September 6
2012
May 23
2012
Coldplay – Nice – 2012
May 17
2012
Trip (Nice – Monaco – Menton – Cannes – Antibes)
March 16
2012
Install pygtkglext 1.1.0 (win32)
Pygtkglext comes with two options of installation, one can either go throught the traditional “gcc” way (configure->make->make install) or the “python” way (python setup.py build->install).
Let us look at the second one first, the building process would have gone smoothly as long as your remove the out-of-date pkgc_version_check to be found at line-89 and the import of Overrides to be found at line-103 (don’t know if it’s a good idea though). It will generate correctly the ./gtk/gt(d)kgl/gt(d)kglext.c files but will in most cases be blocked by an attribute error some time later as the dsextra.py has undertaken some big changes ever since the release of our beloved package. Two solutions are nevertheless proposed, but are both somewhat, say, arduous.
1. Overwrite the dsextra.py with one of an older version (that is, to find something that dates back to no late than 2004)
2. Modify the pygtkglext setup.py file to cope with the CVS HEAD changes to dsextra.py. Basically, you want to add ‘install_data’: PyGtkInstallData to the cmdclass dictionary, and move the calls to add_template_option to a class derived from InstallData. (found here)
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March 15
2012
Install gtkglext 1.2.0 (win32)
I am using visvis, an excellent and light weight python library for simple 3D visualization in the programme that I’m writing (PyRod).
While it poses no problem under linux, its gtk backend requires the use of pygtkglext and as a result gtkglext, both should be built and installed manually under windows.
The source file can be found here, but at the time when this post was being written, these files have not been touched for at least 6 years…
It took me some time to find out how to do it, so I hope this post to be at least of some help to others…
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February 13
2012
Generate python (using pygtk) executables using py2exe (win32)
I’m getting old…real old…now I need to write everything down in case they somehow slip my mind…
I’ve been trying to generate executables for my little program written in Python, under both x64 and Linux(Ubuntu 11.04), and with various programs…but I haven’t been really successful, despite the fact that I might not have put in enough effort as well… As a matter of fact, none of my executable really works on others’ machine. (works perfect on my own PC though)
Anyway, now there is something which seems to be working…the environment is x86 this time…with the help of py2exe
So again, I’m getting old, and I’m writing it down…
For record, the following is basically a combination of several recipes found on the web, I don’t really have any personal contribution to this…
So, py2exe should normally work with simple programs, a ‘hello world’ for example…but things just get complicated once PyGtk and Matplotlib are involved…
Let’s have a look at my setup.py first…
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February 4
2012
西山周氏
December 27
2011
[2008] Trip (Pisa – Florence – Venice)
Yeah, yeah, I know that was three years ago, and that I barely remember anything about it…but I figured that the trip really deserves a place here as it involves some of my favorite cities!!! (Allow me to thank you guys here, Benjamin, Cyril and Mikael for taking Yinbin and me with you…)
I’ll make it short, alright?
Pisa
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December 27
2011
Trip(Leukerbad — Jungfrau — Zermatt)
Day 1 : Leukerbad
Leukerbad (French: Loèche-les-Bains) boasts the biggest thermal baths in Switzerland with about 3.9 million liters gushing out each day from what is considered to be Europe’s largest reservoir of thermal water. Thermal bath is generally available and for free in local hotels, but finding yourself in, say, even the largest resort isn’t gonna cost you much either. With 21CHF (at Linder Alpentherme), you can enjoy 3 hours in both the indoor and the outdoor pools (28 CHF for a day, unlimited, as in our case).
Since I didn’t bring the camera to the pool, only the outside view (middle & right image) is shown here. It snowed heavily that day, just about perfect to experience the true essence (my personal definition…) of alpine thermal bath: Imagine you have snow falling down and melted upon dropping on your shoulder while the rest of your body is kept well warm in the thermal bath…
Oh yes, we (Yinbin and I) did try burying our bodies in the snow for as long as we can before throwing ourselves back into the thermal water, and I won that contest…
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December 20
2011
Grenoble (last updated 201211)
Grenoble is the name of the city that I live in, it would take hours to describe what it is really like but let me first summerize it into three words, mountains, science and technology or maybe I should let science go first as I never go skiing.
I’ll just put some photos this time cuz otherwise they’ll get rotten in my camera (taken long long long ago)…
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October 12
2011
Trip (Bratislava – Smolenice – Vienna)
主要目的 : 8th Autumn School (Conference) on X-ray Scattering from Surfaces and Thin Layers.
地点 : Smolenice城堡 , 斯洛伐克
行程 : 03/10夜抵达斯洛伐克首都Bratislava, 04/10前往Smolenice城堡, 07/10早上离开城堡前往Vienna(维也纳, 奥地利), 09/10下午回到Bratislava, 10/10回Grenoble
Bratislava
从机场出发，来到位于市中心的旅馆，在Bratislava市中心很容易看到共产党统治时期所建造的历史残留，我们下榻的旅馆也不例外。
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从旅馆房间的窗口眺望, 钢筋混凝土砌成的板房和乳白色的中世纪塔楼形成鲜明对比
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October 2
2011
Time to post something…
I figured that it might be time to talk about my thesis subject.
Basically, it involves the use of extremely intensive X-ray generated by the so called synchrotron radiation to study Si or Ge nanowire growth mechanisms in situ inside a Ultra High Vacuum chamber (base pressure < 10-10 mbar).
We’ll come to what is a synchrotron radiation, in situ, the characterization methods (GIXD, GISAXS) that are employed as well as the growth mode (CVD, VLS) later (hopefully).
Today, I’ll just leave you with some SEM images of the nanowires grown recently in the above mentioned chamber.
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September 22
2011
Pygtk tips (for myself)
23/09/11
I should definitely start to read the manual more attentively…
I ran into a situation where gtk.TreeView.scroll_to_cell() showed no effect. After 15mins’ search, I was pointed back to the manual page, where it writes:if a child has native scrolling (TreeView in my case), should use add() instead of add_with_viewpoint() for gtk.ScrolledWindow, and that solves the problem.
Another problem that I encountered today also involves the use of gtk.TreeView, I found out that the set_cursor() method refused to work for me as well. However, this time I was luckier as I soon (after some debugging) realized that the target colomn of the cell should be fully expanded (i.e. realized) to become a valid target of the method. This problem will only occur if the TreeView.get_model() is a TreeStoreObject (and thus not a ListStoreObject).
September 22
2011
MX Air & linux
1. imwheel should work, but gives out, instead, a failure message when I tried launching the GUI (imwheel -c)
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September 22
2011
Glype Proxy 1.1
Glype Proxy (current version 1.1) is an easy-to-use, light-weighted, but great still proxy script written in PHP. You can find other scripts on the internet as well, such as PHProxy (project halted on 2007-09-07). However, Glype is likely to be the only one that is still under development (Glype 2.0) and has probably the largest group of users/coders.
I have been using Glype for my own proxy site on Godaddy free hosting for a while. In the following, I will show you briefly how to do it, as well as the solutions to some problems that I’ve encountered.
Moreover, compared to the GAE based proxy which is presented in my latest post, Glype not only handles javascript parsing, but also allows to you play videos on YouTube provided that some specific plugins are installed (no longer necessary in the upcoming 2.0 version).
September 22
2011
Seamonkey
September 22
2011
WordPress Hide Private Link
Some people (including me) may want to preserve some of his privacy in his blog.
This could easily be done for the posts, that is, you can either hide the entire post by carefully selecting its visibility option, or even hide part of it with the help of some of the plugins (Wp-private being just one of it).
However, WordPress (seemingly from V2.7 to at least V3.0) behaves abnormally when you try to keep your links (in the link widget) private. It turns out that the private links are invisible even to the administrators.
Solutions were proposed (plural form is used despite that I found only one on the web), but are mostly lengthy, and/or complicated for beginners. In this post, we will try to solve the problem in a more straight-forward way, thanks to a handy plugin, called BP links+.
September 22
2011
Google App Engine – HTTP Proxy Server
This is merely a translated (Chinese) version of “How to setup your own proxy server in 5 minutes for free”
More can be found on http://www.labnol.org/
In addition, temporary solutions are presented here (in the end in English) to some frequently occured problems which are not given in the original post, so are some common issues related to the basic operations concerning GAE.
正如我之前所说的，翻译和整理是这篇文章的主要部分，虽然我比较倾向于仅仅在这块私人领域留下我个人所想到的，而非所谓的也是一味的的转贴。。。
写这篇Post有几个目的，首先，基于这个idea来建立Proxy Server的帖子实在很多，尤其是中文的，不过部分文章直接使用appcfg.py来进行上传更新等操作，给从未接触过python环境的用户带来了不便。
其次，原文作者在youtube上发布了详细的架设说明，不过基于目前大陆的封锁状况，咳咳。
最后，提供了一些简单的（非技术性的）针对一些常用问题的解决方法以及少许的个人评价。
September 22
2011
Recommended WP plugins (updated 13/02/2012)
In this post, I’ll briefly introduce (in alphabetic order) the WordPress plugins that “take service” on my site.
Add From Server
This is the very plugin that you should resort to if you are p***ed off (oops=.=) by the HTTP error when uploading new files to the Media Library. I have tried different methods that I found on the web, but none of them seemed to be working. With Add From Server however, you are now allowed to add an existing file (uploaded using other means, ex. ftp) to the library (who originally recognize only the files uploaded via the WP interface) with a simple click.
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