Automatically Accepting EULA while Installing Sun JDK on Ubuntu

Useful: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=953779&page=2

poisson_distribution broken in boost and g++?

I needed to generate samples from poisson distribution in c++. poisson_distribution happens to be a function included in C++0x. When I wrote the code and ran it using g++ 4.4.3 with std=c++0x, the code hung inside the poisson_distribution generator (i,e. operator()). I then converted my code to using boost 1.40 instead of g++. It still hung!

Then I decided to try out the code from MSDN documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb982217.aspx. This example hangs with both boost and g++!

I set a breakpoint inside the generator code. A product was being accumulated (starting from 1.0) and to be able to break it was checked to be less than a quantity less than 1.  However the product was increasing, not decreasing, soon reaching to inf.

Extracting Libraries from Boost

I needed to use the Boost Spirit Library. I do not want to have to add all boost libraries into my project. To separate out only the dependencies of Spirit, I used the bcp tool:

bcp --boost=./boost_1_43_0/ spirit ./boost-spirit

This worked fine and sent to output to boost-spirit directory.

Latex Notes

Bounding Box / Image
The primary and nasty problem I face with inserting jpg or png images into latex is related to "boundary box" (I do not recall the specific error messages as the last time I inserted a jpg image was long back). I have tried many things before but they have not worked for me. Here I am writing about another way to insert images without headaches, which might work (still untested):

• Find the image size. On unix, use the imagemagick "identify" command. 

identify a.jpg
a.jpg JPEG 133x100 133x100+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 35KiB 0.000u 0:00.000

• Use the size to specify the bounding box:

 \includegraphics[bb=0 0 133 100,scale=0.5]{a.jpg}  

Bibliography Style for Website

@misc{stroustrup10,
author = "Bjarne Stroustrup",
title = {C++ Applications},
howpublished = "Website",
year = {2010},
note = {\url{http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/applications.html}. Accessed July 2010.}
}



Font/Itemize Labels


Tips: http://www.schneeflocke.net/index.php?section=latex/index#latexsrclst


Header/Footer

Tips: http://www.schneeflocke.net/index.php?section=latex/index#latexsrclst

Presentation Effects
 
Tips: http://www.schneeflocke.net/index.php?section=latex/index#latexsrclst

Latex Symbols

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Symbols
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf


Building Latex

Rubber: A single-point output builder from latex document: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~beffara/soft/rubber/
Comparison with other latex build systems: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1240037/recommended-build-system-for-latex/


References

Not too short Introduction: http://mirror.math.ku.edu/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
Latex in Inkscape: http://jblevins.org/log/latex-in-inkscape

Recovering Windows Data After Crash

This must be familiar. My lab's Windows Vista crashed suddenly without reason and would not boot up again. Fortunately I had backed up my data (using Windows Backup) on a separate disk drive. I used an Ubuntu Live CD to boot and then I was able to recover data from zipped files from where windows had backed it into zipped files. Perhaps not surprisingly or surprisingly, I was unable to mount and access the disk drive that previously ran Windows.