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"

ATI

(Edit: this tutorial does not work with Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and I will unfortunately not be able to update it for Karmic because I do not have the time nor hardware.)

(Edit 03/14/10: I no longer have the hardware to work on this issue. -This tutorial is no longer officially supported by myself- I personally suggest finding a way to get new hardware (NOT ATI – the driver aren’t worth it) and upgrading to the latest release of Ubuntu.)

Information on how to fix this issue in newer releases of Ubuntu is available.

Joseph Crowell
4/6/2010

Help with the open source ATI legacy drivers on Ubuntu 9.10:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

Follow that guide to the point where it links to “KMS with a Radeon card” then follow the link to here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting

and follow the instructions in the section KMS with a radeon card.

This worked perfectly for me on my ATI Radeon Xpress 200M.

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.

WARNING: Running commands as root (using sudo or su) can potentially damage your operating system. Be sure to CAREFULLY read EVERYTHING. Only proceed with these steps if you are confident with what you are doing.

ALSO: This tutorial is not guaranteed to work on every system, but since this tutorial itself has worked on MANY occasions, please feel free to be polite in your comments. Suggestions given in the comments will be added to the tutorial as needed. Thanks!

First off we will want to backup your current “sources.list” (the file that contains all of the repository information), so simply run the command:
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak
Now, we will open up the original “sources.list” file and set it all back to the intrepid repositories. This can easily be done with Gedit’s replace tool. You can, of course, use any other text editor. To open the file in Gedit, just type the following into a terminal.
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
In gedit, simply select the word “jaunty” anywhere in the file and click on “Replace” on the tool bar. When the dialogue box comes up, type “intrepid” into the box labeled “Replace With:” and click “Find” then “Replace All”

After replacing “jaunty”, save the file and close out of Gedit (or what ever text editor you used), and go back to a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get update
Once the repositories are updated, make sure all ATI drivers are uninstalled.

Now we will uninstall the current version of the xserver using the following command. (Note that gnome-session and fast-user-switcher-applet are specific to Ubuntu. Variants like Kubuntu and Xubuntu will not need to remove these because they are not installed)
sudo apt-get autoremove xserver-xorg gnome-session fast-user-switch-applet
This may take a minute or so. After it completes, we will reinstall the xserver and also install the ATI drivers. (Note that gnome-session and fast-user-switcher-applet are specific to Ubuntu. Variants like Kubuntu and Xubuntu will not need to install them because they are not part of your desktop environment)
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-kernel-source xorg-driver-fglrx libdrm2=2.3.1-0build1 gnome-session fast-user-switch-applet=2.24.0-0ubuntu6
When everything is finished installing, you will want to open up Synaptic Package Manager and lock all of the xserver-xorg*, fglrx*, xorg-driver-fglrx, libdrm2, gnome-session, and fast-user-switch-applet packages at their current version. This is done by selecting the package then going to the “Package” menu and clicking on “Lock Version”. You can also do this in the terminal by running:
sudo su
then
echo 'package-name hold' | dpkg --set-selections
Make sure to repeat the last command for each package that was installed by the previous commands. (This should total to about 47 packages or so.)

Once all of the xserver and ATI driver packages have been locked, run
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list.bak /etc/apt/sources.list
and restart your computer.

Once your computer restarts, all you should be able to use all of the features provided by the ATI drivers that were just installed.

EDIT 06/05/09: After you restart, make sure to go to the Hardware Drivers manager under the “System” menu: Administration > Hardware Drivers and enable that ATI driver and reboot again. (Thanks Nicholas)

EDIT 07/15/09: I have added the 3D fix suggested in the comments. (Thanks Dario)

EDIT 07/25/09: I have also added the fix for the CPU problem that was suggested. (Thanks Flávio)

EDIT 08/04/09: I have once again added a user submitted fix for the Fast User Switcher. (Thanks Shaun)

EDIT 09/23/09: An important comment from Mark:

I did run into one issue- after activating the ATI driver and rebooting, I got a great big watermark in the bottom right corner of my screen with an AMD/ATI logo warning me of “Unsupported Hardware”.  If anybody else runs into this, this is how I fixed it:

1. Download the 9.3 legacy driver package from ati at this page:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.7&product=2.7.4.3.3.3.1&lang=English

2.  Extract (don’t install!) the files from the 9.3 package to a folder with a command like:
sh ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.

x86_64 –extract driverfiles

3.  Replace your ATI ‘control’ file with the one from this 9.3 package:

First back up your existing file just in case:
sudo cp /etc/ati/control /etc/ati/control.backup

Then copy the new file in place:
sudo cp driverfiles/common/etc/ati/control /etc/ati

4.  Reboot and profit!  No more watermark.

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...

2. Once the settings window opens up, click on “Accounts”. In this section I set “Send messages in outbox folder:” to “On All Mail Checks”. (Note: that is optional).

The Accounts section.

3.  Now click on the “Add…” button and a dialouge box comes up. Selece “SMTP” and then click “OK”.

Add > SMTP

4. Now to put in the important information. Under the “General” tab:

• Name: What ever you want it to be
• Host: smtp.gmail.com
• Port: 587
• Server Requires Authentication: Checked
• Login: username@gmail.com
• Password: your password
• Store Password: Checked if wanted.

General Settings

5. Now, under the “Security” tab you can either click “Check What the Server Supports” or just select “TLS” for encryption and “PLAIN” for the authentication method.

Security Settings

6. Click OK in this window and the main settings window and start sending emails!

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

2. Click “Export your subscriptions as an OPML file” and then save it. Make sure to remember where you saved it.

Export your subscriptions as an OPML file

3. Now go to the “File” menu in Akregator and click on “Import Feeds…” then find the .xml file you saved and click open.

Akregator : File > Import Feeds...

Open the .xml file you saved earlier

4. Finally, enter the name you want that folder to have.

Name the folder

Now all you have to do is wait for the feeds to load and you are good to go!

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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

Here I’ve compiled a list of all of the Ubuntu releases with their release dates, names, and version numbers.

1. October 26, 2004 – Ubuntu Warty Warthog (4.10)
2. April 8, 2005 – Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog (5.04)
3. October 12, 2005 – Ubuntu Breezy Badger (5.10)
4. June 1, 2006 – Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06 LTS*)
5. October 26, 2006 – Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10)
6. April 19, 2007 – Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04)
7. October 18, 2007 – Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10)
8. April 24, 2008 – Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS*)
9. October 30, 2008 – Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10)
10. April, 2009 – Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04)

(*LTS – Long Term Support. Releases with long term support are released every two years, and supported for three years (Desktop) or five years (Server) after the release.)

NOTE: This is currently only for mono and stereo sound.

AMAROK
1. Open up a terminal and type “cat /proc/asound/cards”. This will list all of the sound devices that ALSA has detected. In the list there should be a number for each card (on the left side) starting at the top with card 0, then card 1 and so on. Remember the number of the card you want to use for Amarok.

2.Open Amarok (if it isn’t already) and go to the settings menu and click on “Configure Amarok”. In that go to the “Engines” section found on the left column.

3. Now select “alsa” as the Output plugin and click apply. When you click apply, the fields in the “ALSA Device Configuration” should become editable.

4. In the “Mono” and “Stereo” fields put “hw:” and, without a space after the ‘:’, put the number of your device. Now click “OK”, and your done!

Kaffeine
1. Open up a terminal and type “cat /proc/asound/cards”. This will list all of the sound devices that ALSA has detected. In the list there should be a number for each card (on the left side) starting at the top with card 0, then card 1 and so on. Remember the number of the card you want to use for Kaffeine.

2.Open Kaffeine (if it isn’t already) and go to the settings menu and click on “xine Engine Parameters” and go to the audio section. Now click on the “Beginner Options” tab.

3. Now select “alsa” as the driver and click apply.

4. In the “Expert Options” tab scroll down to the two fields that show what the mono and stereo devices are. You can find things by looking at the right column where it shows the name and a description of each item. The two things you are looking for most likely say “default”. When you find the two fields, put “hw:” and, without a space after the ‘:’, put the number of your device. Now click “OK”, and your done!

DRM, which means Digital Rights Management (or as many say, Digital Restriction Manager), restricts how you can use media and even devices that you have purchased. DRM is used by many companies including Apple, Microsoft, and Sony.

When a file is protected by DRM the number of computers it can be used on can be limited and many other things. I would guess this would include things like the amount of time and the time of day it can be used.

Along with restriction of use, if a DRM server is shut down, the files are no longer usable. For example the Yahoo! music service was shut down recently and now people who purchased music from Yahoo! can no longer listen to the music they downloaded. Apple offers both DRM protected and DRM free files.

Apple’s DRM Restrictions:

• The media can be used on an unlimited number of iPods




• The media can be played simultaneously on no more that 5 computers




• A playlist containing a DRM protected track can be burned to 7 CDs before being required to change the playlist’s contents.




• Fortunately, though, you can burn this track to an unlimited number of standard Audio CDs. The resulting CD will have no DRM protection, but this may result in lower quality audio.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay )

By summer time, Apple will no longer use DRM with iTunes!

There are many biased websites about DRM like “Defective By Design” (http://defectivebydesign.org/).

Personally, I think that DRM shouldn”t be used, and that perhaps people shouldn’t try to protect things like that. I really think that with the current copyright laws and the ignorant people that the market relies are good enough because the owners of these intellectual properties would make enough money without having to tell who can use it and keeping certain people from using it in this way.