KLog

I am pretty sure I am not the only one, who would feel frustrated every time reading a paper using hand-waving *-like phrases, “RANSAC-like”, “Tree-like”, etc.  If the detail is not important, why would one use it in the paper?  If it appears in a paper, please either explain it, or give reference to some sort of technical report.

Just noticed that my new Ipod Touch has a problem: when sync with iTunes its time get messed up to some random date/time.

Unfortunately  for Apple, this is not unique, many people (maybe everyone)  who own this toy have this problem.

The fix is dull but effective:

1. close any running iTunes program  before you connect iTouch.

2. connect iTouch

3. start iTunes to sync.

Apple should fix this soon!

1. Remove Duplicate Messages(Alternate)
2. Thunderbird Message Filters Import/Export
3. Simple Search-for Extension

Issue: Photoshop CS2 eats up memory, and crashes when all memory are consumed.(Memory Leak)

Cause: Fonts loading error(possibly) . See full discussion: http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/2005/11/a_good_day.html

Solution:
1. remove all fonts in folder “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts”
2. open PS CS2, choose Edit->Preferences->Type.
3. deselect “Font Preview Size”, possibly also “Show Font Names in English”, etc(Did not experiment with all combination, since it seems nothing is hurt, I deselected all except “Use Smart Quotes”).
4. restart PS. Problem solved, however it prompts “Adobe updater can not be started…”, whatever, I don’t want to update.
5. replace Fonts/Reqrd folder, from the name one could guess it’s “required”, restart PS, the error in 4 still exists.  No memory leak.Satisfied at this point for right now.

TODO:
1. try adding back other fonts and see if the old problem is because of a specific font, right now seems I don’t need all these fonts, maybe later. Note: it’s shared by all Adobe products, so it’s possible that some other program will not function properly.
2. try other combination in step 3.

1. Install Mozilla Firefox VideoDownloadHelper

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/34137/video_downloadhelper-3.2-fx.xpi

2. Install SUPER © to decode and convert flv files you get to whatever format you want

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

3. You can use any video editing  program to extract the video frames

I found it necessary to build executable from my Python scripts(since Maui/Torque cluster does not support submit Python as jobs.)

1. Install python2.5-examples and python-dev

apt-get install python2.5-examples

apt-get install  python-dev

2. Use freeze.py coming  along with python2.5-examples(/usr/share/doc/python2.5/examples/Tools/freeze/freeze.py)

freeze.py hello.py

make

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-tutorials-howtos-reference-material/54415-fileserver-samba-printserver-cups-howto.html

http://oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch09_01.html

Problem: my Ubuntu image comes with pre-allocated 8GB disk space.  More space needed to keep up with growing programs

Solution: using vmware-vdiskmanager,  from VMWare WorkStation.

1. go to Windows command line

2. vmware-vdiskmanager -x sizeGB file.vmdk

3. fire up VM Player (or VM WorkStation)

4. install gparted if not already installed

5. start gparted, and you’ll see a unallocated partition.

6. create a new partition from the unallocated one.

7.  Edit /etc/fstab so that the new partition mounts automatically at boot time

1) Download ffmpeg:

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg

2) Install ffmpeg:

cd ffmpeg

./configure –enable-shared

make

make install

mkdir /usr/local/include/ffmpeg

cp /usr/local/include/libavcodec/*.h /usr/local/include/ffmpeg

cp /usr/local/include/libavdevice/*.h /usr/local/include/ffmpeg

cp /usr/local/include/libavformat/*.h /usr/local/include/ffmpeg

cp /usr/local/include/libavutil/*.h /usr/local/include/ffmpeg

3) configure and install opencv-patched

./configure –enable-apps –enable-shared –with-ffmpeg –with-gnu-ld –with-x –without-quicktime CXXFLAGS=-fno-strict-aliasing CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib

make

make install

It’s a problem of some older C++ code.

e.g.

class Foo

{

…

Foo::fun();

…

} ;

Here Foo:: has to  be removed because it is an over-complete constraint on fun().

Example:  compiling QuickNet v3_20 will result in the following errors,

QN_fir.h:116: error: extra qualification ‘QN_InFtrStream_FIR::’ on member ‘FillDeltaFilt’
QN_fir.h:118: error: extra qualification ‘QN_InFtrStream_FIR::’ on member ‘FillDoubleDeltaFilt’

Solution:  remove ‘QN_InFtrStream_FIR::’