Wine in Laptop

Wine in laptop!! What a terrible thing it is. But in case someday this could happen to me, i need to prepare for it. Below is a link that teaches us how to deal with such condition. Keep it in mind, it makes things better.

1. You need to disconnect all power sources to not make things worse
2. Time is not your friend.

http://www.grynx.com/projects/wine-in-laptop/

Useful Things to Know About Ph. D. Thesis Research

This article was written by H.T. Kung.(Prepared for "What is Research" Immigration Course, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 14 October 1987)

link:
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/thesis.htm

There are several interesting topic in this article. In the subject 4 he presented 4 stages for a Ph.D student. And these stages are most important processes for student.

• Knowing everything stage
  • Student: "I have designed a supercomputer even before graduate school."
  • Faculty: speechless
• Totally beaten up stage
  • Student: speechless
  • Faculty: smiling at the student's progress so communication is possible now.
• Confidence buildup stage
  • Student: "I am not stupid after all." (student thinks)
  • Faculty: "Uh oh, she is ready to argue." (faculty think)
• Calling the shot stage
  • Faculty: "I am going to design an n-processor supercomputer."
  • Student: "You are crazy, because ..."

Maybe it is a good idea to translate it into Chinese some other day.

New Topic for WII

"An approach to improve the performance of WIImote via experimenting with WII sport under wireless sensor network."

Abstract

Recently my lab plan to buy a new equipment for some special purposes. The equipment is a video game console which is called WII made by Nintendo. For its new input device WIImote which contains several acceleration sensors and infrared detection, we design to purchase one. The WIImote is a new application of hybrid combination of acceleration sensors and infrared sensors, and it is also a kind of position system, since this concept is presented for a long time. But it is the first time we can see this kind of equipment in everyone`s home. Moreover, the WIImote connects to the console using Bluetooth under the wireless environment.So we bring up several new topic issues for WIImote in this project.

In order to deal with these issues, we devise several experimentations to improve the performance of WIImote. The experiment shows how we solve the problem we met during the training of WIImote. Furthermore, during the process of the experiment a new kind of algorithm was presented to point out the main problem we face. This is a new interesting topic, and we will keep on tracing it.



For more information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii

Edit your mii
http://www.miieditor.com/

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