Deck Refinishing

I used Behr’s No 63 to open up the pores and make the wood more absorbent. Then I used Behr’s Premium Deck and Fence finish No 500 (Natural). I applied two layers of finish on the deck and the stairs on 9/28/2009.
The first layer was applied with a semi-rough roller (3/4 nap) and worked with a 6″ brush. For the second layer, I just used roller which left a few splotches.

using rsync

To sync all the files that match a pattern recursively:

rsync -rcv –include “*.java” –include “*/” –exclude “*” pdu@10.34.179.196:~/workspace/gds_source ~/tmp

Bash Prompt

My Bash prompt:
export PS1=’\[\e[0;32m\][\u@\h] \[\e[1;37m\]\W\[\e[1;32m\]\$ \[\e[0;37m\] ‘

Screen Notes

Screen Notes:

To make the window infor displayed on top of an xterm window:

hardstatus lastline "%w"
To make the line show up at the bottom of the window:

hardstatus alwayslastline "%w"

you can put these  in ~/.screenrc

Solaris screen saver

To enable the screen saver on Solaris, use xscreensaver-demo.  Do a man on xscreensaver for more info. To start xscreensaver automatically, put xscreensaver-command exit and xscreensaver & in Xsession. Do a find and edit all the Xsession files since there are more than one on Solaris.

Matrix by Vector multiplication in Matlab

Lets say we have a vector (v) of size 1xn and a matrix (a) of size mxn.  If we want to multiply every row in the matrix by the vector, we can do the following:

j=repmat(v,m,1);

Then do to get the answer

a.*j

Apache and SE Linux

To allow apache to access /www:

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /www

to check the results:

ls -alZ /www

you should get something that looks like:

-rw-r–r–  root root system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 index.html
-rw-r–r–  root root system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 index.php

Type “man httpd_selinux” for a full description of available contexts.

Capturing a streamed media via mplayer

mplayer -noframedrop -dumpstream "<url>" -dumpfile <file>
or
mplayer -playlist "<url>" -dumpstream  -dumpfile <file>

Bidirectional netcat

I found this on the internet.  I havn’t tried it myself:

While netcat is excellent, one thing it doesn’t seem to do is to work as a generic proxy between two applications. The shell doesn’t help, providing only unidirectional pipelines … but with the use of FIFO pipes (sorry, not under Cygwin) you can construct something that will do the job.

From http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/library/classroom/nc-intro.v0.80.php :-

mknod backpipe p
nc -l -p 80 0<backpipe | tee -a inflow | nc localhost 81 | tee -a outflow 1>backpipe

You only have to do the mknod once, in order to create a pipe entity on the filesystem. Have a look in the files inflow and outflow to see the stored results of your conversation.

Combining Postscript Files

To merge postscript files:

gs -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=output.ps -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH file1.ps file2.ps file3.ps