Friday, May 29, 2015

[Solved]"Zerox driver is offline" Printer doesn't work

The solution: Never open/print a file in a compressed .zip file. The printer requires decompressing and opening the decompressed file directly.

Glacier Sucks in dealing with 1040NR-EZ line 11: You can only claim state and local income taxes on Line11, Form 1040NR-EZ

And you will probably receive LTR 4087C saying "You can only claim state and local income taxes on Line11, Form 1040NR-EZ"


I refilled the form and found that previously there was a very confusing question which seems to be "whether you paid additional state tax". I answered yes and provided the number. But actually that "additional" doesn't mean "additional to federal" but actually "additional to what you should actually pay".


I mailed them both the updated 1040NR-EZ and 1040X.


I got the money in the end of June.

By the way my friend took my advice and corrected the GTP bug. Although he didn't fill another 1040X, he still got the money back later on.

Another confusion:
In the government notice letter, there are two addresses provided. I chose the one printed INSIDE the letter instead of the address printed on the small envelope attached.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

How to connect to Caltech Library Wifi (librarywifi)

  1. Connect to library wifi (for newer hardware)
  2. Enter its\username and password
  3. Accept the commercially-signed PEAP Authentication certificate

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Candy Crush Tricks & tips Level 441, Level 476, Level 491, Level 514, Level 619, Level 622, Level 652, Level 653, Level 658 Candy Crush Soda Level 56

441: The trick is to create a stripe + rainbow combination
476: Create two Stripe + rainbow combinations


Candy Crush Soda Level 56: try to create rainbow + fish


491: Try to break the bricks at one side first, then invade from the same side to let the other nut slide down to the middle lane.

514: Don't care about what you are given, just use stripe candies to break a channel and bring the nuts down.

619: Don't care about the chocolate too much. Create as many combos as possible. The key is creating a rainbow-colored candy. And immediately use that against the most abundant color. Then you will get more rainbow-colored candies formed automatically. Then this chain reaction will wipe out all the chololates and jellies.

622: You should never rely on the frog. Putting the frog to the downside is a bad idea

652: You should not rely on the frog in the beginning. Try to eliminate the magnet on the right first to create large open areas, then you will be more likely to create bombs and rainbow candies. Rainbow candies will be very helpful. I can create 4-5 rainbow candies for this stage and it will easily pass.

653: Prevent the chocolate from swallowing your gift stripe candies. I use the fish bonus to cheat on this level.

658: Never throw your frog on top. The frog helps you create rainbow candy to mix with strip or to directly use. When you see 2+2 horizontal candies with the same color, use the frog to eliminate the candies above to increase your luck to get rainbow.

661: never aim to clear all the blocks. Just try to open a tunnel and let nuts fall. bombs and mix are useful.

664: You have to align the nuts to the tunnels at a very early stage. Then try creating vertical strip candies to bring the nuts down

665: Mix two Rainbow + strip candies

700: Strip + Bomb and Rainbows are the keys

738: The three nuts will drop at certain moves. I remember it's Move-42 Move -36 Move-22. You should always avoid nuts dropping on the leftmost and rightmost side. Try to crack the upper part of the candies.

740: Candies never drop in a uniform manner. The secret is the more bombs you use, the more biased distribution it will bring i.e more "wild" bombs they offer you. That's what the youtube commenters call "good luck". The game is designed in the way that the more bombs/rainbow you set fire to, the more they will offer you, by pouring down more same-colored candies. That's what makes it conter-intuitive and fun.



744: use the circle candy to hit the block below the cherry. Then use a stripe candy to clear it.


752: you need two strip + bomb

756: Don't unlock the big cake too early. Align all the nuts and unlock the cake before the end of game to bring everything down

763: make bombs / rainbows

779: mix rainbows+strip or rainbow+rainbow

782: you gotta do rainbow+rainbow twice

917: create rainbow + bomb or rainbow+stripe