MATLAB over SSH

If MATLAB is installed on a secure shell (SSH) server, which is avaiable for access, we can run MATLAB remotely through SSH. In this way, MATLAB is running in symbol environment without X display, and the results can be saved in a file for further post-processing. What's important, MATLAB keeps running after logout (SSH) until the MATLAB script ends or error happens.

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Mutt

Mutt is a text-based but powerful mail user agent (MUA) in the world of Unix/Linux. Originally, it is nothing but a MUA. However, it can make use of other programs to edit, send and receive mails. For example, it uses vim to edit mails, msmtp to send mails and getmail to receive mails. This is just the philosophy of Unix.

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Orgmode - Export to HTML5 Slide

Introduction

As is well-known, orgmode is a famous major mode of Emacs. What deserves notice, it can export org files to a variety of formats, e.g. \LaTeX, pdf, text, freemind.

Today, I found an interesting export backend, ox-ioslide, whereby org files can be directly exported to html5 slides.

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Orgmode - Link

Introduction

Orgmode is an extremely powerful tool for get thing done (GTD), project planning, note keeping, etc.

Orgmode makes it fairly easy to insert, edit, and reference to a variety types of links.

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Orgmode - Table

Introduction

Orgmode provides a minor mode orgtbl-mode, which makes table creating and editing extremely easy.

Any line with | as the first non-whitespace character is treated as a part of a table.

The fastest way to create a table is to directly type |Column1|Column2|Column3 followed by C-c RET. Then a 3-column table will be created immediately, with the head of Column1, Column2, and Column3 respectively.

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Orgmode - Tikz

Tikz/pgf is an excellent LaTeX package to draw pictures. It can be used in Emacs org mode. An example can be provided as follows.

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Python - Package Management

Introduction

One of the most charmful characters of Python is its a rich number of packages. Accordingly, package managers emerge, e.g., pip, setuptools. This post just briefly introduce the usage of pip.

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Regular Expression

正则表达式是指用于字符串匹配的一种模式,最早出现于20世纪40年代.

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SSH

Secure shell (SSH) is the most popular and efficient method for remote access. This post introduces SSH relevant issues, from installation to configuration.

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Virtual Console Switch

Unix and Linux operation systems (OS) originally provided textual interfaces only, but now, we can already enjoy the perfect graphic experience through their desktop systems, e.g. Gnome, KDE, XFCE. This post only aims to present the methods of switching between textual and graphical interfaces.

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