Reflections after a semester in Harbin, from dorm conditions, university life and impressions of the city to the sense of change on returning to familiar surroundings in Changchun.
A reposted guide to generating highlighted HTML with CodeRenderUnmi and adding its stylesheet to a WordPress theme, including a note about punctuation changes that can break copied code.
A dorm-room fingerprint lock built with an Arduino Mega, a TFS-M74A module and a servo, with notes on the connected hardware, fingerprint-capacity settings and implementation code.
Configuration notes for making Goagent start minimized and launch with Windows, including the administrator privileges needed for its initial SSL certificate installation.
A reposted Windows 7 registry tip using RunAsInvoker for programs that do not modify system files or settings, while leaving system-wide User Account Control enabled.
A promotional video for Northeast Forestry University’s 2013 mechatronics intake, made for a freshman welcome show under a four-hour deadline, with notes on its rushed production and audio shortcomings.
Using a DNSPod DDNS script as the example, this troubleshooting note traces an rc.local task’s unexpected exit to the shell’s -e option and records the workaround used.
A music video made for Liu Hongyou, accompanied by a few lighthearted comments about its bromance and less-than-perfect lip-syncing.
An investigation into high server load uncovers over ten thousand spam messages in the Postfix queue and missing SMTP authentication—a lesson in checking mail-server security settings.
Troubleshooting garbled Chinese in Z-push’s VCardDir by bypassing an unnecessary character conversion. The separate problem of naming VCard files for entries added on a phone remains unresolved.