Monday, May 2, 2022

[EBI]How to check your remaining annual leave days

1. Go to the saperp.embl.de and log in

2. Leave records -> Enter new leave record

3. click the third column "Time Accounts"

4. In the new table, the sum of the last column "Entitlement Minus Planned" should be the remaining number of days

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Differences between Praires, steppes, pampas etc.

 "Grasslands go by many names. In the United States Midwest, they're often called prairies. In South America, they're known as pampas. Central Eurasian grasslands are referred to as steppes, while African grasslands are savannas"

 

Source:

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/grasslands-explained/

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Cambridge University cannot connect to Eduroam from Mac: enterprise credentials required

 I spent almost an hour and finally solved this:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/431020/156998

Thursday, October 7, 2021

New Google Drive right click menu (for available offline etc.) not working on Mac

 I solved this problem by restarting both Finder and Google Drive

To close the Finder you can just close all the windows of Finder

To restart Google Drive, just click the Google drive logo on the top right bar, click gear button and then Exit

Then launch Google Drive again

Saturday, July 10, 2021

Plotly figures not displaying on Jupyter Notebook

 It used to work but after my computer died and restarted, the plots on jupyter notebook were replaced with wide blank space.


I reinstalled plotly and restarted the kernel and things were back.


July26 2021: restarting the kernel is good enough ; refreshing the browser doesn't help


Thursday, June 3, 2021

How to connect to eduroam using Android

I copied these from UCL's instruction: 

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/how-to/connecting-to-eduroam-wi-fi-android


 EAP method: PEAP

Phase-2 authentication: MSCHAPV2
CA certificate: Use system certificates (if this option is not available, please try Method 1 or contact IT Services)
Domain: ucl.ac.uk
Identity: Your UCL user ID appended with @ucl.ac.uk for connecting to eduroam (e.g. ucxxzano @ ucl.ac.uk)
Anonymous identity: anonymous @ ucl.ac.uk
Password: your UCL password


Wednesday, April 14, 2021

[solved]Change US date to British format on Excel

 I wrote up an instruction here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/65146119/3020740