Wednesday, February 26, 2014

How to Make Your Computer’s Browser Use Less Data When Tethering

See:
http://www.howtogeek.com/138658/how-to-make-your-computers-browser-use-less-data-while-tethering/

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Transferring files over SSH

Generally, if you want to download, it will go:
scp user@remote_host:remote_file local_file
where local_file might actually be a directory to put the file you're copying in. To upload, it's the opposite:
scp local_file user@remote_host:remote_file
If you want to copy a whole directory, you will need -r. Think of scp as like cp, except you can specify a file with user@remote_host:file as well as just local files.
Edit: As noted in a comment, if the usernames on the local and remote hosts are the same, then the user can be omitted when specifying a remote file.

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/343711/transferring-files-over-ssh

Friday, February 7, 2014

Single-columned Table or Figure after two-columned Text

Use * suffix for the floating element.

 ex:

text text ...................
text text ...................
\begin{table*}[htb]
\caption{}
\begin{tabular}{C{2cm} C{2cm} C{2cm} C{2cm} C{2.1cm} C{2.4cm}}
..........
..........
\end{tabular}
\end{table*
}


 Source: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=22525

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Title page with the LaTeX article class

Use the titlepage class option.
\documentclass[titlepage]{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\title{(title)}
\author{(author)}
\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}

\lipsum[1]

\end{document}
 
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36929/how-can-i-get-a-title-page-with-the-latex-article-class 

Thursday, January 2, 2014

One bibliography from multiple .bib files

The correct way to load multiple bib files is to use

\bibliography{file1,file2}
 
Note the lack of space between the comma and the files!

Src: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/84099/bibliographies-from-multiple-bib-files

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Good techniques for understanding someone else's code

When working with production code the first thing that I always do is to get the current code built and working - and verify that it is as per the production system.
Always aim to understand the minimum possible, and assume that the rest of the code is working as it should (even if it isn't - it's the mental process that is important).
Try to understand the big stuff first - how each part of the code hangs together and what is being achieved at a high level, then work downwards.
A large sheet of paper and a pack of 10cm^2 post-it notes always help me along. Each post-it is a component of the system, and I can move them to aid understanding.

(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/246546/good-techniques-for-understanding-someone-elses-code)

KDE application window settings

Auto stretch ?
KDE Forums / Windows auto-resize width : http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=97839
Window rules
  • Configure settings specifically for a window
System Settings > Window Behavior > Window Rules
Special Window/Application Settings
Right click the window border > Advanced > Special Window/Application Settings > Size & Position
Size - Remember



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(http://askubuntu.com/questions/103358/how-can-i-get-kubuntu-to-respect-previous-window-sizes)