住宅

マイホーム投資は勝つのがとても難しくなっています。まさに、「マイホーム購入は人生最大のギャンブル」と言っていいでしょう

http://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/33609?page=3

35年ローンだと35年後に老朽化で改築でまたローンですか？ そうすると、一生資産でなく負債という現実

http://oshiete.goo.ne.jp/qa/5092417.html

自己資金比率が10％未満の場合におけるデフォルト率は、20％以上30％未満の場合に比べて2倍近くに達している。自己資金比率が高まるほどデフォルト率が下がることはいうまでもないだろう。


こんな理由で家を買ってはいけない！
その4「家賃がもったいないから」
http://diamond.jp/articles/-/35405?page=2


日本の問題はこの20年間でほとんど全ての所得階層で年間100万円くらい所得が減少している「1億総貧乏化」の方がより深刻な問題となっており、これが消費を抑圧するデフレの原因にもなっている

http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2139527800338666101

Caddy

I've just migrated all personal websites to Caddy, a new web server. It works great, out of box as promised ( https://caddyserver.com )

Updated OSX tools

https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake

https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine

http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/

https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/

https://github.com/dbcli/mycli

https://download-chromium.appspot.com/?platform=Mac&type=continuous

Japanese texts

Python for PHP programers:

http://phpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html

RiotJS:

http://riotjs.com/ja/

Console progress bar

It's very simple:

import sys
def update_progress(iteration, total):
    percent = int(iteration * 100.0 / total)
    sys.stdout.write(
        "\r[ {0:<51} ] {1}% ~{2}".format(
            '#' * (percent / 2), percent, iteration
        )
   )

The main trick is character "\r", which clear previous line.

Linux installation

2 years using OSX gave me more insight on how Unix system work more than before. This time for new home's desktop, I decided to use a Linux.

I chosen Debian testing with XFCE

 http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso 

Why testing? It has latest piece of software. Seems to unstable but it works. There is a good alternative are Mint, elementaryOS, good-looking but buggy, and security faults are largely ignored www.techrepublic.com/article/why-the-linux-mint-hack-is-an-indicator-of-a-larger-problem/

XFCE gives many customization chance and very, very fast! Resources usage is also optimized.



Default fonts is unpleasant, especially for Japanese text. To have above result, there is a fix for it by setting fallback chain in /etc/fonts/local.conf

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Tahoma</family>
<family>TakaoPGothic</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Tahoma</family>
<family>TakaoPGothic</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>Monaco</family>
<family>TakaoPGothic</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintslight</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
<const>lcddefault</const>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

Here I used Tahoma from Windows and Monaco from OSX, but Open Sans and Ubuntu Mono are good alternatives. Takao font is an IPA font derivatives, installed by apt-get install fonts-takao*

Font Osaka causing ugly rendering on many latin characters, better to remove it
sudo rm /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Osaka* -f

It's easy to set system wide shortcuts. There are 2 places:
* Window manager: pre-defined functions
* Keyboard setting: a function is a command

About input methods, there is "uim", better than D-bus and Scim etc I have used.

For Japanese I use Mozc. It's important to set "Default input mode" to Hiragana to make it work as expected.

For Vietnamese I use m17nlib. Add "m17n-vi-telex" to Enabled input methods. It just works.

apt-get install  uim-mozc uim-m17nlib uim-gtk2.0 uim-gtk3

Hope that using it daily can boost Linux skill :D

Additional programs:

apt-get install abiword gnumeric gnome-dictionary gnote systemd-ui keepass2 gufw caffeine ocrfeeder 

* Terminal with copy on selection
* http://www.linuxnov.com/the-complete-guide-to-configure-terminator-terminal-emulator-layouts/
* Valentina Studio - all in one MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server GUI
* komodo-edit - Generic editor
* pycharm - Python IDE
* meld - Diff / merge
* systemd-ui
* Pinta - Image editor
* Synapse - launcher
* keepassx
* gufw - Firewall GUI
* plank - a dock
* caffeine
* ocrfeeder - OCR
* gnome-dictionary
* Abiword
* Gnumeric
* gnote

Programs to recover deleted files

Work with HFS, Ext2,3,4, NTFS

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download