Science and scientific computing

• My Ubuntu repository contains Debian packages of some scientific software
• Some software packages I like to use for science-related work
• Useful links related to PDL, the Perl Data Language.
• Creating ODF/ODT and MS Word documents with LaTeX formulas using OpenOffice.org in Ubuntu.
• A fast perl/PDL implementation of UPGMA clustering for very large datasets (to be added soon)
• A simple perl/PDL program to remove duplicate data-points from a multi-column datafile, useful for e.g. plotting the output of evolutionary simulations (to be added soon)

Video & Audio

• Installing OSS4 audio on Ubuntu 10.4 LTS
• Video encoding tips and examples using MEncoder and FFMPEG
• How to merge/join multiple video files
• Instructions on how to get the remote control of an SAA7134 based TV-card to work on Ubuntu
• Instructions on how to get a :Zolid DVD Maker (a USB video capture device based on an EM2861 chip) to work on Ubuntu
• How to enable hardware 3D acceleration on an ATI Radeon 9600 mobile chipset in Ubuntu, using the open-source Xorg radeon driver.

Graphics and layout

• Useful software
• How to search & replace text in a batch of PDF files
• Recompressing (optimising) PDF-files without Adobe software
• Embedding fonts in PDF-files for third-party printing
• How to install additional fonts in Ubuntu
• OpenOffice.org tips and tricks
• Printing a multi-page CD-booklet
• Extracting images from MS Word for Mac documents

GPS

• (Nothing new at the moment)

Various

• Assorted Ubuntu problems (and how to solve them)
• Use and abuse of Facebook "Like"-code
• Some experiences with tempeature logging using a cheap USB device
• How to downgrade packages using yum on Red Hat derivative systems.

Archive

• My old instructions on how to get an i-Blue 747 or similar bluetooth GPS-datalogger (based on an MTK chipset) to work on Ubuntu and on an Intel-based Mac using the Java-based BT747 control software.
• How to get DV video capture working in Ubuntu Gutsy using Kino