I followed  and now I'm able to connect to serial line. Now I want to change the width of terminal. How can I do this by using screen or minicom or something else?
When using the serial console of my system I always end up with $COLUMNS=80 and $LINES=24.  While I can change these variables manually it is somewhat annoying to do this any time when the client side terminal window has been resized.  Usually I'm connecting to the console using screen /dev/mytty baudrate.  Changing the $TERM environment variable to "screen" or "xterm" does not help.  Will I need to call getty with some of those instead of vt100?  Needless to say that all of this works fine, when I connect to the same machine using ssh.
How to understand the definition of vector and tensor? Physics texts like to define vector as something that transform like a vector and tensor as something that transform like a tensor, which is different from the definition in math books. I am having difficulty understanding this kind of definition. To me, it goes like this:   First we have a collection of bases or coordinate systems (do these represent reference frames?) and the transformations between them. A vector/tensor is an assignment of an array of numbers to each basis, and these arrays are related to each other by coordinate transformations.   I am wondering how coordinate systems and transformations are specified.    Do we need all possible coordinate systems and transformations to define a vector space or just a few of them? How to define the concept of basis and coordinate transformation without completing the very notion of vector? A person who cannot understand that there may be other perspectives I'm searching for a word to describe a person who cannot understand that there may be different perspectives. I initially thought of single-minded, but that pertains to determination.  One example of several perspectives could be the difference between a process and an action. Please assume that a process is composed of several actions. A process may be composed of other processes, but these processes would be actions in this greater process.  If you accept my definitions, then depending on the holistic or granularity level, we may consider something a process or an action, depending on whether we are considering its parts or how it's part of a greater thing.  A person may have trouble understanding that it's not true or false that something is a process or an action, it depends on how it relates with everything else from the perspective that we take. From one perspective it's a process, from another it's an action. For some people, things seem to be in one and only one absolute way, which is wrong, IMHO.   Is there a word to describe this kind of problem that some people seem to have?  PD: It's like . But I don't think most people know the word monist.  Here are some other, superficially similar terms that actually mean something quite different. A racist is (approximately) someone who considers other races inferior. A narrow-minded person considers other perspectives wrong or irrelevant, or may not consider them, but is aware that they exist. A monist would not even understand that there is more than one race or multiple perspectives; there is simply one reality, and that's it. 32 bit or 64 bit OS on a 512 mb VPS? I am planning to rent a VPS service with following basic specification:   512mb of RAM 1 CPU 20gb HDD (4gb of it is swap) Ubuntu 10.10 server   I am able to choose between a 32 bit or 64 bit install of Ubuntu server as the operating system.   My question is would it be better to chose a 32 bit operating system since I will have only 512mb of RAM, rather than using a 64 bit operating system and dealing with the additional overheads?  edit:  I have installed Ubuntu server 10.10 32 bit and 64 bit on VirtualBox. After a minimalistic installation with only ssh server, the 32 bit installation consumes 63mb of RAM when first boot up and 64 bit consumes 85mb of RAM.  After installing and running  daemon, 32 bit consumes 99mb of RAM when first boot up and 64 bit consumes 128mb. What is the term for a sentence which reads same forwards and backwards? Please note, I'm not asking for a palindrome.  I mean to say that only the word  order is rearranged, not the actual spelling of the word.  An example might be as follows:     First ladies rule the State and state the rule: ladies first. MWE:  \documentclass{article} \begin{document} $\wedge{\small\wedge}{\tiny\wedge}$ \end{document}   All the \wedges have the same size... If you have a glass of water, say, three quarters full and you pour it at an angle of say, $45^{\circ}$ with respect to the the table, the water comes out of the glass and goes directly down towards the floor.  However, when the glass is more full, or even three quarters full and the 'angle of pouring' is far less with respect the table, when the water comes out of the glass, rather than going straight down it kind of stays stuck to the glass and travels down the outside of it.  Why does this happen? (I'm sure many of you have observed it yourself by accident and ended up making a mess). I cant change to faces or edges view! "Can’t help but" vs. "can help but" How to prove that $\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}\frac {n^{2}}{2^{n}}=0$ & $\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}\frac {n^{2}}{n!}=0$? Cat 5/6 in same conduit as power: is NM-B required, or is THHN acceptable? After reading a couple of answers and comments on some SQL questions here, and also hearing that a friend of mine works at a place which has a policy which bans them, I'm wondering if there's anything wrong with using backticks around field names in MySQL.  That is:  SELECT `id`, `name`, `anotherfield` ... -- vs -- SELECT id, name, anotherfield ... I'm not a physicist; I'm just curious about what would happen.  According to this video "" (at 2:50):     "Somebody decided to leave the detectors on but just not take any data. [...] So if it was also going to a magnetic tape - there was no magnetic tape loaded. [...] And what do you think happed? They got this. They got the diffraction pattern."   So the act of measuring (beeing concious of the data) destroys wave-form pattern?  If so lets consider these cases:   What if I'd throw a dice after the experiment to decide if I should look at the data or to destroy it? (e.g. look at the data if the number on dice is even) What if the information about measurement would need to travel longer period of time than the particle would need to hit the wall?    To above cases: Would it mean that information travelled instantly - faster than light or that "the particle can look into the future"? Combining the first and second law of thermodynamics we can get the following equation  $$TdS=dU-P_{ext}dV$$  First question: Is this equation applicable for irreversible processes such that that $dS≠\dfrac{dQ}{T}$?  Second question:If the system temperature $T_{sys}$ is smaller than the surrounding temperature $T_{sur}$, which temperature should we put in the equation?   I have this question because sometimes people use $T_{sur}$ instead of $T_{sys}$ (e.g. , ) but the equation is supposed to describe changes in the system. Saving Arduino sensor data to a text file In this case I'm filtering by the tag [tag:css*], but it's showing this as [css*] and showing the  tag's exerpt. Why does the checkbox stay checked when reloading the page? I need a little hint in a proof on convergence of a sequence. The problem I have is: Suppose $(x_n)$ is a monotone decreasing sequence of real numbers such that $\sum x_n$ converges, prove that:  $$\lim_{n \to \infty} nx_n=0$$  My idea is: proving this fact aims to prove that given $\epsilon &gt;0$ there's some natural $n_0 \in \mathbb{N}$ such that if $n &gt;n_0$ we have $|nx_n|&lt;\epsilon$.  Now, I know that $\sum x_n$ converges, so that given $\epsilon'&gt;0$ there's some $k_0 \in \mathbb{N}$ such that if $k &gt; k_0$ we have:  $$\left|\sum_{i=1}^{k}x_i - S\right|&lt;\epsilon'$$  Where $S = \sum x_n$. Now, since $(x_n)$ is monotone decreasing we know that we must have $x_1 &gt; \cdots &gt; x_k$ so that the sum of all $x_i$ should be less or equal to $k x_k$. So I know that I have:  $$\left|\sum_{i=1}^{k}x_i - S\right|\leq\left|\sum_{i=1}^{k}x_i\right|+|S|\leq|kx_k|+|S|$$  I feel that the proof will come from this, however I'm stuck at this point. Can someone give just a little hint on how to proceed from here?  Thanks very much in advance for your help. I've got a weird question. Assume that you have a small sample where the dependent variable that you're going to analyze with a simple linear model is highly left skewed. Thus you assume that $u$ is not normally distributed, because this would result in normally distributed $y$. But when you compute the QQ-Normal plot there is evidence, that the residuals are normally distributed. Thus anyone can assume that the error term is normally distributed, although $y$ is not. So what does it mean, when the error term seems to be normally distributed, but $y$ does not? In the following question  the notation $c\in ]a,b[$ is used. What does this mean? I have never seen it before. Why does no physical energy-momentum tensor exist for the gravitational field?