28. August 2020

For personal purpose I wrote some toolboxes for Scilab for statistics and data management. My toolboxes are available as source and binary distributions and compatible […]

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Install DISLIN 10.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus

Posted on 4. June 2016

DISLIN is a very nice and well-documented 2-D and 3-D plotting framework for Fortran and some other programming languages. Furthermore DISLIN provides some widgets to […]

English Posts, Fortran, GNU/Linux, How Tos, Programming, Ubuntu

Other spell-checking language in MdCharm

Posted on 2. December 2015

To add another language in the spell checker of the markdown editor MdCharm in Windows or GNU/Linux, download the desired dictionary (*.oxt) of OpenOffice. Unzip […]

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wxMaxima Update

Posted on 8. November 2015

In wxMaxima 13 (Linux Mint 17, Ubuntu 14.04) it is not possible to type brackets as “[” or “]”. The ppa from István Blahota provides […]

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Display Java’s Swing menus correctly in Linux Mint’s GTK LaF

Posted on 1. November 2015

Since GTK 3 has been introduced Java Swing applications have a bug in displaying their menus when using the GTK Look and Feel (LaF). At […]

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inotify_add_watch failed in Octave’s GUI

Posted on 10. September 2014

Version 3.8 of Octave has an unofficial and experimental GUI similar to Matlab. But on my Linux Mint 17 (Quiana), based on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty […]

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Install and Setup Code::Blocks for Fortran on GNU/Linux

Posted on 3. March 2014

A new IDE for Fortran is in town. Beneath Photran the IDE Code::Blocks is available. Since Photran is specialised for Fortran, CodeBlocks is made for […]

English Posts, Fortran, GNU/Linux, How Tos, Programming, Ubuntu

Restore RSYNC backups of FreeNAS/NAS4Free

Posted on 2. December 2012

In my article “Backup your FreeNAS/NAS4Free shares automatically” I described how to set up automatic backups via RSYNC. To restore a entire backup of […]

German Posts, GNU/Linux, How Tos, NAS, Network

Automatic purge of Samba’s recycle bin on FreeNAS/NAS4Free

Posted on 24. November 2012

Samba can provide a recycle bin on a network share, as current operating systems do locally. Even FreeNAS and NAS4Free offers this feature and can […]

German Posts, English Posts, How Tos, NAS, Network