Category: linux
11/18/11 12:27 - ID#55542
djvu files in Fedora
You need the evince-djvu module to make Evince launch djvu files:
sudo yum install evince-djvu
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: dance
11/18/11 09:37 - ID#55540
The Emperor's Waltz
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: science
11/17/11 07:10 - ID#55537
United States of Obesity
SUPER EDIT:
Though I like the poster below for how it presents information, I think all of us need to review this really informative book on reality and myths surrounding Obesity: directly leads to the PDF.
Source: Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF)
NB1:
The book has some excellent data presentation - far prettier than the poster below. A pity, its locked into PDF. I am going to see if I rip those diagrams and also put it on this post in direct contrast to the pretty poster in my original post.
NB2:
For me, the real challenge is to examine if I am cherry-picking results or have done a balanced survey of the peer-reviewed literature. I am currently disinclined to accept any pigeonholed set of beliefs on the many sides of this whole obesity discussion. In many ways, I see more confounders in the equation than is comfortably explained away. If there is an epidemic that needs immediate addressing, its one of confusion and indecision.
And now my original post:
Just saw this here:
Now, that is classy presentation. Twenty years back, I would have been a 4 instead of being relegated to 2s and 0s most arbitrarily.
EDIT:
The real sources
I posted this because I find the data presentation in this poster very compelling. It is capable of eliciting a strong response from everyone just because it is so directly and simply presented. However, you have raised some concerns over the source of the chart. So I dug more and came up with the real sources of this compilation:
- The portion size statistics and graphics came from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's (NHLBI) website. They have 2 full slide sets for post and present portion sizes:
- Set 1:
- Set 2:
- The BMI chart was adapted from the NHLBI's evidence report titled: "Clinical guidelines on the identification, evaluation and treatment of overweight and obesity in Adults. The evidence report." Available at:
- The facts for the diagram came from here:
I am also going to keep adding equivalent data presentations from non-commercial sources to this post.
Source: RAND health, an offshoot of the famous RAND Corporation, a non profit think tank whose name expands to just Research And Development
Data from Sturm, R., J. Ringel, and T. Andreyeva, "Increasing Obesity Rates and Disability Trends," Health Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 2, March/April 2004, pp. 1–7.
Source: Centers for Disease Control a.k.a. CDC
See:
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Food subsidies and the food pyramid
{Re: (e:heidi)'s observation. Last para Comment #66257}
From PCRM. Physicians Comittee for Responsible Medicine
Note that the government recommended food guide pyramid is now a plate with %s. I personally think it makes more sense and is more comprehensible even though the new food plate also has its critics. An argument is that the government shouldn't be telling us what to eat. However, people who determine the food pyramid or the plate are just scientists working for the government. This diagram raises the real parallel question for me, why are these scientists who come up with food portion recommendations not on the committees that decide on what to subsidize?!
...
And just for fun, from Apples From Oranges:
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Category: linux
11/17/11 08:36 - ID#55532
Oh no! Something has gone wrong
Even though what followed was an undeniably ungraceful crash.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: linux
11/17/11 08:14 - ID#55531
All the pretty horses
All the running processes
ps aux | less
- gives you the full command or name of the process, which you can then use to create keyboard shortcuts or just kill processes with their PID numbers
- piping the ps aux to less makes the display not run amok on your screen and you can scroll the output with your keyboard
All the processes run by you
ps -u username
- drawback is it doesn't give you the full command
Grepping for particular process.
ps aux | grep screen
- simple, you pipe the ps aux through grep.
- in the example above I was trying to search for what the screenshot utility was called. The output is below:
[user@comp ~]$ ps aux | grep screen
user 1527 0.0 0.1 429476 11664 ? Sl Nov14 0:11 gnome-screensaver
user 19804 0.0 0.1 415516 12696 ? Sl 07:54 0:00 gnome-screenshot --interactive
user 20066 0.0 0.0 109112 840 pts/0 S+ 08:07 0:00 grep --color=auto screen
The bolded text is what I was searching for.
HOWTO:
How to find the internal commands of the processes/programs/applications in linux. Can use these commands to assign keyboard shortcuts. Can use process IDs to kill applications/programs
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 12/01/11 12:03
Category: buffalo
11/16/11 09:18 - ID#55530
Buffalo General has a rooftop disco.
l stare at this building everyday and I couldn't help but notice that they added another beacon light on its rooftop. It's almost like a discotheque now.
If you can't clearly see the gaudy three lights in the super crappy picture that my phone has taken, the new light starts off as yellow, slowly turns a dark bright orange and then dims to a low green. The older two lights were red and yellow. That's quite a spectrum there.
Did they receive complaints from the pilots of random helicopters that keep zooming around the place? Or maybe they are jazzing it up for thanksgiving. Or maybe its an alien spaceship sending signals that Buffalo is safe for landing?
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 11/17/11 08:57
Category: i-tech
11/16/11 08:39 - ID#55528
Arrgh. Google Bookmarks Lists
But I did. BIG mistake. Now ALL my zillion bookmarks are stuck in lists without ANY way of exporting them anywhere. The export-bookmarks function only works for bookmarks that are NOT in lists.
This is so annoying. I hate you, Google Bookmarks List makers. Haven't you ever heard of the data liberation front, your company's own sister concern????
Aaaaarrgh.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 11/16/11 08:40
Category: science
11/16/11 02:12 - ID#55525
Biological Science Journals need a reality check
Tchantchaleishvili V, Schmitto JD. Preparing a scientific manuscript in Linux: Today's possibilities and limitations. BMC research notes. 2011 Oct;4(1):434+. Available from: .
The table at the very end summarizes the format in which top biological sciences journals prefer to receive submissions.
- New England Journal of Medicine(34) PDF*, DOC, WPD, TXT, RTF
- Cell(37) DOC, RTF, TXT
- The Lancet(38) DOC
- JAMA(39) DOC, WPD
- The Journal of Biological Chemistry(35) PDF***
- Circulation(40) DOC, WPD
- ===
- Nature(29) DOC, TEX**
- Science(30) DOC, TEX**, RTF*
- PloS ONE(31) DOC, TEX, RTF
- PNAS(32) DOC, RTF, TEX
- BMC Journals (33) DOC, RTF, TEX
[* Some restrictions apply]
[** TEX files must be accompanied by a PDF version of the same text for visual reference 19 ]
[*** Although manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format, Microsoft Word is recommended to prepare the manuscript text]
Look at the sheer proliferation of M$hit formats on that list. The 1st preference is always doc. Wherever PDF is accepted, M$hit is recommended to make that PDF.
Even if you want to change *they* will not let you.
Ugh.
Am I in the wrong field or what? Nevermind content, even submission guidelines are so proprietary, backwards-thinking and insular.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 11/16/11 03:15
Category: linux
11/16/11 07:35 - ID#55521
Undo any last action 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.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 11/16/11 08:35
Category: buffalo
11/15/11 08:49 - ID#55520
Ikea proxy in Buffalo
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
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.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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