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Selectively Disable Vimperator on Webpages

You can press shift + esc to disable Vimperator on pages and insert to enable it again. This is not good solution as often times you wan to disable Vimperator on a few pages but still have it enabled on other pages. You can achieve this by configurating the ~/.vimperatorrc file …

Using Bash in Docker

If the docker container was started using /bin/bash (you can check using docker ps) command you can access it using attach.

docker attach container_name_or_id

If the docker container was started but not with /bin/bash, you have to create a bash instance inside the container using exec.

docker exec …

Start RStudio Server After Upgrading

It is quite often that the RStudio server cannot be start after upgrading. This is due to running R session in the background. A simple solution is to just restart the host machine. However, it is very risky to start servers (especially remote shared ones). An alternative way is to …

Cygwin Portable

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Cygwin Portable

  1. The portable versions has some problems

    • Vim, edit mode, backspace doesn't work sometimes (identation related)
  2. Cygwin portable scroll doesn't work after Vim is opened and then closed. but if …

Scientific References

  1. JabRef is an open-source cross-plotform software for managing scientific references. Mendeley is a good cost-free cross-platform software for managing scientific references. It introduces the concept of social research.

  2. If you use bibtex in your LaTeX code, you have to compile your code using pdflatex/latex, bibtex, pdflatex/latex and pdflatex …

Convert LaTeX to Word

pandoc is a general purpose tool for converting between different type of documents, however, it is not good at converting LaTeX code to word. tex4ht is a better tool for converting LaTeX code to word. The following are instructions to use tex4ht to convert LaTeX to word.

  1. Compile your LaTeX …