Archive for June, 2007

making 3-up handouts from beamer presentations

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I use the latex package ‘beamer’ (with lyx) to create presentations for various talks etc.
For a forthcoming conference I was asked by the organisers to create a 3-up pdf file similar to what Powerpoint users produce.
I struggled with pgfpages for a while, and even contemplated writing my own pgfpages layout. However, common sense prevailed and […]

Dell Inspiron 6400 and Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

This post records my (pretty positive) experiences installing Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on a Dell Inspiron 6400.
My wife recently bought a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop. We use Ubuntu 6.10 as our main OS on the home machine, with Win98 and WinXP as alternative boot options for some legacy software that the children use.
My wife is happy […]