rdesktop on ubuntu (customize window size)

#man rdesktop

And for example,

#rdesktop -g 1152x1024 host

Workaround for adjusing brightness in Ubuntu on my Dell

Here is a workaround for the problem with Ubuntu installed on some Dell laptop.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/159255
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/159255/comments/9

Disable beeps in Ubuntu

[COPIED FROM OTHER WEBSITE]

1. remove the drivers

#modprobe -r pcspkr

OR

2. Blacklist the module in '/etc/modprobe.d/backlist' by appending above line

blacklist pcspkr

wicd - wireless mgt for linux

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

It is hard to make the wireless work under ubuntu/xubuntu, at least to me.
But wicd is a tool worthing try.

KeyTweak

http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/

vim tips ctrp+p/n

Insert mode completion: Ctrl + N
Ctrl + P to the original.

create a bootable usb disk

1) Run diskpart from command prompt running as administrator (right click the command prompt icon and choose "Run As Administrator")
2) Type the command: list disk to see the available disks and note the one that represents your USB thumb drive
3) Select the disk: select disk # where # is the disk you determined in the above step
4) Now that the proper disk is selected, prepare it with the clean command by typing clean
5) Now create a partition on the clean drive by typing: create partition primary
6) Select the new partition by typing: select partition 1
7) Set the partition as active by typing: active
8) Format the partition as FAT32 by typing: format fs=fat32
9) Assign the new partition by typing: assign
10) Type exit to quit diskpart

And some files which are needed for boot the computer can be copied to the disk.

Re: Tools to be considered

Yet another:

http://www.winmerge.org/

Tools to be considered

1. 7-zip
2. WinGrep
3. http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/
4. http://www.ccleaner.com/
5. http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
6. Firebug
Essential FireFox add-on for debugging JavaScript, and more. The ultimate developer toolbar!

handy tools and websites

1. convert pdf to ... online
http://www.zamzar.com/


2. Another pdf reader
Sumatrapdf reader.
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/download.html.



3. HTML tidy
http://www.paehl.com/open_source/?HTML_Tidy_for_Windows
To make html file tidy, just what the name imply.

LaTeX -- pdfcrop

TeX/LateX and related tips
1. Using pdfcrop to crop pdf so that some figures of pdf format can be
included with appropriate margins

Usage:
pdfcrop --margins 10 input.pdf output.pdf
pdfcrop --margins '5 10 5 20' --clip input.pdf output.pd

--TeX file--
\includegraphics{a.pdf}

Some vim tips

1, MAP, eg.

map <F9> :w <ENTER> :!latex % <ENTER>

2. ^ and $

^ the beginning of line
--------------------------------------------
for example:
replace the begin of line to something: % s/./something/
or % s/^/something/
--------------------------------------------
$ the end of line

SVN: just look an old version

svn cat --revision 2 rules.txt > rules.txt.v2

Rread a file in SAS and write it to another file

data _NULL_;
file texfile mod;
infile 'tmp.tex';
input a;
put _INFILE_;
run;

Fwd: another vi tips

http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=2

tolds me how to set current working path to where the file exists.

vim tips

#               search for the word under the cursor (back)
*               search for the word under the cursor (fwd)

Use SAS ods data set output

Example is below:

ods trace on;
ods output summary=summary;
proc means data=hpd print N mean std min max median range sum;
run;

ods trace off;
ods output close;

Delete external file

%macro macdelfile(filename=);
data _NULL_;
fname = "tobedel";
rc = filename(fname, "&filename");
if (rc eq 0) and (fexist(fname)) then rc=fdelete(fname);
rc = filename(fname, '');
run;
%mend;

sftp with port being set manually

sftp -oport=323 a@server.com

http://ottobib.com/

On website http://ottobib.com/, the citation to a book can be easily gotten by a ISBN.

Using SAS Statements to Change the Current Folder

[Copied from SAS document]

Using SAS Statements to Change the Current Folder

You can change the current drive and folder by submitting the change directory (CD or CHDIR) command with the X statement in SAS. SAS intercepts the change directory command and then changes drive commands and changes its current folder.

For example, the following statements change the current folder for your SAS session to the MYDATA folder and G:\SALES\JUNE folder, respectively:

x 'cd \mydata';
x 'cd g:\sales\june';

To change the current drive, you can submit a change drive command (the drive letter followed by a colon) such as the following:

x 'a:';

RWinEdt

"RWinEdt is a package that implements a quite ugly interface from WinEdt to R. Note that the License GPL is specific to the R package RWinEdt, not to the editor WinEdt itself (which is not shipped with the package)."

http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rwinedt/

SAS dataset options

It has been told that some SAS PROC PRINT options--for example, (obs=10 firstobs=5)--can be used, say, in this article. However, I checked for a while in the document of proc print, I did not find any stuff about this kind of options. But it is sas datasets options, just like below example:

data a (keep=b); a=4; b=3; run;

SAS Jackknife and bootstrap

Here is a SAS example:
http://support.sas.com/kb/24/982.html
and http://www.winchendon.com/bootstrap.html.