ADL Enviro 500 MMC Facelift @59M

A new face of KMB fleet is Alexander Dennis Enviro 500 MMC with Facelift body.

One of the members was spotted on 59M (TV3120 ATENU 813)

The last days of wheelchair not accessible buses

The non-low floor bus fleet of KMB is getting smaller and smaller.

Yesterday (6 Aug 2015) , some Volvo Olympian 12m are retried.

This photo was taken on 4 Aug 2015, HG3923 (3AV311) was running 87K. Now it is history.

Dennis Dragon 11m are already disappeared in the fleet. 

CUHK diesel air-conditioned school bus!

Finally, the in-house diesel fleet of CUHK school bus is air-conditioned.

Bus for the Year of Sheep / Goat / Ram (2015)

Volvo B9TL with Wright Body (SR8808 AVBWU317) @ KMB 68E

I just captured it in an early morning, near Tsing Yi Station

25 years of Dennis Dart

Dennis Dart was introduced in 1989 in UK, and arrived HK the next year. Time flies and it is already 25 years since its first introduction.

(EP5213) This is one of the first two sample of KMB fleet. The length and bodywork are unique. It is 8.9m long with a Carlyle body.

The Carlyle body work is more common in China Motor Bus fleet and subsequently the New World First Bus (NWFB). The standard length now becomes 10m. When this photo was taken, IFC was still under construction. 

An example of Dennis Dart 10m with Carlyle body is still survived in Citybus private fleet as of 2014.

This is the production version of KMB Dart in 1993, also 10m long, but now in Duple bodywork.

Another member. When the Hong Kong Science Park was newly opened, many of them serve route 272K from University Station to there. They carried a full advertisement of the Science Park.

In 1996, the wheelchair accessible version has been introduced. It was still 10m long, but will Plaxton body.

Dennis Dart SLF even served in Lantau Island, but roads in Lantau Island was too harsh for them.

Dennis Dart SLF has been further extended to 11.7m. This bus serves Park Island until now.

Even in Discovery Bay

A first hand NWFB Dennis Dart, they are near retirement as of 2015.

NWFB 2063 HY7985 Dennis Dart 10.1m

Dennis Enviro 200 can be considered as the evolution from Dennis Dart. It is 10.4 m long in KMB fleet.

Single door version

Single-deckers on KMB 87K

A single-deck Volvo B7RLE (AVC56 RG7354) is seen KMB 87K today.

On another day, another Volvo B7RLE AVC27 (PH381) is also spotted.

How, even Scania K230UB also comes to serve 87K (ASC25 PB7069).

To find the files which appear in both file lists

This problem is always encountered in file processing, but in linux, the solution is really simple.

Firstly, sort the file lists

sort file_list_1 > sorted_list_1
sort file_list_2 > sorted_list_2

Then

comm -12 sorted_list_1 sorted_list_2


According  to the help page of comm, what the operation is doing:

Usage: comm [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
Compare sorted files FILE1 and FILE2 line by line.

With no options, produce three-column output.  Column one contains
lines unique to FILE1, column two contains lines unique to FILE2,
and column three contains lines common to both files.

  -1              suppress column 1 (lines unique to FILE1)
  -2              suppress column 2 (lines unique to FILE2)
  -3              suppress column 3 (lines that appear in both files)

...

Wonderful.

On running legacy audio driver (oss) on Fedora 20 (for running wavesurfer with alsa-oss)

wavesurfer  (http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/) is a popular tool for speech scientists to perform speech analysis. However, it uses the old OSS driver for sound output.

Although there is alsa-oss for compatibility, alsa-oss has been obsoleted since Fedora 20 due to no maintainer.

Therefore, in order to make wavesurfer work again, at least play sound, we need to compile alsa-oss by ourselves.

Firstly install the necessary libraries. Since wavesurfer is 32-bit software, we also install the 32-bit version of the libraries.

sudo yum install  alsa-lib-devel
sudo yum install  alsa-lib-devel.i686

sudo yum install alsa-plugin-pulseaudio.i686

sudo yum install alsa-plugin-pulseaudio

Download alsa-oss from
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Download

and compiles

sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

And runs wavesurfer like this
aoss wavesurfer

More on electric buses in CUHK

Finally, I took photos of  all the two buses and took a ride on them. Honest speaking, in such a short ride (less than 5 minutes), it is hard to distinguish any performance difference between electric buses and conventional buses.

A meeting with Leyland Olympian Training Bus

Met with ET7856, a KMB's Leyland Olympian, now being a training bus of the company.

Electrical Bus in the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Wuzhoulong FDG6102EVG returns to CUHK for service. This is not a low-floor bus, but has air-conditioning.

Installing the HTK Speech Recognition toolkit on 64-bit Ubuntu

When installing the HTK Speech Recognition toolkit on 64-bit Ubuntu, the following packages are needed.

sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386

sudo apt-get install libx11-dev:i386 libx11-dev


Then, just go
./configure
make all
sudo make install

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

http://superuser.com/questions/705658/unicode-characters-cannot-be-displayed-on-chrome-tab-title-on-linux

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=316723

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

Leyland Albion EV55CL & EVK41L -- The last single-decker bus without air-conditioning of KMB

On an exhibition outside Hong Kong Museum of History

BM 248, running on 64K from Tai Po Train Station to Yuen Long

More on Daimler A outside Hong Kong Museum of History (丹拿A型)

On an exhibition of local bus history (4961)

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.

往太平山的途上

我來到了羅東的竹林車站，登上了往林場的火車。

那是一輛蒸汽機車，後面還有綠色的車箱。

旁邊的機車還拉著木材。

火車開動了，

經過了一片片的蔥田，

經過了一個平交道，

終於來到了天送埤站。

遙望著背後的太平山。

 車站還是六十年代的樣子，

宜蘭站天送埤的模型

竹林車站：羅東羅東林業文化園區

羅東火車站步行15分鐘

天送埤：宜蘭三星鄉

羅東車站乘國光客運1792 線公車 （詳情），約40分鐘一班，車程35分鐘

羅東森林鐵路在三十多年前也已經停駛了.......