Clean Up Ubuntu Grub Boot Menu After Upgrades

1. open the menu.lst (gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst),
2. find “#howmany=all” and change it to “#howmany=1″.
3. run “sudo update-grub” to update changes.

"Too many failed attempts" printing error

http://brainextender.blogspot.com/2009/01/ubuntu-intrepid-too-many-failed.html

1. Stop the cups daemon to prevent cups from reseting your modifications
sudo /etc/init.d/cups stop

2. Edit your cups configuration with the editor of your choice and comment out these lines
sudo gedit /etc/cups/printers.conf

#AuthInfoRequired username,password

EDIT: (delete the above line)

To prevent cups to place thoose lines again in your config file you may want to make it immutable with
sudo chattr +i /etc/cups/printers.conf

3. Start cups again
sudo /etc/init.d/cups start

4. Try to print with gedit - it should work now.

Ugly Korean fonts problem in ubuntu 9.10

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1317694

Carlos08 suggests: Remove ttf-wqy-zenhei thru Synaptic. It works!

Open Synaptic via System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager [Enter your password for administrative privileges] Search for ttf-wqy-* in the search box.

You will see that ttf-wqy-zenhei is installed. Click on the green check box next to the package, and select Mark for Complete Removal. Click Apply

falling fertility is a boon

Economist, Oct 29, 2009
(1) Falling Fertility
(2) Fertility and Living Standard
(3) A list of relevant papers.

Migration and remittance

Economic Inequality: WSJ vs. Judson

(1) Debate

Income Gap Shrinks in Slump at the Expense of the Wealthy (WSJ: Sep 10 2009)
vs.
Economic Inequality: The WSJ is Just Wrong by Bruce Judson

(2) What actually happen: New Income Inequality Data.

How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

nautilus terminal plugin

(1) $ sudo aptitude install nautilus-open-terminal
(2) restart
(3) right click in nautilus, you will see the menu.

Firm size

Big is back: http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14303582

Hollister. 2004. "Does Firm Size Matter Anymore? The New Economy and Firm Size Wage Effects." American Sociological Review 69(5): 659-76.

Installing Kdvi in ubuntu 9.04

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/kdvi/+bug/355781

1. edit (in sudo of course) /etc/apt/sources.list
2. add "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid universe multiverse" at the last line
3. run: sudo apt-get update
4. run: sudo apt-get install kdvi

Kile & ubuntu 9.04

Kile 2.1 becomes extremely slow in ubuntu 9.04.

A provisional solution for this problem is starting Kile with the command:

$ kile --graphicssystem raster

Is Capitalism Dead?

How Diversity Works: The Wisdom of the Crowd

(1) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=you-know-more-than-you-think
(2) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/science/08conv.html

TeX: Sociology Bib Style

(1) Download asr.bst and ajs.bst into /usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bst/Sociology

(2) To update texmf information, run:
$ sudo texhash

* Matching bib styles by journal
- ASA bibstyle: ajs or asr
(ASR, AJS, SMR)
- APA bibstyle: apacite
(W&O, SSR)

Kile spell check

Install "ispell" using Synaptic Package Manager.

TeX: Kile 2.0 +KDVI inverse search

1) In Kile, choose Settings-> Configure Kile -> Build -> Latex -> General
In Options, change it to :
--src-specials -interaction=nonstopmode '%source'

2) In Kile, choose Settings-> Configure Kile -> Build -> ViewDVI
In Advanced, choose Run Embedded in Kile for Type. In General it should display "kviewerpart" for Library, "KViewPart" for Library Class, "dvi" for Options

3) In Kdvi, choose Settings-> Configure Kile -> DVI Specials
Choose Kile for Editor, for Shell Command:
kile %f --line %l

Open stata-se in Emacs

The easiest way to open "stata-se" instead of "stata" in Emacs+ESS is making a symbolic link:

$ cd /usr/local/bin
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/stata10/stata-se stata

"Meta+x stata" should open stata-se.

rename in linux

Rename all .TXT extension to .txt.

$ rename 's/\.TXT$/\.txt/' *.TXT

Rename all uppercase file names to lowercase file names

$ rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *

Wine: Beautiful Korean fonts

Non-unicode Korean fonts under the linux wine environment may look ugly.

To fix it, copy a font you like under "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unfonts" to "/home/username/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts". That will change the ugly default font to a beautiful un-type font. I personally prefer UnDotum.

Ubuntu Remote Access 2

Sharing Ubuntu Linux Folders with Remote Linux and UNIX Systems

http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Sharing_Ubuntu_Linux_Folders_with_Remote_Linux_and_UNIX_Systems

Ubuntu Remote Access 1

Share your Ubuntu Desktop Using Remote Desktop

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/share-your-ubuntu-desktop-using-remote-desktop.html

The Best and Worst Jobs in the US

Sociologists are ranked the 8th best job:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123119236117055127.html

R: Tables to Graphs

http://tables2graphs.com/

ubuntu Speed Tweaks

http://colorfulcuriosities.blogspot.com/2007/06/ubuntu-speed-tweaks.html

Linux: Rename USB drive

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive

Virtualbox: MS-Word

If MS-Word under Virtualbox becomes too slow,

Do Method 2 of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280821 occasionally. Speed improvement for XP guest in my ubuntu machine was noticeable.

TeX: Gnumeric to Tabular

Gnumeric has a built-in function.

(1) select area
(2) [File] --> [save as] --> Select [File type]: Latex2e(*.tex) table fragment

TeX: Open Office Calc to Tabular

1. Download "Calc2LaTeX" macro:

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/Calc2LaTeX

2. How To:

http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/how-to-install-and-use-calc2latex-tutorial/
Skip the installing part. It will be already there for OOs 2.0 & 3.0.

TeX: MS-Excel to Tabular

1. Download the macro file:

http://faq.ktug.or.kr/wiki/uploads/excel2tabular.zip (developed by Joo-Myung Kim)

2. Unzip "excel2tabular.zip"

into "C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application Data\Microsoft\AddIns"

3. Install "maketable.xla" in Excel

In Excel, [tools] --> [add-ins] --> [browse]
It will produce "LaTeX" menu bar.

4. Enjoy!

(1) Select area
(2) From Excel menu bar, [latex] --> [convert]

For a better explanation in Korean, go to http://faq.ktug.or.kr/faq/Excel2Tabular

Understanding the current economic crisis in 10 mins

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zEXdDO5JU

Reading Large datasets in R: filehash

Theoretically, the package 'filehash' makes R handle a large dataset by allowing a hard-disk space instead of a ram area for a dataset loading. I've tested this package with a 1G Stata-format dataset. It didn't work well. Anyway, here is howto:

(1) Install 'filehash'

> install.packages('filehash')
> library(filehash)

(2) Set an environment for the large dataset you'd like to use

> dumpDF(read.csv("largedata.csv"), dbName="dbname")
> envname <- db2env(db="dbname")

(3) Analyze with the environment

> with(envname, lm(y~x))

* envname & dbname can be any name you like.

filehash manual; howto by Yu-Sung Su

Wine: Korean non-unicode fonts 와인 한글 폰트

와인에서 설치 안내문이 한글로 작성된 프로그램 파일 인스톨할 때 한글 제대로 표시하기.

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-383628.html

Beautiful Emacs: Deleting Weird-Characters

To remove weird UTF characters such as \335\277\210 in emacs windows, add the following sentences in ".emacs".

(setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

Beautiful Emacs: Korean 이맥스 한글 폰트

After doing "beautiful emacs", add two lines in ".emacs":

(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" '(#x1100 . #xffdc) '("UnBatang" . "unicode-bmp"))
(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" '(#xe0bc . #xf66e) '("UnBatang" . "unicode-bmp"))

"UnDotum" is a good alternative font.

Beautiful Emacs

Emacs default font change:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=803119