Have you run into this loading problem when you start Octave in Cygwin recently? If yes, you are not alone.

[zandy@cygwin] ~ $ octave
/usr/bin/octave-cli-3.8.1.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory

Diagnose:

[zandy@cygwin] ~ $ cygcheck /usr/bin ...

This is my first time to use Juniper VPN to connect to the workplace from home. My computer runs Fedora 20 in 64bit and Firefox in 64bit. I had a hard time to establish a connection through the web portal. The client files were downloaded into

~/.juniper_networks

I followed the ...

I had watched TV shows on Hulu for a simple reason that it's Flash-based so I could watch it in Linux. One thing I did't like about Hulu is its high-frequency of ads. Netflix has fewer ads but it builds its business on Silverlight plugin, which is generally ...

I recently replaced my vim-powerline with vim-airline. I like vim-airline so much that I can't help spreading words about it.

For those who don't know what vim-powerline is. It is a Vim plugin that can make the statusline of Vim colorful and eye candy. When vim-powerline first came ...

Last night I didn't resist the temptation to enter

sudo yum install fedora-upgrade

Viola, my journey to Fedora 19 began!

Every time I upgraded my Linux to the latest release, either Ubuntu or Fedora, I would have to spent another day to tweak the new system to make it ...