[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

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/

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

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

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

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

[solved]Change US date to British format on Excel

 I wrote up an instruction here:

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

[solved] Can't install any R package on Jupyter Lab notebook

 Interestingly I could install R packages from terminal sudo R

It turned out that the folder that Jupyter Lab R points to is different from what sudo R points to as well.

Eventually, to solve the problem, Martin wiped out my R installation directory. And probably it's a good idea for me not to install packages on sudo R but from notebook directly then.

[Solved]On JupyterHub's linux terminal, can't activate my conda environment

 

"To initialize your shell, run..." 

I ran "conda init bash" and restarted server but still couldn't solve the problem.

 

 

 

The solution from Kelvin:

in your ~/.bash_profile

add source activate root

right at the top

And then start a new linux terminal session

There was another R issue (see my next blog)

 

Save your mendeley files to a cloud folder / hard drive, select the sync folder

 Follow this instruction:

https://sites.google.com/a/mendeley.com/mendeley-training/home/learn/organize/file-organizer

[solved]Spotify won't start playing one song

 You may click on the play button of a song in an album but nothing happens.

This is a bug.

You can by pass by right clicking on the name of the song, Go to song radio, then play the song from the top of that radio list.

Then, click the song name to enter the song in its parental album.

Then click to play.

How to check the spam score of your email

 For MacOS Outlook client: right click on that message -> View Source, then you can find spam score in it.

A full tutorial is here:

https://kb.iu.edu/d/adix

remove double line breaks in word

use find and replace

^p^p means two consecutive line breaks

Replace that with ^p

Adobe acrobat X add rectangle

Click the gear icon on top

find the rectangle, click the "->" arrow to add it to the tool bar

in the tool bar click the red rectangle icon

draw a box at where you want to add the rectangle

red click -> property and adjust colors

 

Adobe Acrobat Error No Available System Font when editing text in a PDF file when deleting a character

I was trying to delete an extra period in the end of a paragraph using acrobat X but it said that the font isn't available.

So I followed this link https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/error-no-available-system-font.html#:~:text=Acrobat%209,Advanced%20Editing%20%3E%20TouchUp%20Text%20Tool.&text=In%20the%20TouchUp%20Properties%20dialog,current%20font%20you%20are%20using.

although it was not so intuitive.

What I ended up doing was: highlight that extra period I wanted to delete then changed the color to white.

how to set up your Caltech alumni Microsoft 365 email on a Microsoft outlook client

For windows version, follow this instruction:
Outlook Office 2010, 2013, 2016 (PDF Instructions)

For Mac version, please read:
1. Open Microsoft outlook on your Mac
2. On the top left, Outlook -> preferences
3. In the pop-up window, Accounts
4. In the accounts window, press "+" on bottom left -> New account
5. type your alumni addrew, probably Firstnamelastname@alumni.caltech.edu
6. a caltech log in window will pop up. Please CLOSE IT!!!
7. You will go back to a window saying "connecting to Office 365... Authentication couldn't be completed". Please click "not office 365?" on top right
8. In the new window, click IMAP/POP
9. In the manual set up window, choose IMAP for type,
     Firstnamelastname@alumni.caltech.edu as email address,
     Firstnamelastname@alumni.caltech.onmicrosoft.com for username
     your password
    outlook.office365.com for incoming mail server
    smtp.office365.com for outgoing server
    click Add account
10. Click Done

Found / Tonight lyrics --- Ben Platt in bold and Lin-Manuel Miranda underlined

We may not yet have reached our glory
But I will gladly join the fight
And when our children tell their story
They'll tell the story of tonight
They'll tell the story of tonight
Tonight

Have you ever felt like nobody was there?
Have you ever felt forgotten in the middle of nowhere?
Have you ever felt like you could disappear?
Like you could fall, and no one would hear?

Well, let that lonely feeling wash away
All we see is light
'Cause maybe there's a reason to believe you'll be okay
For forever
'Cause when you don't feel strong enough to stand
You can reach, reach out your hand

And oh
Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
Oh
No matter what they tell you
Someone will coming running
To take you home
Raise a glass to all of us
Tomorrow there'll be more of us
Telling the story of tonight
Out of the shadows

The morning is breaking (they'll tell the story of tonight)
And all is new
All is new
All is new
It's only a matter of
Time

Even when the dark comes crashing through
When you need a friend to carry you
When you're broken on the ground
You will be found
So let the sun come streaming in
'Cause you'll reach up and you'll rise again
If you only look around
You will be found

And when our children tell their story
You will be found
They'll tell the story of tonight
Whoa
No matter what they tell you
Tomorrow there'll be more of us
Telling the story of tonight
The story of tonight

Mac headphone no sound

One possible solution:
system preferences -> sound -> output -> external headphones

And then check whether the output volume is non-zero and whether it's muted

how to freeze your puregym membership if you have a fixed-term / annual membership

You can't

"

1. If you have purchased a Fixed Term membership you will be entitled to 50% of the pro rata’d amount as refund for any unused membership.
2. You cannot freeze your membership on fixed term membership.

"

See this link:
https://www.puregym.com/membership-terms-conditions/#:~:text=You%20cannot%20freeze%20your%20membership%20on%20fixed%20term%20membership.

[solved] Cannot connect to Sanger network drive

I encountered this problem: I couldn't connect to Sanger network drive.

The interesting thing is that if I use an ethernet cable I will be able to connect to it.

It turned out that my wifi setting (Network -> DNS) stored ebi's domains as default.
After deleting them it worked.