Recent blog entries for zhaoway

i cannot use Chinese characters (utf-8) as my name in the personal information page? :-/

sudo apt-get install mail-notification

this little program is sweet. gmail on my systray! :)

sye, a firewall is effective not because it provides you proof of absolute security.

me not using your proxy does not mean i "take it for granted." thanks for your proxy, btw. my struggle is not with the firewall but with you, imho. ;)

the shaoshan article is crap. i'd like to discuss it point-by-point with you in email, if you want to.

abstract < 100 words.

keywords < 6.

paper < 25 pages.

a blog post < a few paragraphs. otherwise you should make it an essay and put an abstract on your blog.

they are not rules of writers.

they are habits of readers. unless you have a big name, readers will ignore you.

a wonderful scim-anthy howto.

unstable alert. :)

(i) nvidia's 7676 (latest) does not compile with linux-image-2.6.14-1-686

(ii) gnome-panel is useless. applets take ages to appear on the panel. and i dare not click on 'em cause that will freeze the desktop.

(iii) scim-m17n still not installable. i do not know how i can make scim work with anthy so i can input japanese.

tango project. that's creativity. a relief. numerous window managers were made to make us think there's no room for enhancement. now we see there still things to work on. we may not agree on the exact details, though. ;)

book i'm reading:

《晚明史》上卷 1573--1644 樊树志著

黄仁宇说：不要借古讽今。这个话错在两点：第一，如果可以不绕这个弯子，谁又故意要找这个麻烦呢？第二，虽然历史研究是要还原历史的本来面目，但是从历史当中学习这本来就是古往今来一切人的做法。

notepad makes you a better programmer! ^_^

leafpad rocks! emacs sucks! ^_^

宫崎峻的《听到涛声》

看过咯。

愿这部戏永远留在我的心间