MS Office Word 2007 and pasting formatted text

When I copy from Eclipse to word 2007, the text seem to be highlighted in blue background.


This is because of the paste option set. It is easy to change but it took some time for me to figure out how to do that.



You can set the "paste from other programs" according to your convenience. I am setting it to "Keep Text Only".

Upgrading ubuntu from alternate CD

Altenate CD allows you to upgrade older installation without internet access.

I am currently using 9.04 and I want to upgrade to 9.10. Upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic Koala

I have downloaded alternate CD ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.iso. Now I have the image in the hard drive of my PC.

Mount the ISO as a drive.
sudo mount -o loop ~/Desktop/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.iso /media/cdrom0

Ubuntu tells that it will start the upgrade automatically. For me it didn't happen. So I need to start from command.

gksu "sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade"

Better to have an internet connection opened.

Starts upgrading ubuntu to version 9.10

PIC programming using Ubuntu

PIKLAB

MPLAB is the IDE from Microchip who is the manufacturer of PIC microcontrollers. Problem with MPLab is that it is for windows.

For those who what to work on PIC from linux can think of using PIKLab. PIKLab expect the KDE environment. So if you are using GNOME environment you need to download kde libraries before installing PIKLab. I am using UBUNTU and UBUNTU is having GNOME as the default desktop environment.

KDE is written on Qt and GNONE on GTK+. So PIKLab is having a dependancy on Qt libraries as well.

Prerequisits
Installing Qt libraries in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libqt3-mt

Installing KDE libraries in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install kdelibs
sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c2a
sudo apt-get install kdelibs-data

Install PIKLAB

Once Qt and KDE libraries were install you can install PIKLab. rpm package for PIKLab can be downloaded from the following link.
PIKLab rpm

In ubuntu you need a deb package to install. So you need to convert rmp to deb using alien.

Install alien if it is not present
sudo apt-get install alien

Generate deb from rpm
sudo alien piklab-0.3.2-1mdk.i586.rpm

Install piklab
sudo dpkg -i piklab_0.3.2-2_i386.deb

Resolving undefined symbols
After installing if you try to run piklab it may give some error because of some undefined symbols. In order to resolve this you need to create links to the expected libraries in the name piklab expects.

sudo apt-get install gputils libpcre3
sudo ln libpcreposix.so.3.12.1 libpcreposix.so.0
sudo ln libpcre.so.3.12.1 libpcre.so.0
sudo ln -s libpng12.so.0.27.0 libpng.so.3
sudo ln libexpat.so.1.5.2 libexpat.so.0

Now you can run piklab.