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Writing Doc Using Microsoft Word

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. MS Word 2007 and 2010 is not fully compatible. Open Word 2010 document in Word 2007 might cause problems.

  2. Word 2007 is not as good as Word 2010 at converting documents …

Record Computer Screen using RecordMyDesktop

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

On Linux Mint the task bar disappears when recording the entire screen. A workaround is to menually select the Windows area to record without the task bar.

Numeric Algorithms

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. comparing lots of values that are very close is not a good idea. p-values, permutation test statistics. a better way is to work on integers instead, for example, permutation indexes ... if …

Use Sogou Pinyin to Type Chinese

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Settings

  1. 常用 -> 隐藏状态栏

  2. use half width punctuation

  3. 按键 -> 切换英文状态时,保留输入框中已存在的 …

Tips on Excel

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About Statistics Functions

  1. Excel is not a reliable software for statistical analysis. It's not even capable for simple operations such as calculating mean and standard deviation when numbers are very big …

The Xfce Desktop Environment for Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. broken symbolic .bashrc stops Xfce from login to GUI I guess this is a common problem

Shortcuts

  1. Set a shorcut for Xfce App Finder which is frequently used.

  2. Set a shortcut …