In older Mac OS X, it is possible to set the format language in the system preferences. However, in macOS Sierra, there is no such an option any more.
From this post, we can use Terminal.cpp to force it. To force the format language to English (Australia), simply type defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale en_AU
LaTeX is a great typeset software in writing academic papers.
Here I give out some useful tools bundled with LaTex (details can be found via man in Linux/Unix systems).
latexmk – generate LaTeX documentlatexmk -c Clean up (remove) all regeneratable files generated by latex and bibtex or biber except dvi, postscript and pdf.
latexdiff – determine and markup differences between two latex filesA typical usage of latexdiff is
latexdiff old.tex new.tex > diff.tex
Before running the command, do not forget to run bibtex to generate bbl files if you use bibtex. If you have multiple files with main.tex files, you can run the following command,
latexdiff --append-safecmd=subfile v1/main.tex v2/main.tex --flatten > diff.tex
Finally, you can typeset diff.tex and see the differences. This functionality is extremely useful if you work with others.
Yeah~ I finally changed the theme of my website after many years later.
I miss the old theme, which is good and has a global map showing all the visits but not mobile friendly.
Hence, I have got this default theme (dark) to be a mobile friend =w=
The theme is somehow like wikipedia, isn’t it?
Sometimes, the access to the lab/office computer is necessary. However, the university/company/organisation blocks my direct connection by its firewall, which is not good 🙁
Nevertheless, we can SSH to some computers in DMZ and then tunnelling to the lab/office computer for some specific applications.
Here, we leverage the forward function of SSH as following:
ssh -L port:host:hostport user@hostname
For example, we connect to a RDP server via SSH tunnel.
First, start the tunnel by
ssh -L 3389:123.123.123.123:3389 username@example.com
Above code starts a tunnel to 123.123.123.123:3389 where 123.123.123.123 is the RDP server ip address and 3389 is the RDP port.
Secondly, connect to 127.0.0.1:3389 via any RDP client.
I just found the code school is a good website for learning how to code.
The website is very noob-friendly 😛
University of Wollongong uses a software called EZproxy that enables UoW students or staffs to access the academic databases when off campus.
However, it is not convenient to click a lot of links before you get to the database page. Most of time, you will find the paper in the database first via Google or other search engine. Then you goes to the UoW library and find the related papers.
Sometimes, I hate the summon system in the library and prefer going to the database website directly.
So… I wrote a javascript bookmarklet.
Usage:
Enjoy!
You know Touhou Project (“東方Project”) ?
YES ?! Then the following widget you may like it and love it:
Click it for further information 🙂
Notice: The time viewed is Tokyo time.
Sometimes we want to revert a svn repository because of bad commits.
Here is a quote from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2324999/revert-a-svn-folder-to-a-previous-revision
Assuming you want to revert from current HEAD (last commited) version to revision 268:
cd folder svn up svn merge -r HEAD:268 . Then resolve any conflicts manually (there should be nothing if there is no local change) and:
svn commit "- reverted to revision 268" To revert single change (e.g. made in revision 666):
cd folder svn merge -c -666 . To revert local changes (not committed yet):
cd folder svn revert -R .
To do that, just use ‘defaults’ command.
The usages is simply:
default [command] [domain] [attribute] [value]
If I want to change the default language of com.apple.mail to be English while the whole system is in Chinese, just type in terminal:
defaults write com.apple.mail AppleLanguages ‘(“en”, “zh”)’
It will search for English language pack first, then Chinese.