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To extract audio from a flash file downloaded from Youtube or Google video use ffmpeg . Install ffmpeg and related decoders by :  apt-get install lame mpg123 ffmpeg Now convert flv -> mp3 : ffmpeg -i inputfile.flv -f mp3 -vn -acodec copy  outputfile.mp3 Note :- Lame is needed for mp3 encoding to work.

Gnome menu loads the menu icons as needed causing a delay before you can see the icons.  FIX :   gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/THEMENAME/  Replace the THEMENAME with the actual icon theme set you are using. The default is ‘ gnome ‘.   echo gtk-menu-popup-delay = 100 >> ~/.gtkrc-2.0  Gnome also hogs resouces my animations that are barely noticeable. To enable these resource saving features open gconf, from terminal: gconf-editor from there go to: /apps/metacity/general and check on reduced_resources also: /apps/panel/global and uncheck enable_animations also: /desktop/gnome/interface and check off the box for accessibility  source: http://www.marksanborn.net/linux/turn-off-gnome-animations-and-hide-window-contents-while-dragging/ The other less known issues are  compcache / ramzswap and clamd .   Ramzswap uses physical memory as swap space thereby causing memory lock-ups. It is vestiges of the Live-CD which requires this feature when no swap s

Gedit by default do not wrap lines while printing. It justs cuts off the sentence when it runs into the margin. This default behavior could be changed by editing the value of / apps/gedit-2/preferences/print/page/print_wrap_mode in the gconf-editor.   $ gconf-editor &  Goto / apps/gedit-2/preferences/print/page/print_wrap_mode "GTK_WRAP_NONE" for no wrapping. "GTK_WRAP_WORD" for wrapping at word boundaries. "GTK_WRAP_CHAR" for wrapping at individual character boundaries. source : http://people.gnome.org/~bmsmith/gconf-docs/C/

The best way to make ebooks would be to scan and then convert them to djvu. Not pdf because pdf is very bad when it comes to packing images. Djvu on the other hand is more optimised to handle scanned documents. It could generate a small file without losing quality of the output. After getting all the scans in place there are a few things to do to get the final djvu document. Rename all files in the following order book-001.jpg book-002.jpg...... book-024.jpg book-025.jpg.... book-165.jpg book-166.jpg It can be anything instead of book- But the crucial thing is that the numbers should be padded to facilitate numerical sorting otherwise if it is like 1.jpg 2.jpg ... 10.jpg 11.jpg ... then 10.jpg would occur before 2.jpg. We do not want that. Hence naming should be such. If it is already in the format : 1.jpg 2.jpg ... 10.jpg 11.jpg ... : then put 1-9 in one folder, 10-99 in another , 100-999 in another and so on. Now, go to each folder and just bulk rename them using rename -

Checkmark brushes for Gimp : http://www.gimphelp.org/checkmark_brushes.shtml

Sed cannot be used as it does not accept \n Use trace instead. The following command compresses multiple newlines : cat n2 | tr -cd "[a-zA-Z\012]" | tr "\n" "|" | tr -s "|" | tr "\n" "|" > n3

A transcendental equation is defined as function f. It is solved not by the usual Solve routine but by the new Refine routine because it includes all the different possibilities of the unknown variables the equation has.  Assuming is used to tell the kernel that the variables XX and YY  are always positive. Note the way the two conditions are clubbed. With an &&. Now, we have to set XX and YY to some value, otherwise Mathematica would not be able to Plot it.  Then to evaluate at what point the zeros of the function f occurs using the {v,f(v)} and setting v= {the solution}. Now, we can inject this point into the Plot by the Epilog command.  Epilog command is an option for graphics functions which gives a list of graphics primitives to be rendered after the main part of the graphics is rendered.  The options used for the point size / color are standard commands. Now mathematics plots the function f. Then renders the points of its zeros directly into the plot. So, th

Source : http://graphics.stanford.edu/lab/howto/xfig_latex.html Use the normal method in xfig for adding text, but set the "special text" mode using the "Text flags" menu at the bottom of the screen for math mode. To input LaTex set the "special text" mode using the "Text flags" menu at the bottom of the screen. Then use text tool and write $...$ to switch to math-mode.  Type the equation. Export the figure from xfig : using the format "Combined PS/LaTeX (PS part)". Two files would be created: foo.pstex and foo.pstex_t Now save the following as some file, say create-xfig-eps and make it executable - cp $1.pstex_t temp.pstex_t cp $1.pstex .temp.pstex echo "\documentclass{article} \usepackage{epsfig} \usepackage{color} \setlength{\textwidth}{100cm} \setlength{\textheight}{100cm} \begin{document} \pagestyle{empty} \input{.temp.pstex_t} \end{document}" > temp.tex latex temp.tex dvips -E temp.dvi -o $1.eps

Follow link in Evince : Evince fails to follow a link to Firefox with the following error : Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/firefox35/firefox" (Permission denied) Some people suggest to set the path correctly by creating a soft link. For example if the Firefox is now in the directory /usr/local/bin/firefox then create the following soft link: ln -s /usr/local/bin/firefox /usr/lib/firefox35/firefox This DOES NOT work. The correct way to do this is to set the path correctly in the gconf-editor. Open gconf-editor . Goto /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/. Change the command to just firefox "%s". The OS would figure out where the Firefox is installed and act accordingly. To open the pdf's in the Firefox window with Evince instead of acroread : The mozplugger does not work. The best way is to goto Firefox -> Preferences -> Applications. Change the Adobe documents handler to use Evince.

New commands To add your own commands, use the \ newcommand { name }[ num ]{ definition } \ newcommand { \wbal }{ The Wikibook about \ LaTeX } This is ‘‘ \wbal '' \ldots { } ‘‘ \wbal '' => This is “The Wikibook about LaTeX” … “The Wikibook about LaTeX” The next example illustrates how to define a new command that takes one argument. The #1 tag gets replaced by the argument you specify. If you wanted to use more than one argument, use #2 and so on, these arguments are added in an extra set of brackets. \ newcommand { \wbalsup }[ 1 ] { This is the Wikibook about LaTeX supported by #1 } \ newcommand { \wbalTwo }[ 2 ] { This is the Wikibook about LaTeX supported by #1 #2 } % in the document body: \begin { itemize } \ item \wbalsup { Wikimedia } \ item \wbalsup { lots of users! } \ item \wbalTwo { John }{ Doe } \end { itemize } This is the Wikibook about LaTeX supported by Wikimedia This is the Wikibook about LaTeX supported by lots of users! This

You have several ways to do so: 1.- A direct redefinition of \section: \makeatletter \renewcommand\section{\@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}%                                   {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%                                   {2.3ex \@plus.2ex}%                                   {\normalfont\large\bfseries}} \makeatother 2.- By means of the titlesec package: \usepackage{titlesec} \titleformat{\section}{\large\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{} 3.- By means of the sectsty package: \usepackage{sectsty} \sectionfont{\large} source : http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3245   Now, I would explain the titlesec package a bit more (because it seems easier to me and with more options) : To change the section fonts with this package put the following lines in the preamble - \usepackage{titlesec} \titleformat{\ section }{\ large \ bfseries }{\thesection}{1em}{} Options available are- a> Font size - \normals

#!/bin/bash # dictionary v1.5.5 - to dump dictionary outputs from the web. Uses the google dictionary but can be used for any other online dictionary. # Needs lynx to work. # by JOnes ( August 16, 2010 ) # ANSI Color -- use these variables to easily have different color #    and format output. Make sure to output the reset sequence after #    colors (f = foreground, b = background), and use the 'off' #    feature for anything you turn on. initializeANSI() {   esc=" "   blackf="${esc}[30m";   redf="${esc}[31m";    greenf="${esc}[32m"   yellowf="${esc}[33m"   bluef="${esc}[34m";   purplef="${esc}[35m"   cyanf="${esc}[36m";    whitef="${esc}[37m"     blackb="${esc}[40m";   redb="${esc}[41m";    greenb="${esc}[42m"   yellowb="${esc}[43m"   blueb="${esc}[44m";   purpleb="${esc}[45m"   cyanb="${esc}[46m";  

f[n_, x_] := Abs[((1/Pi)^(1/4) Sin[ x])]^2; Plot[Evaluate@     Table[f[n, x] + n + 1/2, {n, 0, 7}], {x, -4, 4},  Filling -> Table[n -> n - 1/4, {n, 1, 8}]]

Ubuntu in Compaq nc6220 (Lucid) Everything works out of the box except the sleep and wake. 1. After closing the lid and re-opening it, the screen might flicker badly. To resolve that put the laptop to sleep and wake it again (use the fn key). The flicker should be gone. 2. After waking up from sleep/ screen lock, the wireless would be disconnected. Just re-connect it from the network manager applet located in the main panel. 3. Sometimes, the password login stos working. This is because some hidden characters are being spontaneously generated. This is realted to the screen flicker issue. So do the sleep + wake up drill. 4. Over-heating issue - There are 4 thermal zones. See the applet in the panel to see how hot they are getting. If it crosses 50C it is time to slow down. Stop all intensive jobs and put the laptop upside down because its lower part gets too hot and its ventilation is poor. Only by inverting it will get some cool air. 5. Always make sure that the fan on the

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true” Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true” Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. 3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now! 3. Faster loading If you haven't moved your mouse or touched the keyboard for 0.75 seconds (the

source : http://forlong.blogage.de/entries/pages/Compiz-Check Compiz-Check is a script to test if Compiz is able to run on your system/setup and if not, it will tell you the reason why. Additionally you can use the output of the script to look for support in the official Compiz Fusion forums or the mailing list / forum of your distribution, which will make it much easier to locate your problem. The script is suitable for GNOME, KDE and Xfce users and is not limited to a specific Linux distribution – in fact, the script lists those infos for you. The test consists mainly of three parts:    1. List relevant system information    2. Run several Compiz related checks    3. Check for problematic hardware and problems with the setup in use. Download & Usage Do not just copy & paste the following to your blog/forum – find out why The script is available here. You can use this command to download it to your home directory: wget http://blogage.de/files/9124/download

Terminal commands to create CSV file of contacts out of list of names and phone numbers from website. The idea is to copy paste the file list from the website onto a openoffice spreadsheet document. now save it as a CSV file. Now, use the following commands in terminal (to remove the unnecessary whitespaces.). cat a2.csv | sed 's/ //g' | sed 's/\" /\"/g'  | sed 's/ \"/\"/g' > contacts.csv

Open a new terminal. Save the following as a file "chessboard" - vim chessboard  and paste - for (( i = 1; i <= 49 ; i++ )) ### Outer for loop ### do   for (( j = 1 ; j <= 49; j++ )) ### Inner for loop ###   do        tot=`expr $i + $j`        tmp=`expr $tot % 2`        if [ $tmp -eq 0 ]; then            echo -e -n "\033[49m  "        else            echo -e -n "\033[40m  "        fi  done echo -e -n "\033[49m" #### set back background colour to black echo "" #### print the new line ### done echo -e -n "\033[49m \n" #### set back background colour to white Make it executable - chmod 755 chessboard Run the script - ./chessboard The terminal must be maximised. Stare at the pattern for some time. Does it move ?

To add keyboard shortcuts in Linux open gconf-editor $ gconf-editor Goto apps - > metacity - > global_keybindings - > show_desktop  < Control > < Alt > d run_command_terminal   < Control > < Alt > t

"latex error your-new-file.sty not found" while building your .tex files, and you are sure you've just put them in some sort of directory like: /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/your-new-directory After that run the command $ texhash and then, latex should be ready to find your style files Foe example, xcadabra showed the error breqn.sty not found. I downloaded it from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/breqn.html?ref=darwinports.com and copied it to /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cadabra Still it was not working. Then I used texhash and it worked. Sometimes then it might miss some other .sty file and even after adding that file manually from CTAN it keeps on adding up. More and more sty files are not found. A fix would be to delete the directory /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cadabra then reinstall cadabra sudo apt-get install --reinstall cadabra It should work now. If that does not work and there is error that flexisym.sty not found andev

Gnome Volume Control Applet was gone on system. It can be brought back easily with , gnome-volume-control-applet & To make the change permanent add it to System -> Preferences -> Startup applications.

The new Nautilus is very annoying . The first thing i missed was the ability to type the path directly into the browser rather than keep clicking till I reach there. The location bar which was it is called, is just not available in default Nautilus installation (maybe just in my installation). It can be brought back temporarily with Ctrl+L, but its temporary. I want a permanent fix. So, I had to manually modify the configurations options for Nautilus through gconf-editor. And I liked it. It gives explicit control over Nautilus. Everything can be changed. I had it look like Dolphin at some point of time. It shows how flexible Nautilus can be. The default installation is for the novices, to mimic the Windows explorer. I do not care about that. So, lets see what changes we can do to Nautilus to make it outright funky. I wrote these following options to a text file and saved it as nautilus.sh. Made it excutable (chmod 755) and ran it. It sets the values for Nautilus in g

Easiest thing. We simply copy the video and audio streams, and MEncoder generates the index. Of course this cannot fix possible bugs in the video and/or audio streams. It also fixes files with broken interleaving, thus the -ni option won't be needed for them anymore. Command: mencoder -idx input.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -o output.avi But it failed after 10 mins. of video for me.

I have used a script to convert pictures from a party to two different sizes 640 and 1024. I have kept the right resolutions of chosen pictures and deleted the rest. But as usual duplicates remain. My ls command gives a list similar to the following. -rwx------ 1 aaaa aaa  39191 2010-06-28 22:49 2010-IMG_4354-640.JPG -rwx------ 1 aaaa aaa  41129 2010-06-28 22:49 2010-IMG_4355-640.JPG -rwx------ 1 aaaa aaa  46668 2010-06-28 22:49 2010-IMG_4356-640.JPG -rwx------ 1 aaaa aaa 121721 2010-06-28 22:49 2010-IMG_4359-1024.JPG -rwx------ 1 aaaa aaa 104468 2010-06-28 22:49 2010-IMG_4360-1024.JPG -rwx------ 1 aaaa aaa 164638 2010-06-28 22:50 2010-IMG_4361-1024.JPG I would just use this list to find the duplicates. My task is greatly simplified because of the great naming scheme. Same picture with different resolution only differ by the tag 640/1024 at the end. A single command finds our duplicates.  ls -l | cut -d "_" -f2 | cut -d "." -f1 | sed 's/-/\t/'

For security it is better to lock the laptop screen when the lid closed. The gconf setting is “/apps/gnome-power-manager/lock/blank_screen”. When set to true, closing the lid will lock the screen

Laptop lid state is given by, cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/state To test if it works try, sleep 2 ; cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/state Now, close the lid and open after 2 secs. It will tell that the lid was closed.

1.   Activeinbox http://www.activeinboxhq.com/install.html Turn emails into actions for easy email management Manage your emails as a flow of actions to get absolute control, minimize email overload and achieve inbox zero. Built using GTD® concepts. Always have a clear vision of things that need your attention Focus on high priority emails and see all the different projects flowing through your email. Build stronger relationships with replies that meet contact's expectations Serve contacts better with deadlined emails, complete control of current emails and by easily building on previous conversations. Effortlessly keep your email organized to stop Gmail becoming a blackhole Never forget an important email, retrieve knowledge stored in the depths of your archive and track every email you send. Nothing falls through the cracks 2. Gmailfs http://sr71.net/projects/gmailfs This is a Debian package which allows you to use GMail storage as a filesystem. Needs python-fus

1. To extract audio from a video file -- $ mplayer my_video_file.avi -ao pcm:file=file.wav $ lame -f file.wav file.mp3 This creates a small size high quality mp3 file but it is very slow particularly if extracting the entire audio track of a movie. Mplayer takes ages to do the extraction. SO, it is better to use ffmpeg instead. $ ffmpeg -i my_video_file.avi extracted_audio.mp3 2. Convert any audio format to wav/mp3 -- $ mplayer file.rm -ao pcm:file=file.wav $ lame -f file.wav file.mp3  3. Convert any video format to avi -- FLV to mpg : Using ffmpeg : libavcodec is a library containing all the FFmpeg audio/video encoders and decoders. Most codecs were developped from scratch to ensure best performances and high code reusability. libavformat is a library containing parsers and generators for all common audio/video formats. $ ffmpeg -i jokes.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320×240 jokes.mpg jokes.flv is the file you want to convert, so the name must be the same as the

If a Ubuntu is installe from a CD or DVD chances are that along with the swap disk which physically exists on the hard drive Ubuntu also uses a RAM SWAP. This is a most annoying behavior because it leads to serious slowdowns and locks ups of the system. If you are one of those poor souls whose Firefox freezes up regularly after prolonged use even when not too many tabs are open then you are a victim of the Compcache. Even though it is boon for Live CDs it becomes the unwanted child in an installed Linux distribution. What do Compcache do ? I quote the webpage dedicated to Compcache ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Compcache ) "Compcache provides a possibility of using parts of the memory as virtual compressed swapdevice."  So Compcache creates a virtual drive in memory called the ramzswapfound at /dev/ramzswap0 and makes programs trick into storing their swap data there. This is not at all needed if a dedicated swap partition exists in a system. It interferes with the swappi

After I foolishly wiped my home folder clean (don't ask) my home folder became the Desktop. Whatever file I save there started to appear at the Desktop. Even after i created a folder called /home/me/Destop this continued. Also, due space constrainst I have moved my Music, Picture folders elsewhere. But I wanted my system to locate them. So finally I had to do something.  All I had to do was to edit the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs . -------------- before editing --------------  # This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update # If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're # interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run # Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped # homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an # absolute path. No other format is supported. # XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"

Footnotes Adding a footnote in text is easy. For example: The article\footnote{Haptonstahl, 2002.} was pretty good. shows the text "The article 1 was pretty good." and adds a numbered footnote at the bottom of the page reading "Haptonstahl, 2002." If you want to add a footnote in a "forbidden mode" like in math mode, tables, or boxes, you have to do it in two easy steps. At the place you want the little superscript number (in the equation, for example) put \footnotemark Then, right after the "forbidden mode" ends, put the text of the footnote in the command \footnotetext{The text of the footnote goes here.} Admittedly, if there are multiple footnotes in the same "mode," this can get a little messy, but it can be done. Check the appropriate references. Suffice to say it can be done. Endnotes: Use the footnote commands as above. If you want all of the footnotes displayed in their own section at the end of the document -- en

The Amarok sound became very low after upgrade Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10). I figured this is happening because Amarok is trying to use the pulseaudio. So I went to the preferences and reverted the audio output from pulseaudio to alsa and magically the sound volume increased a lot.

Use ffmpeg ffmpeg -i strong.mp4 -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 200  str.mpg See explanation of the parameters in the post http://kheyali.blogspot.com/2010/05/convert-flv-to-mpg-using-ffmpeg.html But this gives a blocky ouput. To finely control the quality of the output use -qscale option. -qscale 1 gives best image quality 2 ,3 ... are progressively worse but generate files of smaller size. It is all a size and quality balancing game. ffmpeg -i strong.mp4 -ab 56 -ar 22050 -qscale 6  str6.mpg

Use find with the size option. The size option takes one argument. -5000k means less than while +5000k means greater than 5MB. Examples - To find mp3 files of size < 5 MB $ find /mp3collection -name '*.mp3' -size -5000k To find file of size > 10MB $ find / -size +10000k To find file of size > 180MB but < 190 MB. For example if I want to find files for the Friends episodes in my hard disk which I know are approx. ~ 185MB. $ find / -size +180000k -and -190000k Practice - Guess what the following command does? $ find /mp3-collection -name 'Metallica*' -and -size +10000k For more , see http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles/21.html

To increase volume of mp3 in Linux install the lame package. To install lame first add the Medibuntu repos (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu) if it is already not added. Install lame as - $ sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall $ sudo aptitude install lame The volume of a mp3 can be adjusted by playing with the replaygain using the scale option. $ lame --scale 15 in.mp3 out.mp3 This command scales the audio from in.mp3 by 15 and saves it in the file out.mp3 . For more, see  http://linux.die.net/man/1/lame

Using ffmpeg : libavcodec is a library containing all the FFmpeg audio/video encoders and decoders. Most codecs were developped from scratch to ensure best performances and high code reusability. libavformat is a library containing parsers and generators for all common audio/video formats. ffmpeg -i jokes.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320×240 jokes.mpg jokes.flv is the file you want to convert, so the name must be the same as the source file.You can name jokes.mpg whatever you want as long as it has the .mpg extension. -b bitrate: set the video bitrate in kbit/s (default = 200 kb/s) -ab bitrate: set the audio bitrate in kbit/s (default = 64) -ar sample rate: set the audio samplerate in Hz (default = 44100 Hz) -s size: set frame size. The format is WxH (default 160×128 ) Using mencoder : This might not work. To convert flv (flash video) files to AVI using open source mencoder. To perform the conversion, you just need to type : mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -o video.avi video.fl

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508634 Description : Once the fullscreen mode is turned on in Okular it refuses to go back and hides even the menubar. Even pressing ctrl+shift+f does not help. Closing Okular and opening another file does not help. It stays in that fullscreen mode. Workaround : I am posting the workaround here. Unfortunately you have to manually edit the okularrc file each time you go fullscreen. Goto the folder $HOME/.kde/share/config (or a similar folder for kde4- .kde4/share/config/). Open okularrc in gedit. It would show something like - [Desktop Entry] FullScreen=true [MainWindow] Height 900=901 MenuBar=Disabled State=AAAA/wAAAAD9AAAAAAAABaAAAAOEAAAABAAAAAQAAAAIAAAACPwAAAABAAAAAgAAAAEAAAAWAG0AYQBpAG4AVABvAG8AbABCAGEAcgAAAAAAAAAFoAAAAAAAAAAA Width 1440=1441 [MainWindow][Toolbar mainToolBar] Hidden=true [Notification Messages] presentationInfo=false Enable the menubar : MenuBar=Enabled. Disable fullscreen : FullScreen=false Fire up Okular agai

I keep getting this notice some time now while using Nautilus and Evolution. Enter password for default keyring to unlock Gnome Keyring is the method how Nautilus stores the passwords like the password manager in Firefox. And it needs a super pass for doing that. Just move the ~/.gnome2/keyring to somewhere else. If it still creates problems then more elaborate procedure is needed. See here - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=192281&highlight=GNOME+session

This is not my post. I copied it from John Baez' site @ http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/dublin/index.html#hawking. This describes how Hamilton invented the quaternions. In 1835, at the age of 30, Hamilton had discovered how to treat complex numbers as pairs of real numbers. Fascinated by the relation between complex numbers and 2-dimensional geometry, he tried for many years to invent a bigger algebra that would play a similar role in 3-dimensional geometry. In modern language, it seems he was looking for a 3-dimensional normed division algebra. His quest built to its climax in October 1843. He later wrote to his son: Every morning in the early part of the above-cited month, on my coming down to breakfast, your (then) little brother William Edwin, and yourself, used to ask me: "Well, Papa, can you multiply triplets?" Whereto I was always obliged to reply, with a sad shake of the head: `No, I can only add and subtract them". The problem was that there exis

This can be done in a variety of ways. 1. cat file01.vob file02.vob >newfile.vob 2. mpgjoin file01.vob file02.vob -o newilfe.vob 3. mpgcat file01.vob file02.vob -o newilfe.vob 4. mpgtx -j file01.vob file02.vob -o newfile.vob You can also look into GOPChop and/or DVBCut, vobcopy -i /path/to/ripped/dvd/files/VIDEO_TS -n1 -l -o /path/to/put/files/file.vob ^^ -i = input path. The complete path -n = title number, if your not sure, use lsdvd or vobcopy -i /path/VIDEO_TS -I -l enables large file support. -o is the path to output the files. You can also use vobcopy to rip from the DVD driver.

deSitter spacetime in the representation as a spatially flat Robertson-Walker universe, its metric is See eqn. 3.24 of Ford : arXiv:gr-qc/9707062v1 These coordinates cover one-half of the full deSitter space, but this is not a serious problem for our purposes. But in the context of inflationary models, one is interested in spacetimes which involve only a piece of deSitter space. See for example Kima, Oh and Park ( arXiv:hep-th/0212326v1 ) for discussion on relation between dS and FRW.

উজ্জল মন্দার নিমিত লোচন মল্লিকা তরুদল কজ্জল লেপণকারী তার হাতে সপে দিতে পরান পারি

I have designed a cover for the book D-branes by Prof. Clifford Johnson. Why I did it? Because I was feeling sad that such a great book has such an uninteresting cover.

Both the conformal Stokes' theorem and the form of delta function δ(x) in complex space are given in page 119 of di Francesco (See equation 5.33 - 5.36). δ(x) = 1/π ∂ z' (1/z) where z is the complex coordinate. z = (x + i y) /2 & z' (z bar) = (x - i y) /2

1. Audio sound of the sacred song: the bhagavad gita, in three languages http://www.gitainternational.com/hindi-audio.htm chapter wise http://www.gitainternational.com/audio/audioindex_chapter.htm 2. Audio Gita: http://www.gitainternational.com/audio/audioindex.htm Select Entire Chapter or any verse: chapter + individual verse . very helpful. 3. bhagavad gita in pictures http://www.bhagavad-gita.us/articles/687/1/The-Bhagavad-Gita-in-Pictures/Page1.html 4. http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/ Complete breakdown of Srimad Bhagavad Gita verse by verse with explanations and Sanskrit audio pronounciation.

Below is a code to customise search in Linux using find. find would recurse through all the directories. I needed to omit some directories which I knew didn't have the file I was looking for but instead have games. So recursing through them would cause enormous processor overhead and time loss. So I wrote a code in shell script to omit specific directories.. cd / for aa in `ls` do if [ "$aa" != "resident_evil" ] ; then if [ "$aa" != "usr1" ] ; then if [ "$aa" != "usr2" ] ; then if [ "$aa" != "usr3" ] ; then if [ "$aa" != "unreal" ] ; then if [ "$aa" != "quake3" ] ; then echo -e " Current search path: " cd $aa pwd find . -name "*.a" fi fi fi fi fi fi cd / done

While calculating T(z) T(w) OPE for bc ghosts and massless fermions I came across a weird result. I could get the central charge correct and also the T(w)/(z-w)^2 term correct but the other terms which remain does not add up to T(w) as expected. In massless fermion case: T = :ψ ∂ ψ: T(z) T(w) = 1/4/(z-w)^4 + T(w)/(z-w)^2 + ( 1/2 ψ ∂ 2 ψ + ∂ ψ ∂ ψ )/(z-w) But, ∂ T = ψ ∂ 2 ψ + ∂ ψ ∂ ψ So, I cannot account for the 1/2 factor in front of ψ ∂ 2 ψ . In bc ghost case : T = : 2 ∂ c b + c ∂ b : T(z) T(w) = 1/4/(z-w)^4 + T(w)/(z-w)^2 + ( 4 ∂ 2 c b + 3 ∂c ∂b - c ∂ 2 b)/(z-w) But, ∂T = 2 ∂ 2 c b + 3 ∂c ∂b + c ∂ 2 b This means I have some terms like T(z) T(w) = 1/4/(z-w)^4 + T(w)/(z-w)^2 + ( 4 ∂ 2 c b + 3 ∂c ∂b - c ∂ 2 b)/(z-w) = 1/4/(z-w)^4 + T(w)/(z-w)^2 + [∂ T + 2( ∂ 2 c b - c ∂ 2 b)]/(z-w) = 1/4/(z-w)^4 + T(w)/(z-w)^2 + ∂ [ T + 2 ( ∂c b - c ∂b) ]/(z-w) I have no idea why the term ( ∂c b - c ∂b) should be zero. So the problem is: 1. Whether it is correct to directly differe

In linux it is very easy. Install CUPS-PDF and print to PDF. I explained it in another post previously. But sadly, if I follow this printing procedure the hyperlinks are not preserved in the resulting pdf file. So the alternatively we can use htmldoc to convert HTML to PDF. The command is - $ htmldoc lec.html --webpage -t pdf14 -f lec.pdf --webpage : turns on the webpage mode. -t : sets the output pdf type. -f : output filename. That's it. If you do not have htmldoc pre-install then install it with sudp apt-get install htmldoc in Ubuntu.

gr-qc/0512087v1 I read Petrov classification of 4 tensors and Serge classification of 2 tensors. Will it help my project on membrane paradigm? I don't know. But it is good to learn how a 4 tensor can be decomposed. I want to know more of this.