Monday, December 21, 2009

VPN in Ubuntu.

If you don’t want to undergo the manual installation and configuration of Cisco VPN or VPNC, then there is a good GUI solution in the form of KVPNC. It’s primarily developed for KDE, but it works well with Ubuntu.

Twitter in Ubuntu

There are so many to mention:

I use a GTK+ Twitter client - twitux. It display messages in notification, not count of tweets.

gTwitter is another simple GTK+ based application for Linux, designed to interact with Twitter web service.

Gwibber is a microblogging client for GNOME. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, Flickr, Digg and RSS.

Windows in Linux

PlayOnLinux is a piece of sofware which allows you to easily install and use numerous games and softwares designed to run with Microsoft®'s Windows®.
Few games are compatible with GNU/Linux at the moment and it certainly is a factor preventing the migration to this system. PlayOnLinux brings an accessible and efficient solution to this problem, cost-free and rescpetful of the free softwares.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of the interesting points to know:

* You don't have to own a Windows® license to use PlayOnLinux.
* PlayOnLinux is based on Wine, and so profits from all its possibilities yet it keeps the user away from its complexity while exploiting some of its advanced functions.
* PlayOnLinux is a free software.
* PlayOnLinux uses Bash and Python

Nevertheless, PlayOnLinux has some defects, as every piece of software:

* Occasional performances decrease (image may be less fluid and graphics less detailed).
* Not all games are supported. Nevertheless, you can use our manual installation module.

Referencing

While there are few commercial software, there are also plenty of free referencing software available. Some of the software that I'm aware of are:

Bibus is a bibliographic and reference management software that works well with OpenOffice and Word.

JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format. JabRef runs on the Java VM (version 1.5 or newer), and should work equally well on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

KBibTeX is a BibTeX editor for KDE to edit bibliographies used with LaTeX. Features include comfortable input masks, starting web queries (e. g. Google or PubMed) and exporting to PDF, PostScript, RTF and XML/HTML. As KBibTeX is using KDE's KParts technology, KBibTeX can be embedded into Kile or Konqueror.

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.