The OpenDocument file format (aka "OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications"), is an open and free standard for office files. It's fairly easy to read OpenDocument files in/from Python. Basicly, an OpenDocument file is just a zip archive but with another extension (".ods" spreadsheets, ".odt" for text documents …
I want to share an image with the world. It is not art. It is just the result of a experiment that — how should I put it — went wrong.
To be continued
Man, this is heavy linux/unix commandline fun:
which which
locate locate
man man
help help
info info
whatis whatis
echo echo
touch touch
yes yes
whereis whereis
All of them work without error (unless the programm is not installed or does not work of course)
With nice and time …
Today I bothered to intall the Last.fm player just to give it a try. The installation (on my Kubuntu 5.10 Linux laptop) was very easy. I just downloaded a tarball with the Linux binary from the Last.fm player download page and extracted it to a local folder …
If you you want to use normal text in a math environment (mathdisplay, equation,...) you should use \textnormal{} instead of \textrm{}. Apparently the latter is more popular: a google search for "latex textrm" delivers almost 25.000 hits, whereas google search for "latex textnormal" returns not more than 800 hits …
With the LaTeX package caption you can change the properties (such as font family) of the captions of floats (tables and figures). It's part of a default LaTeX installation, so probably you don't need installing something.
You could use this package to better separate the captions of floats from the …
The order of \caption and \label declarations matter in LaTeX floats (tables and figures). It is important to get references to the float right. The \label should come after the \caption or even inside the \caption environment. If you put the \label before the \caption you will get a reference …
Why is the floppy disk still used as symbol/icon on widgets related to saving a document? Who uses floppy disks nowadays? People that worked with computers ten years ago will know what that icon stands for, but for the younger and future generation it is/will be probably an …
Usually you'll just need "$@" (with the double quotes).
What's the difference between the special parameters $* and $@ in bash?
Lets's start with a citation from the bash manual:
Parameter
*Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one. When the expansion occurs within double quotes, it expands to …