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I was commissioned by Tim Deighton early this year to write this piece for his viola ensemble. It was a fresh arrangement for a famous Taiwanese Folk Song. (Over the years, this piece was performed multiple times in American Viola Society 's competitions. It was also performed in Taiwan a few times.)

A friend of mine is working on a project in which he needs to display Bopomofo (Chinese phonetic symbols used in Taiwan). He decided to display, in hi...

This is my personal reaction toward a recent incident in Taiwan: the municipal administration used water jets to drive away homeless people in the park in a cold evening.

Penn State's Amazing Race is a game I implemented for a university course taught by Dr. Laura Guertin . The source code is packed into a zip file for...

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I needed to distinguish two identical keyboards in X11 for multi-seat setup.

I had to digitize an old book with yellowed pages and the following bash command helped me to do the job. convert is part of ImageMagick package. pdft...

早期我用Windows時，用光碟備份了很多中文檔名的文件。當時還沒有Unicode，所以檔名是以Big5編碼。在Linux下，如果mount CD時沒有指定原編碼系統，所有的Big5中文檔名會被視為raw ASCII，直接轉成utf-8。比方說，檔名 台北.txt 就變成 ÑxÑ.txt 。 轉回來...