Sunday, August 31, 2014

Solution to "Cannot display Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters in Google Chrome title bar, address bar and tabs 解決 Google Chrome 用戶介面無法顯示中文問題

Works on Ubuntu 14.04
  1. Go to /etc/fonts/conf.d
  2. Remove any of the *.conf entries for the Google Droid font (in my case 65-droid-sans-fallback.conf  65-droid-sans-fonts.conf)
    mv /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fallback.conf  /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fallback.conf.oldmv /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fonts.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fallback.conf.old
  3. Update fontconfig fc-cache -f -r
Reference


Friday, August 29, 2014

To copy everything (including soft and hard symbolic links) with rsync, from remote host to local host, with linux

To copy everything (including soft and hard symbolic links) with rsync, from remote host to local host, with Linux

rsync -azHv user@remotehost:/some/path/to/folder /some/local/destination

a -- include soft symbolic link
H -- include hard symbolic link
v -- verbose
z -- compression

Monday, August 4, 2014

Volvo Olympian 10.5m Non-AC in Singapore

I took this photo on Summer 2011. This bus was serving route 91 in SBS. If my information is correct, the entire model has been retired.