How to generate reference of web pages in the IEEE citation format with bibtex? From the IEEE Citation Reference, the reference for web page is like this: WWW Basic Format: [1] J. K. Author. (year, month day). Title (edition) [Type of medium]. Available: http://www.(URL) Example: [1] J. Jones. (1991, May 10). Networks (2nd ed.) [Online]….
ssh/scp are convenient and handy tools on Linux. Is is possible to further improve its speed/performance? Please check this post for how to improve ssh/scp performance: https://www.systutorials.com/5450/improving-sshscp-performance-by-choosing-ciphers/
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
How to install Fedora 20 on a mbr/ms-dos disk? The nogpt and noefi trick seems do not work. This is a bug in F20 installer that still believes it is in UEFI native mode even if the noefi parameter is passed. Solution: There is an updates image for the installer which fixes this issue available…
How to quickly print a plain text file to printers from a terminal in Linux? You can also use enscript: enscript – convert text files to PostScript, HTML, RTF, ANSI, and overstrikes https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-enscript/ enscript text-file The lp command can print a plain text file to a printer. My favorite command: cat text-file | lp -o…
Any good programming language popularity indices? Those are interesting ones: TIOBE Indexhttp://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2014 This ranking is published as blog posts. So no persistent homepage found yet. The January 2014 version is: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2014/01/22/language-rankings-1-14/ Programming Language Popularityhttp://langpop.com/
I have multiple video files, say video1.avi, video2.avi and video3.avi. How to concatenate these multiple video file to a single file together on Linux? You can use mencoder to concatenate multiple video files to one file. For installing mencoder on Fedora, please check: http://www.systutorials.com/1493/mplayer-on-fedora/ For the question, the command is: mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy…
Sometimes, we need to write paper reviews after read many papers which belong to a specific area (like information retrieval). I have found some useful links which are as follows. http://www.uwlax.edu/biology/communication/ReviewPapers.htmlhttps://users.ece.utexas.edu/~miryung/teaching/EE382V-Fall2009/review.html
What other mobile messengers like WhatsApp in the market? Messneger Apps focusing on mobile phones WhatsApp: http://www.whatsapp.com/ WeChat: http://www.wechat.com/en/ Kik: http://kik.com/ Kakao Talk: http://www.kakao.com/talk/en LINE: http://line.me/en/ Other “general” messengers that also have mobile clients Google Hangouts: http://www.google.com/ /learnmore/hangouts/ Facebook Messenger: https://www.facebook.com/mobile/messenger Skype: http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-mobile/
Should I buy a Kindle paperwhite or regular Kindle? Actually, you can click the following link to get the answers :-)http://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/16in81/should_i_get_a_paperwhite_or_regular_kindle/
How to install Python environment in my own account on Dreamhost so that my application can use the python that I installed by myself instead of the system-wide one? The post for Bluehost works very well for Dreamhost too: https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/python-install In short: mkdir ~/python cd ~/python wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/Python-2.7.2.tgz tar zxfv Python-2.7.2.tgz find ~/python -type d…
There are lots internal and external links on my site. Unfortunately, some of them are broken over years. How to find out all these broken links on my site? I use this tool http://www.brokenlinkcheck.com/ which can detect the broken links well. More info here: Broken links checker for sites
How to install sbt for scala on Fedora Linux? It is not included in the default Fedora repository although scala is included. The download page of scala-sbt.org provides the RPM package. You can install the sbt rpm package by yum. We only need the URL to the RPM package. Here, let take version 0.13.1 as…
How to set up auto indenting for OCaml code in Vim? The built-in indenting in Vim for OCaml seems not very good. Please check the post at https://www.systutorials.com/5212/auto-indenting-for-ocaml-code-in-vim-with-ocp-indent/
How to get the output of a system command in C? The system function is handy. But how to get the output? popen is a useful function for this purpose: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/3p-popen/ You can use normal file operation functions like fgets to read file content from the file opened by popen.
How to convert a latex file to a single page html? htlatex is a good choice. On Fedora, install it by yum install texlive-tex4ht. To generate the HTML page from a latex file doc.tex: htlatex doc You can use the latex2html (can be installed on Fedora by yum install latex2html). $ latex2html -split +0 -info…
How to tell whether the shell is run in screen? For example, I run screen and it starts a bash environment. How to tell in the bash, whether it is run by screen or it is a normal bash environment? It can be identified by checking the TERM environment variable: In a bash in screen:…
The Kindle Library Web interface only provide interface to delete items one by one. How to delete multiple items from my Kindle Library? This works on Chrome. First, browse deki.js to find the javascript for the “DeKi: Delete Kindle Items” plugin. Press “Ctrl + A” then “Ctrl + C” to copy all the javascript code….
How to set an environment variable in csh? To set an environment variable in csh: setenv VARIABLE value Most commands used to display/manipulate the environment variables for bash are also available for csh: https://www.systutorials.com/qa/476/how-to-set-an-environment-variable-in-bash
How to format outputs with cout in C++? You need IO Manipulators <iomanip>: Header providing parametric manipulators. There are also good tutorials on the Web: Output Formatting: http://arachnoid.com/cpptutor/student3.html Formatting Cout Output in C++ using iomanip: http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/iomanip.html