Preface

LibreOffice Writer is better than Microsoft Word. If you are a web developer, you should understand that there are class and style. Using LibreOffice is tended to using class-like style, instead of direct formatting, which causes a lot of inconsistent, troublesome, and time consuming modification throughout the word processing. And this is happened when the newbies are using Microsoft Word to create templates for the advanced user like me, and causes me full of trouble as being tortured.

I like science fiction movie, especially related to time travelling. Watched Project Almanac (2015), and there are quite a lot of interesting points.

[WARNING! CONTAINS SPOILERS]

Firstly, unlike Back to the Future (1985), time travellers going back will not meet the time travellers selves, this can be seen when the protagonist and the friends solve Quinn’s chemistry problem. Secondly, unlike Time Traveler’s Wife (2009), travelling to the past can change the future; yet in Time Traveler’s Wife the timeline is fixed, there is only one, single, timeline.

This is not a new stuff. You can get some tutorials from Internet. And it is very interesting when I did this, because I learnt new things. The following procedures are based on what I remembered. So, it may not be 100% accurate, since I am a forgetful person. 😅

What I did was reading the Arch Linux Wiki page. Then, followed the instructions as much as possible, and do some trials and errors. Remember to backup everything necessary. And try this at your own risk.

Personal Web Server(?) age

When I was doing web development, that time was mostly static pages, with no CSS, a little JavaScript. The only interaction was CGI form. Then I learnt VBScript for ASP and Microsoft Access and used Personal Web Server.

Designing page layout was like hell, everything was using table. The font style was hard coded. So, the HTML source is too messy.

LAMP age

Then, from Personal Web Server, the web server was upgraded to IIS. Next was XAMPP on Windows, using all open source solutions: Apache, MySQL, and PHP. That was a great solution. Unlike ASP, PHP has more functions, more libraries, supports object oriented, syntax similar to C and C++.

Introduction

There was a wonderful memory editor in Windows, that was Game Master. But it was not a freeware. And there is a freeware memory editor, it is ArtMoney. But it is also for Windows only. In Linux, there is only one memory editor, scanmem with GameConqueror as the GUI. However, there are some limitations from scanmem and GameConqueror. Thus, that is why I decided to create another one which can fit my needs. Therefore, I recently spent some time to develop this memory editor, namely Med.

Recently, I admit that Chromium is faster and smoother than Firefox. And now, for me, Firefox is my primary bookmark manager, reference manger with Zotero, and best ever download manager; yet Chromium is my primary web browser.

This is just like Windows is no more an Operating System for me, but a game console. I have no choice to admit this because playing games on Linux, is still far behind from Windows. The main reason is the developers usually target on Windows instead of Linux. However, it is truly worth for me to optimise the functionality of a computer by running Linux and sacrificing the gaming potentiality of Windows.

As using Arch Linux, the advantage is I can choose any Desktop Environment or any Window Manager. Recently, I have tried several Desktop Environments and Window Managers which are officially supported in Arch Linux. After trying, I learnt the differences and similarities among these Desktop Environments and Window Managers.

Desktop Environment

My primary Desktop Environment is Xfce4. Previously was GNOME 2. Since the release of GNOME 3, I chose Xfce4 as it is more conventional and there a lot of useful goodies (plugins). It is also lighter than GNOME.

又一篇用中文写的。因为这篇反正就是关于中文输入法引擎——RIME中州韵输入法引擎——而写的。这中州韵输入法引擎是从Arch Linux的维基那里看到的。它是一种非常奇特的输入引擎。因为它可以让使用者简单地自制理想的输入法。

在Linux，有好几种中文输入法，谷歌拼音、搜狗拼音、SunPinyin等。其它非拼音输入法也有，如五笔输入法、仓颉输入法。本人虽曾经想学仓颉输入法，但因为太难记难用，最后放弃。因为有些生字不晓得如何读，拼音是没用的，所以最后就学了五笔输入法。

五笔输入法，只要懂得字形就可以输入了。因此用五笔输入比拼音来得准确。比如输入名字，用一般的拼音会出现很多选择，而这些“候选字”要一一看过，是相当的累。而若用五笔输入法，就可以把“候选字”减少到一两个罢了。但本人因为不熟悉五笔输入法，尤其在跟朋友在线对话时，拼音会是基本的思考方式，所以本人用拼音会比五笔来得快。因此，五笔和拼音两种输入法一起使用的话，对我来说就会出现因切换输入法而迟缓和多余动作的问题。因此，最理想的方式就是将两种输入法融合，不需要切换，以五笔为优先，因为五笔输入后，候选字词会比拼音来得少。能够达到这种理想输入法的，就是这个中州韵输入法引擎。

这中州韵输入法引擎，在我用的时候发现有一个字，因为台湾繁体和大陆简体有一些差别，所以中州韵输入法引擎本身的有些字用了不太一样的代码，就是“々”和“𠚤”。但中州韵输入法引擎可以用简单的方法让我解决这个问题。不仅如此，我还借此机会加入“绘文字”。因此，我就先制作了自用的五笔输入法。用这个的话，就可以轻松的输入我要的表情绘文字了😁。

但融合两种输入法，说容易也不是很容易，因为没有完善的说明书。因此本人就在百度贴吧里询问了。经过高人指点，后来就尝试融合。起初有几个问题无法解决，但勉强还是可以使用。后来根据苍颉检字法的制作，终于完成“五笔朙月流”输入法了。用这个输入法，就可以拼音加上五笔，输入人名和跟朋友对话都不成问题了。而且还可以反查五笔代码，即在不知五笔的代码是什么的情况下，还可以反查，这样的话就可以同时学习五笔输入法了。强！

这“五笔朙月”和“五笔拼音”是不同的。五笔拼音无法用拼音输入句子，而这“五笔朙月”就可以做到这点。

源码可在此处下载。

I would like to share some of my computer management habits regarding the folder name. Unlike my friends or colleagues, I seldom put the files in the Desktop folder. Because I prefer that my computer desktop is always clean (yet physically, my desktop is messy).

Therefore, there are several folders appeared in my computer, and these folders can be appeared in any other folders.

Firstly, “temp” is my most favourite folder. Any temporary documents or files, that are not very important, they are saved here. The “temp” folder is also appeared in my Download folder. Furthermore, when necessary, “temp2”, “temp3”, and so on will be created. These folders, if they are deleted, normally will not cause any catastrophic effect.

Long time ago, I was learning CakePHP, then followed by CodeIgniter. Due to the restrictions using the framework such as naming convention, strict function calling based on MVC model, I decided to write my own personally framework from the scratch. The experience was very nice. Because I learnt about the caching, MVC architecture, function arguments in PHP, etc. But the development became gradually inactive.

After several years, recently I am trying back CodeIgniter, and now I conclude that, framework, though it is not required, it is strongly recommended. Why?