How to install Adobe Reader on Linux Mint 17? First, add Canonical PPA repository sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ precise partner” Then, update apt cache and install Adobe Reader sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude install acroread You can select “Yes” to set Adobe Reader as the default PDF viewer or “No” to not set it. E.Z.M.,…
What are the x86-64 instructions for floating-point comparisons like the cmpq for quard-word integer comparison? The SSE3 extenstions provide two instructions for comparing floating values: Instruction Based on Description ucomiss S2, S1 S1 – S2 Compare single precision ucomisd S2, S1 S1 – S2 Compare double precision As with cmpq, they follow the GAS convention…
How to balance the two columns of text on the last page of a Latex doc? 2 good Latex packages are good at balancing the two columns of text on the last page of a Latex doc (choose either one that are good for you). balance Usage: At the beginning of the doc: usepackage{balance} At…
Which ones are recommended introductions to Hadoop 2.0 (YARN)? Pointers to webpages are good. Those are good ones that I find: The SoCC13 paper “Apache Hadoop YARN: Yet Another Resource Negotiator” by Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli et al.: http://www.socc2013.org/home/program/a5-vavilapalli.pdf The introduction from Hortonworks by Arun Murthy:http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hadoop-yarn-concepts-and-applications/ The “Official” one from Apache Hadoop website (very brief):https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.2.0/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/YARN.html
With the command -dPDFSETTINGS=/print for ps2pdf, I got: GPL Ghostscript 9.10: Set UseCIEColor for UseDeviceIndependentColor to work properly. Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow in .setdistillerparams make: *** [pdf-print] Error 255 How to fix it? I use this workaround: ps2pdf -dColorConversionStrategy=/LeaveColorUnchanged -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer psfile.ps from this. An alternative is to use -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress.
Kindle is good for reading. However, the A4-size technical/academic paper is pain to read on Kindle 5—the fonts are too small. The “email to Kindl” converting tool provided by Amazon usually loses the formats in the technical paper. How to convert A4 paper format to read on Kindle 5? I use k2pdfopt tool (hey, source…
How to convert a MS Word document file such as .docx and .doc to pdf on Linux using command line tools? Use LibreOffice: libreoffice –headless –convert-to pdf –outdir /path/to/out/dir/ /path/to/doc/docx/file While this LibreOffice answer works, the –headless option still needs as display, even though it does not use it. In otherwords, this option won’t work…
Any GUI tools to crop PDF file margins on Linux? I use krop: http://arminstraub.com/computer/krop krop is a simple graphical tool to crop the pages of PDF files. To install krop on Fedora: # yum install krop
How to automatically fill a batch of data (well structured) to the PDF form? There are lots data items, so automatically do this by a program/script is required. If you know a little bit of Python, you can achieve this in Python with some libraries. Check How can I auto-populate a PDF form in Django/Python….
What are good PDF annotation tools on Linux? Preferring saving the annotation in the PDF instead of separate files or images. I find the best solution may be wine + Foxit Reader. Foxit Reader can annotate PDF files and save them. It works very well on wine. Steps to install them: Install wine # yum…
How to save a Word document to be a PDF in Office 2007? I find this add-on for Office 2007 from Microsoft: 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS. It works very well for me. After installing this plugin, I can open a Word document and save it as a PDF file.
Which are the consistency models used for distributed systems? Papers that survey the consistency models Robert C. Steinke and Gary J. Nutt. 2004. A unified theory of shared memory consistency. J. ACM 51, 5 (September 2004), 800-849. DOI=10.1145/1017460.1017464 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1017460.1017464 David Mosberger. 1993. Memory consistency models. SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 27, 1 (January 1993), 18-26. DOI=10.1145/160551.160553…
I want to learn transactional memory technologies. Any suggestions on Transactional memory learning materials? Thanks! I highly suggest the Transactional Memory lecture by James R. Larus and Ravi Rajwar of Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture: The Transactional Memory lecture:http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00070ED1V01Y200611CAC002 Link to the PDF:http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00070ED1V01Y200611CAC002
What is the x86-64 calling convention by gcc? The calling convention of the System V AMD64 ABI is followed on GNU/Linux. The registers RDI, RSI, RDX, RCX, R8, and R9 are used for integer and memory address arguments and XMM0, XMM1, XMM2, XMM3, XMM4, XMM5, XMM6 and XMM7 are used for floating point arguments. For…
Latex is a popular document preparation system that is widely used for creating scientific and technical documents. Compiling Latex documents on Linux is a straightforward process that requires only a few Latex packages and a set of commands. By following the steps outlined in this post, you can easily compile Latex documents on your Linux…
How to export a work file to PDF in Office 2007? 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7 This download allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send as e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS…
How to convert a ps file to a pdf file that is available for publish (embedded fonts, etc)? Convert the file.ps ps file to file.pdf: $ ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer file.ps file.pdf</pre> Embedding Fonts in PDFs with pdflatex by Jeffrey P. Bigham: http://www.manticmoo.com/articles/jeff/programming/latex/embedding-fonts-with-pdflatex.php
Evolution is a great personal information management tool that provides Email, address book and calendar tools. Evolution provides many enterprise friendly feature such as native support to Microsoft Exchange connectivity for Emails, address books and calendars. Evolution uses various ways including plain files and dconf configuration systems. This post will give an introduction to the…
How to set the static IP address for CentOS 7/Fedora 22+ is introduced in this post. Here, we assume the Linux is using NetworkManager to manage the network. All steps are done as root. Find the interface you want to set the address Command ifconfig -a lists all interfaces. Find the interface name to set,…
Doing actions upon changes of files and directories is very useful. Examples like compiling a project after the source code files are changed, sending emails after important configuration files are modified, building the PDF after a TeX file is modified. On Linux, the inotify-tools provide good support for trigger actions after changes. In this post,…