Multiple workspaces in Windows

The ability to use multiple workspaces in Linux is one of the features I most appreciate, and has been a feature I have missed when I have used my Windows laptop, which is rarely used in conjunction with a secondary monitor. No longer will I be limited to access to one workspace, as the Sysinternals tool Desktops v2.0 provides easy configuration of more workspaces on Windows computers.

LaTeX editor

I have started using the LaTeX-editor TeXMaker to write reports for university assignments. In addition to that editor, additional software is required to make it work. For Windows, there is MiKTex, and for Linux there is TeXLive.

Terminal to file

I recently found myself interested in piping some terminal output to a file, but I could not remember the proper command to do so, and it took some effort to Google my way to the right command.

command > nameoftextfile.txt --- This overwrites the textfile.

command >> nameoftextfile.txt --- This appends new entries to the textfile. 

Disappearing NICs in Ubuntu 9.10

One of my computers I recently installed Ubuntu 9.10 on, lost its connection to the network somehow, and even though both of the NICs had flashing lights when connected, the computer would not connect to any network resource.

After some quick Googling I checked the /etc/network/interfaces and discovered the only thing configured was the loopback interface, which upon checking my laptop with Ubuntu 9.10 appears to be the default setting.

At first finding this somewhat odd, I manually added both eth0 and eth1 and set them up to use DHCP and rebooted the computer to see if this would work.

Logging back in, the network-connectivity icon (Network Manager?) still showed no signs of connection, but loading Firefox and browsing to a website confirmed the connection was working, and it has since.