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One of nicer looking timeline graphs for Latex is by using the chronology package This is the example: \usepackage{chronology} ... \begin{chronology}[5]{1983}{2010}{3ex}{\textwidth} \event{1984}{one} \event[1985]{1986}{two} \event{\decimaldate{25}{12}{2001}}{three} \end{chronology} source .

If you are using linux, the TeX Live is installed on: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex To install a style file you have to create a directory for it and copy the contents there. Next you have to run the program mktexlsr as root.

The simplest way to this is using a perl script called rename (debian linux only) I used only substitute strings, but it fully supports filenames which is really cool :) rename -v 's/oldString/newString/' *.htm Two sources for this: http://tips.webdesign10.com/how-to-bulk-rename-files-in-linux-in-the-terminal http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/littperl/perlreg.htm

I had some troubles to link the latex sources done in windows (case insensitive) to compile on linux (case sensitive). In order to fastly solve this problem, first, I run in shell (simply copy/paste in terminal) following code to make all figure files lowercase. This code works only for current directory. for f in *; do g=`expr "xxx$f" : 'xxx\(.*\)' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` mv "$f" "$g" done However, I found a bit difficult part to rename all the figure links within latex to lowercase. At least not without coding. I didnt have time to check the possibility to edit the code above to so it could be used also within files, but when I come up to this issue again, I might reedit this post.

VNC works usually pretty well to control PCs remotely. However, sometimes you only want to run just one program from the remote PC (or 64-core server), like matlab. Better option than VNC is definitely X forwarding. ssh -l username -X -v servername Once you login, simply just run the command for your program, and it will be open like a regular program :) More details on: http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/XoverSSH/X-over-SSH2.html There is also a possibility to do the same in windows using putty and Xwin32: http://www.math.umn.edu/systems_guide/putty_xwin32.html edit: In order to enable the X forwarding on your own machine, do the following (ubuntu 11.10) 1) Install openssh-server “sudo apt-get install openssh-server” 2) Edit the file /etc/ssh/ssh_config. Find/uncomment/modify these lines: ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes ForwardX11Trusted yes 3) Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Find/uncomment/modify these lines: X11Forwarding yes 4) Restart your SSH server. Earlier, yo