06.11.09
Posted in Apple at 9:34 pm by fkam
Software that I use on my MacBook, 4GB RAM, 320GB SATA2.
OSX Software
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
http://www.openvpn.org/
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
http://adium.im/
http://www.moztw.org/
http://mirasoftware.com/BPE2/
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/CombinePDFs.shtml
http://cyberduck.ch/
http://www.divx.com/zh-hans/mac
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
http://www.ffmpegx.com/
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/
http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.inkscape.org/
http://seashore.sourceforge.net/
http://skype.pchome.com.tw/index.htm
http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/stuffit.html
http://www.moztw.org/thunderbird/
http://www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/
http://www.truecrypt.org/
http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
http://www.zimbra.com/
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06.17.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:43 pm by fkam
http://a-s-k.sourceforge.net/
On top of Bayesian and Spamassassin kind of antispamming, I also use ASK (see link above).
The concept is simple:
- email sender that’s not on yr whitelist will receive an automatic reply email with a hashed code in the subject
- the recipient will press the REPLY button to reply once
- the ASK system receives the reply and auto-add it on the whitelist, and the email delivered
- next time it would get in without being asked (challenged)
- alternatively, you can assign a secret key (text phrase) for your sender to include in the email to send to you (such as replying yr signature), and that automatically gets through too
I understand spammer can spoof sender email etc. However, after using this for a year, it’s actually quite effective in blocking those machine generated mass mailing. Try it out:-) ….
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04.16.08
Posted in Linux at 1:53 pm by fkam
Turning software as service is perhaps one of the biggest evolution of information technologies in this century. Like Drupal, I’ve been using it sine the phpNuke era, but so far Hong Kong is still very quiet over these activities.
Could it be because of training? Could it be because of a lack of biz model that applies? We don’t need answer. We just work it out. So, here it is: http://www5.uniforce.net/corp/drupal-training-v1.pdf
Course Description and Registration
It’s not FREE. It will cost you. But if everyone’s in US and Europe are learning and using it, why not you? There must be a reason. For me, nothing charms as much as information technologies, the magic force behind every modern activity.
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11.11.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:12 am by fkam
Leopard is supposed to be true 64bit OS. It’s tempting to put 4G there and try it out. I put 2 x 2G Transcend DDR2 667 SODIMM in my Macbook and it works fine.
I’ve been running this config for 1 month now. So far it didn’t hand or crash. I used a lot of VM’s, so that helps a lot for me to run Windows and FC7 together.
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10.27.07
Posted in Apple at 12:49 am by fkam
Well, spent 3 hrs on installing Leopard! It doesn’t surprise me too much though as the document preview and the stacker view all take a bit longer time than expected to show. Neo Office doesn’t work (2.1??). I’m downloading the latest 2.2.2 with the document preview function also, thks to the great open source community. The visual 3D preview based browsing really is good – a lot more bandwidth than just the file names alone.
I’m wondering if the memory management gets better. Launching Thunderbird seems faster. The email downloads faster also. Firefox eats a lot of memory. Safari seems doing this “Contacting…” most of the time. Not sure if it’s DNS latecy or what.
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09.16.07
Posted in Linux at 8:37 pm by fkam
I went to the latest Free Software Day event in Hong Kong Polytechnic last Saturday. It was a surprise to me when I saw about hundred people attended. I spoke on the topic of OSS business opportunities. I talked about sharing, enabling others to make a hundred and in return you can earn a dollar. I think some audience agrees with me.
About “Free”, it’s freedom of course. Imagine our world without free software, and all your software come from just one supplier. How boring could that be? No innovation of course.
Too much freedom, however, then that comes to the dirty part of human nature, which is “lazy”. We don’t want to choose, we don’t want to learn, and we don’t want to take risk. But at the end of the day, we complain:-)
Software, like newspaper, nowadays become what it is to what the users are.
Fair? Yes, fair.
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07.29.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:53 pm by fkam
Lukang is one of the places where traces of Japanese colonial history are found in Taiwan. Hardly find any restaurant in downtown, though many shops of ancient heritage are there. I found a temple with door within door, typical of the Chinese garden architecture. In the restaurant, I read a book with a story about the Japanese colonial migrants from 190x to 193x. Life was not easy from today’s point of view. Societies like these were inevitably segregated into classes. While reading, I started to mirror what was happening with Hong Kong under British colonial rule after World War II.
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07.26.07
Posted in photo at 11:03 pm by fkam
Taipei needs some momentum despite of the pretty 101 standing in the middle of a giant city. But perhaps this is where life quality comes in when you have time to slow down.
You can tell from people’s face. They smile.
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07.01.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:35 am by fkam
It seems iPhone has its sim burnt in; never seen a real one; I always think that a phone should be operator independent. Today, I went to check out the HTC. Almost bought one. But again, WM, …, not my type…. why they never do the IBM PC game – release the platform as a standard … uBuntu desktop not bad.
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03.31.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:50 pm by fkam
Two days in Cebit, I inhaled 2nd hand smoke equivalent to one month’s amount in Shanghai. There’re huge ash trays and smoking areas in the middle of any exhibition hall. Yes, not outside, but in the middle. And I’m not seeing any special ventilation arrangement. You can’t escape from the smoke in the tiny lobby of Hannover Messe train station, nor the train gleis. To escape outside the hall, it’s icy rain and wind, and my lung can get hurt faster than smoking the 2nd hand cigarette.
I miss home – the new indoor smoke banning law in Hong Kong.
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