FCSalyzer: flow cytometry analysis
Posted: 2017-01-29 Filed under: academic | Tags: FACS, flow cytometry, flow cytometry on Linux, offline analysis 4 CommentsI came across a free, cross-platform, flow cytometry analysis program, called FCSalyzer. Its author is Dr. Sven Mostböck and the program is under active development. I gave it a try and I should say, it is really promising. Although still in alpha stage of development, it provides all the basic functionality one would expect from a flow cytometry analysis software.
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WPS Office
Posted: 2016-12-28 Filed under: office | Tags: font, impress, MT Extra, office, Presentation, Spreadsheets, WPS Office, writer 1 CommentWith the latest SlackBuilds.org update, WPS Office was added to the repository. I decided to give it a try, as I have never been too happy with Impress.
The SlackBuild script just repackages the binaries provided from upstream. So far, the office suite seems amazingly good. Really. The interface is user-friendly, it is very fast and offers good compatibility with the file formats of MS Office. Upon start, a warning window appeared, complaining about a missing font:
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Making a patch
Posted: 2016-11-26 Filed under: slackbuilds | Tags: diff, patch, sed Leave a commentI usually fix the SlackBuilds I maintain by sed, as it makes things much more transparent. However, sed is not always an option, especially for some big fixes or fixes that contain “weird” characters, for example something like this:
unless (defined(@$slist) && defined($hlist_sel)) {
The above is an excerpt from perlprimer.pl, that had to be fixed. The problem in question has been discussed here. I wanted to provide a fix for my perlprimer.SlackBuild, therefore I decided to make a patch.
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LibreOffice: start numbering at page 2
Posted: 2016-11-06 Filed under: office | Tags: libreoffice, numbering, title page, writer Leave a commentI have a text document prepared in LibreOffice Writer, where the first page should contain only title and table of contents. Page numbering should then begin on the following page. That’s it: page 1 should have no numbering, page 2 should be numbered 1, page 3 should be numbered 2 and so on… How to do it?
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HexChat auto login
Posted: 2016-10-19 Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: freenode, HexChat, identify, irc, slackware, XChat 14 CommentsI have always preferred a graphical IRC client, probably because I got familiar with IRC quite late. I used to make XChat auto login to irc.freenode.net with my username, but since I did this once per Slackware release, I never really remembered how I set it up.
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