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Fcitx Tips

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fcitx

  1. Add Pinyin method: add -> type in pinyin, type in chinese doesn't help

IBus

  1. I suggest you use CTRL + SPACE as the switching hotkey, because it's the default hotkey for most …

Use Sogou Pinyin to Type Chinese

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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 …

The Tiny antiX Linux Distribution

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  1. I forget whether antiX image is hybrid or not. Try and find this out.

  2. The command line installer of antiX is not intuitive (not as good as command line installer of …

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 …

Keywords Extracting from Text

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Word Stemming

  1. existing stemming method such as NLTK.PorterStem, etc.

  2. didn't -> did not, there's -> there is, etc. Mr. -> Mister Mrs. -> ... Ms. -> ...

Other things

  1. it seems that it is hard to get …

The Xfce Desktop Environment for Linux

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  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 …