config ubuntu

My laptop has little resources(Thinkpad T41) so I need to shut down all the desktop effect as follows:
1. Don't use compiz.
2. gconf-editor:
1)/apps/panel/toplevels, for all the panel, clear "enable_animations"
2)/apps/metacity/general, mark "reduced_resources"
3)/apps/panel/global, clear "enable_animations"
4)/desktop/genome/interface, mark "accessibility"
3. sudo vim ~/gtkrc-2.0, add: gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0
4. (important)
sudo vim /etc/hosts:
change: 127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 your-laptop
to: 127.0.0.1 localhost your-laptop
127.0.1.1 your-laptop
5. sudo vim /etc/default/console-setup
ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" -> ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-2]"
cd /etc/event.d/
for each tty3-tty6, comment lines start with "start on runlevel".

Best background color for programmers

grass green.
color code: #90EE90

eps file issues in latex

EPS file is the most commonly used figure type in latex.

Two issues involved:
1. Decide bounding box and output a neat graph.
Use the shell program here to get it done: http://www.gnuplot.info/scripts/files/fixbb

2.Solve the eps-pdflatex conflict.
If you want to directly generate pdf file from tex file. Add following lines:
\usepackage{epstopdf}
before your:
\begin{document}

Also, simply use command: pdflatex -shell-escape yourfile.tex to compile your tex file. Final pdf will be built.
The reason is it will automatically generate yourgraph.pdf and use it in your tex file.

Vim+latexsuite in ubuntu 9.04

After struggling a whole day, I finally got vim+latexsuite work in ubuntu 9.04.

Here is the points(at least work for me):
1. DON'T download the latex-suite file from http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/ and unzip into ~/.vim/. It just simply doesn't work because vim-addons cannot find it, even if ~/.vim/ is in the runtimepath of vim. I don't know why.
2. USE sudo apt-get install vim-latex to let ubuntu install it for you. Also do sudo apt-get install vim-addons-manager if you haven't.
3. sudo vim-addons -w install latex-suite
4. vim-addons
5. You should see
#name User Status System Status
latex-suite installed(or removed, doesn't matter) installed
6. put your own tex.vim file in /usr/share/vim/addons/ftplugin/
7. In .vimrc, add:

set runtimepath+=/usr/share/vim/addons
filetype plugin on
set grepprg=grep\ -nH\ $*
filetype indent on
let g:tex_flavor="latex"

8. sudo vim yourfile.tex
9. you will see an error involved with remoteOpen.vim. But latex-suite works.

Right, it's wierd that I need to use sudo to launch vim. If I only type vim yourfile.tex, the remoteOpen.vim error will also occur and latex-suite will not be called.

Update:

1. I eliminate those error by commenting out the specific lines in remoteOpen.vim
2. The reason that I can only use sudo to launch latexsuite is because the privilege of .vimrc is superuser. I "chown" it to my own user and get it done.