tae’s log

Live-Auftritt in Pantheon am 5.5.2009. Also, die Karte habe ich mir zum 어린이날 geschenkt

Wie immer sehr vulgär, lustig, aber auch sehr ernst! Super!

Reboot of the series. The story was quite confusing, but still quite entertaining science-fiction movie. I definitely need this RED MATTER!

★★★★✩

From time to time (unfortunately) I want/have to run long Mathematica calculations. Since my office machine is quite strong (or at least faster than my machine), I want to do the computation on that machine. To start a background Mathematica calculation on Linux machines do the following: First log in to your machine using ssh. Then start “screen”. “screen” will enable you to log-off even when the calculation is running. Thus, this works for any kind of computations (I think there is another Linux trick to do this, but I don’t remember). If you’re using Linux everyday, it’s worth to learn how to use “screen”. Your efficiency will increase by a factor of 10^500. Create a plain text file, say, with the name “calculation”. Enter everything you want to have done in this file. For example

A={{a,b},{c,d}}

B=Inverse[A]

DoVeryComplicatedThingWhichTakesAtLeast100HoursWith[A]

Then just run

math -run “<<calculation”

Then “detach” from the screen by entering Ctrl-a and then d, that is, first enter Ctrl-a, release and then enter d. Now you can log-off and watch your favorite movie. To check the progress of the calculation, just log-in again and enter “screen -r”. To log-off, detach, i.e. Ctrl-a and then d. If the calculation is done, you “exit” from “screen”.

The newest album of P!nk! Especially the track number one and six are nice!

★★★★✩

Very simple and funny!

Su~~~~san!

By Hawking’s chair!

★★★★✩

Four days ago.

I think I had too many expectations. Personally, I liked Namesake better.

Der, den ich liebe,
Hat mir gesagt,
Daß er mich braucht.
Darum
Gebe ich auf mich acht
Sehe auf meinen Weg
Und fürchte von jedem
Regentropfen
Daß er mich erschlagen
könnte.

★★★★★

As I had to read the book in the school, I did not like it at all. Yesterday I’ve watched the movie and I must say: I have to read it again and see how it will go now.

It was quite odd though that the first movie version of this book is not a German production. It was even funny to hear people speak English rather than German in Berlin and in the German court room etc.

Since I live in Bonn, Cologne is only half an hour away… I thought that I should go to the Carneval’s parade of Cologne at least once. So:

Kamelle!!!!!! Strüßje!!!!!!

I could collect few Kamelle, but no Strüßje! What a pity!

To make a backup of my home folder on my machine in the office: First cd to the folder where all files should get copied, in my case this would be /ext/tha. Then

rsync -avz –exclude ‘\.*’ ~/ .

The –exclude option excludes the invisible folders which I don’t need to backup.