femtorgon2

Avast! seems to be reasonably satisfactory. However, really two questions:

Firstly:

How to I shut it down. And I don't mean "Stop On-Access Protection". I mean shut down, dead. No background processes, no scheduled scans, not even a little icon in the lower right, nothing. I suppose I can just kill the associated process, sure, but there must be some method intended to accomplish this.

Second:

How can I set it to no longer start when I reboot? I haven't been able to find the setting to disable this behavior.

Now, just to handle this off the bat, because it seems like any time I see this issue addressed, there always this question:

"Why do you need to close Avast?" etc.

And my answer is, well, just never you mind that. I'm a quite competent computer user, and while perhaps programmers like myself are not necessarily the best experts in security, I feel that I do just fine. Suffice to say, on my computer, I control what goes on. I use the tools at my disposal as I see fit. They don't place controls on me.

In the past couple of days, Yahoo! Answers has been spamming my attached mail box, letting me know that I have been selected as the best answer for the same four or five questions over and over again. It has not been notifying me of any new best answers that have been selected.

Anyone know the cause of this problem? It's rather obnoxious.

I'm attempting to implement a program to plot a TCIF spectrogram, a sort of 3-D Fourier spectrogram, and the paper specifying the technique details two distinct approaches. I've successfully implemented the algorithm using Finite Difference approximations, and would like to implement the Auger-Flandrin method. The problem is, there are two symbols which I am not familiar with, which I suppose amount to

fancy 'R'

and

fancy 'J'

I don't rightly know what the correct term for letter written in this type of font are. Sort of a calligraphy appearance. Fancy seems appropriate enough, but doesn't help me research the meaning of it.

These symbols are not explained in the paper, nor used in any other context.

http://s319.photobucket.com/albums/mm470/femtorgon...

If anyone can at least point me in the right direction, or give me some search term that I might be able to start research with, that would be immensely helpful.