Arun Subbiah's Notes

Gift idea: Something the gift recipient would like to have but would rather not have.

The longer version of this quote can be found here [link].

Here are some examples:

1. Add sugar to taste
2. WYSIWYG
3. "I just lost 10 pounds!"
4. "I just gained...never mind!"
5. "I can't believe I am reading all this!"

To include .tex files in subdirs in the main.tex file:

In main.tex:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
...
\input{path1/submain.tex}
...
\end{document}

where submain.tex is of the form:

\section{Another Section}
\def\thisdir{path1/}
\input{\thisdir file1}
\input{\thisdir file2}

Better to include '/' in $thisdir because, later, $thisdir may be set to {}.

To create a file of size 'x' KB containing random data:

localhost% dd if=/dev/urandom of=random.file bs=1024 count=x

See man 4 (u)random for difference between using /dev/random and /dev/urandom.

In a statement like this:

      if ((condition1)&&(condition2)){
           ...
      }

if condition1 evaluates to false, then condition2 may not be evaluated.