五笔输入法 on Macbook Pro

Macbook上的中文输入法现在主流是搜狗拼音，我也尝试安装使用了，果然是老牌子的输入法，界面很漂亮也准确度也很高。个人感觉比系统自带的好很多了，可以使用shift来切换中英文，可以使用, and .来翻页。

Getting Things Done (1)

放松精神的技巧，远离烦恼与忧虑的能力，很可能就是伟人们成功的秘诀之一。----J.A.Hatfield

从早上起来到现在，你是否想到任何需要处理但还未动手解决的事情呢？你是不是不止一次的想到了它们呢？为什么？不断地考虑那些毫无进展的事情纯粹是浪费时间和精力，而且这往往只会使你更加焦虑不安。这种情况很可能导致焦虑和过大压力，从而反应到身体的健康状况上来，如眼睛，头疼，失眠等。

想要轻松掌控知识工作，必须熟练掌握工作流程管理的5个步骤：

• Collect 收集
• Process 信息处理
• Organize 行动组织和整理
• Review 通过回顾确定下一步行动方案
• DO 行动

我们对工作的流程管理包括这5个阶段，并且管理的效果通常取决于这5个环节中最薄弱的一环。因此，只有将所有的环节紧密结合，并且按照统一的标准加以管理，才能保证最终的工作效果。 David认为把这5个步骤分开来做会得到更好的效果。许多人无法把工作安排的井井有条，主要原因是他们试图一口气完成这5个阶段的工作。一些即将要处理的事情，一旦制定好行动方案后就要及时的清理出你的大脑，否则这件事情会时刻消磨你的精力阻碍你集中精力思考那些真正重要的事情。

1. 收集 Collect

对于天才来说，处理的事务越少，效果越好。----来昂那多.达芬奇

如何才能有效的收集信息呢，把握一个原则：把大脑里的一切事务都倾倒出来，保持意识的专一，所以必须利用“工作篮”之类的东西百分之百的捕获一切“未尽事宜”。

影响收集成功的因素：

1. 每一件“悬而未决”的事情都必须存储在你的收集系统中，而不是你的大脑里。
2. 控制收集工具的数量，越少越好。
3. 你必须定期清空这些设备。

尤其是第三条当“工作篮”中存入了过量的信息和资料时，就只会让你感到面临崩溃的危险，根本无法起到提醒的作用了。

Application

Today I found a little trick to retrieve all the pictures from a folder, where the pictures locate in many sub-folders. Usually, I use Windows find tools to file the specific suffix of an image, and then move them to a single folder. But this is somewhat complex for a folder containing a lot of types images. Occasionally, I found the software FastStone Image Viewer has a feature of Download Photos in the File menu. So I try to give it a folder path, it can search for all the image formats and download them to a destination location set by you. Job is done!

重生

重生的力量很强大，是不可小觑的。当人认识到自己要做的事情去做的时候是活力最大的时候，为什么凤凰要涅磐，为什么要浴火重生，那是洗礼，那是磨炼。经过磨炼任何东西都会奕奕生辉。

Region operations here as a reminder

I access an editor on several functions:

Background

I need to show some mathematical expressions in my blog, LaTex is perfect and the styles are rich while a little hard to use. So how to get LaTeX‘s maths integrated into Octopress is necessary for me. I mainly referred to the blog.

Settings

I need to preview each post at local, so I installed kramdown first.

gem install kramdown

Background

When I clean up my working computer, I found that there are so so many files to deal with: documents, audios, videos, tutorials, entertainments, etc. I need to archive all of them, here is my method:

• Clear a partition on the disk
• Create some basic folders according to your understand of the OS and your life
• Put whatever meeting the rules in your mind, just move (copy) to the new folders created above
• Make a list of the important files, for instance your papers and the projects
• Use some version control tools to manage the very important things to you, such as SVN or GitHube
• That’s all

In additionally, I want to get tracked of the watched movies or videos in a list, so I sent this new post.Maybe something else will also be gotten tracked here.

I think maybe someday I will give them below each a score to denote the value for me, and a short comment.

有信仰与没有信仰

早上练太极拳道时，冥想至此：何为信仰？信仰是什么？为什么那么多宗教里的人会如彼的虔诚？信仰来自哪里？我们作为普通的中国人有没有信仰？
首先，何为信仰呢，我认为是无条件的相信某件事情是对的，是真实的。从这个层面上说每个人都有自己的信仰，因为每个人都会相信一些自己确定是对的事情，这种相信一般都是无条件的。比如，我相信地球是圆形的（当然实际上是椭圆的），实际上这也是一种信仰对科学研究结果的认可，这个想法可能是因为从小学的教育开始就被灌输这种想法，也许这个不是无条件的相信，但随着学习的不断进行，这一想法已经根深蒂固的存在于我的脑子中了。我认为这是一种信仰，但是从这种信仰的产生过程中可以发现，它是个成长的过程，在这个过程中这一信仰不断的被强化，被补充，最后让你确信无疑。所以可以下一个结论：人一开始是没有信仰的，但是从他一出生的那一刻起各种信仰就在等待着他去相信，去支持，也可以去改变，或者肯定的对否种信仰持反对的思想。从而，也界定出来信仰是什么的理解。

那为什么宗教里的很大一部分人都有虔诚的信仰呢？第一点要注意的是，不是宗教里面的所有人都对自己的教义和信仰都完全相信，叛教的，违背誓言之徒多如牛毛。但是从总体上来看还是持律的信徒多一些。这是为什么呢？这就引出来的我对信仰是从哪里来的想法。

Method

The original Emacs in terminal is OK for Chinese input (although I hardly input any Chinese character in a terminal), while it cannot handle switching to Chinese input method in a UI mode. So I googled and found the solution for that.

ps: my Chinese input method is FCITX with Wubi.

Background

Recently, several days have be invested in learning GTD (Get Tings Done) and setting up the org-mode in Emacs.
However, I have not finished reading the two guide books of David Allen: Getting Things Done - The Art of Stress Free Productivity and Ready for Anything - 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life, but I will. The main references are list below:

• http://www.yifeiyang.net/emacs/use-emacs-org-mode.html
• http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html
• http://www.cnblogs.com/holbrook/archive/2012/04/14/2447754.html#sec-7-2

The famous application of GTD with Emacs is the document Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text!, so I read it three times but still cannot catch all of them, all of my settings of org-mode are from it.

Principles of GTD

According to some of Chinese blogs as list above, GTD is a system to handle all your things and lead you to get them done one by one. It can record the timing cost of each task, which is helpful for construct the ability of correctly estimating the task duration. As the book’s name indicates STRESS FREE, there must be a flood of things around you and new ideas coming up randomly. From my life experiments, some tedious things can ruin your whole enthusiasm, cause you maybe disturbed or interrupted again and again, leading to a situation where you do not know what you are focus on yourself. GTD can save you from it, and get your things in control. There are five progresses in GTD:

Background

At my campus, the network server center offers us users to use a H3C client to dial to connect to the internet, which can add some limitations for each account. The aim of this scheme is to bind a user with a specific Mac address, so it seems not possible for us to share someone’s account. However, in my lab, we need to make an internet access interface for nearly 30 persons. In the past, I set up a dual network interface cards (NIC) to share the account to a switchboard, which auto dispatch Ips to the client PC. That has been worked good except for the high power consume of the host PC, and once there is any problem with the host, we are all cut off the internet. someday, I saw a blog said OpenWRT can offer some tricks to crack this situation. And I was so exited to buy a new TP-Link WR703N 3G router to have a test. The main reference is the docs on official OpenWrt, where you can find a description of WR703N . I record the crack process as below.

Prepare list

• TP-Link WR703N (of course the main device)
• a computer with internet access and have a wifi interface
• ssh tools (SecureCRT and WinScp for Windows)
• maybe a USB stick if you want to chroot to expand the storage space

Default key-chord mode in Prelude

Today I read the source codes of Prelude, except for knowing some new global key bindings, the most interesting one is the key-chord mode. Maybe I came from vi, so the double pressing key is familiar for me. And I enjoy that a lot. So I write down it as a note for its usage. :P
Predlude set key-chord mode enabled by default, of course it can be turned off by:

Undo-tree

I found undo-tree in Emacs .emacs.d folder, and I was confused about it at first. After I Google it and try the commands, I found it an awesome feature to maintain an undo or redo case.
There are five main usage of undo-tree together with prelude Emacs configuration shortcut.

Use Emacs on my Arch + Awesome

Installation

Firstly, I installed Emacs with the command:

pacman -S Emacs

and then [pacman] said to download these package, input Y + Enter, then Emacs will be installed.

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Packages (4): libotf-0.9.13-1  m17n-db-1.6.4-1  m17n-lib-1.6.4-2  Emacs-24.3-4

Total Download Size:    35.59 MiB
Total Installed Size:   97.96 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 

After having Emacs installed, I tried to run it and it comes out like that:

In Emacs’s tutorial the first command to bear in mind is:

C-x C-c

which exit the Emacs window or execution in terminal.

Background

Archbang is a lightweight Linux distribution base on Archlinux, which include a suite of desktop of openbox for basic usage.
I choose to start with Archbang with three reasons:

• it has the basic openbox desktop, sometime it really save me a lot from a crashed DM;
• some software are selected and they are also my tastes;
• of course it is based on Archlinux, which is my favorite baseline by now;
• you needn’t worry about the hardware stuff (basic drivers).

Awesome is a highly configurable window manager for X. It is said Awesome could be the next generation framework. Anyway, it is fast and extendable, and it’s free!! All these features can easily fulfill a geek’s life style. So I am coming, and here I am.

My first try with Gentoo

Background

I have heard about Gentoo for a long time, but it said that to install and configure was too hard for a Linux beginner, especially the complex configurations of the system. From Wiki, I learned that I need to compile all the source code locally according to my settings, that’s cool for sure. So I’d like to firstly install it on my Windows OS within a virtual machine: VirtualBox. My environment is list below:

OS: Windows 7 - 32bits
VirtualBox version: 4.2.18

Everything here is new to me, I am a learner, a geeker, to be a hacker *~*.
It looks a bit strange, but it will be cute in the end.

Hi, I’am Jerry.