Category: Office

ReText is a simple Markdown editor in Ubuntu. You can simply install it by issuing this: It will install ReText 4.1.2 for you. My remote workstation is a virtual machine and using Xfce instead of Unity. And I also want to use ReText 5.3.0 from PyPI. In both versions of ReText, if you using Xfce…

Last week, I got a brand new MBPr as my primary workstation provided by company. Here is its spec.:

Our Ubuntu workstation is required some applications installed for complying security policy. Those applications will show some icons on Systray. After upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04, those icons are missing. The reason is “Unity Notification Area (Systray) Whitelist Is Obsolete [Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Changes]“. After a little bit searching, here is the solution: Then log out…

#Skype 4.2.0.13 on #Ubuntu can not connect anymore, need to update to 4.3.0.37

To check the SSH service (default port 22): To check the XML Management Interface (default port 5550): To check the SNMP (UDP port 161): If connection is successful, it will report a message like: and exit with 0. Reference: nc(1) – Linux man page