I wanted to improve some PERL script files, so I turned to a VIM plugin.
But it can quickly become complex to manage all those plugins inside VIM.
So I found an interesting page on a french blog: IT Wars (direct link to the article).
It was about installing Vundle
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It’s been a long time since I wanted to move to a thin client infrastructure at home.
Up to now, kids are using some very old laptops, with a minimal Linux distribution. I setup a central Edubuntu server (on a Virtual Machine), with their accounts, and the kids laptops are using remote X (through NX/FreeNX for better reactivity).
Problem: I don’t want to maintain those minimal Linux OS, and I would like to replace those old laptops (broken keyboards, damaged screens,…) with simpler, cheap and low consuming hardware (Wyse,…).
So my first step was to setup the infrastructure to support those thin clients.
And this is what I did, taking advantage of Edubuntu distribution… and LTSP !
The main steps:
I was surprized not to have been upgrading Pidgin for quite a while on my laptop (Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid).
It seems Pidgin PPA is not updated accordingly…. I’m still running Pidgin 2.7.11.
When I check on Pidgin site, I could see the latest version is… 2.9.0 !
Time to upgrade… 🙂
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In order to scan and recognize Chinese pages, I was looking for an OCR on my linux distribution.
After several tests, I came to choose tesseract, which was originally developed… in HP Labs ! (now under Apache license).
Unfortunately, the Ubuntu package available was built for version 2.x, which does not allow Chinese support (need version 3.x)…
So I installed version 3.0 from scratch.
This is not too much difficult, but there are some steps to follow, and I propose to guide you there…
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