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Box.com does not support Linux, although there is a feature request with enthusiastic support.

The comments to the feature request provide a number of ways to use Box with Linux, by mounting a WebDav folder.

Here are some example solutions using WebDav or otherwise:

1. http://maketecheasier.com/auto-mount-box-net-to-linux-desktop/2012/03/27
2. http://dev.modmancer.com/index.php/2011/12/17/access-box-com-box-net-from-your-ubuntu/
3. boxlinux: https://github.com/sebastiansam55/boxlinux
4. Conduit https://live.gnome.org/Conduit

Would any of these solutions be reasonably stable and bug-free?

Of course there are other great services (UbuntuOne, Dropbox, etc), but my institution has signed up for Box (and I thus have the space that I will require).

Answers to my previous question, Ubuntu 12.04 froze, requiring powercycle. What should I look / grep for in the logs?, have led me to suspect that my computer is experiencing an intermittent GPU lockup. It has been happening about once a week, usually when I am using Chrome. Today it happened when I was creating a diagram on lucidchart

I have a Dell Optiplex 755 with an ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT and dual monitors running in Xinerama mode. I am using 12.04 with the proprietary ATI driver installed.

When the computer locks-up, I can still ssh in. And I would like to follow the instructions on reporting this provided at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Freeze

Is there a (safe) way to cause a GPU lockup so that I can go ahead and file a bug, rather than waiting until it happens again?

This is not the first time that Ubuntu has froze. Last time, I checked 'recently updated files' in /var/log/ and /var/crash/ and the cause of the problem appeared to be 'LibreOffice'.

Now, it has happened again.

Nothing works, except the power-down button (based on previous experience). I can't even open tty's using Ctrl+Alt+F{1..6}

I have plenty of memory (7.7 GB), Ram (2 x 3.16Ghz) and hard drive space (100 GB on a 256GB SSD).

There is nothing I can do, except to shut down. The computer passed a memtest.

What should I look (grep) for in the logs?

Update: I have submitted a bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1023916/

What I have observed:

When I type emacs in gnome-terminal, it launches in the same environment, with variables set in .bashrc. If I use a keyboard shortcut to the command emacs, it opens in an environment that does not have these variables.

Questions:

1. Is there a reason for this behaviour?
2. How can I get emacs to open in an environment with settings from .bashrc?
3. If I have root access, can I set these variables 'system-wide'?

Additional background: I need is to be able to access the variables from within R, as described in a related SO question (How to access a bash environment variable from within R in emacs), and I also need the path to my texlive distribution for Auctex. The present question is different in that I am more generally interested in the difference between launching emacs from within the terminal and launching emacs from the Applications menu, Gnome-do, or keyboard shortcut that call either emacs or /usr/bin/emacs23 %F.

Revolution R Enterprise is available as a red-hat rpm file. Normally I would use alien to install an rpm file as explained in another more generic question about installing rpms , but the instructions for installing this package have an install.py file that I am supposed to execute.

When I ./install.py, I get the following instructions:

rpm: please use alien to install rpm packages on Debian, if you are really sure use --force-debian switch. See README.Debian for more details.

There is no README.Debian file in the directory, and although I am not proficient in python, I can tell that there are at least four different directories with *rpm files in them.

Has anyone had success with this? If possible, I'd prefer to install the Enterprise version instead of community version in the Ubuntu repository so that I can test it out.