Category | misc

  1. Fix Nautilus Video Thumbnails

    I have a clean Ubuntu 15.10 installation these days. However, I noticed that video thumbnails (or previews) do not show up in Gnome Nautilus:

    Nautilus without video preview thumbnails

    I prefer thumbnails to icons. Besides, I remember that Nautilus will generate a thumbnail for each video in Ubuntu 14.04. Thus, I took some …

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  2. Troubleshooting adb No Permissions Problem

    I got an Android Nexus 7 (2013, Wi-Fi) device a short while ago. I attached the device to my computer and tried to list the devices with adb devices command. But, unfortunately, I got the following error message:

    $ adb devices
    List of devices attached
    ????????????    no permissions
    

    In the following of …

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  3. Grub Install and Btrfs Root File System

    Recently, the Linux operating system on my laptop no longer boots. It seems that the boot sector for GRUB bootloader is corrupted. I tried to reinstall GRUB with an Ubuntu LiveCD; however, I have encountered some problem related to Btrfs file system (which is the file system for my root …

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  4. Using Aria2 Download Manager

    I used to download the large files with wget because I can simply resume the download tasks with -c option. This option will check the size of the output file, and download the rest of the file from the server. I can even restart the download task with a different …

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  5. 2014 Year End Review

    It's the end of 2014. It has been an amazing year with a lot of astonishing moments!

    • This is my first year to work as a full-time software engineer. I have learned a lot from the real world software development, including the PMD, annaul planning, software schedule estimation, and etc …

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  6. Debian Backports

    It is well-known that Debian stable release is very stable, i.e. the packages are very old and well-tested. However, this become a problem to me.

    Since Git 1.9, we have to run the following command to silence a warning when we are running git push.

    $ git config --global …

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  7. RISC-V Microprocessor

    RISC-V is an instruction set architecture (ISA) released by UC Berkeley. Besides, a high performance, power efficient, and royalty-free open source implementation Rocket Chip is available.

    RISC-V was developed by Krste Asanović and David A. Patterson. In their technical report, they claimed that an open instruction set can benefit both …

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  8. Ubuntu Bluetooth Headset

    I have bought a Bluetooth headset recently. After connecting the device, I was quite disappointed with the sound quality. Fortunately, after searching on the web, it seems that I am using the "Telphony Duplex" mode, which has low quality.

    Here are the steps to switch to the mode with better …

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  9. Install GCIN on Ubuntu 14.04

    I decided to look for some alternatives to IBus input method after tolerating its long latency to switch between input methods for a long time. As a Taiwanese, both gcin and hime came up to my mind. Unfortunately, both of them need extra configuration after apt-get. Here's my note to …

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  10. Fix GRUB2 Warning

    It has been for a while that my desktop PC was not showing the GRUB2 menu. Besides, I noticed that there was a warning message during the execution of update-grub:

    Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported.

    After checking the manual, I …

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