Posts from November 2011

Sometimes, I accidentally move files into folders. However, I am uncertain what files I moved (because I wasn't paying attention when my stylus accidentally dragged and dropped that file into some nearby folder). So I know that something has changed in the directory but I am not sure about what has changed. In windows, I could easily right click and undo whatever the last action was - rename/delete/move. Where is this undo functionality in Linux??

If there isn't a way, is there at least a log that logs all these events so I could check it and see what was changed?

Am I missing some obvious way to do this? Ctrl-Z does not cut it.

Ikea might have turned down Buffalo but two canny blokes from our city spied the Ikea-craziness haunting everyone's eyes and decided to do something about it. Take a guess? No, they didn't rush out and buy mass tranquilizers to shoot at everyone. Your guess was fun but thankfully, wrong. The truth is less dramatic. They set up a website called myikeaplace dot com instead.

And how did I know about this charming entrepreneurial story? They left no apartment building behind. I have been seeing their flyers and hearing hushed whispers about my ikea place dot com ALL over my building, and beyond today. I can even hear the lady who hangs out in the balcony in the next building (a.k.a, beyond) smoking like a chimney and talking about it.

So I had to go and check out their website and it is quite an interesting business model. You just submit your ikea orders on their website. They go all the way to Pittsburgh, do the shopping for you and bring back whatever you wanted with them. You can then go fetch whatever it is you ordered in your ikea-craze from their garage professional storage rental on Ellicott.

What a nifty idea... I think I can definitely push my rickety cart from their warehouse to my flat. Maybe I should stop bitterly stalking the ebay seller who ditched my sale and get those LED lamps I want from our very own buffalo ikeamongers.

Continuing the "mastering first grade when you are in graduate school" series.
The 18 table.

1. Starting with 18
2. 36
3. 54
4. 72
5. 90
6. 108
7. 126
8. 144
9. 162
10. 180 -20 + 200
11. 198
12. 216
13. 234
14. 252
15. 270
16. 288
17. 306
18. 324
19. 342
20. 360

detachment?



1.42 minutes of Celldweller awesomeness

Simple yet frustrating question for those who want to view the code behind the base functions.

whereis R

Turns out R on linux is installed in the following directory structures:

• /usr/bin/R : this is the executable binary
• /usr/lib64/R

ls

bin COPYING etc include lib library modules NEWS NEWS.pdf SVN-REVISION

• /usr/include/R

ls

Rconfig.h Rembedded.h R.h Rinternals.h Rversion.h
Rdefines.h R_ext Rinterface.h Rmath.h S.h

• /usr/share/R

ls

encodings java library licenses locale make R sh texmf

• /usr/share/man/man1/R.1.gz : possibly the manual pages

I cannot believe just how AWFUL I have become at my 13 through 20 (times 20) tables. Struggling with mental arithmetic is totally unacceptable. It is a sign of mental deterioration that I want to fight against.

1. Starting with 19
2. 38
3. 57
4. 76
5. 95
6. 114
7. 133
8. 152
9. 171
10. 190 +190
11. 209
12. 228
13. 247
14. 266
15. 285
16. 304
17. 323
18. 342
19. 361
20. 380

I keep on forgetting this ridiculously easy shortcut.

Ctrl-L is for Location
-- in chrome
-- in Nautilus

Now, where can I find more RAM for my foggy brain?!

Nautilus in Gnome 3 has this annoying main toolbar with just buttons displaying the current directory you are in. There is no option to switch the display to the complete text version of the location of the directory.

Well, as usual, there is a round-about way.

Type:

Alt+F2

Run:

dconf-editor

In the dconf-editor menu:
Location Bar options are stored under

"org ➜ gnome ➜ nautilus ➜ preferences ➜ CHECK always-use-location-entry"

Whew. I am glad I can see precisely where I am and copy and paste locations into the terminal once more instead of staring clueless at the vague "pretty' buttons. I remember that when Gnome was in version 2.x, they had the option to change the location display format right under the preferences section of Nautilus.

It's somewhat cruel to take away the means to easily change display format options from an application like Nautilus and hide all of it under system configurations ONLY accessible by installing the dconf-editor.

Ugh. What were the Gnome 3 developers thinking??

Some of my favourites from back when the sun was not actually a big fat dazzling liar.





This brilliant brittle white mushroom bunch looked like it had to be saturated with some calcium salt. @matthew and I wondered about the source.



Contrast that with this one - possibly filled with iron salts or rust.



It was such a happy day! Behold the cutest smile on the planet! :)




@paul taking the panoramic shots...


These great rotting branches reminded me of my muscle dissection days.


We plodded through a rustic-looking huge open field of fluffly little dandelion-like plants. We had fake "snowball" fights and all the little fluffy things ended up attacking me. I think @YesThatCasey totally incited the attack.


I (not so secretly) spied on @matthew-magic. :)

More emphatically now.. NO!!! the avatar Is TOTALLY not Rihanna.

I can't stand her awfully nasal bland emotionless voice. To me, she sounds like nails on chalkboard. And also very suspiciously like she is from Rochester.

Scratch that. Nails on chalkboard is actually bearable. But the second resemblance kind of ruins it for me.

It's bat for lashes in one of her quirky moods.