Then Old Age, and Experience, hand in hand,
Lead him to Death, and make him understand,
After a search so painful, and so long
That all his life he has been in the wrong.
Huddled in dirt the reasoning engine lies,
Who was so proud, so witty and so wise.
Satire Against Mankind
25
Dec
Joke: iTunes does not have a pause button
07
Dec
So what’s the idea behind this? You can play music but can not pause unless you move your mouse cursor to the song and right click to bring up the menu and hit Pause? With Spacebar that means I’ll have to be in Music mode, which happens to be not the default mode for me when opening. I am using iTunes 10.5.1.42 with Windows 7. Some smart guy tell me the reasoning of the designer here? What’s wrong with a Pause button?
(Ah, also, there’s also a need for Delete key function on iPhone/iPad.)
(Oh, and what’s wrong with a two-button mouse?)
Zotero Standalone
06
Dec
Tested it, not impressed. I hope it’s never done…
I know, I know…I am using Firefox for Zotero only. Without Zotero FF would disappear from my applications.
Don’t get me wrong, I still love FF. It’s just the slowness and the crashes have become unbearable.
I do hope FF gets popular again just like when it first tackled IE with the ad on New York Times.
Wouldn’t it be nice if FF plays a come-back just like John Travolta?
12 hours
22
Jul
I slept for 12 hours, yes.
YES!!
(guess we all need that from time to time. it’s been a while and I could really use some sleep. ^^)
So, now, a better use of time is needed. More productive, more pleasant…comes from more disciplined.
2.5 hours
20
Jul
I did an interview of 2.5 hours.
No kidding!
No wonder I felt a little tired in the interview.
If I knew it has been 2.5 hours, I’d pass out right there.
I thought I was tired and a little weak lately.
The interviewee, an older gentleman of a major Japanese company in Taiwan, is certainly one of the best I have seen.
He knows what he is doing and he uses his language well.
Notably speaking with a tone slow and firm.
A Taiwanese well-educated by Japanese.
A well-educated Taiwanese.
A well-educated person.
“sudo” for “dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ …”
15
May
I was doing a apt-get dist-upgrade and was asked by one of the upgrade jobs to choose whether or not to take the default package configuration or to keep my own configuration. I chose to take a look at how different those two were and wasn’t able to come back by press enter on the OK. So I Control-C it to come out of the window–bad idea. I received this message:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ to correct the problem.
Took me a while and some googling to try to find out what’s wrong with it. I run “dpkg –configure -a” and couldn’t get myself out of it. At the end, with the help from this post, I learned that I’ve forgotten to put “sudo” in front of it. Big time…
Aptana remote FTP permissions
15
May
Configure the permissions to 755 for folder and 644 for file should do.
Strange Thing about Age
11
May
So you are too young when you are young; and you are too old when you are old.
They would say so.
You shouldn’t do such and such because you are too young (and too old and …).
Bondages are good when we are well confined and it’s the limitations that shape us.
We are born into this confinement and trying to escape when not knowing there’s crusts after crusts.
Not to give up, but to transcend, I’ll say.
Then there goes love, hate, and everything in between.
…Oh, and age, too. (don’t forget that)
Why Aptana uses Character Encoding MS950 by default?
23
Mar
There must be reason for Aptana to use MS950 as default character encoding instead of UTF-8, but I don’t know. I was having problem opening my PHP files after a fresh installation of Aptana 2.0. Took care of it like this:
Aptana_Encoding_MS950
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
06
Feb
I had this error message: [an error occurred while processing this directive] while I tried to access my homepage, which was an issue I thought I took care of long time ago. I thought I changed some .htaccess content before for security reasons, so I was trying to figure out what I did wrong with it. It took me some time but I finally found this page and reset my file permission of index.php to 644 and it started working. Strange, though…who changed the file permission? Me?