Opening of school

Today is the opening of my school, and i got this information yesterday. What a shake !! I thought that i still had a week of holiday left, but things were not so easy actually. So i went to school this morning unwillingly and started to execute the program that i charge with. My program is to improve the performance of a remote robot car by applying local lag or PHBDR. So i must find a way to measure the network delay between the client and the robot, and my boss give me a clue that maybe i can measure the delay via NTP protocol. Then it takes me a half day to finish a survey of NTP protocol used on Windows XP. Fortunately with the help of my parter, i find a program which conform to my need. I am so tired now and i need to take a break.
I find that my reading ability is getting a little bit improvement. Maybe it is the effect of the Modern Operating Systems which is a book written by Andrew s. Tanenbaum.

Write an article every three days

I found an interesting thing that till now i wrote an article every three days. Without any purpose, i just write down my feeling periodically and practice English writing ability every three days. It also means that i am just like an elementary school student who is involuntarily keeping diary everyday. But it is an old memory for me a long time ago. Actually every time when i decide to keep a diary for myself, i can always do it right for a while. Then i would forget it completely several weeks later. Maybe i need to write some drafts in case that someday i can not figure out any good idea for my Blog. But i am promising to keep this good habit in this month(, since this month is getting over).

By the way, i find that i write two articles in the same day before, and maybe i can take a break on next three day. Come on, just kidding.

Use Beryl on Ubuntu

What Beryl is?
Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users (from official site of beryl).
Well, using beryl costs a lot of resource, but it is really fantastic and attractive. Let me show some picture to you.

Fig1. Switching desktop


Fig2. Switching desktop

Fig3. Moving window.


Fig4. Closing window.(WoW)


Fig5. All executed program on the desktop.

If you want to install Beryl in your computer, you can refer to this website.

http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Ubuntu


Reference from:
hdj`s Blog: Play WOW on Ubuntu

Writing E-mail

Recently, i read a book named "Academic Writing for Graduate Students". There is an Appendix about how to write E-mail, and the topic is interesting. I extract some paragraph that is useful to me:

Studies of politeness suggest three elements for polite requests

1. Do not impose
2. Give options
3. Make the receiver feel good

Some Common Acronyms

• AKA = also known as
• ASAP =as soon as possible
• BTW = by the way
• FYI = for your information
• IMHO = in my humble opinion
• IMO = in my opinion
• LOL = laughing out loud
• WRT = with respect to

Play WOW on Ubuntu

I used Ubuntu which is based on Debian as my operating system currently, and i found that the system is pretty useful. Without massive effort, i installed Ubuntu in my computer completely in a day. In my memory, reinstalling an UNIX-like operating system costs a lot of time on tuning things(i.e., video card, audio card,language setup and X11 setup). But for the time being, it is easy for me to just "apt-get" all the drivers and softwares i need. Besides the GUI on Ubuntu is also graceful and easy to use and understand. As a Computer Science student, i believe that Ubuntu may evolve into a general operating system in the near future. Since Ubuntu is silently coming into my life, let`s see some interesting things we can do on Ubuntu.

Play WOW on Ubuntu
Actually, it is not News to play WOW on Ubuntu in these years. Because there is a software called "Wine" which can execute the softwares based on Microsoft Windows for a long time. But it is the first time i use "Wine" to play Windows game, and it really works. The pictures below show some screenshots of WOW on Ubuntu.
Nevertheless , there are some bugs between wine and scim. When i both use these two program simultaneously, the wine would freeze. The bug can be fixed by recompiling a new wine. But i want to leave it there and just let it be. ^Q^

Fig1.The beginning of WoW.


Fig2.The state of choosing character.


Fig3. The state of flying.

Beginning

Well, this is my first Blog on the "Blogger". Although I had used xoops as my personal blog since i was a senior in college, but i think it is an another start point for me to write a whole new Blog. For the time being, i use English to record what in my mind and what i see to enhance my English writing ability. Actually, i am not a native English speaker,so it may be a good beginning for me. Also, it is a good chance to express the emotion deep in my mind. By using English, i don`t need to be afraid of presenting myself because it is not my mother language. Even if i write something stupid, it goes to the poor ability of English writing. By the way, today is Valentine`s Day. It is another lonely day for me. HaHa let`s get it start.