say i have a small patch of an image. in order for me to use that was a desktop wall paper on a pc screen i would normally turn on the “tile” option when setting it as a wallpaper. the default background image used by GDM (/usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg) is a horrible green leaf and i hate [...]
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tile an image to make a tiled wallpaper
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gdm, gnome, gnome display manager, imagemagick, wallpaper on October 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
copy paste in tmux
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged linux, tmux on June 20, 2010 | 7 Comments »
i m assuming that the tmux prefix is Control+b and that you have emacs style key bindings on 1) enter copy mode using Control+b [ 2) navigate to beginning of text, you want to select and hit Control+Space 3) move around using arrow keys to select region 4) when you reach end of region simply [...]
use digicam to record videos to pc
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
i want to answer the following questions : how to use a digital camera as a webcam ? how to get a live real time feed (on the pc) of what the digital camera is seeing ? first the background i don’t have a tv tuner card. i don’t have a firewire port. i have [...]
open source matlab like library for c++
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
while octave is a matlab clone for gnu/linux systems it does not offer much help to those who want to harness the speed of c/c++ programming. however development time is rather large specially when open source and standard scientific libraries are not available. the usual trend is to test out an idea in a rapid [...]
need for free and open source libraries
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is no point in reinventing the wheel and researches will be more fruitful if the research concentrated on the field of interest of the researcher rather than the tools needed to do the research. I work in control and optimization and many a times i find it extremely hard to progress due to non-availability [...]
trying out windows live writer
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
i m writing this post on my desktop in the windows live writer. lets see how it turns out. [edit] hmmm… i just hit the Publish button and a new tab in firefox opened displaying the published post. me likes it
