How to disable automatic comment insertion in Vim? Add to ~/.vimrc: au FileType c,cpp setlocal comments-=:// comments+=f:// More: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Disable_automatic_comment_insertion
Installing Latex and Compiling a Latex Docuent in Linux
Posted onLatex is a popular document preparation system that is widely used for creating scientific and technical documents. Compiling Latex documents on Linux is a straightforward process that requires only a few Latex packages and a set of commands. By following the steps outlined in this post, you can easily compile Latex documents on your Linux
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Gnome: disabling / deleting keyrings
Posted onHow to disable/delete the current keyrings on gnome? If the Gnome keyrings are not needed, or we forget the password, we can disable/delete the current keyrings. The keyrings are stored under ~/.gnome2/keyrings/ To disabled or delete current keyrings, we can simply delete this folder: rm -rf ~/.gnome2/keyrings/ Remember to backup this directory if you still
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SmIley faces in iPhone
Posted onHow to input smiley faces in iPhone? I use Emoji Free app to enable the Emoji input methods. It is quite good and enables inputing of many nice smiley faces and icons. The app from App Store: Emoji Free app.
How to install noip2 on Linux
Posted onHow to install noip2 on Linux to update my no-ip domain? Check the post at: https://www.systutorials.com/4677/how-to-install-noip2-on-linux/ To make noip2 service automatically update with your latest IP, add a crontab entry for root: 0 */5 * * * /sbin/service noip restart The noip2 service will be restarted every 5 minutes. When the service is restarted, it
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Office 2007: Save as PDF or XPS
Posted onHow to export a work file to PDF in Office 2007? 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7 This download allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send as e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS
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Windows 7 64-bit fails to install on VirtualBox / Linux with status code 0xc0000225
Posted onWindows 7 64-bit fails to install on VirtualBox on Linux with status code 0xc0000225: “Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2. Choose your language settings, and click “Next.” 3. Click “Repair your Computer”.
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Prevent Chrome closing after closing the last tab
Posted on How to prevent Chrome from closing itself after I close the last tab? This is a feature I want to have. This is a feature I want to have. Last Tab Standing plugin plays the trick: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/last-tab-standing/dlopnnfglheodcopccdllffcijjeenkj If the last tab is closed, this extension stops Chrome from closing and instead opens the New
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How to convert a ps file to a pdf file
Posted onHow to convert a ps file to a pdf file that is available for publish (embedded fonts, etc)? Convert the file.ps ps file to file.pdf: $ ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer file.ps file.pdf</pre> Embedding Fonts in PDFs with pdflatex by Jeffrey P. Bigham: http://www.manticmoo.com/articles/jeff/programming/latex/embedding-fonts-with-pdflatex.php
Xen: Passing kernel parameters to DomUs
Posted onHow to pass kernel parameters to Xen DomUs ? Kernel paremeter may be needed to be passed to a Xen DomU. For example, when the DomU fails to boot and we want to check it in ‘single’ mode. We can simply start the DomU with the “extra=” syntax. For example, to add ‘single’ to the
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Run Firefox on Remote Host over SSH
Posted onHow to run Firefox on Remote Host over SSH ? After $ ssh -X remotehost Run this script on remote host: #!/bin/bash export $(dbus-launch) export NSS_USE_SHARED_DB=ENABLED firefox -no-remote & This script credits to Waxborg: http://waxborg.servepics.com/opensuse/remote-administration/running-firefox-remotely-over-ssh.
Pass-less ssh auto-login problem
Posted onI configured the Linux password-less automatic ssh login as in this post . However, it still does not work for me. Any method to check it? The log in log /var/log/secure may give some clue on it. For example: Aug 20 23:16:10 doppler sshd[11143]: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home/useraaa tells us that
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Synchronizing home directories
Posted onAny good tools to synchronize home directories on Linux boxes? Many have several PC/laptops and consequently many home directories. There is home directory synchronizing problem. unison is a good tool to do this: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html#rshmeth http://www.watzmann.net/blog/2009/02/my-homedirs-in-unison.html http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/index.shtml#File%20Synchronization Useful script: $ unison -batch -ui text ./ /mnt/homebak/zma/ In text user interface, synchronizing two directories in batch mode
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Chrome does not work with ibus
Posted onSeems the input method on Linux (ibus) does not work well with Chrome. But other programs, e.g. thunderbird, has not problem with ibus at all. What’s wrong with Chrome or ibus? Check whether the “Qt IBus library and Qt input method plugin” is installed. If not, installing it and restarting ibus may help: # yum
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Installing Dropbox on Linux
Posted onHow to install Dropbox on Linux ? Just follow Dropbox’s instruction here: https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx A quick command for 64-bit Linux: $ cd ~ && wget -O – “https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64” | tar xzf – Use the dropx CLI: http://www.dropboxwiki.com/Using_Dropbox_CLI Download dropbox.py: $ wget -O ~/bin/dropbox.py “https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/dropbox.py” Set the permissions: $ chmod +x ~/bin/dropbox.py Start Dropbox: $ dropbox.py start Status:
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How to find Linux absolute path for a relative path
Posted onHow to find Linux absolute path for a relative path in Linux? We may need the absolute path on Linux when we only know the relative path. The readlink command does the trick. To find out the absolute path for a relative path, e.g. ./: $ readlink -f ./
Git: changing global user name and user email
Posted onHow to set the global user name and user email for git? We may be asked to set our global user name and user email if it is the first time that we use git on a machine: Your name and email address were configured automatically based on your username and hostname. Please check that
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Large-but-correctly-aligned-and-optimized code is faster than less-bytes-per-instruction/opcode-packed code
Posted onIs large-but-correctly-aligned-and-optimized code faster than less-bytes-per-instruction/opcode-packed code? Alex Ionescu mentioned in ros-dev mailing list: I’m not sure why you would want kernel code to be “smaller” instead of “faster” though — on modern processors for cases like interrupts and such, large-but-correctly-aligned-and-optimized code is faster than less-bytes-per-instruction/opcode-packed code. ie: mov eax, [foo] add eax, 1 mov
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SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA: efficiently archive/copy large sparse files
Posted onHow to efficiently archive a very large sparse file, say 1TB? The sparse file may contains a small amount of data, say 32MB. SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA The SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA functionalities play the trick and makes `tar` and `cp` handle the large sparse file very efficiently. `lseek` with `SEEK_HOLE` returns the offset of the start of the
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How to search bad blocks on a device?
Posted onIf I have a disk with bad blocks, how to search bad blocks on it under Linux? You can use ‘badblocks’: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/8-badblocks/ badblocks [ -svwnf ] [ -b block-size ] [ -c blocks_at_once ] [ -e max_bad_blocks ] [ -d read_delay_factor ] [ -i input_file ] [ -o output_file ] [ -p num_passes ] [
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