Ben Chuanlong Du's Blog

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The Tiny antiX Linux Distribution

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

  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

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

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

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

  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 …

Tips on Basket in KDE

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

  1. Toolbar Settings -> Text Positions -> Text Under Icons give you more horizontal spaces

Tips on MacPorts

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

sudo port selfupdate
port search pkg
sudo port install pkg

MacPorts behind Firewall

  1. Use http instead of rsync. Open the file /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf and replace the line …