[Windows 8] Input method still remains after removing it?

Well, I've upgraded to Windows 8 recently, I tried to install Vietnamese input language method, but then I didn't feel like familiar to it, so I decided to remove it, well, everything was okay at that point.
After that, when I was working, I noticed that there's still Vietnamese input language method when I click on "ENG" button on task bar, that's weird, right? Afterwards, I searched and tried many ways (I even asked on a big forum: http://superuser.com/questions/522696/how-can-i-remove-an-input-method-completely-in-windows-8) to remove it but couldn't help... until this post:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-desktop/language-setting-question-display-lang-input-lang/4a057ad5-2965-4257-bc0f-5e1ab1411a63


Summary:

- Just add Vietnamese (or the language which you want to remove), then remove it again!

Hope it can help you out :)


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[UPDATE -20130612]
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Oh yeah, as I commented below, the above solution doesn't work, but today, finally, I got rid of it.
Actually, I almost surrendered and I have been having to stand it until today. I was starting learning Japanese, so I added Japanese Input Method to Language Bar and I got 3 entries English, Vietnamese, Japanese. The problem is using Windows+Space to switch between those 3 entries is really annoying, so I had to work my ass off on this problem once more time. And lucky me, I found this thread:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-desktop/remove-english-us-keyboard/16f81314-8c4f-4315-baf0-c6518449d8ae

After reading it, I took a look at my startup programs and did some "trial and error", logging in/out several times. Finally, I found out that "Unikey"  (a Vietnamese Input Method software that I was using) is the root cause of the problem, whenever it's started, it adds a Vietnamese entry to Language Bar - that sucks!

Well, I had been using Unikey for years, but at that time, I had to give it up! But then fortunately, after googling, I found another app which can do the same awesome job but DOES'T add anything to Language Bar, and it's:

http://www.trankynam.com/gotv/

I had been using that app on my Android phone, but didn't know it's also available on many other platforms, of course, includes Windows.

So... finally, after a very long time, my problem is solved completely xD

And one more thing, just a thought... that guy, TranKyNam is awesome indeed, he has a few other apps than gotv that I haven't had chances to try, but they looks cool also. I will definitely remember his name xD

Use adb wifi without rooting for Android phones

Well, if your phone is rooted already, it's very easy to use adb without USB cables. Just go to Google Play then search for "adb wifi", you'll see several apps which can help you with your rooted phone.
But if for some reasons, you don't want or mustn't root your phone (because of the warranty or the phone is not yours...), and you hate debugging your app with the cable plugged in your phone, well, there's still a workaround for you (but it still requires to use the USB cable once or twice)

Steps:

• Connect your Android phone with your  computer by the USB cable, and make sure you have adb and required drivers for you phone installed on your computer. Then type (this command tells adb daemon to listen over Wifi - port 5555):

adb tcpip 5555

• Okay, now you can plug out your USB cable and throw it away (just kidding, you'll might need it in case you restart your phone or you pull out the battery...). Now you have to find your phone IP, go to Setting -> Wi-Fi -> Select the Wi-Fi network your phone is using, then you'll see the IP address. Now on your computer, you have to connect adb to your phone, for example, IP address of my phone is 192.168.0.101, I'll do it by this command:

adb connect 192.168.0.101:5555

• Then you'll see message "connected to 192.168.0.101:5555", now your phone is connected to adb wirelessly. If you want to use adb over USB again, connect your phone to your computer then type in cmd or Terminal:

adb usb

That's all, good luck!

A note about .gitignore

First of all, take a look at this page: http://gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/19/ignoring-files.html
And I'm not copying its content lol, well, this is just a note about what I've done successfully with .gitignore to ignore some folders in my project.

Steps:

• Enter to root directory of your project, then "vi .gitignore" and enter something like:(I suppose you haven't had .gitignore in your project):

bin/ # ignore all folders which are named "bin"
.settings/ # ignore all folders which are named ".settings" 

• If there's nothing in your "bin" folders as well as ".settings" folders, your job here is done, everything you will put in those folders will not be tracked by Git. But if there's something in those folders which means Git are tracking it already, so you have to let Git know that you don't want to tracking it by these commands:

git rm --cached -r Your_Path/bin/
git rm --cached -r Your_Path/.settings/
git commit -m "Ignore folder bin and .settings"
git push origin your_branch

P/S: You may doubt about removing cache then commit & push, and yeah, I did, but don't worry. Doing so just removes cache not actual files in your folders (actually I have no idea about where is cache too, but I guess it's cache of git lol), and committing & pushing just delete those folders on remote server, not on your local repository.
In short, making a ".gitignore" just tells your Git program on your computer knows that don't list changes of files in those folders when you type "git status",  and removing cache & committing & pushing just delete those folders on remote repository.

How to install and config Smartgit + Git + Bitbucket.org

• Download install Git: http://git-scm.com/downloads
• Download install SmartGit: http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/download.html
• Add SSH public key:
• Generate SSH public key if it hasn't been created
• Open Git Bash -> Generate SSH public key by typing: ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@youremail.com" -> Public key will be located in folder "~/.ssh/"
•  Add SSH public key to bitbucket.org
• Open bitbucket.org -> Account setting -> SSH keys -> Add Key -> Add content of "~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub" as a key

• In order to be able to push, you have to config your name and email, open Git Bash, type:
• git config --global user.email "abcd@xyzt.com"
• git config --global user.name "Blah Bloh"
• Clone a project (choose SSH, don't choose HTTPS, otherwise you will not be able to push properly by SmartGit - Actually, I don't know why, it took me a few hours to realize that, but I still can't explain why now lol):
• git clone git@bitbucket.org:user_name/project_name.git
• Add project to Smartgit:
• Project -> Open Repository -> Choose your project folder -> Next...

Synchronized keyword in Java

2 effects:

• First, it is not possible for two invocations of synchronized methods on the same object to interleave. When one thread is executing a synchronized method for an object, all other threads that invoke synchronized methods for the same object block (suspend execution) until the first thread is done with the object.
• Second, when a synchronized method exits, it automatically establishes a happens-before relationship with any subsequent invocation of a synchronized method for the same object. This guarantees that changes to the state of the object are visible to all threads.

Explanation about lock object of synchronized block:

• If you synchonize on the method ( as you're doing by typing public synchronized void addA() ) you lock the whole object, so two thread accessing a different variable from this same object would block each other anyway.
• If you want to syncrhonize only a variable at a time , so two thread wont block each other while accessing different variables, you have to add them in a synchronized block, and use the variable as the "lock" of the block. If a and b were object references you would use:

public void addA() {
    synchronized( a ) {
        a++;
    }
}
public void addB() {
    synchronized( b ) {
        b++;
    }
}

References:
- http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/syncmeth.html
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3369287/synchronized-block-lock-object-question
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3047564/java-synchronized-method-lock-on-object-or-method

Easily disable network connection of Mac

Diable:

sudo ifconfig en0 down

Enable:

sudo ifconfig en0 up

Restart the Android UI without rebooting the phone

adb root
adb shell killall zygote