Linux Hater
Posted on 2008-06-04 • (0)
很久沒有那種找到知音的感覺了。雖然大多數內容都是諷刺或帶憤世嫉俗的語氣,但的確說出了許多 Linux 用家的心聲。以往也想過自己寫些甚麼的 (事實上也寫了兩篇稿給 LinuxPilot,但角度不同),但就是沒法谷着那一口烏氣去寫出來,要寫也寫不出那麼辛辣的英文語句。
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Ordered Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux
Posted on 2008-06-04 • (0)
I just requested a set of Unbreakable Linux DVD from Oracle. Well, I never expect it containing anything exciting, but at least unlike some of the Chi[......]
Recovering photos from camera
Posted on 2008-05-26 • (1)
Some of the photos were secretly deleted from my digital camera by a certain guy few weeks ago. Surely, with valid reason, he didn’t like some of my photos.
Though I have backup of some of them, other newer photos are not backed up, thus only data recovery can come to my rescue. As a Ubuntu partition is available, I decided to gives the tools mentioned in Ubuntu Data Discovery wiki page some testing, all of which are readily installable with apt-get.
My test points to the following conclusion:
scalpelis utterly useless when discovering digital photos, while other 4 tools (foremost,photorec,magicrescue,recoverjpeg) achieve similar degree of recovery, with photorec edging out the other 3.
Though there was an existing test between scalpel and foremost, it only compares their speed, but gives no comment on whether software works or not. Data discovery software must try to discover as much evidence as possible, speed is just marketing gimmick when tools don’t work at all.
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The art of file type identification
Posted on 2008-04-28 • (4)
Recently I’ve been working with maintainer of file(1) to merge in various file magic identification floating around on internet. Though I can’t say this is exciting experience (‘boring’ is the better word to use, involving searching for spec everywhere and searching for files to test, except when many proprietary formats are undocumented), such ongoing work allowed me to more firmly grasp how things can improve.
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Usability
Posted on 2008-04-17 • (1)
Games on … (ahem) … Linux
Posted on 2008-03-29 • (3)
Subscribing to HappyPenguin RSS feed might be an error. I just keep reading the same game descriptions over and over (and yawning). Finally, finding myself so bored, I decided to summarize the game descriptions. These patterns should fit more than half of all games listed in Happypenguin:
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現代的「華人與狗不得進內」
Posted on 2008-03-12 • (0)
之前看 Zone-H,留意到一則評論,基本上是網絡上的反華主義文章。和當初聯想收購 Thinkpad 的情況其實已經差很遠,華為不是全面收購 3com,只是佔少於 20% 的股份;但不同的是被美國政府以國家安全理由腰斬。不想中國染指美國的技術,向來都是這樣的,很正常。
中國人的 IT 技術,十居其九都是左抄抄右抄抄得出來的,真正自家研究得出的成果少得可憐可笑;即使是中國人本身,也清楚得很,許多都是高官、紈袴子第、親戚朋友的家家酒遊戲,不會對這些「大企業」有甚麼指望。所以被別人瞧不起,也毫無反駁餘地。說到底現在中國還有幾億人在挨餓,還說 IT ?
裏面有一兩句,可以很明顯看到文章的立場:
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