(Probably) The easiest way to get map tile for NASA's world wind with natural earth data

Converting from the natural earth data raster images to NASA's World Wind tile is a bit complicated.
I guess one of the easiest way is use the demo program in goworldwind.org.

How to:
(1) Get the script named "InstallImageryAndElevationsDemo" and launch it.
(2) "Install" the tiff image of the natural earth data.
(3) check the directory "c:\programdata\worldwindinstalled" on Windows.
      (Probably you can do the same thing on the other plat forms)

URL:
http://goworldwind.org/demos/

三井住友信託銀行の提携クレジットカード

なんか、提携やめてしまうみたい。
新しいのは全然魅力がないので、小規模ユーザーは結構抜けてしまうのでは。

http://www.smbctb.co.jp/banking/creditcard/index.html

"reject" to "major revision"

My article which has been "under review" such a long time was rejected one week ago. I believed the reviewer's comments were somehow unreasonable, and so, I wrote a letter to the editor who has been taking care of my article.

In the end, I have just received an e-mail from the editorial office, which says;

"The Editor has informed me that this decision should be reverted and you will receive a new decision letter shortly."

And the status of the article turns from "reject" to "major revision"

The editor's decision is not always 100% sure.

You should try to write a letter to your editor in some cases.

linux でEPSから余白なしのPDFを作る

latexでepsがうまく表示されないので、あらかじめPDFにしておくことにした。
imagemagickでeps -> pdfすると余白がついてしまうので、pdfcropを使って削除する。
一括でできるように簡単なshell scriptを。

% cat run.sh
#!/bin/sh -f
for i in $@
do
j=`echo $i | sed -e 's/eps/pdf/g'`
convert $i $j
pdfcrop $j $j
done

% ./run.sh *.eps

pythonからCのモジュールを呼んでいる時に、プロファイルを取る方法

下記のページそのままなんですが、googleのprofilerを使います。yepはうまくつかえなかったので、結局こうなりました。

https://pygabriel.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/profiling-python-c-extensions/

to give the location of libunwind for gperftools

The way of giving the location of libunwind to the configure script of gperftools:

%setenv CFLAGS="-I /path/to/LIBUNWIND/include -L/path/to/LIBUNWIND/lib"
%setenv CXXFLAGS="-I /path/to/LIBUNWIND/include -L/path/to/LIBUNWIND/lib"
%./configure --prefix=/path/to/install

Interestingly, the configure script does not have the option.

https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools