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Just some notes:
1. manually download and install fftw3. Do not use the cgywin package, or the path will not be recognized by Gromacs.
2. Needed Cygwin packages: lapack, gcc, g77, make and nasm. nasm is required for both fftw and Gromacs in order to compile the assembly codes.
Not all websites have links to “printable version” like wikipedia. Although many websites have stunning look, it is really ugly when you try to print them. Some parts of the pages will be missing or the format is totally a mess. Instead of waiting the website owner realize this and prepare printer friendly pages for you, you can try to use the “web developer” firefox plugin to solve this problem. Just install the plugin, then on the web page you would like to print, right click your mouse and find the menus shown in the following picture, choose display CSS only for printer. The web page will become fluid and ready to be printed. Continue reading ‘Print view for any web page with firefox web developer plugin’ »
I’m using Pidgin v2.7 and Windows XP. I’ve tried most of the methods flying on the internet about changing themes for Pidgin, but none of them works. These include using the gtkthemeselector.exe. I noticed the latest Pidgin using a “%APPDATA%\.purple\gtkrc-2.0″ to control the look and feel once the “GTK+ theme control” plugin is enabled. The contents of this file look very similar to the contents of the theme files under “c:\program files\common files\gtk\2.0\share\themes\***\gtk-2.0\gtkrc”. I tried to copy the contents of gtkrc file of the “Clearlooks-DarkLime” theme and pasted them to the “%APPDATA%\.purple\gtkrc-2.0″. After restarting Pidgin, I saw this 
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For gnuplot version older than 4.4, ‘plot for’ is not an option to plot multiple files. In order to make it work and easier, I wrote a BASH script to generate the gnuplot input for multiple file plotting. You are lucky too find this if you are still using old version of gnuplot. No need to use it for the lastest version.
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