Here is the change

//~ string $path = `scrollField -wordWrap false EEmultiText`;
string $path = `cmdScrollFieldExecuter -width 200 -height 100 -showLineNumbers true -commandCompletion true -sourceType mel EEmultiText`;

Search for string $path = `scrollField -wordWrap false EEmultiText`; in expressionEditor.mel and replace that line with the new code. so now you have a expression editor with syntax highlight, line number, font changer with mouse wheel and more.

enjoy

NERO
ashampoo

Once your DVD is ready then you need to find around 30-40 GB in you HDD ( you can install with 10 gb also, but for safe and regular use I prefer 30-40 GB).
Here is the step by step guide to create space in Windows7 or with visa.
1. Open the Control Panel (All Items view), and click on the Administrative Tools icon. Then close the Control Panel window.
2. Click on Computer Management in Administrative Tools, and close the Administrative Tools window.
3. In the left pane under Storage, click on Disk Management.
4. In the middle pane, right click on the partition that you want to shrink and click on Shrink Volume.

5. Type how many MB (1 GB = 1024 MB) of the available shrink space you want to shrink or volume by to be used for the new unallocated space, then click on the Shrink button.

6. The selected partition (step 4) has now been shrunk to create a new empty unallocated space. You can use this new unallocated space to create a new partition with.

Or if you are using Windows XP or Windows 7 and if you need more stable application to do this same operation, use ALL-IN-ONE Partition Manager Software by partition-tool. Here is the download link and go for Home version and its 100% free for personal use.

Here is the help for using this tool.

Now we are ready to install Ubuntu in your system, a reboot is required, before reboot you can place the DVD in to DVD drive. Once system power up, you will see the bios startup where you will have an option to choose boot disk options. Mostly F12 will be the key for selecting boot disk. Otherwise you can enter into bios and change the boot priority to DVD Drive. Once you have changed the boot priority to DVD, system will boot from Ubuntu DVD image.

1: In this screen you can select option to Install Ubuntu.
2: In this page you have two options: download package updates and third party software install. I prefer switch on both if you have a decent speed internet. Otherwise turn off both options.
3: Now we have two options erase and install and something else. Choose something else.
4: Then you have three options side by side with Windows; replace windows with Ubuntu or something else. Choose something else here too.
5: Now you will see a window like this.

Here you can see your free space and press Add. Then it will bring a new Window. We are now going to create a boot partition. And the Window will look like this.

Once you press ok it will bring you back to the same partition page. Then you can select add again for creating swap area. Please see the wiki link to learn more about swap. And the Swap file size more related with the memory you have in your system. If you have 2 GB you can give swap 4068 MB. And swap creation Window looks like this.

After creating swap you have to go back to the partition page and again you need to go for add button. Now we are creating the file system for Linux. Here we can select the mount point “/” and keep the size as it as in the box. Window will look like this.

After creating the ‘/’ area your partition page will look like this.

So now we are ready to go for the next step. We can now go for Install now option in the current page.

6: We need to select the time zone.
7: After that we need to select the keyboard layout.
8: Then you have the option to tell about your system. Require my password and encrypt my home folder both will give more security to your system.
9: The rest will be done by the system. Once installing is finished it will ask for a reboot. Now you can remove the DVD and go for reboot. After reboot you will be taken to the grub menu where you have the option to choose Linux or Windows to boot. And the screen looks like this.

Here you can select Ubuntu generic and you are in the free software world.

Notes:

Notes:
People doubt that after installing dual boot Windows will stay as same or not, yes your Windows installation will stay as same and you will get option in grub (start screen) to select.
Screen capture credit to http://www.linuxbsdos.com/ and http://www.techspot.com/
Partition screens from http://www.sevenforums.com/

All names and legal trademarks belong to the respective owners.

sudo apt-get purge openoffice.org*
sudo apt-get purge openoffice.org-*

2 : Then remove libreoffice office from the system.

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice-core

3 : Then we need the latest version of openoffice. Download
4: In my case I’ve downloaded the .tar file to /tmp/down/OOo_3.3.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

5: Then you need to untar this by ‘right click’ and ‘extract here’ or using the below command

tar xvzf OOo_3.3.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

6 : After that you need to ‘cd’ to openoffice folder.

cd /tmp/down/OOO330_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS

(Please note that the folder name may change according to the version.)

7: Run the below command to install openoffice

dpkg -i *.deb

9: Now we need to install menus and desktop shortcuts.

cd /tmp/down/OOO330_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/desktop-integration
dpkg -i *.deb

Its done and now you are ready to use Open Office in your ubuntu.

*PLEASE NOTE: You are about go for manual installation with OpenOffice and your updates maybe wont work.

I am just uploading  PyQt4 complied versions against proper houdini 11 ,python and Qt versions

Download Link

and copy to /opt/hfs11.1.*/houdini/python2.5libs or /opt/hfs12.0.*/houdini/python2.5libs

with this structure

/PyQt4/*
/sip.so
/sipconfig.py
/sipdistutils.py

and add this to .bashrc

export HOUDINI_PYTHON_VERSION=2.5

Enjoy

In this simple tutorial I am just trying to help Linux guys to use Malayalam input method with Ibus. I’ve tested this method only with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS version, but it will work for other versions also.

To begin with, you need to open the terminal. It is located in Applications → Accessories → Terminal.

*Run means hit enter key.

1. Run the below code in terminal to install Ibus and modules.

sudo apt-get -f install ibus ibus-m17n m17n-contrib m17n-db

Here we are running the code with ‘sudo’ command i.e. the super user mode. After entering this command system will ask for the password. Or you can switch to root using ‘su’ command. Just type ‘su’ and hit enter. If you haven’t set a root password run below code.

sudo passwd root

With this command system will ask your current password and after that it will ask the password for root. Make sure that you have set a strong password for root, for security.
After setting root password type ‘su’ and hit enter then run below code.

apt-get -f install ibus ibus-m17n m17n-contrib m17n-db

Once the system is done with installing the packages it’s a good to restart the system, because we are trying to setup a new input method. After reboot take terminal again, and then run below code.

ibus-setup

This will show a message like below:

Hit Yes, and then another message is open like below:

Hit Ok, then system will bring the preference window of Ibus, from there you can select Input Method Tab from window. After selecting input method you can see now there is a dropdown menu “Select and Input Method”. There you can see a huge list of languages. Select Malayalam. After selecting Malayalam you have few options. Choose an input method which you like, if you are a fan of keyman choose Mozhi or swanalekha. After that click the add button. Window will look like this:

Then hit Close button, and now your system is ready to use Malayalam input method. Ctrl + Space bar is the key combination to enable or disable input method. Once you have successfully set up Ibus you will get an icon in the notification area like below:

Once you press Ctrl + Space the notification Icon will change like this:

That means now you can type any where in malayalam. And I will few more steps to make sure your IBus will start with your system Boot. For that run below code in terminal.

gnome-session-properties

This will bring another window which will help you to create startup applications. Here is a screen capture.

Hit Add in this window, which will bring a new window for adding a new startup item Window. There you need to fill few things.

name : ibus

command : /usr/bin/ibus-daemon -d

comment : ibus startup

Once you are done your window looks like this.

Now hit Add and Close the preference window. Now your system will start with default Ibus service.

Hope this helped you to setup Ibus for Malayalam. And this same method can be used for adding any other language in IBus.

PS: Thanks to VM

I am going to release a new adavanced script editor for nuke which has almost all basic functions of a source editor. Here is the screen captures .

I will release the source soon.

One of my friend asked me to show him how we can initialize houdini and maya via cmd mode and how he can parse some argument using optparse. So made some quick python scripts for him , then i thought oke lets share with others also

So here is the Houdini Version

import hou
import traceback
from optparse import OptionParser as optparse

def houdini_query(filename, node_name):

	if filename:
		try:
			hou.hipFile.load(filename)
			geo_node = hou.node("/obj/geo1/")
			geo_node.createNode(node_name)
			print "Trying to create %s in %s " % (node_name, filename)
			hou.hipFile.save()
			print "%s created and %s saved !" % (node_name, filename)
		except:
			print traceback.print_exc()

def main():
	usage = "usage: houdini_opt.py [options] arg1 arg2"
	parser = optparse(description = "Test OPT ", prog = "houdiniCreateNode", usage = usage, version = "Version 0.0.1")
	parser.add_option("-f", "--file", action = "store", type = "string",	help = "File to open")
	parser.add_option("-n", "--node", action = "store", type = "string", 	help = "Node To Add")

	(options,  args) =  parser.parse_args()

	filename = options.file
	node_name = options.node

	if not filename or not node_name:
		parser.print_help()
		parser.error ("Insufficient arguments.")

	houdini_query(filename, node_name)

if __name__ == "__main__":

	main()

And the usage is :

hython ~/python_scripts/houdini_opt.py -f "/tmp/test.hip" -n "box"

Maya  standalone Initialize

import maya.standalone
import maya.cmds as cmds
from optparse import OptionParser as optparse

def maya_query(filename, node_name):

	if filename:
		init_maya()

		file_open = cmds.file(filename, o = True, f = True)

		set_all_sel = cmds.select(all=True)
		get_sel = cmds.ls(sl=True)
		for each in get_sel:
			if each.find(node_name) != -1:
				print "Found %s in %s " % (node_name, filename)
				break

def init_maya():
	try:
		maya.standalone.initialize( name='python' )
	except:
		sys.stderr.write( "Failed in initialize standalone application" )
		raise

def main():
	usage = "usage: maya_opt.py [options] arg1 arg2"
	parser = optparse(description = "Test OPT ", prog = "mayNodeCheck", usage = usage, version = "Version 0.0.1")
	parser.add_option("-f", "--file", action = "store", type = "string",	help = "File to open")
	parser.add_option("-n", "--node", action = "store", type = "string", 	help = "Node To Find")

	(options,  args) =  parser.parse_args()

	filename = options.file
	node_name = options.node

	if not filename or not node_name:
		parser.print_help()
		parser.error ("Insufficient arguments.")

	maya_query(filename, node_name)

if __name__ == "__main__":

	main()

And the usage is :

mayapy ~/python_scripts/maya_opt.py -f "/tmp/test.ma" -n "hello"

I just saw some Nostalgic videos from youtube and I thought its good to share with everyone .

Varthakal

( Doordarshan National Signature Montage)

(Mile Sur Mera Tumhara)

(Vicks Classic)

( Nirma Advertisement)

(Ad of Dabur Amla Hair Oil)

(Vicco Turmeric Cream)

( Bajaj Scooter Commercial)

(Rasna Commercial 2)

(Parle G Dadaji AD )

(Rasna Commercial 1 )

( Chitrahaar)

(DEKH BHAI DEKH)

(Alif Laila)

(Nostalgic 80s and early 90s Doordarshan ads)

I just made a small custom protocol for intra-net to open houdini,nuke and maya file links to direct applications . Say for example you have houdini file link in a webpage and you want to open that link to houdini direct then this protocol will help you to do that . you want to make sure you have python is installed in your system.

This tool wont work perfect in internet and if you want to make it work then you need bit more tweaking . And you can extend this protocol more and you can easily add more application supports. Please check the inline comments in code and readme for more details. I added a example html file also for testing.

Please check the config.ini file for the base config and run install.py file to get this protocol to be installed in your system . And one more thing this system is tested only with ubuntu 10.04 and centos 5.1 .

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