Xiao Jia
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Links
What Does Haskell Have to Do with C++?
I am an advocate of System Prevalence and I think this page explains the idea very well.
Programming Languages Etc. Reading Group
HOWTOs
Research
- How to design (declarative) programming languages
- How to write abstracts (1) (2) (3)
- How to write a good introduction
Programming
- How to make your own Ruby gem
- How to get started with Warp and WAI
- How to use OpenMP in C++
- How to program POSIX threads in C
- How to use Lua coroutines
- How to do server push (comet) in PHP
- How to generate Flash movies on the fly with PHP
- How to GitHub: fork, branch, track, squash and pull request
- How to attach a pull request to an existing GitHub issue (1) (2)
Software
- How to convert between VirtualBox VDI and VMware VMDK
- How to install VNC server on Ubuntu Server 12.04
- How to setup LVM in Ubuntu (1) (2)
- How to setup mutt in Ubuntu
- How to disable a CPU core on Ubuntu/Debian
- How to add colors to git
- How to effectively use git with Subversion
- How to enable Skype notifications in Gnome classic
- How to setup LAMP on Mac OS X Lion
- How to enable VNC access to Ubuntu from Mac
- How to force websites to use SSL in Google Chrome
Miscellaneous
Remove delay in SSH login
UseDNS no # Add to /etc/ssh/sshd_config options single-request-reopen # Add to /etc/resolv.conf
Remove watermarks (e.g. DRAFT) in PDF files
pdftk draft.pdf output uncompressed.pdf uncompress less uncompressed.pdf # check general structure grep -a DRAFT uncompressed.pdf # check specific lines cat uncompressed.pdf | sed 's/DRAFT//g' > without-draft.pdf
pdfjam examples
pdfjam ch1.pdf --landscape --nup 2x1 --a4paper --outfile ch1-2x1.pdf pdf2ps ch1-2x1.pdf ch1-2x1.ps pdfjam all.pdf --trim '2cm 3cm 2.5cm 1.5cm' --clip true --outfile /dev/stdout |\ pdfjam --frame true --nup '2x2' --a4paper --outfile all-2x2-trim.pdf
Enable PDF support in Chromium
wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb dpkg-deb -x google-chrome*.deb /tmp/chrome/ sudo cp /tmp/chrome/opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/
Sublime Text 2 configuration
{
"color_scheme": "Packages/Tomorrow-Night.tmTheme",
"drag_text": false,
"highlight_line": true,
"shift_tab_unindent": true,
"tab_size": 2,
"translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
"ignored_packages": []
}
Fcitx installation
sudo apt-get install fcitx \
fcitx-sunpinyin \
fcitx-module-cloudpinyin
UXTerm font configuration
$ sudo apt-get install ttf-bitstream-vera $ cat > ~/.Xresources UXTerm.vt100.renderFont: true UXTerm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono UXTerm*faceNameDoublesize: Heiti SC UXTerm*faceSize: 10 $ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
Install and tweak classic Gnome in Ubuntu 12.04
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
sudo apt-get purge liboverlay-scrollbar-0.2-0 \
liboverlay-scrollbar3-0.2-0 \
overlay-scrollbar
gconftool-2 --set "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout" \
--type string ":minimize,maximize,close"
LaTeX and Chinese support in Ubuntu 12.04
sudo apt-get install texlive-full latex-cjk-all
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{gkai}中文\end{CJK}