Boot existing Vista from virtualbox on ubuntu

this is a great tutorial on how to do this http://www.qc4blog.com/?p=483

mpeg2encode on debian/ubuntu

Have ever waited for a lot of time on convert *.jpg output.mpeg and then it told you convert: Delegate failed `"mpeg2encode" "%i" "%o"' .. dahhhh

get mpeg2encode from here http://www.mpeg.org/pub_ftp/mpeg/mssg/mpeg2vidcodec_v12.tar.gz untar, make and you are done!

Disable system beep in linux

remove the module
sudo rmmod pcspkr
then blacklist it


add this to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
blacklist pcspkr

Done!

some netstat

to show active connections

netstat -nat

to show open ports

netstate -tulp

will have some more of these later!

some vim nice stuff

code completion
Make Vim an IDE
Lots of advanced stuff to know

libf2c.so: undefined reference to `MAIN__'

Alright.. so problems with libf2c with debian, ubuntu, etc, getting too much of libf2c.so: undefined reference to `MAIN__'

ok, just link with the static library "libf2c.a"

sudo rm /usr/lib/libf2c.so && sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libf2c.a /usr/lib/libf2c.so

Done!

Latex Figure and \label

Always put the label after the caption, otherwise floats wont be referenced in text !!!!

just ridiculous :s