Advogato blog for sye

11 Jun 2008

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:23:08 GMT

What's new in Princeton and Central NJ - WINLAB (www. winlab.rutgers. edu) and Planet-lab (www.planet-lab.org)

WINLAB Looks Ahead (& Up) to Wireless Future

11 Nov 2007

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:23:47 GMT

power outage. corrupted superblock and group descriptor on db server root file system. tried "mke2fs -n /dev/sda1" e2fsck with an alternate superblock didn't work. looked at "dumpe2fs /dev/sda1|more"...

This worth a try:

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/data/sda1.bak.dd

mke2fs -S /dev/sda1

reading RedHat ext3 mailing list archive

also how to make customized bootable CD from running system?

16 Aug 2007

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:37:28 GMT

Dr. Reeves vantage learning and on 'making standards working'

http://xiaoxi.fyfz.cn/blog/xiaoxi/index.aspx?blogid=185735

29 Jun 2007

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:28:34 GMT

At work, a recent project of intaking turd pile of xml datafiles before knowing what to do with them prompted me to read this article "Mastering XML DB Storage in Oracle Database 10g R2"...
watched Raph's talk at google this morning...
I don't think 'trust metrics' is broken but access to advogato articles does seem to slow down a bit. I wonder if looking into XML DB storage for virgule may be an attractive exercise for free coders out there

http://sial.org/howto/osx/automount/

La vie en rose - NPR film reviews

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:06:04 GMT

fabric printing

installed Zope 3.3.1. following Quick_Start... take a much easier route:


Plone version overview
Plone 2.5.3-final, 
CMF-1.6.4, 
Zope (Zope 2.9.7-final, python 2.4.4, darwin), 
Five 1.3.8, 
Python 2.4.4 (#1, May 3 2007, 12:46:12) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple
Computer, Inc. 
build 5341)], 
PIL 1.1.6

All Things Considered, June 9, 2007 · I remember my mom playing Edith Piaf records when I was a kid — these soaring anthems, vibrant and full of life, in a language I didn’t understand, but powerful anyway.

As powerful as that voice was an image my mom gave me. She told me that Piaf had terrible arthritis, that toward the end of her life, she could barely walk, so at concerts they’d place her at the microphone, and then open the curtain. And she’d stand there in a black dress that covered everything but her face and hands. And as that thrilling voice filled the concert hall, those r’s rolling in regiments off her tongue, she’d stand rigid and unmoving, and would slowly, painfully, close her hands, and then open them again.

There’s no moment quite that dire in La Vie en Rose, but the blend of power and pain my mother was conjuring is everywhere in the film. Piaf’s story includes all the usual elements of a singer-biography — and I do mean all of them. She was abandoned by her mother, raised in her grandmother’s brothel by whores who adored her, then ripped from their care by a father who didn’t. She ended up singing for centimes on the street, which is where she was discovered by a passer-by who owned a cabaret.

There followed all sorts of trials — a baby who died, romances that failed, arthritis that twisted her body, and morphine that twisted her life when she tried to dull the pain. Not to mention musical traumas. Turning a street urchin into a little sparrow takes discipline, and Piaf always resisted discipline.

Turning the gorgeous, willowy French actress Marion Cotillard into homely, tiny Edith Piaf must also have been a struggle. This has to be the most striking uglification of an actress since Charlize Theron in Monster. But it pays off in an entirely persuasive performance. Cotillard makes the screen Piaf coarse, tormented, hollow-eyed, and vibrant, while Olivier Dahan’s color-saturated film leaps around in time in ways that are thoroughly disorienting. But sequence somehow seems less and less important as the actress lip-syncs to vintage Piaf recordings, becoming the little sparrow —idolized but unloved, addicted to morphine, and desperately ill — la vie tres tragique, en rose.

AmbrosiaGO2

Sat, 9 Jun 2007 15:08:37 GMT


<object width="425" height="350">

<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c5RS6v0NmQc"> </
param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c5RS6v0NmQc" 
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> 
</object>

it tooks a while for YouTube to process my uploaded .mov file. I discarded the old version and prefer this one ( ~45M for ~6min.).

nodebox.net is _very_ cool

Sun, 3 Jun 2007 23:07:00 GMT

python source code…( I have a special chinese fonts installed… Its name is whacky as it was borrowed from Windows font library…)

speed(0.5)
from AppKit import *

def export(name, extension=".png", compression=0):

    try:
        # Exporting only works from the second run.
        img = _ctx._ns["graphicsView"].image
    except:
        return
    img = img.TIFFRepresentation()
    img = NSBitmapImageRep.imageRepWithData_(img)

    options = None
    if extension == ".gif":
        type = NSGIFFileType
    if extension == ".png":
        type = NSPNGFileType
    if extension == ".jpg":
        type = NSJPEGFileType
#   options = {NSImageCompressionFactor: compression}

    data = img.representationUsingType_properties_(type, options)
    f = open(name+extension, "w")
    f.write(data.bytes())
    f.close()

def setup():
    global str1,str2,str3,str4,str5,str6,str7,str8
    str1 = u"小 不 忍 而 乱 大 谋"
    str2 = u"叶 子 已 黄 花 依 旧"
    str3 = u"妖 娆 总 在 烟 雨 时"
    str4 = u"女 娲 补 天 天 常 漏"
    str5 = u"奇 谈 怪 问 不 绝 口"
    str6 = u"妙 言 恶 语 齐 出 头"
    str7 = u"有 意 无 意 装 天 真"
    str8 = u"趣 事 终 在 人 背 后"

def draw():
  if FRAME > 8:
    fill(0,0,1,0)
    image('8.png',0,0)
#  elif FRAME == 8:

#    pass
  else:
    size(520,400)
    image("gogogirl.tiff",0,0)
#    export(str(FRAME-1), extension=".png", compression=0)
    x=36
    y=40
    translate(80,40)

    font(u"䡡湄楮札䍓ⵆ潮瑳",30)
    fill(0,0,1,1)    

    text(str1, x, HEIGHT-y-FRAME*y)
    fill(0,0,1,FRAME-1)
    text(str2, x, HEIGHT-FRAME*y)
    fill(0,0,1,FRAME-2)
    text(str3, x, HEIGHT+y-FRAME*y)
    fill(0,0,1,FRAME-3)
    text(str4, x, HEIGHT+2*y-FRAME*y)
    fill(0,0,1,FRAME-4)
    text(str5, x, HEIGHT+3*y-FRAME*y)
    fill(0,0,1,FRAME-5)
    text(str6, x, HEIGHT+4*y-FRAME*y)
    fill(0,0,1,FRAME-6)
    text(str7, x, HEIGHT+5*y-FRAME*y)
    fill(0,0,1,FRAME-7)
    text(str8, x, HEIGHT+6*y-FRAME*y)
#   print FRAME
#   print str(FRAME)
    export(str(FRAME), extension=".png", compression=0)

Gloomy Sunday

Sun, 3 Jun 2007 23:07:00 GMT

Gloomy Sunday

肥猫奇石奇才淪海濱 — 閑話明代海盜 (一) (二) (三)

Sun, 3 Jun 2007 23:07:00 GMT

hjclub@youtube

Sun, 3 Jun 2007 23:07:00 GMT

Japanese Film ‘Gemini’ trailer:

The Pain in Everyone’s heart

Caveman fantacy

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La vie en rose - NPR film reviews

AmbrosiaGO2

nodebox.net is _very_ cool

Gloomy Sunday

肥猫 奇石奇才淪海濱 — 閑話明代海盜 (一) (二) (三)

hjclub@youtube

肥猫奇石奇才淪海濱 — 閑話明代海盜 (一) (二) (三)