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

Saturday, April 25, 2015

How to import eml files to Thunder Bird --- Mac

The most popular way is install addon
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

Download, Install, Restart and import in your specified folder. Instructions are also found on the download page

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Mac: How to add alternative lines in Excel etc

if you have a column
36166
19764
37658
36244
29998

How can you transform it to
36166


19764


37658


36244


29998

?

The answer is using TextEdit.


1. Open TextEdit
2. Copy a line break (the part between the end of 36166 and the start of 19764)
3. command + f, paste the line break in the searching area, check replace
4. Paste the line break twice in the second box to replace one line break with two line breaks. In this way you will insert one line after each original line.  To get more line breaks, do the same.

Thursday, April 16, 2015

How to add a horizontal line onto bar charts in Excel 2013.

In short:
1.  input this anywhere:

[blank]    Average
   0         9.5
   1         9.5



2.  copy that table region.
3. Click on the chart you want to add the horizontal line on, then click on the paste -> paste special (at the top left of excel tools panel) -> add new series
4. select the newly added series, right click -> change chart type
5. check that series, select scatter XY type, plot of secondary axis
6. click on the markers twice (not double click), right click -> format marker -> under the fill logo, choose the "None" as marker style.

A detailed explanation is here: http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/AddLineHorzSeries.html



or ,
below:

Add a Horizontal Line to a Column or Line Chart: Series Method.


 
How do you add a nice horizontal line to a column or line chart, to show a target value, or the series average? The method involves adding a new series, applying it to the secondary axes, and making the secondary axes disappear.
Use this data to make a column or line chart. The blank cell in the upper left of this range tells Excel that "Value" is the series names, and the dates in the first column are the category (X axis) labels. (I use dates in this example, but you could use any type of category labels.)
[blank]    Value
11/11/02     15
11/10/02     16
 11/9/02     16
 11/8/02     10
 11/7/02     14
 11/6/02      9
 11/5/02     10
 11/4/02      8
 11/3/02      6
 11/2/02      4
 11/1/02      3
10/31/02      3
In a free section of your worksheet, set up a range with X and Y values corresponding to the endpoints of your indicator line, shown below. The X value ranges from 0 to 1; we will use the secondary X axis for this line, and scale its min and max to 0 and 1. The Y value corresponds to an average or other significant level you want to indicate on the chart.
[blank]    Average
   0         9.5
   1         9.5
Select and copy this range, select the chart, and from the Edit menu, choose Paste Special. Select the New Series, Categories in First Column, and Series Names in First Row options. The new series has the same style (Column or Line) as the first series.
Right click on the new series "Average" and select Chart Type from the pop up menu. Choose the XY Scatter type, subtype Scatter with data points connected by lines without markers. The series changes and secondary axes appear on the chart.
Now it's time to neaten up the axes. Double click on the secondary X axis, and on the Scale tab, set 0 for Minimum and 1 for Maximum. On the Patterns tab, choose None for Major and Minor Tick Marks and for Tick Mark labels to make the axis disappear.
Select the secondary Y axis and press Delete (or more formally: right click on the chart, choose Chart Options from the Pop Up menu, click on the Axes tab, and uncheck the box for the Secondary Y Axis).
All that may be left is some embellishing of the chart. I removed the legend, added data labels (Show Values option) to the original series, and a data label to the last point of the horizontal line series (see Label Last Point). Then I colored the label text to match the series color.
VertizontalLine.zip is a zipped workbook that shows this technique and others for reliably placing a vertical or horizontal line on your column or line chart, using a dummy series or a dummy error bar. Here are some related pages on this site: