Archive for May, 2009
There is a simple tutorial on Ars Technica’s Open Ended site with several useful examples of the grep command. Further examples can be found in the comments section.
Medical images, e.g. X-Rays, are commonly stored in the DICOM format. By default you won’t be able to open these in Ubuntu, but there is actually a package in the repositories which lets you convert DICOM image files to more common formats, e.g. JPEG, PNG or bitmap. sudo apt-get install dcmtk dcmj2pnm +oj img00000 img00000.jpg […]
The latest issue of DistroWatch Weekly has a feature on reducing the memory footprint of Xubuntu 9.04. This is in response to an earlier comparison of performance and memory consumption between Xubuntu and Debian with Xfce, published in the previous edition of DistroWatch Weekly. Unfortunately the sequence of steps starts by installing a minimal Ubuntu […]
After upgrading from Xubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) to 9.04 (Jaunty), the automount feature stopped working for a particular USB memory stick. It wasn’t even listed when I ran commands like sudo fdisk -l and more /proc/partitions But interestingly, when I plugged in my camera via a USB cable, the memory card inside it was automounted, and […]