Call for contribution to the “2020 FLOSS roadmap”

The 2020 FLOSS roadmap v1 is a document that was collectively elaborated by 31 experts and contributors and published last December. It contains a set of predictions on how the free / libre / open source software ecosystem could evolve over the next ten years, a set of recommendations for public and private bodies on [...]

Ubuntu- How to add a path to your path list in terminal (.bashrc file)

Suppose you would like to have access to a particular path from within terminal. For example, if you have your executables in a folder called ~/my_program/bin you may want to have access to the executables from everywhere within terminal. One way to achieve this is to add that particular path to your path list in [...]

Ubuntu- Geany: a good C++ IDE for Ubuntu (Linux)

In case you have been looking for a good C++ IDE for Linux, I have a very good suggestion: Geany Here is the description of Geany from its official website (http://www.geany.org/): Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small [...]

Ubuntu- get rid of blank screen in MATLAB installed within Ubuntu

There is sometimes a problem with the MATLAB in Ubuntu. The problem is that after installing MATLAB, you might get just a blank screen (blank GUI window) without any option menu, command line, etc. To solve this problem, find the file “environment” (the path is: /etc/environment). Add the following line to the file and try [...]

Ubuntu- How to unrar rar files with ubuntu?

If you have got a rar file (or other file formats not naively supported by Ubuntu’s archive manager- such as arj, 7zip, etc), you need to install extra packages so that Archive Manager can handle these file formats. For example, if you would like to unrar a file in Ubuntu, you need to install the [...]

How to find a PhD, Postdoc, or another university job?

I am currently struggling to find a new job for after my PhD and have been compiling a list of the websites where you can find all sorts of academic jobs including MSc studentship, scholarships, PhD vacancies, Postdocs, Lectureship and Professorship and other sorts of academic jobs. I decided to share my compiled lists of [...]

Ubuntu- Quickly opening a shell terminal in any given place

I have been always wondering why this feature is not pre-loaded into Ubuntu. Often times, one is in a particular location (path) within the file system (while using GUI file browser)  and would like to open a terminal with the path defaulted to that particular location. I have been always thinking that this should have [...]

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