In the previous post (1 year ago), I mentioned the hibernation issue. I believed that it was related to the NVidia graphic card. Related forum can be found here.

But these few days, I notice that whenever I shut down the laptop, it will show the systemd messages. Previously, if I did suspend my laptop, then resume, then shut down will show only black blank screen, until the power off. I believe that the graphic card issue is being fixed with the recent update.

I used to like C language, because it is a basic of programming, and it is portable, and it is low-level. When writing program with C language, it is just like showing off your advanced programming skill, how you manage the memory, how you manage the pointers and creating the linked list. However, in terms of efficiency, C++ is much more powerful, because of object-oriented and the syntax.

Because I like C language, so I chose GTK+ over Qt for long time ago. Not only that, I am also fond of GTK+ desktop environments like GNOME, Xfce4, LXDE, Cinnamon, but not Mate. I feel that KDE is heavy weight.

Sometimes I read online articles, and these articles are usually long pages and have outlines at the beginning. These outlines are the hyperlinks to the subtopics headings. Technically, you click the outline hyperlink, your browser will browse to the “anchor”, the URL will append with hash (#). Therefore, it is useful for bookmarking, so that you can share the URL target on the topic to someone else, or re-visit your bookmark.

I am cognitive science student. That is why I learnt AI, computational linguistic, machine learning, expert system, etc. 

Since I was a researcher on Augmented Reality, then I applied my computing skills. After this, I became a non-computer related lecturer, and spent my time doing programming as a hobbyist. Then later I became computer science lecturer, yet still had to do programming as a hobbyist. Now as a software developer, I know what are the differences of these roles: lecturer, researcher, hobbyist, and a true software developer. 

Prelude

Last weekend was a long story, that I my Xiaomi Mi 3 is screwed! It happened like this.

I was in the car, using the phone to surf net and go through the social networks. Then suddenly, it popped up a notification saying that my phone is too hot, asked me to cool down, with a system button “Cool Down”. I cannot guarantee that this is not a virus, but I believe that my phone doesn’t have virus. (I can hardly find the Cool Down feature online, this is the only one.) So, I pressed the Cool Down button. With this press, sorry my phone. You got a stroke, and never overcome. Bye-bye!

Just now was trying to boot into Windows, by plugged in the HDMI cable, which supports for video only. But then, I rebooted into Linux without plugged out the HDMI cable. Then, it caused no sound in Linux.

Try 1: I killed the pulseaudio, then delete the ~/.config/pulse, and rebooted Linux. Failed.

Try 2: Run alsamixer, turned on everything, and do Try 1 again. Failed.

Then I guessed it was caused by the HDMI cable, which the Windows may assume there is audio, then caused my computer somehow ouptut the audio through the HDMI, even I rebooted into Linux.

Today, when I updated Arch Linux as usual, then suddenly it brought me to the TTY, which didn’t allow me to change to other TTY (due to NVIDIA graphic card issue which has been attached with my laptop for quite a long time.)

Because I could do nothing, and not sure whether the upgrade was completed, so I made a hard reset.

Then I boot with fallback initrmfs just in case has any error. Luckily, there was no problem to boot.

Different social media usage:

Facebook - Family and friends status.

Google+ - Official tech news or blogs.

Twitter - Celebrities personal status.

Weibo - China celebrities personal status.

Instagram - Celebrities’ photos.

Reddit - Community and specific topic discussion.

WordPress - Nothing but blog posts.

I liked C programming, as it is low level and the compiler is widely available. Using C language can demonstrate the understanding of pointer and memory. You can implement a linked list or a hash table by using C. So that you can understand better how the linked list and hash table work.

But as long as you want to build some end user applications, C language is never a good choice. Choosing a language for our product is important. We do not develop a web application using low level programming language. It is totally impractical.

Previously I was using Xfce4. Then, because of the heavy working environment, I tried the lighter desktop environment, LXDE. But still, it has some limitations that made me choose to use Openbox window manager only.

Pros and cons of Xfce4

Xfce4 is lightweight comparing to GNOME or KDE. I like it, because of the conventional design like the task manager. Furthermore another thing I like is the “aerosnap” feature like Windows, which I can view the two windows side by side. However, when running Windows in VirtualBox and other applications, I can feel the obvious slowness in the computer. It is really reducing my working performance. That is why I decided to change to LXDE.