Modeling a Whale Call with Matlab

I did my computer probation in a company called FIGES last year. In one of these days, my job was modeling a whale call of a blue whale. To do this firstly I did a long research, because I have needed
some equations to represent whale call.

According to my research:

Befitting the largest mammal on earth, the call of an adult blue whale is loud and low The
sound carries farther than any other animal sound, and can be detected over a thousand miles
away. The call has a distinct pattern. An a “trill” usually precedes a series of B “moans.”
There is little variation in the call among individual whales.

The B call is simpler and easier to analyze. It consists of a fundamental frequency around 16-
17 hertz and a series of harmonics(multiples) of the fundamental frequency. The amplitude of
the call is modulated to produce a loud moan followed by weaker moan.

• The envelope of the signal is treated as a decaying sine wave of the form A0*e^(-
Bt)*sin(2*pi*fm*t) where the amplitude A0 the decay rate B, and the modulating
frequency fm are all adjustable parameters.

• The signal itself is treated as a sum of harmonics sin(2*pi*n*f0*t) for n=0,1,2,3, ... .
The harmonics are assumed to be present for the entire duration of the call, even
though the higher harmonics appear and disappear in the middle of the call. (Simply
chopping off the higher harmonics introduces unwanted frequencies.)

• Because blue whale calls are so low, they are barely audible to humans. The time scale
in the data being modeled is compressed by a factor of 10 to raise the pitch and make
it more clearly audible. The model works with the same “x10” audible frequencies.

Using these informations I wrote the script in the following:

%CALLMODEL Models a blue whale B call. %Uses a model of the form y = A.*y0 %where A = A0*exp(-B*t).*sin(2*pi*fm*t) %and y0 is a sum of harmonics %yn = sin(2*pi*n*f0*t) % Create the time base for the signal. fs = 4000; t = 0:(1/fs):1.5; % Set the fundamental frequency of the call. f0 = 175; % Create the harmonics. y0 = sin(2*pi*f0*t) + sin(2*pi*2*f0*t) + sin(2*pi*3*f0*t); % Set the additional parameters in the model. A0 = 2; % Initial amplitude. B = 1.5; % Amplitude decay rate. fm = 0.65; % Frequency of the modulating envelope. % Create the envelope A = A0*exp(-B*t).*sin(2*pi*fm*t); % Create the call. call = A.*y0; % Plot the model call and listen to it. figure plot(t,call) xlabel('Time') ylabel('Amplitude') title('{\bf Blue Whale B Call Model}') soundsc(call,fs)

The Blue Whale B call model is shown in following figure. If you also wanna hear the voice, write down the codes into a matlab mfile and run it..

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Firefox Babylon Add-on and More

Everyone knows Babylon dictionary, it is one of the most common dictionary that used in the world. A free babylon extension for firefox is available here. It works quite enough, the requirement is just clicking the word that you wanna search twice.

Babylon Dictionary

But missing part is that:

It doesn't save the word you search once. When you encounter a word that you have searched 10 days ago, you need to remember it or you need to search it again in a dictionary. 

SOLUTION:

I modified the babylon extension to resolve this deficiency. When you use the modified version, you will find the words you searched before in a file called mywords.html which is going to be found in your desktop. The mywords.html will looking as in the following picture. :)

Babylon - mywords.html

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Watch the following video tutorial to setup the babylon to do the work we want :)

[By the way, the blog you see in the video is belongs to my bro. http://make-possible.blogspot.com]

Download the modified version from here and mywords.html(right click and save it). Install the extension to the firefox and copy mywords.html into your desktop. Also you can use the following code to download mywords.html into your desktop:

mkdir ~/Desktop; wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44911226/babylon/mywords.html -O ~/Desktop/mywords.html

Use it with fun :).

What I changed in Babylon to be able to do this? (saving every word we searched once)

The changes I have made are given in the following:

I add a new function called saveDataToFile into javascript file BabylonWordSearch.Results.js. The function is given below:

saveDataToFile: function(filepath, data, charset) { var lokasyon = data.search("OT_CopyrightStyle") - 14; var lokasyon2 = data.search("Download this dictionary") + 37; //alert(lokasyon); data = data.substr(lokasyon2,lokasyon-lokasyon2); data = data +" "; file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"]. createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile); file.initWithPath(filepath); // file is nsIFile, data is a string var foStream = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/file-output-stream;1"]. createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIFileOutputStream); // use 0x02 | 0x10 to open file for appending. foStream.init(file, 0x02 | 0x10, 0666, 0); // write, create, truncate // In a c file operation, we have no need to set file mode with or operation, // directly using "r" or "w" usually. // if you are sure there will never ever be any non-ascii text in data you can // also call foStream.write(data, data.length) directly var converter = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/intl/converter-output-stream;1"]. createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIConverterOutputStream); converter.init(foStream, "UTF-8", 0, 0); converter.writeString(data); converter.close(); // this closes foStream }

In if block that I given below, I send the answer that I get from babylon server by innerHTML  to the above function(saveDataToFile) .

if (containerDiv) { var data = this.resultsFrame.contentWindow.document.getElementById('container').innerHTML; this.saveDataToFile("~/Desktop/mywords.html",data,"UTF-8");

To modify the extension yourself, you can find its source code from that post.

If you have any question or need some help, leave a comment below.

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Loops in Matlab ( for in matlab, while matlab, for matlab)

There are two loops in matlab:

• For loops 
• While loops

For loops are used when the number of loop is certain whereas while loops are used when the condition is specified for a loop to terminate the code in it. 

You can see the usage form of for loops and while loops from given examples below:

Example 1: For loop

for i=1:4, i end

Example 2: While loop

a=0; while(a<10) a= a+1; a

For information in detail type in command window:

'help for' to get the following result:

for Repeat statements a specific number of times. The general form of a for statement is: for variable = expr, statement, ..., statement END The columns of the expression are stored one at a time in the variable and then the following statements, up to the END, are executed. The expression is often of the form X:Y, in which case its columns are simply scalars. Some examples (assume N has already been assigned a value). for R = 1:N for C = 1:N A(R,C) = 1/(R+C-1); end end Step S with increments of -0.1 for S = 1.0: -0.1: 0.0, do_some_task(S), end Set E to the unit N-vectors for E = eye(N), do_some_task(E), end Long loops are more memory efficient when the colon expression appears in the for statement since the index vector is never created. The BREAK statement can be used to terminate the loop prematurely. See also parfor, if, while, switch, break, continue, end, colon. Reference page in Help browser doc for

or you can type doc for  to get reference page in help browser. I am not giving it here.

For while loops you can type:

'help while' to get information in detail like as given below:

>> help while while Repeat statements an indefinite number of times. The general form of a while statement is: while expression statements END The statements are executed while the real part of the expression has all non-zero elements. The expression is usually the result of expr rop expr where rop is ==, <, >, <=, >=, or ~=. The BREAK statement can be used to terminate the loop prematurely. For example (assuming A already defined): E = 0*A; F = E + eye(size(E)); N = 1; while norm(E+F-E,1) > 0, E = E + F; F = A*F/N; N = N + 1; end See also for, if, switch, break, continue, end. Reference page in Help browser doc while

or you can type 'doc while'  to get reference page in help browser. I am not giving it here.

If you have any question or need some help, leave a comment below.

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Flash for Linux

Hi guys, most of the linux distributions do not include flash as default installed software. Mint comes with flash but such as in ubuntu it is not preinstalled. So we have to install it. There are a few ways to install flash in linux:

1.   - open software center
        - enter 'adobe flashplugin
        -click install, that's it. (That is the first way to get linux flash)

2.   - open terminal by typing Ctrl+F2
        - write the following code:

to install adobe flash on ubuntu:

 $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

to install adobe flash on mint:

 $ sudo apt-get install mint-flashplugin

        - after this, if it ask Y or N type Y. Flash is installed, you can try it now. (That is the second way yo get linux flash)

 3.  - Open any website that requires flash, like youtube. It will ask you 'install missing plugins' press install or download. That should solve your problem about flash plugin. (That is the third way to get linux flash)

4.  -Open software center
       - type adobe flash into search box
       -click install, that's it. (that is the fourth way to get flash on linux)

If you have any question or need some help, leave a comment below.

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Flashlight Android Application

Hi guys, today I wanna tell about one of my experince on android app development. A couple of days ago, I wrote a Flashlight android app using docs in developer.android.com, I checked the app in two different phones:

• first in a Motorola phone: my app worked perfect, it did its job. (turning on and turning off flash of the camera)
• second in a Samsung SIII Mini: my app didn't work, it didn't do its job. (when I touched the 'open flash' button, flash couldn't open.)

So, I started to search the problem. There were a lot of statements in websites like that: "FLASH_MODE_TORCH doesn't work on samsung". I have used this parameter in my app too. I didn't believe that, because when I request possible parameters from eclipse by pressing Cntrl+Enter there was only one parameter which can open the flash: FLASH_MODE_TORCH. So, I thought there must be a missing code which requires in samsung phones and not needs in phones like Motorola. I continued to search and found a nice solution which says use "camera.startPreview()" after setting parameters of the camera. I used this in my app and it worked in samsung phones too.

The picture of my app are given in the following, and you can download it from the link below pic. I wrote the app just for an example, so its gui is really bad and simple.

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Initial Arrangement Example in Matlab

str2=input('','s');<br /> if strmatch('do the arrangements\n',str2)<br /> <br />     disp('Yes Sir')<br /> end<br /> <br /> <br /> cd 'path'<br /> winopen('path');<br /> fprintf('Welcome to Matlab, Mr. 'name'\nCurrent Directory is rearranged, and the mlbe file is opened.\n');<br /> <br /> str1=input('','s');<br /> if strmatch('thanks',str1)<br />     disp('You are Welcome');<br />     clear;<br /> end

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A Traveling Wave by Making an Animation in MATLAB

clc %clears the command window<br /> clear %clears variables<br /> %Variables:<br /> %Eo wave amplitude (V/m)<br /> %f frequency (Hz)<br /> %omega angular frequency (rad/s)<br /> %t time snapshot<br /> %c speed of light<br /> %z position<br /> %E Electric Field Intensity<br /> %B phase constant (1/m)<br /> %phi phase constant (s)<br /> %phir phase constant (radians)<br /> %lambda wavelength<br /> (m)<br /> %Initial Values of Variables:<br /> f=1000;<br /> phi=0;<br /> c=2.998e8;<br /> lambda=c/f;<br /> t=1;<br /> phir=phi*pi/180;<br /> Eo=1;<br /> B=2*pi/lambda;<br /> omega=2*pi*f;<br /> z=0:4*lambda/100:4*lambda;<br /> E=Eo*cos(omega*t-B*z+phir);<br /> plot(z,E)<br /> axis([0 4*lambda -2*Eo 2*Eo])<br /> grid<br /> xlabel('z(m)')<br /> ylabel('E(V/m)')<br /> pause<br /> t=0:1/(40*f):1/f;<br /> for n=1:40;<br /> E=Eo*cos(omega*t(n)-B*z+phir);<br /> plot(z,E)<br /> axis([0 4*lambda -2*Eo 2*Eo])<br /> grid<br /> title('General Wave Equation');<br /> xlabel('z(m)');<br /> ylabel('E(V/m)');<br /> M(:,1)=getframe;<br /> end

After that I run it from the command window. I give three figures these are in different time to
see properly the wave is travelling.

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How to add Categories to Blogger

Guys, today I will tell about categories in blogger. Unfortunately there is no any category widget in blogger. So we have to create it by ourselves. To do this We have two solutions.

First Solution: We can use labels with Links widget. Let me Explain with an example let’s say We want Matlab,Linux,Apple as our site’s categories. Then we need to add these names as labels to our posts. Then by clicking the labels in Labels widget we get their URLs. Copy these URLs one by one and add them to Links widget. In that way, we have categories in our blog. Have fun...

Second Solution: We can use laves with HTML/JAVASCRIPT widget. This time we will modify or create our Links widget by ourselves via writing html codes into HTML/JAVASCRIPT widget. The advantage of this solution is creating original categories with your requests. I hope it helps..

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CPU Temperature Alarm System

Hi,  I want to write about Cpu Temperature Alarm System I have done by using advantages of linux kernel and linux shell. (I used bash shell in my script by the way.)

One of the biggest advantages of linux is to reach hardware components easily through kernel. The communication with hardware comes true as given in the following steps:

1. User writes his/her request as codes.
2. Shell converts these codes to be understand by kernel.
3. Kernel is a gui which can thought as an interface between hardware and shell. Kernel sends these requests to hardware components.

You can understand these simple steps and more from the following scheme:

I wrote down the following script which can control cpu temperature and if it is out of the condition I have determined, it plays an alarm.
       
# Writen by Mustafa DEMİR--http://eeecoder.blogspot.com var=$(acpi -t | awk '{print $4}') echo "cpu temperature: " + "$var" if test $var < 90 then echo "no dangere."; else echo "cpu is in dangere!"; play snall.wav; fi

The comments about the script are given in the following step by step:

1. I used acpi package to get temperature of cpu from sensors. Info: acpi - Shows battery status and other ACPI information
2. To edit the output of acpi -t command and get the cpu temperature only, I used gawk package. Info: gawk - pattern scanning and processing language
3. I wrote the cpu temperature with echo
4. I used an if-else-fi block for control part.
5. If it is lower than 90 C, I wrote down the message: "no dangere."
6. If it is higher than 90 C, I wrote down the message: "cpu is in dangere!" and play the alarm.

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Tuning Processes

Introduction

In real-time systems some processes can cause huge problems, or slowing down the system performance. In such situations we need to tune the running processes. With tuning I mean stopping or killing the process. To be able to do this and to know when we need to know what processes currently runnig and when process start up? Especially, administrators need this. Because unexpected processes needs to be down or stop in systems such as servers, gaming boxes or other real-time systems. By saying processes I mean all applications and services in the system. So after that we need to view the running processes, let's look at that.

Viewing Running Processes

The only thing that consume your system resources are running processes. If your computer seems to be running slower than normal, then it is probably because of some misbehaving running processes or some running processes that use more than resources our system have.

There a couple of ways to view running processes, these are:

     1. top command: this command lists all running processes by ordering them cpu usage and memory usages.
     2. ps -ef command: this command lists every running processes in full detail.
     3. The Graphical System Monitor(System►Administration►System Monitor): also enables you to list all the running processes.

Sample listing of running processes from ps-ef command:

mustafa@mustafa-Lenovo-G550 ~ $ ps -ef UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/init root 2 0 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [kthreadd] root 3 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 6 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [migration/0] root 7 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [watchdog/0] root 8 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [migration/1] root 10 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:02 [ksoftirqd/1] root 11 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [watchdog/1] root 12 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [cpuset] root 13 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [khelper] root 14 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [kdevtmpfs] root 15 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [netns] root 17 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [sync_supers] root 18 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [bdi-default] root 19 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [kintegrityd] root 20 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [kblockd] root 22 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [ata_sff] root 23 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [khubd] root 24 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [md] root 25 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/0:2] root 26 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:01 [kworker/1:1] root 27 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [khungtaskd] root 28 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [kswapd0] root 29 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [ksmd] root 30 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [khugepaged] root 31 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [fsnotify_mark] root 32 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [ecryptfs-kthrea] root 33 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [crypto] root 42 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [kthrotld] root 44 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_0] root 45 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_1] root 46 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_2] root 47 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_3] root 48 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_4] root 51 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/u:4] root 52 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/u:5] root 54 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/1:2] root 55 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [binder] root 75 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [deferwq] root 76 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [charger_manager] root 77 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [devfreq_wq] root 235 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [jbd2/sda2-8] root 236 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] root 256 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [flush-8:0] root 333 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 upstart-udev-bridge --daemon root 335 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon root 411 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [kpsmoused] root 459 335 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon root 460 335 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon root 535 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [hd-audio0] root 633 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 smbd -F 102 651 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon --system --fork root 659 633 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 smbd -F root 674 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/modem-manager root 682 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd root 703 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 NetworkManager syslog 706 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 rsyslogd -c5 root 711 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [krfcommd] root 718 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd --n avahi 729 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon: running [mustafa-L avahi 732 729 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon: chroot helper root 745 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -F root 751 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 upstart-socket-bridge --daemon root 755 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -P /run/ root 1031 1 0 Ağu04 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty4 root 1037 1 0 Ağu04 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty5 root 1046 1 0 Ağu04 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty2 root 1047 1 0 Ağu04 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty3 root 1057 1 0 Ağu04 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty6 root 1071 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s /va root 1072 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 cron daemon 1073 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 atd root 1179 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mdm root 1180 1179 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mdm root 1215 1180 2 Ağu04 tty8 00:00:18 /usr/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /va root 1366 1 0 Ağu04 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1 root 1377 703 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/dhclient -d -4 -sf /usr/li nobody 1381 703 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --no-resolv -- root 1534 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 nmbd -D root 1551 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --n mustafa 1624 1180 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 x-session-manager mustafa 1696 1624 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus mustafa 1699 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with mustafa 1700 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 //bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print mustafa 1705 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/MateConf/mateconfd-2 mustafa 1713 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/mate-keyring-daemon --s mustafa 1716 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/mate-settings-daemon mustafa 1722 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd mustafa 1726 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs//gvfsd-fuse -f /ru mustafa 1736 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --lo rtkit 1738 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/rtkit/rtkit-daemon mustafa 1741 1736 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf- mustafa 1743 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gconf/ mustafa 1745 1624 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:01 marco mustafa 1749 1624 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:01 mate-panel mustafa 1751 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-udisks2-volum root 1755 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd --no-de mustafa 1762 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volum mustafa 1766 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-afc-volume-mo mustafa 1770 1624 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:04 caja mustafa 1773 1624 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-mate/polkit-mate mustafa 1774 1624 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 mate-volume-control-applet mustafa 1776 1624 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 mate-bluetooth-applet mustafa 1778 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/matecomponent/matecompo mustafa 1784 1624 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 nm-applet mustafa 1787 1624 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/syste mustafa 1788 1624 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/mintupd mustafa 1789 1624 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 mate-power-manager mustafa 1792 1788 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpd mustafa 1793 1792 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 python /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUp mustafa 1808 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 mate-screensaver mustafa 1815 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:01 python /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMe mustafa 1817 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:02 /usr/lib/mate-panel/wnck-applet mustafa 1821 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:01 /usr/lib/mate-sensors-applet/mat mustafa 1823 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/mate-panel/clock-applet mustafa 1825 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/mate-panel/notification root 1833 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/upower/upowerd mustafa 1854 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi-bus mustafa 1861 1854 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/ mustafa 1887 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi2-re root 2000 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/udisks/udisks-daemon root 2001 2000 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 udisks-daemon: not polling any d mustafa 2009 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-trash --spaw root 2049 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/system-tools-backends mustafa 2071 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-metadata root 2106 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/system- mustafa 2120 1 1 Ağu04 ? 00:00:14 chromium-browser --disable-new-t mustafa 2124 2120 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 chromium-browser --disable-new-t mustafa 2125 2120 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromi mustafa 2126 2125 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 chromium-browser --type=zygote mustafa 2130 2126 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 chromium-browser --type=zygote mustafa 2167 2130 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:03 /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chro mustafa 2235 2130 2 Ağu04 ? 00:00:18 /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chro root 2250 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/mount.ntfs /dev/sda3 /medi root 2253 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [jbd2/sda6-8] root 2254 2 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] mustafa 2271 1 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/oos mustafa 2289 2271 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:05 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/sof mustafa 2305 2130 0 Ağu04 ? 00:00:05 /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chro root 2312 2 0 00:03 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/0:1] root 2314 2 0 00:09 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/1:0] root 2315 2 0 00:09 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/0:0] mustafa 2323 1 6 00:11 ? 00:00:01 gedit /media/mustafa/b7b4896e-15 mustafa 2329 1 6 00:11 ? 00:00:00 mate-terminal mustafa 2334 2329 0 00:11 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helper mustafa 2335 2329 3 00:11 pts/0 00:00:00 bash mustafa 2383 2335 0 00:11 pts/0 00:00:00 ps -ef mustafa@mustafa-Lenovo-G550 ~ $

Sample listing of running processes from top command:

mustafa@mustafa-Lenovo-G550 ~ $ top top - 00:14:58 up 18 min, 2 users, load average: 0,26, 0,24, 0,21 Tasks: 145 total, 2 running, 143 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 1,2 us, 1,0 sy, 0,0 ni, 97,3 id, 0,5 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st KiB Mem: 2011432 total, 1398156 used, 613276 free, 96836 buffers KiB Swap: 487420 total, 0 used, 487420 free, 643724 cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1215 root 20 0 167m 26m 12m S 3,0 1,4 0:31.58 Xorg 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,3 0,0 0:02.60 ksoftirqd/1 2235 mustafa 20 0 959m 128m 25m S 0,3 6,6 0:30.43 chromium-browse 2289 mustafa 20 0 1113m 118m 66m S 0,3 6,0 0:06.83 soffice.bin 2329 mustafa 20 0 520m 16m 11m S 0,3 0,8 0:02.65 mate-terminal 2398 mustafa 20 0 26156 1628 1152 R 0,3 0,1 0:00.10 top 1 root 20 0 24500 2460 1356 S 0,0 0,1 0:00.65 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.51 ksoftirqd/0 6 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 migration/0 7 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 8 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.01 migration/1 11 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.01 watchdog/1 12 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 cpuset 13 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 khelper 14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 kdevtmpfs 15 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 netns 17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 sync_supers 18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 bdi-default 19 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 kintegrityd 20 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 kblockd 22 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 ata_sff 23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 khubd 24 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 md 25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.31 kworker/0:2 26 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:02.00 kworker/1:1 27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 khungtaskd 28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 kswapd0 29 root 25 5 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 ksmd 30 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 khugepaged 31 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 fsnotify_mark 32 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 ecryptfs-kthrea 33 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 crypto 42 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 kthrotld

Killing Processes

To kill a process, we can use PID(process id). As you can see from outputs of two commands above we have process ids for each running process. For example, to kill PID 217 we type kill 217. This command will kill the process have PID of 217. To suspend (stop) a running process use kill -STOP PID, to continue to a suspended process use kill -CONT PID.

Example: As an example run an application, find its PID using above commands, and first kill, then suspend and later allow to continue the process.

Finally, we finished the tuning process techniques in linux. I hope it will help you..

If you have any question or need some help about tuning process , leave a comment below.

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Format USB(flash drive) From Terminal

It's easy to format usb drives from terminal. But, you need to first find what's your usf file system. To find this we can use df command.

df: report file system disk space usage 

Also, to be able to format the usb, usb shouldn't be mount, if it is we are going to unmount it.

Now, just to be clear I am going to format my own usb step by step, at required steps I will give the terminal screenshots.

Steps I have down:

      1. type df command into terminal

terminal output:

mustafa@mustafa-Lenovo-G550 ~ $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 40794700 24120308 14602124 63% / udev 996512 4 996508 1% /dev tmpfs 402288 1008 401280 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 1005716 276 1005440 1% /run/shm none 102400 8 102392 1% /run/user /dev/sda3 154622972 133789684 20833288 87% /media/mustafa/6266637866634BBB /dev/sda6 27667488 17288020 8974028 66% /media/mustafa/b7b4896e-1570-4477-8535-31b2a6c7f8a5


     2. Plug in usb (flash drive)
     3. type df command into terminal

termainal output:

mustafa@mustafa-Lenovo-G550 ~ $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 40794700 24122360 14600072 63% / udev 996512 4 996508 1% /dev tmpfs 402288 1008 401280 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 1005716 276 1005440 1% /run/shm none 102400 8 102392 1% /run/user /dev/sda3 154622972 133789684 20833288 87% /media/mustafa/6266637866634BBB /dev/sda6 27667488 17288020 8974028 66% /media/mustafa/b7b4896e-1570-4477-8535-31b2a6c7f8a5 /dev/sdb 7801448 2044868 5756580 27% /media/mustafa/A875-7CDC

As you can see we have a new entry at the last row, which is should be my usb. It's file system is given as /dev/sdb at terminal output of df command.

    4.  to unmount the flash drive type: sudo umount /dev/sdb

    5.  to format the usb as fat type: sudo mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdb

You can see the terminal executions of step 4 and 5 below:  

root@mustafa-Lenovo-G550:~# sudo -s root@mustafa-Lenovo-G550:~# umount /dev/sdb root@mustafa-Lenovo-G550:~# mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdb mkfs.vfat 3.0.9 (31 Jan 2010) root@mustafa-Lenovo-G550:~# that's it we are done!

That's it we are done, I hope it helps..

If you have any question or need some help about format usb drives, leave a comment below.

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System Logs in Linux

Introduction to syslogd

syslog daemon responsible from syslog. This structure collects all messages from running programs to the logs. It categorizes all of messages according to its types and priority, and presents to us. This is very useful for error debugging. We can use this messages to find the actual problem if we have any one at any time. Actually I used that in my previous post. You may wanna see it.

Reading Logs

Now, let's look at how we can read logs. FHS determines the location of logs as /var/log. We can use tail command to read last ten messages like that:

cd /var/log

tail messages # note: if you don't see anything or get no file error type: tail syslog

output of this command:

mustafa@mustafa-Lenovo-G550:/var/log$ tail syslog Aug 2 10:42:21 mustafa-Lenovo-G550 pppd[3332]: Sent 950093 bytes, received 7980298 bytes. Aug 2 10:42:21 mustafa-Lenovo-G550 NetworkManager[882]: nm_system_iface_flush_routes: assertion `ifindex > 0' failed Aug 2 10:42:21 mustafa-Lenovo-G550 NetworkManager[882]: nm_system_iface_flush_addresses: assertion `ifindex > 0' failed Aug 2 10:42:21 mustafa-Lenovo-G550 pppd[3332]: Connection terminated. Aug 2 10:42:21 mustafa-Lenovo-G550 avahi-daemon[873]: Withdrawing workstation service for ppp0. Aug 2 10:42:21 mustafa-Lenovo-G550 NetworkManager[882]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices removed (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0) Aug 2 10:42:21 mustafa-Lenovo-G550 modem-manager[868]: <info> Modem /org/freedesktop/ModemManager/Modems/0: state changed (connected -> disconnecting) Aug 2 10:42:21 mustafa-Lenovo-G550 dbus[851]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper) Aug 2 10:42:21 mustafa-Lenovo-G550 dbus[851]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' Aug 2 10:42:24 mustafa-Lenovo-G550 modem-manager[868]: <info> Modem /org/freedesktop/ModemManager/Modems/0: state changed (disconnecting -> registered) mustafa@mustafa-Lenovo-G550:/var/log$

As you can see from last ten messages, at 10:42:24 I disconnected the modem I cut the internet, which is a message from network manager and it have saved into syslog.

Following Logs from tail

A system administrator would use tail -f command to follow log messages like that:

tail -f /var/log/messages or tail -f /var/log/syslog

Because by using -f parameter with tail command, we can read new messages from running programs at right now. This is very handful for debugging. Also, almost all system manager executes that command in another terminal all the time, to see the messages coming through when the programs are running.

Let's see how it works: I entered the command to read syslog continuously, and I disabled eth0 in another terminal, the terminal views are given below:

terminal 1:

mustafa@mustafa-Lenovo-G550 ~ $ sudo -s [sudo] password for mustafa: mustafa-Lenovo-G550 ~ # ifconfig eth1 down

terminal 2:

mustafa-Lenovo-G550 ~ # tail -f /var/log/syslog Aug 2 14:05:04 mustafa-Lenovo-G550 NetworkManager[696]: <info> (eth1): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> disabled

As you can see from terminal 2, message says eth1 disabled when we type and entered ifconfig eth1 down into other terminal. It works :).

If you have any question or need some help about system logs in linux, leave a comment below.

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Gimp The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Gimp is an alternative software to Photoshop. Most users of linux use Gimp instead of Photoshop. Last version of Gimp is 2.8. I use it myself in my ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and Linux Mint 1.14 Nadia.

I recommend it to you if you are using a distiribution of linux. If you are using Windows or other platforms, I think Photoshop is better than Gimp. As we know it is more common than Gimp.

      Features:

• Customizable Interface 
• Photo Enhancement
• Digital Retouching
• Hardware Support
• File Formats (jpeg, gif, png, tiff, psd.)
• Supported platforms
• GNU/Linux (i386, PPC)
• Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista)
• Mac OS X
• Sun OpenSolaris
• FreeBSD

      Last Version: Gimp 2.8

To download Gimp you can use the following link which is from its official website:

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Also you can download some documentation from:

http://www.gimp.org/docs/

     Some Screenshots:  You can see in original dimensions by clicking the pics below.

Gimp Screenshot 1

Gimp Screenshot 2

Gimp Screenshot 3

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