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Inserting Charts/Graphs

I have recently been asked how to insert a graph in Apple’s iWork Pages program, so here is a short post about inserting a chart or graph in Pages.

Inserting Graphs

To insert a chart, just simply click on the “Charts” button on the tool bar then you can select what type of chart you would like.

You can also go to the “Insert” menu then go to “Charts”. This will give you a list of different charts you can insert.

Editing Graph Data

Once you add a graph, the “Chart Data Editor” should comes up. This will allow you to edit the data that the graph displays.

The "Chart Data Editor"

Formatting the Graph

Along with the Data Editor, the “Inspector” also comes up which gives you options for formatting how your graph looks.

The "Inspector"

Into the Depth, originally uploaded by flakeparadigm.

A cool wallpaper I made today. If you want a fullsize copy of it, email me. (tyler@tan-com.com)

Air1 Radio

A while back, I came across a Christian radio station (online) and heard about it again, recently. I listened to it for a little while and it’s pretty cool! Their mission is “To effectively communicate the gospel message to those who do not know or fully understand it, through full-time contemporary Christian music and short educational elements over radio, the Internet and other select targeted media – using modern day language and the highest professional standards.”

They play a lot of good music, and in good variaty too. I completely suggest this station, be it online or on the radio (depending on your location) it is a good station.

http://air1.com/

Gateway T-6345U

I recently got a new Gateway T-6345U laptop and (being a Linux lover) I installed Ubuntu Jaunty on it right after I made sure it all worked.

Installation

Installing Ubuntu was as easy as usual, though it went a little slow due to Gnome’s power manager’s lack of using the maximum CPU speed. Fortunately, there’s a pannel applet that is installed by default to help with this. It’s called “CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor”. Due to the face that the Laptop has two CPUs, you will need two instances of this applet each set to monitor a different CPU.

First Run

When you reboot after installing it, everything works perfectly… well, almost everything. Three (sometimes vital) things don’t work right out of the box. These three are the desktop effects, adjusting the screen brightness, and the headphones and microphone jacks on the front. Don’t panic if your headphones or microphone doesn’t work, it’s a software issue. Also, you probably want to add the CPU scaling applet to your panel.

EDIT 06/06/09: I have also found that when a memory card is put into the reader, it is recognized only as generic storage media. I will post a fix for this when/if i find one. Read More

ATI

With the newest realease of Ubuntu (9.04 Jaunty Jackalope) came a major problem with support for older ATI graphics cards. Though these cards work with generic drivers, the ability to use dual heads and more advanced configurations has been lost. You may think that you can simply head over to AMD’s ATI driver page and get a driver, but the latest version of Catalyst does not support the older cards. “Maybe I can just download an older version of the driver,” might be what you are thinking, but the old driver is not compatible with the new version of xserver that is included with Ubuntu Jaunty.

The only way to use the old driver is to downgrade your xserver, which is actually not too hard. As long as you have an internet connection and some terminal skills, you are set.

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After easily setting up your Gmail IMAP account in KMail (perhaps using a tutorial like the one featured on Jatecblog) you may wonder how to set up your outgoing SMTP acout too.  After some looking around, I don’t see much of anything on this subject other than people having problems setting it up, so I sat down to figure it and and I believe I have figured it out. Here’s how I went about doing it.

1. First off, open up KMail and go to “Configure KMail” under the Settings menu. This will bring up (as you might have guessed) the settings for KMail.

KMail: Settings > Configure KMail...

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I just moved over to KDE 3.5 (the good old days) and was migrating everything over to Kontact (which includes Akregator) and decided it would be nice to import my Google Reader feeds into Akregator. I’ve compiled steps on how I did this myself.

1. Head over to Google Reader (http://google.com/reader/) and go to the “Import/Export” tab under your settings.

Google Reader : Settings > Import/Export

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Sometimes a corrupt installation package can corrupt your package management system leaving your Linux unable to install or on remove any packages (Software). Here is the message error I got from apt-get after trying to install ndas-admin for Ubuntu.
$sudo apt-get install mplayer   (or any package)
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: The package ndas-admin needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it. (this is the error)

I got stuck with this problem and this article fixed it right up!

Original post by ITechLog > Fix Broken package – Ubuntu

Blue Fibers, originally uploaded by flakeparadigm.
I’ve just uploaded a batch of images of some fiber optics stuff. Fun!

Prickly Pear Blossom, originally uploaded by flakeparadigm.
I just uploaded several photos of a prickly pear cactus.
I’ll also be uploading several more pictures tonight.