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My Windows 7 desktop complained the disk space usage is near to 90%. After checked my Ubuntu VM, its virtual disk expands to around 200G although it only contains around 100G data. So I googled some posts which have instructions: Shrinking VM Disk Images How to Compact a VirtualBox Ubuntu Guest’s VDI file After compacted the…

My favorite text editor on Windows platform is Notepad++. For current project, a XQuery syntax highlighting is better than nothing. You can find a post, “XQuery support in Notepad++ XQuery 1.0 and MarkLogic 4.1 update“, and download XQuery language definition file from a GitHub project – NotepadPlusPlus-XQuery.

This morning, I moved to a new cubicle which is on the same floor. Just spent 30 minutes to get it done. All I need is net connection and power to get desktop working. That’s it! ha…I wrote “New seat” on Aug. 8.

Sometimes I need to paste codes in Lotus Notes for discussion. If the codes have syntax highlighting will be nice. In NotePad++, there is a plugin called “NppExport” which can let you copy the code in the clipboard in RTF format. In PuTTY, there is a option called “Paste to clipboard in RTF as well as plain…

Noticed the mic mute button doesn’t work on T410. Find a solution on askubuntu.com. On T410, the step A shows following result after run amixer scontrols: Simple mixer control ‘Capture’,0 In step C, the script lenovo-mutemic.sh will be modified to use ‘Capture’ for detecting the event. The mic mute button works fine now, but it…