Entries from November 2004 ↓

Times Online – Britain: “The anoraks will inherit the earth”

It is mentioned in this article that a British think-tank will release a report on that nerds will take over the world in the century.

This is a screenshot of vim

Since I don’t want to leave large disk space for CTeX to enjoy LaTeXing in Windows, I just downloaded TeXLive and MikTeX 2.4 for test. But I found using CJK package to processing Chinese can’t produce Chinese at all, so I digged into texmf directories of both and found the gbsn font map. And this is the solution, use \begin{CJK}{GB}{gbsn}

flip guy
Originally uploaded by jkottke.

JKotte’s panorama

What I disliked most of things in this institute is that its mail server is anti-spam free. The server is a Redhat box whose administrator seems to have little knowledge of anti-spam procedures. And because of accounts set up to facilitate communication among people of the institute, a sucked machine in the institute will stir a piling wave of spam fulling the mailboxes. Unfortunately nearly every worm that makes its footprint in the anti-virus progs’ databases will happily crawl in mailboxes of that server. I experienced for a couple of weeks with “Re:Hello” mails stuffing my mail box. So I gave up the hope that the virus-affected machine owner can some day update his virus database, and received all my mails using lab’s Debian machine, which is packed with Spamassassin and Amavis and read them with webmail prog.

An old humor.

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A Bovine Guide to Political Theory
from The Utne Reader:

Feudalism: You have two cows. Your lord
takes some of the milk.

Fascism: You have two cows. The
government takes both, hires you to take
care of them, and sells you the milk.

Pure socialism: You have two cows. The
government takes them and puts them in a
barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to
take care of all the cows. The government
gives you as much milk as you need.

Pure communism: You have two cows. Your
neighbors help you take care of them, and
you all share the milk.

Bureaucratic socialism: You have two cows.
The government takes them and puts them
in a barn with everyone else’s cows. They
are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You
have to take care of the chickens the
government took from the chicken farmers.
The government gives you as much milk and
as many eggs as the regulations say you
should need.

Russian communism: You have two cows.
You have to take care of them, but the
government takes all the milk.

Pure democracy: You have two cows. Your
neighbors decide who gets the milk.

Representative democracy: You have two
cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell
you who gets the milk.

American democracy: The government
promises to give you two cows if you vote for
it. After the election, the president is
impeached for speculating in cow futures.

Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one
and buy a bull.

Local governmental capitalism: The government
condemns your cows under rights of eminent domain,
knocks them over, and allows the mall to expand
its parking lot.

Hong Kong capitalism: You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed
company, using letters of credit opened by
your brother-in-law at the bank ,then
execute a debt-equity swap with associated
general offer so that you get all four cows
back, with a tax deduction for keeping five
cows. The milk rights of six cows are
transferred via a Panamanian intermediary
to Cayman Islands company secretly owned
by the majority shareholder who sells the
rights to all seven cow’s milk back to the
listed company. The annual report says that
the company owns eight cows, with an option
on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two
cows because the feng shui is bad.

Totalitarianism: You have two cows. The
government takes them and denies they ever
existed. Milk is banned.

Anarchism: You have two cows. Either you
sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors
try to kill you and take the cows.

Dictatorship: You have two cows. The
government takes both and shoots you.

Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The
government requires you to take harmonica
lessons.

Which File Extension are You?

Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate is one of my favorite websites that offer news and links if the liberal fields, such as philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, and etc. It a service offered by The Chronicle of Higher Education which is also a must-see.

When Google Desktop Search released, I said something against it and introduced Docco. I tried it on some PDF files from a special issue of Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, which is composed of a series of reviews celebrating the 30th annivesary of the finding of Long-Term Potentiation, and found it is very good to find keywords in PDFs. I am using it to indexing some my academic paper libraries.