MPLAYER !

I will keep it short and simple ! I had never come across a movie player which is controlled - NOT by a GUI, but command line in the terminal window ! ..... and then I came across MPLAYER .

I guess using Unix/Ubuntu is a 'learning' experience !

SINC LOOKS LIKE DIRAC DELTA

DABBLING IN MATLAB

After installing Matlab R2009b (7.9.0) on Ubuntu Karmic, I was trying out many thing ! ...... just for fun ! While trying out sinc function .... at a certain point it resembled dirac delta !
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One very long spike unto infinity !

REFERENCES
(1) Delta Function
(2) Sinc - Delta Relationship

THE ASCII TRAIN !

FOOLING AROUND @ UBUNTU 9.10

Every coder sometimes or the other, looks for a lighter moment and Ubuntu has plenty of those. One such instance .....

Install 'sl' using sudo apt-get install sl. Then, type sl in the terminal ! and watch the ASCII Train !

MOO .....

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE !

#1. MOO

In Ubuntu 9.10, while trying the command sudo apt-get moo ! ...... there is sure some surprise in store.

#.2 COWS ..... FROM OUTER SPACE !

Whoever put these easter eggs into Ubuntu (9.10) was sure some cow sympathiser !

Try this ..... Alt + F2 + 'gegls from outer space' + enter !


Voila ! ..... the 'gegls' !

CHECKING FOR OPENGL RENDERING IN UBUNTU

CHECKING FOR OPENGL RENDERING !

Details about rendering and also the graphics-card can also be obtained by the command, glxinfo | grep render