It was quite a piece of shocking news produced by Kaiyuan Wang, a fully dedicated Open Source, um, should I say, evangelist. There’s no need for me to repeat what has happened. All I have to say is that, I AM ON HIS SIDE. I’ve never ever imagined that someday I can see such a brave Chinese, although in foreign countries there are a lot of such people who dare to even sacrifice for their undertaking. It’s too hard to realize one’s dream here.
Continue readingI suppose you all have adverted. It’s another Friday at a 13th date.
Continue readingI did this long ago. Since I’m not required to do it repeatedly, it took me another 15 minutes to get warmed up. This time I’m recording the procedures here as a preparation for tomorrow’s exploration on why the hell that tomcat instance was taking so long to start up.
Continue readingWell, I don’t know how to describe the feeling when I pick someone up by recognizing his/her blog, after losing his/her track for some years.
Continue readingI’d never imagined that one day I would be working in a very much limited environment, and thus applications like Portable Firefox which tend to be as much green as possible had never got my attention. But nowadays, I’ve completely changed my attitude towards such applications.
Continue readingNot quite sure about this, but from a recent clue posted on slashdot, this insane patent is probably true. And some comments on slashdot points out it’s triply linked list that got patented, not our good old linked list or doubly linked list. Nevertheless, it’s still not that difficult to make varieties of existing data structures and/or algorithms and register a patent for it. Whoa, I’d better go back to my algorithm books and make a summary of remaining patent-able data structures and/or algorithms. Oops, first of all, I need a companion with a US nationality. Who’s interested? I see in your eyes, the same scorn that would take the heart of me. All mighty US patent agencies! Haven’t they realized most computer stuff originate from the US, and with their fingers they can probably affect this fragile industry?
It’s a damn cold night. The drizzle today just drove me back to the winter while I’m wearing thinner clothes. There always seems to be only 2 seasons here: the summer and the winter. Spring is the lesser winter, and fall, too.
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