http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/fil/Class/b656/schedule.html

http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/01/19/how-to-create-a-profitable-freemium-startup-spreadsheet-model-included/|Para leer después

GIMP is great but I hate that sets the language to the current locale ignoring even Windows.

GIMP 2.6 path to locales is c:\program files\gimp-2.0\share\locale, and yes, delete all but en-* locales.

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1994

http://rubyforge.org/projects/linalg/|Fortran based Linear Algebra Library for Ruby

– Touchpad: Had to use the .8042.nomux=1 boot param for Kernel as described everywhere.

– Problems with the webcam: Cheese and Camorama useless but VLC and Ekiga ok. Seems to be some GStreamer problem. Update: new version of cheese 2.42.2 now works

– Dual screens were quite quirky to configure. Use gksudo nvidia-settings, Twin display mode and set the layout for both screens.

– I’m having some problems with sound. Sound is very low although everything is set up and loud. The master volume control for ALSA mixer sounds no-linear. There seem to be some problems with the drivers, but for now I’ll leave things like that.

– Touchpad too sensible. Fixed installing GSynaptics and enabling it as in here. (The issue is hard to test since appears as a “crazy mouse” when typing)

References

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallingUbuntuOnADellXPSM1530

http://jesperdj.pbwiki.com/Ubuntu-on-the-Dell-XPS-M1530

http://python-history.blogspot.com/|By Guido

http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:http://www.venturecake.com/a-simple-guide-to-using-your-existing-windows-install-apps-in-ubuntu/|(Cached on Google)

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/graphics/011109_hacking_your_brain/|How-to-Hallucinate

 

Update: Links that changed were corrected

First, use this Rails guide to configure ODBC, FreeTDS, RubyODBC:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoConnectToMicrosoftSQLServerFromRailsOnLinux

I also installed the ActiveRecord ODBC Adapter and DBD-ODBC from source

Check this for a hack when DBI can’ find the driver:

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/162972

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymc/