The loss of nutrients of vegetables and a funny link.
Veggies are losing power. and some fun and strange marketing pictures.
Linux is the product of jealous european and chinese hackers
A hilarious entry in some blog about why Linux exists. Funny also the quote of the blog FOR GOD, FREEDOM AND GEORGE W. BUSH – ONE NATION UNDER GOD : : U – S – A : (Love it or Leave it!). Love who? Bush, the USA, God or freedom?
There are some pearls like: "And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop?
If you guessed it was Linux you would be 100% right. Osama uses Linux because he knows designed to counterfit DVDs, circumventing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and defraud companies like Disney."
Also the comments are damn funny. I guess this is not for real, or it's the blog of some lost evulutionary lost link.
04.19.06OSASK screenshots
I tried OSASK Open Source OS yesterday and made a screenshot. It seems a windowsy alike OS. It appears to have some difficulty booting inside vmware sometimes. I was surprised that it fits on a floppy. Seems it's quite hardcoded to be compiled in windows. Written in C. The source.
Also, the OSASK guys said japan is cold on winter and hot and humid on summer, so I guess probably the best would be to go on spring and also have the chance to see the cherry blossom. They also said to visit the Tokyo imperial palace and that Kioto streets were beautiful.
Japanese environment
I have definitevely switched all my boxes to use unicode es_ES.UTF-8 locale. In my quest to be able to read and write japanese and chinese with my computers I have discovered that the path is not a bed of roses, but at least things can work to some extent.
I am able to read and display kana and kanji with almost all X11 apps. The steps to do this are installing the required fonts, which can be done easily searching for “japanese” stuff in apt. Then for input I installed some input methods such as “scim” and “canna”. I have only tried “scim”, which seems very nice way to do multilanguage input, unfortunately KDE apps don’t work with it, and trying to make them use “scim” as an input method by starting apps with the following enviroment variables:
#!/bin/sh
export XMODIFIERS=”@im=SCIM”
export GTK_IM_MODULE=”scim”
export XIM_PROGRAM=”scim -d”
export QT_IM_MODULE=”scim”
All of which can be put on a file on /etc/X11/Xesssion.d if you don’t mind breaking KDE. I think the culprit of this bad behaviour is QT, as I’ve read on the net. I hope this fixed soon. Also some very useful tools which I have discovered ATM are “gjiten” which is a kanji / kana dictionary that uses kanjidict. Also I found some irc server with some people that appears to be developing an operating system called “OSASK” of which little information is in english, and with my speed reading japanese, it could take some time until I decipher some useful information to swum up what is this OS about, by now I can say it’s オープンソースのオペレーティングシステム (OOPENSOOSU NO OPEREETINGUSHISUTEM, open source operating system). Those folks were very nice to me, and I got to reminiss a little when I was a teenager and I had my first IRC session, which at that time appeared to me as a very misterious and wonderf thing to be able to have conversations with other people around the world. In IRC seems that japanese don’t use unicode, instead for historic resons they use iso-2200-jp encoding, that is displayed correctly with xchat, and also that the popular input method they were using was “canna”. The biggest japanese irc network “WIDE” is restricted by password パスワード (PASUWAADO, another of those funny english barbarisms). I will be investigating this a little further to discover the reason why this irc network is restricted.I used xchat for todays quest, but my favourite irc program is irssi, because I need to use a console client for remote attaching my session with screen. The impression I got from xchat was quite nice, specially from the multilanguage support and the tabbed environment.
In the following days I will setup gjitten and those nice tools in my ipaq3660 running GNU/Linux familiar, so I can have it handy for deciphering japanese on the go. Probably I’ll have to store that on the external CF card after cross compiling, since its internal flash is already so bloated.
Now I have to go, since the temperature of my testicles is raising dangerously. Laptops aren’t nice for use in bed, also I promised myself to go to bed early today, and using the laptop in bed is capital sin for careless insomniacs and sleep “deprecated” persons like me. And yes I wanted to make an absurd engrish misspelling to end this burst of nonsense.
04.12.06Hyper-realistic human sculptures
I’d love to put one of those hyper-realistic human sculptures on some rooftops around.