簡愛

期望能開開心心拍過拖
凡事從簡簡單單那算多
難道求快快樂樂也成為罪過
我不必管對錯 若你更珍惜我

如若曾精精彩彩拍過拖
還用憑真真假假計算麼
來日如孤孤單單那又如何
昨天得你喜歡我 今天我可一個過

A tidy working place

my table @ 428 @ 27 Jan 2005
Originally uploaded by gaplo.

More and more machines are put on (under) my desk.

Wireless Network

ASUS WL-530g

Just get this tiny device, the manufacturer called this a "Router + Wireless Access Point".
ASUS is clever, this device make use a bunch of Open Source software that distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) (so that they can pay less effort to make this device), that's why, you can find the source code of the firmware of this device on their supporting pages.
Actually, I would prefer to treat it as a tiny Linux Box, it runs Linux, make use of netfilter, zebra, rp-pppoe, etc. I wonder if there any method to "hack" into it and add more features to it ;P

Mac World Expo 2005 at San Francisco

Apple has announced a bunch of new products, Mac Mini, iPod Shuffle, iWork05, iLife05, also demostrated a lot of new features in the upcoming OS X Tiger.
I have spent an hour to watch the Keynote Webcast (which is available on Apple's homepage), Tiger looks amazing. Not only the wonderful interface of OS X, but those ... fanncy effects. As a software engineer, it's not hard to know that Apple has spent a lot of time studying in this area.

I would happy to pay for Tiger, but not M$ Windows.

P.S. Watching the Keynote presented by Steve Jobs is certainly more interesting than listening to Tung's Policy Address, as the former one is presenting some innovative and REAL stuff, while the later one just like "water blowing". (do you guys still remember 85,000, cyberport) ;P

Since estimations are so faulty, there is little reason to be concerned when software projects do not meet estimated targets.

Since estimates are so faulty, there is little reason to be concerned when software projects do not meet estimated targets. But everyone is concerned anyway.

... I ask the attendees to work on a small task. I deliberately give them too much to do and not enough time to do it. My expectation is that the attendees will try to do the whole job, do it correctly, and therefore will produce an unfinished product because they run out of time. Not so. To a person, these attendees scramble mightily to achieve my impossible schedule. They produce sketchy and shoddy products that appear to be complete but cannot possibly work.

What does that tell me? That, in our culture today, people are trying so hard to achieve (impossible) schedules that they are willing to sacrifice completeness and quality in getting there. That there has been a successful conditioning process, one that has resulted in people doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons. And finally, and most disturbingly, that it will be very difficult to turn all of this around.

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
by Robert L. Glass

爭氣

難得　別離後　仍舊早睡早起　都夠運
而你卻　算著我　滴過幾滴眼淚　才甘心
道行高深　算你好心地　不願傷透　一個人
我問良心　即使能恨你　但放心

＊沒有空　掛念你　若我口齒　極伶俐
　大概早　已經單打單到你　受不起
　難道你　捱不起　你最好　好在你
　仍然期望　愛人變知己

　沒有心機　痛恨你　做你知己　沒名利
　大個女　縱使失戀　工作至上　才爭氣
　願諒我小氣　前度現在排第尾
　未能拿出空檔來受氣＊

Hu....... Hu......
別扮好心　勉強說分手都是好友
我至今　只得你這敵人
如何渡過　下半生

沒有空　掛念你　若我口齒　極伶俐
大概早　已經單打單到你　受不起
難道你　捱不起　我要玩　不受你
沒人纏住　你是好福氣

如果　天都迫我爭氣
離去　大概不會死
我退出　但求大家歡喜
無謂到最後　不三不四

Something about Mac =P

... most of the PC games failed to develop on the Mac specifically because the demographics of the two markets are so different. Those developers, for example, who focused on replacing the player's imagination or intelligence with interactive graphics simply found no market among Mac buyers -- most of whom are older and/or better educated than the people to whom those products sell...


Quoted from "But There's No Software for the Macintosh, Right?"
By Paul Murphy
MacNewsWorld