Stopping Gnuplot from flashing a plot window and disappear

In Ubuntu/Debian, Gnuplot tends to use terminal 'X11' if no terminal has been defined before the 'plot' command. The reason for not specifying a terminal could be various (eg. being lazy and ignorant, subsequent use of 'replot' command using other terminal types in several other scripts)

In my case I had a loop of 5x5x5x5 times in my NS-2 script invoking Gnuplot 6 times with every run. The flashing window literally leaves the screen unusable as the Gnuplot X11 terminal window keeps popping up and out in a blink.

A temporary fix (which doesn't require rewriting my whole Gnuplot script set) is to use:

set terminal unknown

Doing this stops the flash with the first 'plot' command. The subsequent 'replot' commands can define their own terminals as needed.

Suppressing page number in LaTeX

\thispagestyle{empty}

\pagestyle{empty}

Bash: simple wrapper script for java jar files

There could be thousands of other (probably better) ways of writing a wrapper bash script for executing jar files on command line (instead of having to do "java -jar tool.jar"). For whatever it is worth, here's what I came up in quick 2 minutes. One can optimize according to his/her needs inside the for loop:

    1 #!/bin/bash
    2 
    3 path='/home/USERNAME/android-sdk-linux_86/tools'
    4 
    5 args=''
    6 for ((i=$#;i>0;i--))
    7 do
    8  args="${args} ${1}"
    9  shift
   10 done
   11 
   12 java -jar $path/tool.jar "$args"
   13 
   14 

Windows 7: Windows Media Player 12 "Server Execution Failed" problem

I found the solution here: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7music/thread/ecc08c3b-d445-48c2-b07d-9df48500434f

The solution that worked for me:

Unpin media player from taskbar.

Pin it back.

lol, yes, that literally solved the problem for me.

Android: Sliding/Rotating keyboard back 'n forth in android emulator

It may be obvious to many, but just as a record - to rotate the keyboard in android emulator, the keyboard short-cut is:

Ctrl + F11