January, 2013
Struct stat and stat()
I came across this useful bit of code when wanting to read in some data from a text file. Suppose you do not know in advance how much data there is in a text file, how long should you make your buffer array to read the data into? The problem is you don’t know. You [...]
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OpenMP Tutorial – firstprivate and lastprivate
Here I will consider firstprivate and lastprivate. Recall one of the earlier entries about private variables. When a variable is declared as private, each thread gets a unique memory address of where to store values for that variable while in the parallel region. When the parallel region ends, the memory is freed and these variables [...]
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rsync Tutorial and Help with Examples
rsync is what people used to use before Dropbox. It is used to sync remote folders with local ones. Say for example tha I have some work on my office computer in folder ‘foo’. It is the weekend and I need to work on this project but I don’t want to go into the office. [...]
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How to crop a pdf when using the ps2pdf converter via -dEPSCrop
Often I find myself converting eps or ps to pdf files for inclusion in a latex document using the ps2pdf converter. The problem is that often when using ps2pdf I get a large white border around the figure of interest in my pdf file which was not included in the eps file. Obviously this is [...]
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