I tried various guides on installing Microsoft Office 2010 on Ubuntu using Wine (1.5.22) but none worked. In each case the installer failed the midway. However, since the official Wine page gives it a rating of Platinum, I finally read through the page and it worked.

Bookmarking the relevant extracts for future.

Make sure all dependencies of Wine are installed on your system, including winbind.

1. Installed the latest Wine version. It auto installed wine-mono mentioned in the original article.

   $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install wine1.6

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This is a powerful guide to Zero-Inbox technique using Gmail shortcuts.

e: archive
#: delete
se: star & archive
gi: goto inbox
gs: goto stared mails (do more often than gi)
j: next mail
k: previous mail

While reading the discussion about it, also came across some useful Gmail tips:

1. Use followup.cc.
2. Enable auto-advance in labs.
3. Enable undo sent if you already haven't.

Link: http://xph.us/2013/01/22/inbox-zero-for-life.html

Have been playing around with D3 recently. This was the most easy to understand guide/tutorial to understand scales, domains and ranges in D3. It is powerful and I am loving it!

The values in any data set are unlikely to correspond exactly to pixel measurements for use in your visualization. Scales provide a convenient way to map those data values to new values useful for visualization purposes.

Link: http://alignedleft.com/tutorials/d3/scales/

This week's HN Newsletter shared 2 useful websites for playing with images.

phrase.it

Add cartoon style speech bubbles to photos within seconds

Fake Images Please?

Fakeimg.pl is a little tool that generates images with an URL. Choose the size, the colors, even the text.

Usage Example:

http://fakeimg.pl/439x230/282828/eae0d0/?text=Problem?

Bookmarked both!

Walter Isaacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, Einstein and Benjamin Franklin shares his favourite virtues common in all three:

My notes from the video

Don't Be Afraid, You Can Do It! - by Steve Jobs
- Circuit Board
- Boot time
- Gorilla Glass

Simplicity!
- iPod: 3 Clicks, any song
- Focus: Made list of everything, then took-up top 3

Passion for curiosity!
- Einstein's Compass

Be Tolerant, Humility/Pretence of humility (by listening to others)
- We tend to be wrong. So listen to others to came to a common ground.

Thinking Different / Imagination …

Came across this wonderful discussion on StackOverflow, for dumping all the MySQL databases from command line.

For dumping:

mysqldump -u username -p --all-databases > alldbs.sql

For restoring:

mysql -u username -p < alldbs.sql

The advantage is that it is very quick, and you do not lose the user privileges.

I had earlier mentioned about the correct way of mounting NTFS partition using ntfs-config. However, recently I experienced a few crash errors and thus found this method easier to use.

Open Unity (using windows key) and type "Startup Applications"

Then click on the Add button, Write a name for this operation such as "Mount ntfs drives", then in command input box, write udisks --mount /dev/sda2, to automount the ntfs partition.

Note: You need to replace the /dev/sda2 with your actual NTFS partition number.

You can get this number by sudo blkid

Below …