A lot of subtitles in Chinese language are encoded with GB2312 or sometimes Code Page 936 (CP936, aka gbk), are generated under Windows. This brings problems in many Linux based multimedia players.
Monthly archives: February 2014
Applying man with colour under zsh
After installing zshell and applying the zshrc from grml system-wide, my man page doesn’t want to be colourful. The configuration is caused by a environmental variable GROFF_NO_SGR, when it’s set to 1, man page will be able to paint with colour. Here is my personal .zshrc: # Vim key binding bindkey -v # The important …
Access Control List on Linux filesystem
The Access Control List (ACL) provides an extended set of permissions on files and directories, there are 2 commands available to use: setfacl, getfacl. Consult man page for complete manual.
Join PDFs together using LaTeX
There is a package called pdfpages, its usage can be found here.
PPTPd Notes
I have encounter 1 particular problem in setting up VPN using PPTP, the log file shows: