Convert Excel Chart to EPS without any loss of fanciness

OK, I should confess that this web-log contains a whole bunch of stuff related to Microsoft and Non-free software... Well, I am in ASU now, as long as I can use all of them free of charge legally, who cares...

First of all, I checked a lot of articles on the web, regarding how to do this. But most of them just save the chart to as a image file, and convert it into EPS. WTH is that? All the nice properties of eps that you won't loss any resolution when inserted into your LaTeX file, the whole purpose of vector graphics!

OK. You should have Adobe Professional installed on your computer.

Now the steps looks kinda weird, but it is true...

Select the chart in Excel, paste it into a random Power Point file. Then select it in PPTX, paste it into a Visio file. Then, in Visio, set the page to fit the chart, and print it as PDF. Open PDF in Adobe professional, save it as eps. Vola...

Solving the wired sound problem

My desktop in BioDesign has tons of wired sound problems. I found a fix on the web and actually I don't know if it is a fix or not...

Anyway, I applied it, reboot and MPlayer works again (maybe the reboot works... OTZ...)

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio padevchooser

(http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-765095.html)

Get Citrix for Linux to work for ASU MyApps

Finally...

First, download and install the Client. It can be found in MyApps.
Then, sudo apt-get install libmotif3

OK. Now we have to import a certificate.
This is the one I use:
http://www.geotrust.com/resources/root_certificates/certificates/Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority.cer

http://www.geotrust.com/resources/root-certificates/index.html

and copy it to /usr/lib/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts/citrite.crt
Then it's working :-)