The History of Physical Chemistry Journals: A Collection
This article is part of a planned series of blogs on journal history.
Technical Blog
2023
2022
Making ACE2 to work on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
ACE2 is (or was) a software package for contrast transfer function (CTF) estimation and correction. It was written in an early version of objective-c and lin...
Insert in-line citations temporarily without superscript using EndNote
When writing scientific manuscripts, we typically insert citation marks following a specific journal guideline. For instance, many journals use a superscript...
2021
Configuring Veeam Backup –Preparing the Windows Client
Environment: Veeam server installed on a Windows Server (VS), a Windows 10 Client (C) is set to be backed up. Both are in the same domain controlled by a DC.
Time Machine with Windows Server? –Setup An Ubuntu Server with Hyper-V
There are tons of network backup solutions available for Windows and Linux. However, as Apple likes to make their own wheel so much, Time Machine is official...
Migrated to GitHub Pages, Goodbye Google Sites
As Google Sites is winding down its classic/legacy service in 2021, I finally migrated this website from there to the GitHub Pages platform. This decision is...
2020
Enable Windows BitLocker on the System Drive in VMware Player with a Virtual Key Storage Drive
The VMware Player which is free for non-commercial use does not support the virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM), and thus does not officially support BitL...
Binary PAL Palette (Colormap) Files for OriginLab Origin(Pro)
Recent versions of Origin has shipped with a number of palettes that are significantly better than the previous version which essentially uses a default Wind...
2018
Error when installing GSAS-II: matplotlib cannot import name cbook
GSAS-II is a fantastic crystallography package developed by the ANL written in python: https://subversion.xray.aps.anl.gov/trac/pyGSAS
2017
Windows: Sound in a web browser not played through the default device
When you have multiple playback devices, the Windows system lets you to choose which one is the default. Usually, sounds from most programs will be played on...
How to fix the displaced AF boxes in the viewfinder in a Canon EOS DSLR
In preparation of the total solar eclipse that just happened in August, I bought a EOS 500D from eBay. Everything was in excellent conditions except that I a...
2016
Step-by-step: Upgrading Nokia Lumia 1020 to Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary (build 14393)
Only limited Windows Phones are eligible to be upgraded to the latest Windows 10 Mobile release. The second generation Lumia (x2x series) are unfortunately n...
Changing synced library path in EndNote after you moved/renamed your main library
Sometimes you may need to move your main EndNote library to a different location or just decided to give it a fancier name at some point. However, after doin...
Why sometimes proxy setting does not work in Internet Explorer in Windows?
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) uses the “Internet Options” settings embedded in Windows. Many people would access to the proxy setting everyday with their ...
texlive 中文字体配置
【This post is for Chinese TeX users.】
Sync Multiple Calendars of Google Calendar to Phones
There is a long history of complaint that users of Google Calendar don’t get all the calendars synced to their mobile devices. Actually, there is a setting t...
A revised Endnote Style for Angewandte Chemie, and how to revise it
Many people use Endnote to manage citations and references in their manuscripts, and we rely on the Style files in order to generate them. Angewandte Chemie ...
Solving Wi-Fi connection failure “Can’t connect to this network” on Windows
Today I met a very strange scenario with my computer running Windows Server with a wireless card connected to the network. The connection suddenly dropped an...
Porteus: a highly modular portable Linux environment
Portable Linux is very useful when you want to carry a handy operating environment as well as your private data and settings along with you. There have been ...
Compile 2.6.32.x kernel under ubuntu 10.04 LTS
I have a very very old laptop (Thinkpad i series 1300) which was produced around the years 1999-2000. Maybe I will mention it in many later posts because I s...
Tex Live 2014 released: a few issues concerning availability
Tex Live 2014 has been released by TUG on https://www.tug.org/texlive/ on 14 June 2014. Packages and the DVD installation image are only available on TUG by ...
Compile pidgin-lwqq in Fedora 19 x86_64
lwqq is a library based on webqq protocol which provides a chance for third-party clients to communicate with Tencent QQ. pidgin-lwqq (https://github.com/xie...
Cisco AnyConnect may fail to connect when Internet Connection Sharing is enabled
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/ht077908
An alternative cause of VPN Error 809 in Windows (8.1)
I have not been using the integrated VPN interface in Windows for quite a long time. These days I tried to configure a L2TP VPN connection on Windows 8.1 as ...
Latex Error: unknown graphics extension .png
pdfLaTeX supports using PNG files when using graphicx package. But today I encountered an error that one of my PNG graph “had an unknown graphics extension” ...
Force upgrade to Office 2016 apps when using Office 365 Education/University/etc
Now that students and faculty members in major US universities and colleges have got MS Office 365 Education subscription, many of you may found that you are...
Virtual Store location for programs saving files without the administrator privilege
There are many locations that programs without the administrative privilege cannot alter. For example, the “Program Files” folder and its subfolders. Such fe...
Integration of Office 2013 and OneDrive in Windows 8.1
When you save files to OneDrive in MS Office 2013 without the OneDrive desktop app, Office will open the server destination for you rather than the local syn...
Force updating graphics driver to resolve “driver stopped responding”
My current ThinkPad laptop is a T440p equipped with a NVidia graphics card. The graphics driver to this system is an OEM-customized one because of the NVidia...