Ben Chuanlong Du's Blog

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Food

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Good Salad Sources

  1. Thousand Ialand

  2. House

Wine

  1. tequila sunrise

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 …

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 …

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 …

Algorithms and Tools for Encryption

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  1. RSA is most widely used algorithm but is computationally expensive.

  2. A good compromise is to use RSA to encrypt the symmetric key that is then used in AES encryption of the …