Snowboarding

8 January 2012



Snowboarding at Ski Jam, Katsuyama, Fukui!!

Tanoshikatta!!

~argh................ sakit satu badan tak hilang lagi.... kejang semua urat & otot!!! never tot the pain would be to this extent!!

MATLAB: Overriding the default .mat file version

Hi there,

I've been working with Matlab ver 7.5 yesterday at home.. yeah at home....
since the toolbox of Matlab ver 6.5 at school is so limited... well..

feel kind of uneasy to show them my own ver of Matlab (you know why).. so, I was saving the workspace as usual way. Unfortunately, Matlab ver 6.5 can't read the .mat file generated. Frustrated...

After some googling... I found the way to overcome this prob.. enjoy!!

Overriding the Default MAT-File Version

To identify or change the default version, select File > Preferences > General > MAT-Files. Alternatively, specify the version as an option to the save function.

For example, to create a MAT-file named myfile.mat that you can load with MATLAB Version 6, use the following command:

save('myfile.mat', '-v6')

The possible version options for the save function include -v4, -v6, -v7, and -v7.3. For more information about the differences between previous and current MAT-file versions, see the save function reference page.

Kingsoft Writer - MS Office Alternative

Post ini aku tujukan khas buat rakan-rakan aku yang dulu-dulu asik pakai MS Office pirate.

Sekarang aku tak pakai dah yang pirate pasal opis aku ada kasik yang ori punyer... so, sesapa yang masih stick ngan MS Office pirate dan rasa macam dah tak nak guna pirate soft lagi.... silalah guna samada Libre Office or Kingsoft Office.

Kedua-dua software ni adalah free.... dan King Office ada version Professional yang berbayar.. sangat murah berbanding dengan MS Office.

Beza antara free version and yang berbayar boleh korang tengok kat sini.
Beza antara Office Libre dan King Office boleh korang tengok kat sini.

Office Libre adalah open source dan semakin hari semakin improve. Cumanya, masalah sikit pasal Office Libre ni dia tak berapa nak mesra dengan MS Office. Kalu buka docs daripada MS Office sure ada margin lari sana sini... sakit ati gak laaa...

King Office on the other hand, mmg di buat sebagai alternatif untuk MS Office dan very compatible with MS Office.

Aku guna dua-dua software diatas... ikut sesedap rasa.. dah kasik free... install jer ler.....

Cukup la setakat Writer (Word), Presentation (Power Point) dan Spreadsheet (Excel).. Korang bukan guna lebih dari tu pun.... nak power-power spec dia sangat pun wat membazir memory jer...

Mari kita bergerak kearah Zero Piracy!!...

Ust Zaharudin ada pendapat tersendiri pasal piracy ni... Ust Azhar Idrus pun ada pendapat dia yang unik.... korang pilih lah...

Ubuntu 11.10

Semalam.... upgrade ubuntu 11.04 ke 11.10 .... semuanya berjalan seperti biasa... tetiba....

keluar window yang mengatakan aku hanya buat partial upgrade... eeeehhh!!??

so, aku bukak update manager and buat partial upgrade.... so far... everything so good.. until restart then aku dapat message yang ubuntu tak dapat nk set resolution ke pixel yang sepatutnya... so, aku tau laaa yang driver nvidia tu belum activate lagi...

pendekkan cerita... driver tu tak dapat nk di install dan aku search... punya search... search punya... dapat tau yang ini mmg masalah yang orang ramai jugak selain dari aku....

punya search lagi search.... aku install satu .sh file yang ada command utk install nvidia driver... unfortunately..  I think i have disrupt the grub menu and something else in the system.. before I went to sleep, the screen won`t boot into the system instead showing error in mounting the HD... arghh.. wtfish!!..

dengan bangganya.... aku tutup laptop and masuk tido... lagi best!!.. bila pulak lagi aku nk bukak external HD aku yang ada ubuntu tuh.. pasalnya kat laptop aku dia x mau boot.. kat laptop bini aku nk pulak... pilih kasih tol!!!..

padan muke aku ko ... install tak tengok tarikh articles dalam tenet tu publish biler...

House Warming

Setelah 3 bulan genap hari ni aku landing @Jepun...
baru semalam buat housewarming... sebabnya.... owang umah aku da smpi last week..

buat sesimple jah... Nasi ayam... puding (aku rasa laa..).. fruit skewers... abis gak aar 6 periuk nasik :)

yeay!!

~seyes sejuk... main2 area bawah 4 je skg neh adeshhh!!..

PDF Reader

Assalamualaikum.......................

lama dah tak update rakaman2 yang tak bes pasal kehidupan seharian aku neh huhu.. anyway...

This is a very short entry...

Sedang membaca e-buku, aku nak bookmark page yang menarik... MALANGNYA Adobe X yang aku guna ni hampeh banyak sket. Punya laaa zaman berubah, tapi adobe masih tak nak sediakan tool utk page bookmark. So, aku pun cari laa plugin yang mana patut dan jumpa laaa plugin ini. Bagi sesiapa yang pakai Win 7, letak file ni di C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\Javascripts.

Plugin ni ok laa... tapi aku x berapa nk suka pasal performance lembap sket... so, malas nk huru hara... aku pun bertukar laa kepada Foxit Reader... aku da pernah pakai software free neh dulu... tp bagi aku, interface yang adobe buat tu lebih familiar.. dats y liat sket nk pindah ke reader lain..

But, これから (baca from no now on) aku pakai Foxit Reader kot.... senang nk read e-book yang aku download tuh...

ok..
end..
bye..

update:

Serius!!! aku suke Foxit Reader latest version ni... aku x suka sangat pakai keyboard bila membaca pdf... dan this app really provide usefull shortcut to many essential function!! yeah!! 

LaTeX series -- Figure

Konbawa!!!!.....

Well... LaTeX lesson is back!!!..

Today.... I got stuck on chart... well.... it is not really stuck.... I could convert text as figure if I MS word. However, I'm currently using LibreOffice that does not support this particular functionality. All I could do is to convert the chart to pdf file and convert to .eps file...

Well... it works but I was reluctant to admit that the quality of .eps file is quite low..  So, I spent "quite some time" (3 hours or so) to figure out on how to generate quality .eps file... Again... I was loath to install any software such as Inkscape which really capable of handling .eps file (generating/converting to .eps)...

To cut the story short.... I GIVE UP on trying to find the solution.... urmmm... the quality of pdf file is better in my opinion.... So.... What I did was:-

(a) Paste the chart generated in LibreOffice Writer into LibreOffice Draw
(b) Export as pdf
(c) Download pdf-cropper. Crop the white space.
(d) Replace \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx} with \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} *refer to LaTeX entry
(e) Add a new package \usepackage{epstopdf}
(f) Replace setting in Quick Build from "LaTeX + DviPs + Ps2Pdf + Pdf Viewer" to "PdfLaTeX + Pdf Viewer"

Now... everything is in order.... instead using .eps file for the figure... I will use .pdf file which could easily generated and much better in quality. I will stick with this setting for a while until I find a way to use .eps file effectively..... 

Until then..... Good luck for me!! :)


Update: Dec 8, 2011


Sometimes it's annoying to set up the figure placement if you want to use figure that span for two column {figure*} instead of {figure}. Well, there are solutions for this particular problem. You can use \usepackage{dblfloatfix} which actually a combination of package stfloats and fixltx2e. Placement control such as [tbp] can be used "correctly", though it depends on your document as well. The more figure*, the messy will it be.. 

Update: Jan 19, 2012

When using subfigure package, certainly we want to cite the figure in the main text and for IEEE the citation/reference would be something like "Fig. 1(a)". Using default configuration \ref{figure} would not work and will display "Fig. 1a". On the other hand, \subref{figure} will only display "Fig. (a)". Nevertheless, there is a simple twewak that I found to be useful and worked perfectly. Just add the following command and BOOM!!!... \subref{figure} command will now present you with "Fig. 1(a)" perfectly!!


\captionsetup[subfloat]{listofformat=parens}

~see LaTeX, LaTeX series -- Table