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Let Tiger Come Home!
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12/06/2009
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http://www.fengzhenghu.com/
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Google Page Creator Sucks
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11/26/2009
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Finally Google Page Creator dropped dead. And now I was shoveled to Google Sites, which supports no script of any kind. I guess Google guys finally figured out that it is a lost cause to allow user scripts in web page. They just gave up eventually without explicitly admitting it. And it sucks to disallow any script in the web page. Now thanks to Google, I have nowhere to put my Google Reader clip.
By the way, I tried Chrome OS the other day. After login, I was brought straight to the Chrome Browser. And I couldn't open the pdf file I've just downloaded. I hope it would last longer than the Google Page Creator this time.
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Bing beats Google on Cached Page
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11/16/2009
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I have to give Bing some credit for its online page cache. Google seems a little bit frugal this time.
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Lab Notes - X Windows Remote Display
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11/08/2009
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Quick wrap up of this cliche topic, assume you access a UNIX machine from Windows Desktop.
*) You can use X-Win. You don't have to do any setup on either the UNIX or the Windows Side. And it works well with firewall. But it runs a little bit slow on my machine.
*) Or, do the following:
On the UNIX side, assume you use C-shell. Do something like
setenv DISPLAY `who -um|awk -F\( '{print $2}' | awk -F\) '{print $1}'`:0.0
On the Windows side, open Humming Bird Exceed
And you have to penetrate firewall for this as well. Setup port trigger, open port 6000-6063 with trigger on telnet/ssh.
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Messy Chinese Characters in the Browser
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10/18/2009
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Chinese is the language my ancestors created thousands of years ago. Thus I am not in the best position to question its original design. But in the information age, I have to admit objectively that Chinese language does not have the same upper hand as English has.
One thing bugs me recently is that some GB2312 code was wrongfully convicted into Unicode. And that is not the worst part. The reason it is causing problem is that these characters are displayed by a plugin/activeX sort of mess in the page, so changing the character encoding in the web browser won't do any good.
One way to fix this is to convert these GB2312 to Unicode by a file called gb2312.txt
However, sometimes things are even worse than what you can imagine. Under certain circumstances, the original GB2312 code was interpreted as single byte coding. And they are converted to Unicode in this single byte fashion and presented to the browser. To fix this, one has to get them back to GB2312 form through a Unicode interpreter. (It is usually in two byte Unicode fashion). The gb2312.txt remedy can only be applied after that.
The Moral of the Story:
(1) Use Unicode instead of GB2312 in the first place would save all the troubles.
(2) To master a single byte language, such as English, is very important.
Try search "namibia nuctech" on www.baidu.com
What? Having trouble connecting to Baidu? Don't worry, it is the latest bug Baidu has to offer.
Those bureaucrats! The only thing they are good at is burying their heads in the sand. Why can't they spend some time on evolution?
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May 35th : Microsoft comes closer to Google
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6/03/2009
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I have to give Microsoft credit for making a move in the right direction. Finally Microsoft is seriously patching its search product. Bing might not be the answer to everything, but it is a good start to reinvent Microsoft.
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Speaking of answer, I used the word "move-on" three years ago. Neither is it an answer to everything. The fact is, no viable answer is being offered in the past 20 years. All we have is the inertia, unleashed 31 years ago. Do we really think we can keep going like this?
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