ROOT: make plots more beautiful

http://ultrahigh.org/2007/08/20/making-pretty-root-color-palettes/

In ROOT, we can change its default to make plots more beautiful.

void
set_plot_style()
{
const Int_t NRGBs = 5;
const Int_t NCont = 255;

Double_t stops[NRGBs] = { 0.00, 0.34, 0.61, 0.84, 1.00 };
Double_t red[NRGBs] = { 0.00, 0.00, 0.87, 1.00, 0.51 };
Double_t green[NRGBs] = { 0.00, 0.81, 1.00, 0.20, 0.00 };
Double_t blue[NRGBs] = { 0.51, 1.00, 0.12, 0.00, 0.00 };
TColor::CreateGradientColorTable(NRGBs, stops, red, green, blue, NCont);
gStyle->SetNumberContours(NCont);
}

Linux:bash:about "delete key"

When I use "delete key" in some bash terminal, the key sends a tilde "~" instead of deleting the char that is supposed to be deleted.

Find a solution:
1. In your $HOME directory, create or edit your keyboard-mapping file, $HOME/.inputrc
2. Add one mapping line:

"\M-[3~": delete-char

3. restart your terminal

Linux: how to reduce eps file size?

I have couples of eps files which have a large size (>10 MB). Thus when using them in Latex, the output files (either pdf or ps) become very large and very slow to view. So it is necessary to reduce them first. Here provided is an approch working in Linux.

1. Create a new open office drawing file, past your large eps file to the canvas.
   
2. Add your canvas hence it has no too much extra-space (magine)
   
3. Export your drawing file to a PDF file. Here you can use low compress factors etc.
   
4. Use "pdftops -eps YourFile.pdf" to get your small-size eps file

Note: You can use open office drawing to export your file to an eps file directly, however, the eps file is even larger than your original one, so this exporting is not useful.

Linux: overwrite

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-keep-file-safe-from-overwriting.html

set -o noclobber
(no overwrite)

set +o noclobber
(overwrite)


Linux: VNC

I use the following line to start up:

vncserver :1 -name kde -geometry 1250x760 -depth 24

Use Fortran subroutines in C++

Good article

Another one

Linux: vnc via ssh

remind myself:
1. start 'vncserver -name X' on server computer (that you try to connect by ssh)
Note: X is a session name which is defined in the file: ~/vnc/xstartup
2. ssh -L 5902:localhost:5901 YourAccountName@YourServerID(or hostname) in one local terminal
3. vncviewer localhost:5902 in your another local terminal