Gmail: emptying your inbox

The below is all stupid — all I have to do is use the ‘Move to’ button, which is a folder with an arrow to the right.

What I’ve done is go to Gmail settings and change ‘Button labels’ to ‘Text’ so they are not so opaque. I just don’t find their icons useful a lot of the time.

I kind of understand why gmail uses labels — it lets you classify a message as relevant to more than one topic. But because gmail leaves the ‘inbox’ label on everything, the inbox just fills up, even with stuff you’ve labelled and which in a more conventional (and for me intuitive) program would now be in a different folder.

Let’s say I want to find messages in in my inbox, give them all a label and remove the inbox label from them all.

First of all, I have to use standard view because (presumably in an attempt to drive people away fro the basic HTML view), there is no ‘select all’ button in the basic view. Broken by design or what!?

So

1. Do the search
2. Select all
3. Remove any not required
4. Choose the label icon (sort of luggage tag shape) and either allocate them to an existing label or create a new one; they will now be labelled with the new label and inbox
5. The hit the archive button (a book with a down arrow on it  — who would guess?) — this  strips off the inbox label (who would guess?)

It’s far from intuitive, at least for old-fashioned me, but it seems to work.

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Simple surface plot in gnuplot

Here’s a random example for no good reason.

Here is the gnuplot script (surfaceplot.gp):

set iso 30
set samp 50
unset key
#set title "sin(r)"
set xlabel "x" font "Times:Italic,14"
set ylabel "y" font "Times:Italic,14"
set zlabel "z" font "Times:Italic,14"
set xrange [-4:4]
set yrange [-4:4]
set xtics offset -0.5,-0.5
set ztics 1
unset surf
set style line 1 lt 4 lw 0.5
set pm3d
set term post level1 color font "Times,12" fontscale 1.0
set output "plotfile.eps"
splot sin(sqrt(x**2+y**2))

Here are the commands run at the command line:

$ gnuplot surfaceplot.gp 
$ epspdf plotfile.eps
$ xpdf plotfile.pdf
$ pdftoppm.exe -r 600 plotfile.pdf > plotfile.ppm
$ convert plotfile.ppm plotfile.png
$ display plotfile.png
$ rm plotfile.ppm

And this gives me an eps, a pdf and a png:

89K  plotfile.eps
56K  plotfile.pdf
990K plotfile.png

Yep

And here’s a simple script to plot sections through the surface:

$ cat cuts.gp 
unset key
#set title "sin(r)"
set xlabel "x" font "Times:Italic,18"
set ylabel "z" font "Times:Italic,18"
set xrange [-4:4]
set yrange [-1:1]
set border lw 0.25
#set style line 1 lt 4 lw 0.5
set term post level1 color font "Times,12" fontscale 1.0
set output "plotfile-cut-y=0.eps"
plot sin(sqrt(x**2+0**2)) lc rgb 'black' lw 4
set output "plotfile-cut-y=1.eps"
plot sin(sqrt(x**2+1**2)) lc rgb 'black' lw 4

And here is plotfile-cut-y=1

Section where y=1

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Page sizes on Seiko SII SLP label printer

The CUPS driver is very useful, but the media selection menu in CUPS does not give the paper size, just the label code, so I thought a table giving the description, the label code and the dimensions in a couple of units might be handy. It’s really for my own reference.

First, find siislp200.ppd and look through it for the relevant text.

grep PageSize siislp200.ppd | grep SLP > sizes.txt

This gives all the lines that set page sizes. The sizes are in points.

Neaten up the output using cut; this pulls out the label size names:

$ cut -d'*' -f2 sizes.txt | cut -d' ' -f2- | cut -d':' -f1 > list-of-labels.txt

This pulls out the sizes (in points)

$ cut -d'[' -f2 sizes.txt | cut -d']' -f1 | cut -d' ' -f1 > size-in-pointsx.txt
$ cut -d'[' -f2 sizes.txt | cut -d']' -f1 | cut -d' ' -f2 > size-in-pointsy.txt

(-d'x' sets x as the delimiter, and -fn takes the nth field defined by these delimiters. I separate x and y dimensions so that paste below will put a tab in between instead the the space that is already there, so when I import into LibreOffice Calc I can set tab as the delimiter.)

Then (I have to do things one step at a time, sorry)

$ paste list-of-labels.txt size-in-pointsx.txt size-in-pointsy.txt > labels-and-sizes.txt

Then opened that list in Libreoffice Calc and calculated the sizes in mm and inches as well as points. (Also decided to separate the label code from the description). Pasted into Writer, formatted the table and exported as HTML, and pasted here.

Note: x = length along label roll, y = width of roll.

Description	Code	x (pts)	y (pts)	x (mm)	y (mm)	x (in)	y (in)
8mmSpine/8mm Spine	SLP-27210	187	26	66	9	2.60	0.36
35mmSlide/35mm Slide	SLP-35L	26	104	9	37	0.36	1.44
AddressLarge/Address – Large	SLP-2RLE	236	99	83	35	3.28	1.37
AddressSmall/Address – Small	SLP-1RL, SLP-2RL	236	68	83	24	3.28	0.94
Diskette/Diskette	SLP-DRL	181	136	64	48	2.51	1.89
EuroFolderNarrow/Euro Folder – Narrow	SLP-FN	526	107	186	38	7.31	1.49
EuroFolderWide/Euro Folder – Wide	SLP-FW	526	136	186	48	7.31	1.89
EuroNameBadge/Euro Name Badge	SLP-ENT	189	108	67	38	2.62	1.50
FileFolder/File Folder	SLP-FLW	230	37	81	13	3.19	0.51
Jewelry/Jewelry	SLP-Jewel	76	136	27	48	1.06	1.89
MediaBadge/Media Badge	SLP-NB, SLP-NR	180	136	63	48	2.50	1.89
MultiPurpose/Multi-Purpose	SLP-MRL	126	68	44	24	1.75	0.94
Return/Return	SLP-RTN	122	45	43	16	1.69	0.62
Round/Round	SLP-RND	62	68	22	24	0.86	0.94
Shipping/Shipping	SLP-SRL	271	136	96	48	3.76	1.89
VHSFace/VHS Face	SLP-VTL	205	127	72	45	2.85	1.76
VHSSpine/VHS Spine	SLP-VSL	400	50	141	18	5.56	0.69
ZipDisk/Zip Disk	SLP-ZIP	156	136	55	48	2.17	1.89
CutHanging13/1/3 cut hanging file folder	SLP-3HFL	90	222	32	78	1.25	3.08
CutHanging15/1/5 cut hanging file folder	SLP-5HFL	90	114	32	40	1.25	1.58
EuroFileFolder/European File folder	SLP-EHFL	139	112	49	40	1.93	1.56
RetailLabel/Retail Label	SLP-RTL	90	104	32	37	1.25	1.44
EuroNameBadgeLarge/Euro Name Badge Large	SLP-ENTL, SLP-FCS2	223	136	79	48	3.10	1.89
TopCoatedPaper/Topcoated Paper is 150 mm length	SLP-P150, SLP-DIA	396	136	140	48	5.50	1.89
4PartLabel/4-Part Label	SLP-MPL4	271	136	96	48	3.76	1.89

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