November 29, 2008
這是象徵時代的隕落嗎(苦笑)?
前幾天把 GMail 的 Chat 功能打開,突然想到可以把 ICQ 帳號當 AIM 登進去,掛好玩的,結果密碼一直不過,去了 ICQ 頁面查了一下才發現被盜了,連 profile 也整個被改掉了。
ICQ 的 Password Recovery 據說可以拿曾經輸入的任何 E-mail 來救帳號,但是我試了卻沒用,Google 了一些說法是發現這個「據說」只限於某個時間之後輸入的 E-mail。然後,據說 ICQ 曾經因為 protocol 有 flow 所以發生過大規模帳號被盜的事情… 雖說我當年的密碼設的極為簡單,要被 brutal force attack 猜中我也不意外啦。現在各地帳號用的密碼當然複雜多了。
真可惜,是 7 碼的帳號耶。
My ICQ account got stolen. The current profile shows some kid from Russia. Password Recovery won’t help – it seems my e-mail entries was too old to be recorded.
Not the that I really need it; it just that it’s a 7-digit UIN, in a way significant to me.
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November 25, 2008
我說過的最性別偏見的話是,對著女生說「這樣的話,那不要讀書/工作趕快嫁給男朋友吧。」如果有冒犯到在這裡鄭重道歉 ….
不過,這句話會在我心裡留下深刻印象的過程,是在和家人討論我的職涯規劃的時候。原文是「男生只能一輩子拼事業,死了人上天堂錢留銀行;女生可以去拼事業,但是事業拼不起來也可以結婚。」令我非常訝異的是,當時在座的女性每個人都是一副完全同意的樣子。
這些人在我考量職涯的重要性當然就被降級啦。可是想想我怎麼能變成他們開這種玩笑….
And also maybe this is something that falls into “it’s sad but it’s true.” It’s just that I refuse to believe.
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November 19, 2008
Fashion Your Firefox 是 Mozilla 附加元件網站的新功能,讓使用者藉由自己的興趣和在網路上的活動來選擇適合自己的附加元件。大略的分類就是搜尋達人(下面的說明是「我希望網路上的資訊更容易取得、和我的偏好更貼近」)、社交蝴蝶(「我常用社交網站和親友聯繫,而且我總想辦法追蹤大家的近況」)、攝影魔人(常分享照片和影片)等等等…
我覺得這個功能超棒的,當下的反應是「咦,這個東西怎麼沒有先找我們做在地化」,不過連到了 FAQ 之後就看到它寫說現在只有英文版,以後會有其他語言版本這樣。有點麻煩的是,我看了一下它的推薦元件列表,發現很多是仰賴特定網站的… 像 Facebook、Twitter、Youtube 等等;常用的本地服務,像是無名小站、PTT、Pixnet 等等反而沒有相對的擴充套件可用啦… Firefox 沒有提供這樣屬於在地的網際體驗其實相當可惜。
MozTW 有自己的推薦套件清單啦(很遺憾的效果當時有點不好),但當然也沒有列這些不存在的套件。
資料來源:Mozilla 官方部落格。附帶一提,我還滿有興趣知道台灣到底有多少會 XUL 擴充套件開發的社群同好?或許得想想該辦什麼活動來把這個 ecosystem 帶起來…
Yahoo! 奇摩什麼時候要把 「Open」Hack Day 的那個優勝的擴充套件放出來呀…
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November 17, 2008
這句話是實驗室老師說的:「不知道為什麼,台灣學生很喜歡蓋東西 …」
聽起來很對呀,連台灣團隊在 CERN LHC 都是去蓋東西的 … XD
後面就是重點了:「… 蓋東西很好呀,可以從頭做新的裝置來處理新的[尖端的實驗]問題。但是很重要的,是知道自己的實驗需要什麼樣的裝置,反過來也要知道裝置的極限。」
說來慚愧,我會跑去實驗室,多少也是因為聽說可以從頭蓋出一個東西;反而沒有想到蓋出來之後能做什麼實驗。所以要仔細想想了呢;這就是最近的進展吧。
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November 13, 2008
應討論區上某人的希望與避免 MozTW 掉進某個雞生蛋的迴圈,我把協同翻譯站的使用說明和各軟體的翻譯現狀整理好了。整理完之後一些事情:
以下軟體的所有環境 Mozilla 都建置好了,只缺人去翻譯站翻譯,一但翻好丟上去就可以直接有 nighty 版可用(算是好事?):
- 翻譯站本身 (本來假設會來翻譯的人本身就會英文啦,但是為了親和力還是開出來翻了)
- SeaMonkey 2.0 (原本的 Mozilla Suite)
- Sunbird 1.0 & Lightning (Mozilla 行事曆軟體與 Thunderbird 的行事曆擴充套件)
- 下個版本的 Mozilla Party 網站,Mozilla 的活動舉辦平台 (Well,並沒有 nighty 可以「下載」,不過所有東西都準備好了是真的)
下面幾個則是可以在翻譯站處理,但是處理完要另外寫信去問怎麼和正式版一起發行:
- DOM Inspector
- Fennec 1.0 (Mozilla 的手機用瀏覽器,還沒推出正式版)
- Flock (現在的正體中文是簡體版的志工用簡繁轉換做的,我想可以再進步一點) (我還沒把文字放進翻譯站)
下面則是需要自己 build 語言包的測試 locale,我還沒有把環境建好所以就算翻完還是要等等:
- 太魯閣語版 Firefox
- 閩南語(白話字)版 Firefox
加上我們現在已經在照顧的部份:
- Firefox 3.1
- Thunderbird 3.0 (負責人是 abev66)
- Mozilla Addons (Mozilla 附加元件網站) (網站的介面,不包含各套件的介紹 -- 這部份需要大家幫忙)
還有我應該要做 l10n 但是還沒真的搞懂怎麼弄的部份 (汗):
- Mozilla Support (SUMO: Mozilla 技術支援文件 wiki) (網站介面,不包含文章)
- Mozilla Developer Center (MDC: Mozilla 開發者文件庫) (一樣,網站介面,不包含文章)
Wow,我們有這麼多事情可以做呢!只是,MozTW 並不是只把 l10n 顧好就能安身立命的;何況現有的人力要把所有軟體照顧好實在是力有未逮… 所以,來翻譯吧!
註:特別感謝 gap 幫忙寫了圖解版的翻譯者使用說明 (PDF)!
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November 13, 2008
From their press release, Public Television System, Taiwan’s only public television service, announced that they are running out of money and will unable to pay December salaries to their employees. This is mostly due to the government budget last year that suppose to donate to PTS foundation is being frozen for unacceptable eleven months.
The KMT lawmakers who block the money (I am not sure whether DDP, the other party, is involved or not) saying that they are concerned the “liberal bias” of PTS programming and the “lack of oversight” from “the people” over the use of the founding. They also do that out of fear (or punishment?) for PTS’s alleged bias to the previous DDP administration.
From my POV, this is just another sample that government, both executive branch and legislation branch, fighting over for the “control” of supposed public television service. PTS has grown from one small channel which barely make their own programs to a large television group called TBS, owning multiple channels and even operating a citizen journalism website. While I am happy that public television could grown to the size today that can actually have their voice heard by the people, this inevitably draw the attention of politicians and the government, who already owns, or influenced heavily, the commercial televisions, especially news networks. This, really worries me.
It’s public television, it’s for the people. It’s suppose to be “liberal”, to talk more about the enviroment, social justice, public policies which favors few but not many, to counter commercial and government run medium. Public Television Act was specially crafted to avoid government involvement of their operation while still able to get money from it. Unfortunately, at the end of day, the lawmakers would simply block the money, show them “who’s the boss.”
Come on, People are the boss. If I win the lottary, I would donate most of the money to PTS. But before I do, PTS would just have to hanging there.
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