Switch from Windows to Linux

I will gradually switch my platform from Windows XP to Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) due to various reasons. For a layman to Linux like me, configuration is really a headache.
In this blog, I will post solutions (in fact zz la :)) to some common problems.

(1) Chinese input
There are several Chinese inputs for Linux like scim, fictx and ibus, etc. I choose fcitx finally (do not ask me which one is the best, I only tried fcitx and it is not bad) .
http://wiki.ubuntu.org.cn/index.php?title=%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E8%BE%93%E5%85%A5%E6%B3%95fcitx&variant=zh-cn
gives the good solution including square font issue.

(2) Java configuration
http://wiki.ubuntu.org.cn/Java%E5%AE%89%E8%A3%85%E9%85%8D%E7%BD%AE

(3) Java IDE
-- Eclipse: This is very simple , just untar your tar file to some folder and then run it!
-- http://www.javadesign.info/SystemsHardware/OS/Ubuntu/install-netbeans-on-ubuntu gives how to install Netbeans in Ubuntu.

(4) Latex & editor
http://wandsea.com/blog/331.htm gives how to install latex, it is very simple....
texmaker is my current tex editor, not bad, try it.
the command to obtain texmaker is : sudo apt-get install texlive texmaker

(5) Evolution
Using an Email client like Evolution on Ubuntu is not difficult. Here I only describe how to configure Evolution to connect to MS exchange
- set Exchange as the server type
- set username as domain/name (domain is very important)
- set OWA url (you must know OWA of your organization....)
- set set authentication type"plaintext password"
done!

(6) handle rar in Ubuntu
Archive Manager itself does not support rar, so to unrar a rar file, the program "unrar" is needed. Get it by the command sudo apt-get install unrar
How to: go to the directory where your rar file is in and type the command:
unrar x filename.rar

Handling margin in LaTex

These days I suffered from disgusting margin issue when I was preparing a paper submission using LaTex + WinEdt (Windows XP). The generated pdf file has very narrow top margin but very wide bottom margin......

I first checked the dvi format and ps format, they are correct, so I guess something happens when ps format is converted to pdf format. After searching the internet, I think the main problem is the paper size. if I force the ps2pdf to use a4/letter paper, the generated pdf should be correct.

Configure WinEdt:
go to Option - > Execution Modes - > choose dvi2ps or dvi2pdf or ps2pdf from accessories and choose a4/letter in Paper size and Orientation (remember apply to all). Done!

p.s. if you use command instead of a GUI like WinEdt, you can use the command when you convert ps to pdf:
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE#a4 name.ps name.pdf

Resources of P2P ( with Trust Management )

Trust management in distributed peer-to-peer systems is the main body of my research. To fully understand the research progress of this topic, it is very necessary to collect related resources across the Internet. This article will be updated aperiodically.

1 researchers

(1)Dr. Karl Aberer --- the boss of my boss --- expert in p2p area --- in EPFL.
This is the link of reputation based trust management publication list:
http://lsirpeople.epfl.ch/aberer/trust.htm

(2) Dr. Zoran Despotovic --- Karl Aberer's PhD student (complete) --- in EPFL
Homepage: http://lsirpeople.epfl.ch/despotovic/

(3) Dr. Audun Jøsang --- publish many papers on trust
Homepage：http://persons.unik.no/josang/

(4) Dr. Lik Mui
Homepage: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/lmui/

(5) Dr. Liu Ling --- author of PeerTrust & TrustMe --- in GIT
Homepage: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lingliu/

(6) Dr. Karl Krukow
http://www.brics.dk/~krukow/research/publications/publications.php
Blog: http://higher-order.blogspot.com/

(7) Dr. Paolo Massa --- Epinions dataset
http://www.gnuband.org/


2 Sites
(1) TrustLet http://www.trustlet.org/wiki/Main_Page
(2) Reputation Research Network http://databases.si.umich.edu/reputations/index.html
(3) p2ptrust http://www.p2ptrust.org/ (a bit outdated)

3 Reading list
(1) Mike Smith's Readings and Reviews on Reputation and Reasoning:
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~msmith27/readings/index.html
(2) External citations of TrustMe:
http://www.aameeksingh.com/projects/TrustMe.html




Last updated: 2009-05-09

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