This Week Reading - wk16 2014

It’s a sad news that Gabriel García Márquez passed away this week. Although many of us haven’t read of his most famous novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, we should have heard about it once in a while.

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Productivity Tools on PC (6)

I have used Dropbox for a few years and cannot live without it now. Dropbox is simple as it (and free on all platforms) and you could just use it directly after installation without any tweak. Here I will introduce how I use it and integrate it with other productivity tools.

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On Top of Tides

Many guys on the internet highly recommended On Top of Tides(浪潮之巅). But untill recently, I got the chance to read the first edition which was published three years ago.

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Power Drifting

Closed loop power control (CLPC), a.k.a. fast power control, is an important feature in UMTS to adjust both uplink and downlink power level between Node B and UE via Transmit Power Control (TPC) commands. However the other side of CLPC is power drifting during soft handover (1 & 2). In subclause 9.2.1.3 of WCDMA for UMTS: HSPA Evolution and LTE (5th Edition), the authors have presented the cause and possible solvement for this issue. So I don’t bother to repeat it again. Just some personal thoughts to help me deeply understand.

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Conky Issue on Archlinux

Conky is a light-weight and handy system monitor for X on Linux. However, wheneven I click other area on the destkop, it would disappear immediately. Here is how I sovle it after googling around.

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