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After months of seemingly inactivity here, I’ve finally decided to fix one of the culprits: broken math formulae.

Many scanned old books come with no table of contents. And Googling how to add tables of contents usually show up less helpful advice such as “buy Acrobat”. To save myself from having to Google this stuff again, it’s time to record it here.

This blog was down for a few days because Ubuntu update screwed the Apache2 PHP mod. Unfortunately, I wasn’t really paying attention.

With the major breakage, much needs to be done to get the system back to a usable state. But perhaps more importantly, I need to make a plan to make future recovery less frustrating.

In the beginning, I had disk A and B. Disk A died. I bought disk C. Disk C turned out to be faulty. I asked for a return and for the same time I installed a small Gentoo Linux installation in my SSD. Then Disk D came as a replacement …

My hard disk drive had died yesterday. I bought it in late 2015, and it died after being in service for about four and have a year. I was playing Football Manager, and suddenly I noticed a different noise among my fans’ cheering. After finishing the match and the cheering …

I have been using bash for a few years, and I found it hard to migrate to other shells because I have already created a small collection of helper functions and scripts for my everyday use. For zsh, I had quite some analysis paralysis for it: it is not quite …

And it is an otherwise nondescript day. Anyway, life goes on, and let’s hope tomorrow is less nondescript.

Copying a compiled binary package to another Linux machine of whatever ancient distribution, and being able to run it, is more or less a dream than a reality. Hence why tools like Docker are so useful. But I don’t think I would feel natural to use Docker to run, say, …