> rownames(installed.packages()) [1] "bitops" "manipulate" "RCurl" "rgl" "rstudio" [6] "scrapeR" "XML" "base" "boot" "class" [11] "cluster" "codetools" "compiler" "datasets" "foreign" [16] "graphics" "grDevices" "grid" "KernSmooth" "lattice" [21] "MASS" "Matrix" "methods" "mgcv" "nlme" [26] "nnet" "parallel" "rpart" "spatial" "splines" [31] "stats" "stats4" "survival" "tcltk" "tools" [36] "utils" >

After restarting my laptop which run Kubuntu 15.04 beta, it got stuck at a black screen with a message: Starting version 219. I tried to reboot it a few times, and it always displayed the same message. Fortunately, I found a solution from this page which fixed the problem. Here’s a recap on how to do it. When you see the above message, hit Ctrl + Alt + F2 Run sudo systemctl enable sddm.service -f ...

As of today, Code Composer Studio (ccs) 6 is only available for 32-bit Linux platform. The good news is that it can be installed on a 64-bit version of Ubuntu and Fedora. In this blog post, I’m going to show a few issues I came across and how to fix them on Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit. Issue 1: After the installation, when I ran the ccs, it produces some warning and error messages then quit. ...

From time to time, after applying Windows updates on my Windows 7 kvm-based virtual machine, the machine won’t boot after restarting. In the past, I was lucky to be able to fix it. Last night, I could not say the same thing. Instead of stressing out losing my hair on how to get it working again, it’s decided to just restore the whole Windows image. First, I need to get some updated data from it though. ...

I have been having issues getting X2Go running on a CentOS 6.5 box. It took me a while to figure out that the problem laid with the permission of /tmp directory. I’ll write how to solve the X2Go problem in another post. The recommended permission for /tmp is 1777. Notice that the forwarding ‘1’ is the sticky bit which only allows the owner of the file within /tmp (or the root user) to delete/rename the file. ...