Advogato blog for atai

6 Dec 2011

Tue, 6 Dec 2011 17:57:08 GMT

Looking for a cloud service provider that is friendly to various GNU/Linux distributions (meaning many choices). Any recommendations?

18 Oct 2011

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:29:21 GMT

Dr. Kai Fu Lee, who invented the Sphinx speech recognition system, headed the Apple groups which created QuickTimeVR and Apple Newton, founded Microsoft Research China, founded and served as the first president of Google China, and is now the CEO of Innovation Works, has published an English autobiography. Translated from Chinese by Crystal Tai, the book Making a World of Difference is now available from Amazon for the Kindle.

6 Feb 2010

Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:37:40 GMT

Re: hjclub

I have downgraded hjclub's certification from me to observer. Not sure if this is enough to resolve the spam problem?

22 Sep 2009

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:10:27 GMT

OK, yet another language.

Yes, why not!

Take a look at Dao, with version 1.1 just released!

A very powerful language derserving more widespread use.

16 Jul 2009

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:04:51 GMT

An interesting language not famous but can it be the true language that people have been looking for, as an alternative to Python and Perl?

Dao

4 Nov 2008

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 20:22:09 GMT

GObject considered harmful?

While the GObject system gives C programmers a powerful object model to build upon, C programs using the GObject has significant overhead, comparable to the virutal machines of languages like Java. So one may wonder if writing in C using GObject is really worth it, given the performance overhead and the manual labor needed (more than, say, C++ or Java) on the programmer's part for the boilerplate code?

Are there ways to dynamically optimize the GObject system at run time to reduce signal emission overhead?

19 Nov 2006

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:08:01 GMT

How can people rate hjclub who posted how to break through the so-called "the great (Internet) wall" of the Chinese mainland as spam? He/she is doing a great service to the users of the Internet, and many people may end up helping the censors by making this useful information off the net...

17 Nov 2006

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:52:45 GMT

中國

yes, it works

16 Nov 2006

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:52:06 GMT

There have been indications that Chinese inputs are not properly processed by Advogato. Test here (input via SCIM on Fedora 5, Firefox 1.5 with UTF8 encoding)

The diary cannot be displayed if it contains Chinese

Seems UTF8 is correctly supported by Advogato at this time

9 Nov 2006

Thu, 9 Nov 2006 18:32:44 GMT

After looking at the diaries of xerox, I can verify that the contents were legitimate and "computing machine" (or "computer" in English) related. It is not a spam account.