Archive for Sep., 2008

Every Supernews episode is quite funny. But this is really funny:

There is also a game about this: http://current.com/gatesvsjobs

Endlich habe ich ihn live gesehen! Ich muss sagen: UNGLAUBLICH! Die heutige Vorstellung wird auch benutzt werden, um eine CD zu erstellen. Einfach super! Wenn man keine Gelegenheit hat, ihn live zu sehen, sollte man die Sendung “Neues aus der Anstalt” auf ZDF sehen!

Hilarious!

[UPDATE] This animation is from http://krapooyo.free.fr/.

You’re looking at the preliminary version of the new design. For those who do not have Helvetica Neue (Light) installed, i.e. probably 99% of non-Mac users, have a look at the screenshot:

There are still many things to be improved…

If I compile LaTeX files using vim-latex, very often vim opens package files, e.g. xy.sty etc., because the LaTeX compiler had some – not that important for the most of the time – warnings. Then I have to re-open the tex file. It is really annoying. However to avoid this, you can add the following line to the .vimrc file

let g:Tex_IgnoredWarnings =
\'Underfull'."\n".
\'Overfull'."\n".
\'specifier changed to'."\n".
\'You have requested'."\n".
\'Missing number, treated as zero.'."\n".
\'There were undefined references'."\n".
\'Latex Warning:'."\n".
\'Citation %.%# undefined'
let g:Tex_IgnoreLevel = 8

I inserted the ‘Latex Warning:’ line and changed the ignore level to 8. The default is 7.

I’ve finally found out how to do the forward & inverse searching with (g)vim in combination with vim-latex and xdvi. For forward searching one adds the following line to the .vimrc

let g:Tex_CompileRule_dvi = 'latex --interaction=nonstopmode --src-specials $*'

For inverse searching one opens gvim using the following option

gvim --servername xdvi file.tex

and the xdvi using

xdvi -editor "gvim --servername xdvi --remote +%l %f" file.dvi

Yes, there’s only one dash in front of the editor option!

Additionally, if one wants the \lv command calling xdvi with this option, one inserts the following line to the .vimrc file

let g:Tex_ViewRuleComplete_dvi = 'xdvi -editor "gvim --servername xdvi --remote +\%l \%f" $* &'

It took quite some time to get the inverse searching working… Anyway, it’s working now: \ls for the forward and control-click for the inverse searching. It’s just GREAT!

I’m currently re-building my homepage. It will gradually evolve to (hopefully) good-looking page. For the old version of the weblog, you can go to http://www.hataewon.com/weblog. You can also go to my page on the server of the institute: http://www.th.physik.uni-bonn.de/people/tha/.