MishaMeteo

Morning ride Rottenburg

2011-04-06T08:42:00.001+04:00

Morning ride in Bremen

2011-04-06T08:31:00.001+04:00

Gpsies Test

2011-03-18T18:38:00.001+03:00

Колыбельные

2011-03-05T11:56:00.001+03:00

Колыбельная медведицы: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-62uK_-1UJ0&feature=related Спят усталые игрушки: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-7BT2CFYNU&feature=related

Gnome Apps missing in KDE system tray

2011-02-10T12:51:00.001+03:00

killall -9 plasma-desktoprm -rf $(kde4-config --localprefix)/cache-*/plasm*rm -rf $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/plasm*rm -rf $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/plasmaplasma-desktop & via forum.kde.org Removing cache and configuration files for plasma fixed the problem. Pity that one has to remove it...

Launching Rocket in Delmenhorst, January 2011

2011-01-30T22:57:00.001+03:00

The rockets were Polona's present. And we were three rocket scientists. :)

Weather outlook Bremen and Hamburg

2011-01-30T18:42:00.001+03:00

Weather condition and forecasts for Bremen and Hamburg, Germany all in one page for a quick outlook. This is mostly a collection of links from www.wetterzentrale.de and sat24.com * Ensemble 2m temperature forecast for Hamburg: * Meteogramm for Bremen: * Meteosat infrared picture

Untitled

2011-01-30T17:45:00.001+03:00

Weather condition and forecasts, all in one page for a quick look. Ensemble 2m temperature forecast for Hamburg:

Testing blogilo

2011-01-29T20:55:00.001+03:00

Yep.

Jamendo Selections

2011-01-22T16:26:00.000+03:00

Big Delusion Scott McClean

Link: Ripping DVD

2010-12-28T14:38:00.000+03:00

very useful material. good start how to use mencoder. mind providing output codec as well with -ovc flag (i used -ovc copy).

Disc brakes for touring bike

2010-11-23T15:25:00.000+03:00

I have a dilemma for a long time: disc brakes vs V-brakes? My curious part wants to try out the discs, but they are quite costly, so the greedy part tells me to find reasons to keep the money. My reasons for thinking about them: * In Northern Germany it drizzles a lot and rims get quite wet. There are few weeks when roads are covered with the snow or ice and temperatures are below zero. Given

Akonadi start error

2010-10-16T01:20:00.000+04:00

http://brahmalok.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/akonadi-error-solved/ sudo aa-complain mysqld sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor reload and for safety sake also sudo aa-complain mysqld-akonadi sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor reload and then finally akonadictl start

"#" indent in VIM

2010-10-09T21:23:00.002+04:00

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/191201/indenting-comments-to-match-code-in-vim set cindentset cinkeys=0{,0},!^F,o,O,e " default is: 0{,0},0),:,0#,!^F,o,O,e

Gnome custom clock format

2010-09-24T11:53:00.001+04:00

span font_desc="Liberation Sans 12" weight="bold">%H:%M/span>span rise="-2000" font_desc="Liberation Sans 8.5"> %Y-%m-%d %a/span> from here: http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/828778-changing-the-look-of-gnome-panels-clock/

OpenDNS for content filtering

2010-09-22T13:57:00.002+04:00

http://www.opendns.com/support/article/116

Firefox Add-ons

2010-06-04T14:55:00.002+04:00

My Favorites: LoL, pops up numerical hints for all clickable objects on a web page Tab History Menu: Click on a tab to see all the pages visited in this buffer (tab) Ad-Block Plus: blocks ads ColorfulTabs: gives each tab it's unique color Flash-Aid: downloads correct flash plugin version, useful for Ubuntu 64bits. That's how it looks like:

Adobe Acrobat Reader on Linux 64 bit

2010-05-31T19:05:00.004+04:00

Get deb file from official Adobe download page (version 9.3.2 currently) and execute following: sudo dpkg -i --force-all AdbeRdr* * Solution was taken from here

Hamburg TV Tower

2010-03-17T16:52:00.011+03:00

Hamburg Fernseherturm, officially called Heinrich-Hertz-Turm. Currently it's the 55th tallest tower in the world, as tall as 279.7 m, made of concrete in 1968. Interestingly, this photo was taken shortly after noon, but the pinkish stripe on the horizon looks like evening is approaching. Most likely the nature of the effect is the same, just the amount of the water vapor in the atmosphere,

Last Winter Day 2010

2010-03-16T15:20:00.004+03:00

Winter is vanishing, finally! Though it was rich with good weather days, I am looking forward to the spring. Even though this year it's quite later then the last one. On photo is the old Sternchanze Water Tower which is a hotel nowadays (photo made about a week ago, now the weather is a lot worse).

Useful pages about satellite meteorology

2010-02-01T13:01:00.007+03:00

Current weather records from the mast in Hamburg-BillwerderEUMETrain SATREP online page where you can combine satellite imagery with NWP fieldsSatellite meteorology manual, by Austrian ZAMGWeather overview over USA and other satellite related stuff by Wisconsin University Meteorological Inistitute

how to use folder simultaneously by several people

2010-01-12T22:45:00.003+03:00

To best share with multiple users who should be able to write in /var/www, it should be assigned a common group. For example the default group for web content on Ubuntu and Debian is www-data. Make sure all the users who need write access to /var/www are in this group.sudo usermod -a -G www-data Then set the correct permissions on /var/www.sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/wwwsudo chmod -R g+w /var/

sub-process returned an error (1)

2009-11-02T21:26:00.002+03:00

If you get a nasty message like: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error-code (1), search for the hint what application is causing problems, and delete any file which has its' name in those two folders:- /var/lib/dpkg/info- /var/cache/apt/archives

Sing along Mano Chao

2009-09-29T01:03:00.002+04:00

So many nitesA hundred errors with this sedSo many nitesHDD's whisper in my headSo many nitesSing along the Python bluesSo many nitesMy code failed onceMy code failed twicePhD bluesI cannot sleepHaunted by this hypothesisI cannot sleepI want the world write my thesisSo many nitesCan't manage even with the boozeMy code failed once My code failed twiceMy sleepless blues...

Satellite of love

2009-06-04T14:27:00.002+04:00

One more song to this "lyrics book" ;) It's "satellite of love" by Lou Reed.Hm, what a sentimental job i have."""Satellites goneUp to the skiesThing like that drive meOut of my mindI watched it for a little whileI like to watch things on tvSatellite of loveSatellite of loveSatellite of loveSatellite ofSatellites goneWay up to marsSoon it will be filledWith parking carsI watch it for a little

Turn beeping off

2009-05-29T16:08:00.001+04:00

If people in the class get annoyed by the beeping of your terminal when you type something wrong (ooh, that happends damn often to me), turn the beeps off (just execute two commands below in your terminal):xset b offxset b 0 0 0

Where have all the flowers gone?

2009-05-24T23:04:00.002+04:00

Striking song, in whichever language it's being sang... Where Have All The Flowers Gone Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing? Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago? Where have all the flowers gone? Gone to young girls, every one! When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn? Where have all the young girls gone, long time passing?

2009-05-07T13:18:00.001+04:00

Change your gnome panel clock appearance:http://tips4linux.com/custom-clock-in-gnome/

Take a screenshot

2009-04-02T16:48:00.002+04:00

I have two nice monitors in the office, but the gnome screenshot tool captures only one of them, so not the entire desktop is on the image (debian etch). Scrot works fine with several monitors, but we don't have scrot installed, but we do have imagemagick (wonderful tool i say once again). From command line, if you want to capture everything then use this command:import -window root -delay 200

Synchronize Linux Laptop and Desktop

2009-04-02T14:09:00.004+04:00

I got really nice computer at my working desk in the institute and i have a neat black Asus eeePc which is very cool for travelling but not so comfortable comparing to a normal desktop.I am commuting every day to the office and quite an essential part of my work is done on the train. Surely then every morning i would like to put everything new on my Desktop or way round in the end of the day.To

2009-03-31T18:40:00.007+04:00

Python function to write tables with user-defined columns number to a text file:def print_table(list, cols, file_name): file = open(file_name,"w") length = len(list) i = 1 list.insert(0,-999.0) while i <= length: file.write("%7.1f " % float(list[i])) if i % cols == 0: file.write("\n") i = i + 1 file.write("\n") file.close()Example usage: >> print_table(

VIM resources

2009-03-24T11:14:00.002+03:00

Great vim resources file here:http://phuzz.org/vimrc.htmlAnd my simple small .vimrc:set autoindentset tabstop=4set shiftwidth=4set ls=2set nobackupsyntax onset hlsearchset numberset titleset ttyfast

Return of NetworkManager

2009-02-20T11:32:00.001+03:00

If suddenly network manager disappears from you tray in gnome-panel, and no commands line:nm-applet --sm-disableare ablee to return it, do the following:sudo killall haldsudo -u haldaemon haldsudo NetworkManagerGood luck!

Quick and dirty transition from specific to relative humidity

2009-01-12T15:48:00.008+03:00

Back to the retrieval of temperature/humidity profiles. Our office forecasters are used to analyze humidity values as relative humidity, while IAPP algorithm retrieves specific humidity. Therefore conversion is needed.Simple and quick way to do that:Assume that we know temperature T (Celsiums), air pressure P (hPa) and specific humidity S (g/kg). These are actually the variables retrieved by IAPP

Math links compilation

2008-12-09T16:27:00.004+03:00

A compilation of links with math and math tools materials.Tools:Numpy functions list;Numpy Tutorial;NCL reference guide;

METEOREX and TECO pictures uploaded

2008-12-01T12:24:00.000+03:00

TECO conference and METEOREX exhibition are over. Here you can find some photos from there.Event description.

Back to the old school

2008-11-24T16:22:00.000+03:00

Somehow i always like the old black linux cursors, the ones that come with "vanilla" X system. But lately every distro uses JimMac (Human) cursor theme, which is for me not as good as the old one.So to change it execute:sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-themeand choose there/etc/X11/cursors/core.theme

X session autostart

2008-11-23T18:37:00.001+03:00

Okay, I don't have GDM, but i'd like to start X right upon logging into shell. And here is the way you can do it. Edit your .bash_profile file (create one if you need):if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; thenrm ~/.serverauth* 2>/dev/nullstartx -- -br 2>/dev/nullfiThis will allow you to start right when you log in in your tty1, the rest will stay as command line terminals.

Trimming ubuntu, now fonts and xterm

2008-11-23T16:18:00.002+03:00

Ok, here is another bit of my ubuntu tweaking experience. Since i am trying to be less dependant on ubuntu distribution settings and approaches i have tuned my font settings via .fonts.conf and .Xefaults configuration.Here are the current ones, which i find quite satisfying:1. .fonts.conf rgb true hintslight

Continuing to boost Ubuntu, now PolicyKit

2008-11-21T22:46:00.000+03:00

So... Here we go further. Gnome environment is a bit dissapointing, too slow comparing to various *boxes (i stick to fluxbox now). And also gdm doesn't make your computer faster. Actually it's quite useless if you know how to start x session yourself. But gdm is responsible for launching other services and PolicyKit settings also depend on it.The thing is that if you're using gdm then it allows

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, enabling russian winkeys layout

2008-11-18T13:59:00.000+03:00

It might seem trivial for you, to change the keyboard layout for Russian one, but since Ubuntu 8.10 editing xorg.conf does not affect your settings. Since Ubuntu is quite bloated now, i have removed gdm, switched to fluxbox, and installed framebuffer. As the side effect, in X i couldn't change the language and usual xorg.conf config didn't work.Solution was to edit file "/etc/default/

METEOREX 2008 - Earth Remote Sensing and Hydrometeorological Hardware/Software exposition

2008-11-07T21:07:00.000+03:00

Hm, got to know that i *probably* will be employed at METEOREX exposition organization as an assistant from Main Geophysical Observatory.From 27 to 29 of November in LenExpo, Saint-Petersburg METEOREX 2008, "The Exhibition of Meteorological Instruments, Related Equipment and Services", will be held. Along with it there will be "The Earth Remote Sensing conference and exhibition" and TECO, "The

bash promt style customization

2008-10-28T12:59:00.000+03:00

Nice documentation on how to change your prompt style.My current one:PS1='\[\033[1;33m\]\D{%H:%M} \[\033[1;39m\]\u \[\033[1;35m\]\w\[\033[0m\]: '

Numpy in Russian

2008-10-17T16:52:00.001+04:00

Few nice lines of Russian numpy documentation:http://num.wikidot.com/PS. "Bonus" ;)Just a quick example how to pull information you want from an ascii file where you have a lot of "junk" data:Shortly: >> file = numpy.loadtxt('k_490_track.dat',delimiter=None,skiprows=3,usecols=(5,6,8),unpack=True)"delimiter none" - all the whitespaces serve as a delimiter;"skiprows" and "usecols" - selfexplanatory

Python tips

2008-08-21T12:08:00.000+04:00

Notes on my struggle with Python. :)1. Os.system call and wildcards.You might have a hard life trying to send commands with wildcards to shell using "os.system()" call. If it treats wildcards as a part of the filename, use module "subprocess", for example:>>> subprocess.check_call('ls /data/sat/noaa/l1d/*l1d*', shell=True)2. Writing a binary file with pythonimport structn = 1066bfile.write(

Temperature and humidity vertical profiles retrieval procedure

2008-08-07T13:44:00.000+04:00

For my Master thesis i have done some assessment analysis of retrieved vertical temperature and humidity atmospheric profiles accuracy.The data has been retrieved from ATOVS sounder system placed on NOAA and METOP satellite.As the accuracy was considered as satisfying (for the use in forecasting analysis) now it's a time to introduce producing of temperature and humidity maps (on different

Huh, it's over now >> yet another MSc.

2008-07-03T11:30:00.000+04:00

I have finally graduated. Hm.

Goosh!

2008-06-08T12:43:00.000+04:00

Stefan Grothkopp has written an ultimately cool service, goosh.org, which makes a fusion of google search and command line interface! Finally, i was looking for a similar funcionality for long.I wrote really basic script to access firefox and goosh.org from my desktop command line.#!/usr/bin/python# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-# Send your goosh query from the command lineimport osimport sysos.system("$

My LaTex tips sheet

2008-05-12T00:23:00.000+04:00

Just to collect tricks that i needed for my thesis paper:1. Set all fonts to 14 pt size: \documentclass[14pt]{extarticle}2. Set depth of contents table to something other than default "2":\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}

Latex: "t2aenc.def not found"? It's over now...

2008-05-11T01:56:00.000+04:00

Well, it's true what they say: "idiots don't learn on their mistakes". Already for the second time (after clean upgrading of OS on my laptop) i forget install all of the packages i need to convert *.tex files into *.pdf docs with cyrillic symbols. While all you need is to install these packages:

Arrgh! Wine: "16-bit support missing".

2008-05-06T21:44:00.000+04:00

In ubuntu hardy heron really annoying bug is present, due to security reasons by default support of 16-bit applications was disabled. As the result, if i wanted to install some of good old software i am used to i was getting an error: preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000winevdm: unable to exec '--app-name': 16-bit support missingOn ubuntuforums i found solution which

Typographic symbols keymap for UTF-8

2008-01-30T11:58:00.000+03:00

Here is the post on how to add typographical symbols keymap.This is how it looks like (thanks to Ilya Birman):

Thermal radiometry

2008-01-25T17:27:00.000+03:00

"Радиотеплолокация"

IARC Summer School on the Modeling of Arctic Climate

2008-01-20T09:08:00.000+03:00

Summer School in FairbanksIARC Summer School on the Modeling of Arctic ClimateDates: May 26 - June 7, 2008Location: International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska, FairbanksCoordinators: John Walsh, Vladimir Alexeev and Elena Sparrow.First week will be in Fairbanks and a second one in Barrow.Scientific program:• perspectives on the key issues in Arctic climate from observational,

PPM

2008-01-02T15:46:00.001+03:00

ppm (particles per million) - "частей на миллион".Отношение количества молекул некоторого газа к общему количеству молекул сухого воздуха

Radiative forcing

2008-01-02T14:08:00.000+03:00

Finally i am starting slowly to collect Russian translations for English meteorological expressions, which i meet during my studies/work. If the collection will grow any bigger then one hundred of entries (haha), i will separate it away from this blog.Radiative forcing - "радиационное воздействие".Это мера влияния, которое тот или иной фактор оказывает на изменение баланса поступающей и уходящей

How to create ISO image (from CD) and mount it later

2007-12-19T11:00:00.000+03:00

If you have a CD that you would like to make a copy, to keep it exactly as it is you need to make an ISO image.Do it just with one single command:dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/some/folder/foo.iso bs=1024Later to mount it execute it like:mount -o loop /some/path/foo.iso /mnt/iso

International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling

2007-12-16T07:02:00.000+03:00

* Organized by: Max Planck Scientific Society and German Association of Universites * General initiative is to provide students from Germany and abroad with necessary facilities for their research* Aimed at students who has Master degree (or equivalent to German "Diplom")* The Research Schools focus particularly on international cooperation and strive to attract foreign students to Germany to

simple gnuplot scripts

2007-11-23T16:24:00.001+03:00

set title "St.Petersburg [59.90N:29.6E] 25.09.2007"set xlabel "T, K"set ylabel "Z, HPa"set yrange [1050:0.1]set terminal postscript enhanced "Sans" 18set output "profile.ps"set style line 1 lt 1 pt 7plot "profile.txt" with linespoints linestyle 1

Mount Win2K3 share drive via cifs

2007-11-02T09:50:00.000+03:00

The thing is that if you want to mount a share drive in Windows 2003 Server domain under your /mnt/smth smbfs won't do the trick anymore, you have to use cifs. So, to mount //windows/somefolder under folder /mnt/anotherfolder you need to execute this:$ mount -t cifs //root/exchange /mnt/root -o username=mikhail.itkinIt will also prompt you for a password.Found the solution here at ubuntuforums.

Bash scripts

2007-11-01T12:59:00.000+03:00

Here i will try to post my "progress" in shell scripting i need for my work:Read file contents and set it as a variables:# test.txtinput_filename: /data/sat/l0.pdsstart_time: 2007-10-20T09:27stop_time: 2007-10-20T09:41And solution, thanks to ghostdog74#!/bin/bashvar=$(awk 'BEGIN{FS="[-:T]"}/start_time/{print $2,$3,$4}' "file")set -- $varYEAR=$1MONTH=$2DAY=$3echo $YEAR $MONTH $DAYdouble

Default laptop manufacturer settings decrease HDD life time

2007-10-31T17:49:00.000+03:00

There is obviously a bag in the power management on Ubuntu 7.10. While acpi spins down HDD on battery it decreases it's lifetime, you can check it executing command: smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_CountNumber on my laptop was around 106000 after two weeks of using this computer.I've followed this instructions:http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3675960&postcount=26And it seems to be Ok

IDL 6.3 on Ubuntu 7.10

2007-10-30T00:21:00.000+03:00

It turned to be possible to use IDL 6.3 on moderm Linux without downgrading libx11 library (on my laptop with Intel 945 chipset with integrated video).Before installing and running IDL or IDL related software turn off direct rendering of OpenGL:# export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1to enable data visualization i had to downgrade libx11 to the suggested version.Full text of solution suggested by ITTVIS

New laptop: Acer TravelMate 6291

2007-10-15T17:00:00.000+04:00

It works like a charm with Ubuntu 7.10 RC1, Vista was wiped off the disk 15 minutes later after i came home with a new laptop.Few tweaks i had to do. 1) Install manually new alsa sound driver (extremly easy, i was just following official documentation). Alsa's version 1.0.15rc32) After installation of gstreamer-good media codecs, my webcamera works fine too.Here is the command to check it out:$

Jonny Cash - "Man in black" lyrics...

2007-10-02T14:40:00.000+04:00

...sad, sad song... Actual for the all times, i believe..."Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,Why you never see bright colors on my back,And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for

GNU fortran f951 error

2007-10-02T14:29:00.000+04:00

In order to solve the f951 problem which appear after installation of g95 compiler, you need to do the following:- on my box it seems that the essense of the problem lies in the absence of the folder for temporary files, so you need to create such folder firstmkdir /tmp/g95ln -s /opt/g95/ /tmp/g95/opt/g95 - my fortran installation directory

Compiling netCDF with no second underscore

2007-09-29T22:53:00.000+04:00

To compile netCDF in the way that International ATOVS Processing Package (IAPP) would work, you need to set fortran flags to FFLAGS = -fno-second-underscore.In brief, declare the two following variables:$ CPPFLAGS=-DpgiFortran$ FFLAGS=-fno-second-underscore

Contacts of the EU commision in Moscow

2007-09-28T16:45:00.001+04:00

Представительство Европейской Комиссии в РоссииОтдел прессы и информацииРоссийская Федерация109017, МоскваКадашевская наб., 14/1Тел.: +7 495 7212000Факс: +7 495 7212020E-mail: Delegation-Russia@ec.europa.euhttp://www.delrus.ec.europa.eu

How the things fuction in Russia...

2007-09-27T15:06:00.000+04:00

...a simple poem, which perfectly describes my beloved mother Russia:"Письмо Меньшикова Петру I:- Получили сто рублей На постройку кораблей.Девяносто три рублиПропили и проебли.Остается семь рублейНа лечение мудей..Милый Пётр, дай ответ,Будем строить или нет?- Воля царская моя:Я не знаю ни хуяЧто пили, кого ебли,Но чтоб были корабли!"

2007-09-26T12:50:00.000+04:00

Just noticed a nice thing:If Terra satellite flies over Baltic sea around 9-10 am UTC then it covers perfect the Adriatic sea as well! Here is an example of MODIS imagery received in Arctic and Antarctic research center:

Xubuntu + samba network (fusesmb)

2007-09-20T13:19:00.000+04:00

Manual on how to mount Windows share drives to Thunar in Xubuntu (in Russian).full thread in Ubuntuforums

Old Google Earth coastline

2007-08-28T15:47:00.000+04:00

Just noticed that the coastline in Google Earth must be pretty much outdated, at least in comparison with the used imagery.See the screenshot from the Google earth with the Aral sea (it has started to shrink in 60's and by 90's it looked already pretty much as nowadays).

"She said - thank you"

2007-08-27T16:04:00.000+04:00

How familiar this story sounds to me. I should print it out and hang in the office and home on the wall, over my computer... ;) Original is here: http://avanoo.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/she-said-thank-you/"When she wakes up in the morning, she thinks about studying. She’s wanted to be an archaeologist since she can remember, and now she’s a freshman in college and majoring in anthropology (of

Tracks from the radio

2007-08-24T12:52:00.000+04:00

Need to get:1. Shades - I am a Rock ("Influence" 2007)2. Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You ("Reservoir Dogs" 1992)3. Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) ("Cher's Greatest Hits" 1972)4. The Stranglers - Golden Brown ("Folie" 1981)5. Deep Purple - Any Fule Kno That ("Abandon" 1998)6. The Strokes - Someday ("Is This It" 2001)7. Kaiser Chiefs - Everything Is Average Nowadays

Firefox hotkeys + Russian keyboard

2007-08-20T15:57:00.000+04:00

Here is the firefox extension, which lets you use Firefox hotkeys while you are using Cyrrilic keyboard layout.

CP1251 - UTF8 converter

2007-08-19T14:09:00.000+04:00

Russian encoding in MPD can be shown correctly, finally found a tool:- "id3iconv"Check this post to see how to convert IDv3 tags into UTF-8.

Config for conky

2007-08-16T21:37:00.000+04:00

I have slightly modified config file for conky (system monitor)Here is it:background nofont Sans:size=9#xftfont Sans:size=10use_xft yesxftalpha 0.9update_interval 2.0total_run_times 0own_window yesown_window_type normalown_window_transparent yesown_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pagerdouble_buffer yesminimum_size 220 5maximum_width 220draw_shades yesdraw_outline

PDF tools

2007-08-15T00:48:00.000+04:00

Some time ago i have scanned one book which has more than 500 pages. It took me quite some time, but since it was a working day, that was ok, boss didn't mind. ;)Later i have discovered that i made a mistake - the scanned pages (with text mainly) had quality too good for a book and too big filesize as a result.So my idea was to resize the pages and convert to a worse quality. Here is the whole

OO MIME types and .htacess

2007-08-14T12:15:00.000+04:00

Recently at one forum there was a need to make server recognize OpenOffice MIME types as binary files which belong to the certain application, while it was treated as plain text (resulting in showing the file as smth totally messy).The solution was to edit file .htacess, adding there the following line on the end of the file:AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text .odtAddType application/

New Russia - EU visa regulations

2007-08-14T02:16:00.000+04:00

I have posted it already some time ago at geographers' forum, but since i need this document from time to time i will repost it here as well:Some very good news!On 1st of June, 2007 new rules for Russia and EU, on facilitation of issuance of visas got into force!Here you can find the set of the regulations. And i will make a short skim on what concerns students and researches:1) Documents

Cribs: frequency and wavelength

2007-08-14T01:27:00.000+04:00

From en.wikipedia:1) Wavelength is the distance between repeating units of a propagating wave of a given frequency. Designated by the Greek letter lambda (λ).2) Frequency is the measurement of the number of occurrences of a repeated event per unit of time. It is also defined as the rate of change of phase of a sinusoidal waveform. (To calculate the frequency of the event, the number of

Firefox fonts: same as in GTK settings

2007-06-25T12:18:00.000+04:00

For a while i was "suffering" from the firefox 2 fonts looking differently from my gtk theme.I think that's quite usual problem. The most annoying thing were the fonts, they were two steps bigger than my gtk ones.Solution is fairly easy. Edit your firefox Chromeuser profile:first create userChrome.css file by copying the example:$ cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/chrome$ cp userChrome-example.css

How to set custom background in OO Impress

2007-05-18T13:12:00.000+04:00

Taken from the openoffice.org forums: The way to set an image background for an individual slide is to choose it using the background tab on the Format | Page menu for the slide you want to add it to. The complications start here. If you want a custom color or bitmap background, you can't do it from here. Close the page menu and choose Format | Area. From there you choose the type of

Proxy settings for my gmail IM account

2007-05-15T09:15:00.000+04:00

Hello!Today i have finally discovered what are the settings that i need to set in order to access my gmail account via jabber client (currently it's gajim).To get through proxy (port 3128) i had to use legacy SSL, hostname talk.google.com and port 443.Voi la! It works! :)

Mounting a Windows share drive

2007-04-26T12:55:00.000+04:00

Just found out in this howto how to mount a share windows drive permanently: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountWindowsSharesPermanently

IMAPP on Linux: Jiihaa!

2007-04-25T20:34:00.000+04:00

Very nice day is today: finally i have managed to run IMAPP (international MODIS processing package) on my Linux/Ubuntu box.The trouble that i had before was my will to compile the program from the source code under Ubuntu and other modern distributions with pretty new C compilers: gcc 3.x and gcc 4.x. I have failed with that but fortunately found the solution. Maybe not elegant but effective.Ok,

How to access usbdrive in VirtualBox (rights)

2007-04-23T21:29:00.000+04:00

Yep, another copy/paste, from Ubuntu forums ():===================================I am not sure how to activate a usb device in Edgy, but I can tell you how I did it in Feisty.First, it had nothing to do with fstab.This solution worked for me :Edit (as root) /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules (I use vim, you can use nano, getid, or whatever)Change this line :SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device",

CD/DVD not showing cyrrilics

2007-04-19T15:52:00.000+04:00

For quite a while i was annoyed with the captions of mp3's on CD burnt in Windows, the cyrrilics were never shown correctly, but instead i could only see "?????? ???.mp3"The solution is to change /etc/fstab, to add utf8 in the line describing mounting cdromThat's the right way it has to be, assuming that you are using utf8 locale./dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ser,unhide,utf8,noauto

How to use cdrecord: burn it! ;)

2007-03-26T23:50:00.000+04:00

Copy/paste from: http://www.mepis.org/node/1326. All the credits go to bhobjjI agree. The command line is the easiest way to burn an iso. Here is a short how-to I put together:This is an attempt to convey a basic understanding of how cdrecord and mkisofs can be used. Please let me know of errors, omissions, &tc.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CDRECORD All

How to add win fonts to your system?

2007-03-22T12:08:00.000+03:00

Ok, let's assume you use Linux (Ubuntu) in my case and you need to have not just default system fonts but some additional ones. It's extremely easy to install it, just in few commands.First, you have to create a new folder in home space: # mkdir ~/.fonts And then you just copy the new fonts into that folder and run the following command: # sudo fc-cache -f -vThis will introduce your new

Ubuntu Linux + SeaDAS 5.0

2007-02-14T16:41:00.000+03:00

Here are the instructions how to install SeaDAS 5.0 on Ubuntu box (in my case that was Edgy Eft) Instructions are taken from official SeaDAS support forum. 1) Install CSH with "apt-get install csh" or synaptic2) create a file /etc/redhat-release and insert:"Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)"3) Use the automatic installation for Fedora Core 6. (I used the run-time IDL)4) append to ~/.bashrc"source [

Sample *.com file for HDFLook

2007-02-14T16:32:00.000+03:00

For the creation of pseudo true color MODIS images i use program called HDFLook, developed in Lille. Here is an example of what you can do using scripts for HDFLook:And here is the sample *.com script, with which this image was created.

How to allow to change governors and frequencies for CPU-FREQ

2007-02-14T16:20:00.000+03:00

Recently i have ran into a problem: my laptop has Intel Centrino Process, the one that changes its' frequency if the load is bigger or smaller... So that it works with full power when you need high computing performance, and it has frequency only of 600 MHz and doesn't use much energy when you don't need it to perform fast (f.e. your just surfing in the internet, or use office programs, or listen

IBM Article: How to minimize the RAM usage

2007-02-14T12:30:00.000+03:00

As it seems that Linux nowadays is fairly simple operating system for the end user, there is still a lot to learn, it looks like capabilities of the features available for user are unlimited!After a while the amount of articles, hints and tricks that i have read is simply too much for my poor brains, and it's really not possible to remember everything. I will try to make some notes inhere, so

Collection of research materials available in the internet

2007-02-14T10:32:00.000+03:00

Today after i have got a link on European Research Council website, i came across the idea to collect the information (websites, group emails, different kind of offers) on the various research related things, available in the Internet. The main intension is to keep the data from being lost during the routine work in the office or at home.So here is the first one:The Scientific Council of the