Google urges fast adoption of VP9 video compression | Internet & Media – CNET News

Posted by admin on May 16, 2013  /   Posted in Uncategorized

Google urges fast adoption of VP9 video compression | Internet & Media – CNET News.

At its Google I/O conference Wednesday, company employees made the case for the royalty-free, open-source technology as a higher-quality alternative to today’s dominant video codec, H.264. Moving to VP9 — available now in testing on Chrome and YouTube — will save bandwidth costs.

Trying to Delete Millions of Files in Linux but get an error: Argument list too long

Posted by admin on May 16, 2013  /   Posted in Ubuntu

Great source for deleting millions of files in a ubuntu directory when you get an error:

/bin/rm: Argument list too long.

Well, simply navigate to the directory with the problem and execute this:

ls -1 | wc -l && time find . -type f -delete

Apparently, ‘find’ can handle large number of files better than ‘rm’ and it even has a -delete feature!

I just deleted 3 million files using this method.

Special thanks to Deleting tons of files in Linux Argument list too long | SteveKamerman.com.

jquery real simple accordion sample code

Posted by admin on May 13, 2013  /   Posted in JQUERY

I know there’s a ton of great accordion plug-ins out there. I needed a really simple accordion so I rolled my own. Here’s a Simple and easy to use accordion.

Sample:

http://stuffthatspins.com/stuff/jquery-accordion/

Download:

http://stuffthatspins.com/stuff/jquery-accordion/jquery-accordion.zip

 

<html>
	<head>

		<title>jquery accordion - simple</title>

		<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js""></script>
		
		<script type=text/javascript>	
			$(document).ready(function() {
			
			
			//attach this function to ".accordion" class on click.
			$('.accordion').click(function(){		
			
				//if the class is currently "closed" change to open and display div named #other-
				if($(this).hasClass('closed')){
					//console.log ("opening");
					$('#other-' + $(this).data('id')).slideDown();
					$(this).removeClass('closed').addClass('open');			
				}
				else {
					//console.log ("close");
					$('#other-' + $(this).data('id')).slideUp();
					$(this).removeClass('open').addClass('closed');		
				}
			}); 
		});    
		</script>
		
		
		<style>
		/* --------------
		ACCORDION STUFF'n
		----------- */
		
		p {
			margin-left: 35px;
		}
		
		body {
			font-size: 15px;
			font-family: sans-serif;
			line-height: 150%;
		}
		
		a {
			font-variant: small-caps;
			color: #656565;
		}
		
		a:hover {
			color: #9f854c
		}
		
		.accordion {
			margin-left: 10px;	
		}
		
		.hidden {
			display: none;
		}
		
		.closed {
		padding-left: 15px;
		background:url('img/closed.png');
		background-repeat:no-repeat;
		background-position:left;
		display: block;
		
		}
		
		.open {
		padding-left: 15px;
		background:url('img/open.png');
		background-repeat:no-repeat;
		background-position:left;
		display: block;
		}
		</style>

	
	</head>
	<body>
	
	<!--the jquery function accordion is attached to this via class name- we pass data-id is grabbed when clicked-->
	<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="accordion closed" data-id="1"><b>NIH Resources</b></a>
	
	<!--class hidden hides div id=the div that will display-->
	<div class="hidden" id="other-1">
		<p><a  title="Xenopus tropicalis sequences at the NCBI" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/frog/" rel="ext">NIH NCBI Xenopus Resources</a><br />
		<a  title="NIH's progress regarding support of genomic and genetic needs for Xenopus research" href="http://www.nih.gov/science/models/xenopus/" rel="ext">NIH Xenopus Initiative</a><br />
		<a  title="Xenopus Gene Collection" href="http://xgc.nci.nih.gov/" rel="ext">XGC</a><br />
		<a  title="BLAST tropicalis seqences at NCBI" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/seq/BlastGen/BlastGen.cgi?taxid=8364" rel="ext">BLAST</a><br />
		<a  title="US National Library of Medicine" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed" rel="ext">PubMed</a><br />
		<a  title="Expressed Sequence Tags database" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbEST/" rel="ext">dbEST</a>
		</p>
	</div>
					
	<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="accordion closed" data-id="2"><b>Xenopus Resources</b></a>
	<div class="hidden" id="other-2">
		<p><a  title="Explore RefSeq and Ensembl datasets of Xenopus genes over development"href="http://jason.chuang.ca/research/xenopus/" rel="ext">The Transcriptome of Xenopus tropicalis</a><br />
		<a  title="A Xenopus Newsletter" href="http://www.xenbase.org/other/static/xine/xine.jsp">Xine</a><br />
		<a  title="European Xenopus Resource Center - Portsmouth, England" href="http://www.port.ac.uk/research/exrc/" rel="ext">EXRC</a><br />
		<a  title="National Xenopus Resource - Woods Hole, Massachusetts" href="http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus/" rel="ext">NXR</a><br />
		<a  title="Searchable database of Xenopus expression from the Gurdon Institute - M Gilchrist" href="http://genomics.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/apps/XenMARK/" rel="ext">XenMARK</a><br />
		<a  title="microRNAs" href="http://mirbase.org/cgi-bin/query.pl?terms=xenopus&submit=Search-">MirBase</a>
		<a  title="Axeldb site under construction - in situ images from C Niehrs and N Pollet" href="http://indigene.ibaic.u-psud.fr/ace/" rel="ext">Axeldb</a><br />
		<a  title="Web data catalogue of NIBB/NIG/NBRP Xenopus laevis EST project - in situ images from N Ueno" href="http://xenopus.nibb.ac.jp/" rel="ext">XDB3</a><br />
		<a  title="Proteomics data used to solve biomedical research problems" href="http://www.thegpm.org/" rel="ext">The Global Proteome Machine</a>
		</p>
	</div>
	
	
	<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="accordion closed" data-id="3"><b>Xenopus tropicalis</b></a>
	<div class="hidden" id="other-3">
		<p><a  title="Joint Genome Institute - X tropicalis sequences" href="http://genome.jgi-psf.org/xenopus" rel="ext">JGI (sequence)</a><br />
		<a  title="Xenopus tropicalis information from the Grainger lab" href="http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/xtropicalis/" rel="ext">trops @ U. Virginia</a><br />
		<a  title="Xenopus tropicalis information from the Harland lab" href="http://tropicalis.berkeley.edu/home/" rel="ext">trops @ Berkeley</a>
		</p>		
	</div>

	
	<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="accordion closed" data-id="4"><b>Model Organism Databases</b></a>
	<div class="hidden" id="other-4">
		<p><a href="http://www.metazome.net/" rel="ext">Metazome</a><br />
		<a  title-"Investigating the interaction of genes, genomic elements and genomes of humans and relevant model organisms" href="http://www.hugo-international.org/" rel="ext">Human Genome Organisation (HUGO)</a><br />
		<a  title="A curated online repository of HGNC-approved gene nomenclature" href="http://www.genenames.org/" rel="ext">HGNC - HUGO Gene Nomenclature Commitee</a><br />
		<a  title="Mouse Genome Informatics"  href="http://www.informatics.jax.org/" rel="ext">Mouse - MGI</a><br />
		<a  title="Gallus Expression in Situ Hybridization Analysis" href="http://geisha.arizona.edu/geisha/" rel="ext">Chick - GEISHA</a><br />
		<a  title="The Zebrafish Model Organism Database" href="http://www.zfin.org/" rel="ext">Zebrafish - Zfin</a><br />
		<a  title="A database of Drosophila genes and genomes" href="http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu/" rel="ext">Drosophila - FlyBase</a><br />
		<a  title="Information concerning the genetics, genomics and biology of C. elegans and related nematodes" href="http://www.wormbase.org/" rel="ext">Nematodes - WormBase</a><br />
		<a  title="The home of the sea urchin genome database" href="http://www.spbase.org/SpBase/" rel="ext">Sea Urchin</a><br />
		<a  title="A comparative genomics platform for early branching Metazoa" href="http://www.compagen.org/" rel="ext">Hydra</a><br />
		<a  title="The Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies" href="http://obofoundry.org/">OBO-Foundry</a>
		<a  title="Metazome project organizes the proteomes of twenty-four metazoans into gene families" href="http://www.metazome.net/">Metazome</a>
		<a  title="Linking descriptive phenotype observations across different fields of biology" href="http://phenoscape.org/" rel="ext">Phenoscape</a><br />
		<a  title="Provides access to information on amphibian declines, natural history, conservation, and taxonomy" href="http://amphibiaweb.org/">AmphibiaWeb</a>
		<a  title="The Gene Index Project uses EST and gene sequences to provide an inventory of likely genes and their variants" href="http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/tgi/tgipage.html" rel="ext">The Gene Index Project</a><br />
		<a  title="Bgee is a database to retrieve and compare gene expression patterns between animal species" href="http://bgee.unil.ch/bgee/bgee" rel="ext">Bgee - gene expression evolution</a>
		</p>
	</div>
				
				
	</body>
</html>

 

 

“I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why.” – Zorinaq

Posted by admin on May 11, 2013  /   Posted in Ubuntu

Interesting insight as to why Windows Kernel is failing / falling behind…

“I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why.”

I was explaining on Hacker News why Windows fell behind Linux in terms of operating system kernel performance and innovation. And out of nowhere an anonymous Microsoft developer who contributes to the Windows NT kernel wrote a fantastic and honest response acknowledging this problem and explaining its cause. His post has been deleted! Why the censorship? I am reposting it here. This is too insightful to be ignored. [Edit: The anonymous poster himself deleted his post as he thought it was too cruel and did not help make his point, which is about the social dynamics of spontaneous contribution. However he let me know he does not mind the repost at the condition I redact the SHA1 hash info, which I did.]

Full Story Below…

“I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why.” – Zorinaq.

WordPress 3.5.x Add Media button not working – Super Skeleton Theme – Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: .select-wrapper.

Posted by admin on May 11, 2013  /   Posted in wordpress

WordPress won’t let you click the Add Media button and you’re using Super Skeleton Theme…

In your console, you’re getting the error:

Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: .select-wrapper.

Here’s the *simple* solution:

“Add Media button not working in 3.5 update… (WordPress 3.5 Issues)”

The 2.0.6 version of each theme is now available and patches this issue up! Just download it from ThemeForest (at your Downloads page), then deactivate your old version and install/activate the newest one.

1. Manually add the OptionTree plugin (Plugins > Add New > Search for “OptionTree”) – this will automatically update the theme options plugin to the latest version in the case that the theme-update doesn’t do it automatically.

2. Update all of your other plugins. It’s possible that there’s another plugin that you are using that’s causing the issue.

3. Turn off any page caches that you might have running – they might hide any fixes that the above steps perform as it’ll save the broken version of the page. As usual, if this doesn’t fix the issue, deactivate your other plugins to determine if one of them might be causing the conflict with the new WP 3.5 dashboard scripts.

You might run into a number of other issues when upgrading to WP 3.5 that are unrelated to your theme; View the full list of 3.5 troubleshooting tips and the list of known incompatible plugins here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-35-master-list Happy Updating!

Why is weight so important in cycling? – USA Cycling

Posted by admin on May 02, 2013  /   Posted in Cycling

Looks like I’ll need to lose about 20lbs to be a World Champ…

What’s the Ideal Weight for Cycling?

Let’s start by looking at the size and weight averages of world champion cyclists over the past 12 years to show the ideal weight range needed to compete on a very high level. The easiest way to do this is to average each rider’s weight in pounds per inch of height. The table below shows the average weight per inch of height for men and women road and mountain bike word champions1,2.

Body weight in lbs. per inch of height – World champion cyclists 2001 – 2012
Mean (average), and standard deviation

As you can see, to compete on the world’s highest level you need to be light in weight – specifically, approximately 1.85-1.87 lbs per inch for women, and 2.15-2.19 lbs per inch for men. But body weight is not the only factor in elite performance – being as strong as possible while maintaining a healthy light weight is the key.

Maximizing Power-to-Weight Ratio

Power-to-weight ratio is the formula used to determine your strength compared to your weight, and it’s the great equalizer when comparing riders of different sizes. The higher your power-to-weight ratio the faster you will go. Power-to-weight ratio is calculated by dividing your body weight in kilograms (1 kg = 2.2 lbs) into average watts for a given range. For example, if you can produce 300 watts for your functional threshold power (FTP, about a 60 minute time trial effort), and you weight 74 kg (163 lbs), your power to weight ratio is 4.05 at your FTP range. This means you can generate 4.05 watts for every kilogram of body weight. A power to weight ratio of 4 to 4.5 is equivalent to a competitive Category 2 racer. A power to weight ratio of 5-6 would put you in the range of a Category 1 elite professional (according to Andy Coggan’s power profiling chart).

 

full article:

Why is weight so important in cycling? – USA Cycling.

 

 

Ted Nugent from a friend

Posted by admin on May 02, 2013  /   Posted in Comedy, world news

Ted Nugent. Really good at killing things. Truly gifted in blood sport. Really bad at anything music related. He sucks at all levels. He’s a flat-out horrible songwriter and at best, an amateur guitar player. And as a spokesman of public policy? There’s no one (who doesn’t wear a KKK hood or a Nazi uniform, at least) who is more misguided, stupid and full of malicious intent than that fool. This has been bothering me for some time now.
Ok. Bye.

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