R Statistics and graphics
R becomes popular in statistics and data visualisation. This is not a compound summary or review, rather than a collection of my picks to install R package to your local […]
Category Archives: Linux
All linux related, perl, bash, admin etc
Convert DOS file to UNIX format
Test file from dos/windoz is annoyingwhen working at linux. The newline character must be converted. Here are a collection of fixes: Use of vi at linux open a text file […]
Unable to empty evolution trash folder
Evolution is my mailer. I found I can’t expunge trash folder, it showed Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync At the end, I found a fix, Backup your […]
password protected folder for a tiny web server
I have a tiny web server “lighttpd” at a NAS (Network Attached Storage). It gets more popular than the conventional appache in last years (in particular for light web server […]
Suspend an outlook account
Although sitting at the front of a computer is a component of my daily tasks, I always remind myself I am a layman when enter windoz territory. There is a […]
Gmail’s phone call on linux is cooked, functional, not half-baked any more
It sounds a big news “Google unveiled a Gmail phone call service for Windows, Mac, and Linux.” This is half-baked, at least this is not working for firefox on fedora. […]
crontab tips
Crontab is client using the cron daemon that executes scheduled commands. Cron is started automatically from /etc/init.d on entering multi-user runlevels. Cron searches its spool area (/var/spool/cron/crontabs) for crontab files […]
Openoffice oocalc weired behaour on CSV file
to open a CSV file using openoffice oocalc, the output surprised my a lot. the CSV contains lines as this MON060240,Roslyn,MOM06-240 MON050042,Roslyn,MON05-42S MON050018,Roslyn,MOM05-18 MON050002,Roslyn,MON05-2 MON050032,Roslyn,MON05-32 MON050060,Roslyn,MON05-60 MON050008,Roslyn,MON05-8 MON050028,Roslyn,MON05-28 M0N050040,Roslyn,MON05-40S open […]
Optware for Western Digital NAS
My NAS is WD World Edition bluering. I use optware to install new tools and maintain upgrading. Since the new version whilelight (WDWE NAS) released, optware developed two versions, one […]
Skype on Linux (Fedora 13)
Skype is a popular VOIP. The windoz version is well established. The current lniux version is 2.1 beta 2, while the version for the windoz brother is 4.2. For linux […]
