（这是一个Open Source的年代，无边无尽的Internet有着无数优秀的免费软件。而且看样子用盗版可以用很爽的时代已经快到尽头了，让我们一起来研究如何用最少的资源来获得最“利”的器，从而“善”我们的事吧）
Browser： Firefox
FTP client & server: Filezilla/Server
Backup & Synchronization: SyncBack
BitTorrent: uTorrent
RSS Reader: GreatNews
Source Code Reading: Source Navigator/Extersion
Secure Shell: PuTTy
Network Packets Capture: Wireshark
Pictures viewer: FastStone Image Viewer
Notepad: Notepad++
System cleanup: CCleaner
Spyware remover: ewido anti-spyware
Online Dictionary: 词霸豆豆， Wordnet
Movie playback: Media Player Classic, K-Lite Codec Pack.. Full
Mind Mapping: Freemind
CD/DVD Burner: CDBurner XP Pro
Hyper Terminal: TeraTerm Pro
Zip/UnZip: 7-Zip
Remote Control: Synergy
PDF Creator: PDFCreator
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Sunday, August 27, 2006
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Efficient news reading
Still remember the experience of reading news paper: just several pieces of paper, but it can accompany you through long and boring periods as "...in W.C...in train...". It proves that if I want to read through the entire journal, I have to spend several hours! But, in fact, there are rare useful information for me!
Thanks to the boom of internet, one can browse nearly anything he want to learn just using the mouse pointer. Also thanks to modern information technology, ICPs can organize "news" and "olds" conveniently. But, I believe in most case, we just keep jumping from one hyperlink to another, therefore, the browsing may take great time and efforts from us. To be frank, it is a waste of time indeed.
People are always so smart that there are always so many changes on us everyday. Among those, there is one tiny stuff called "RSS". If you want to learn more about this abbreviation, please search through google.com. Currently, many websites offer content updates in RSS format. Correspondingly, there are many tools to read the RSS files.So, I don't need to tolerate the tiresome low speed to let sina, netease,.. show all they have to me. I just need the updated ones! It saves much of my time.
If you have any interests, I will guide you through the whole procedure of mine.
1. Choose one RSS reading tool, I choose Greatnews(Windows) and Liferea(Linux).
2. Choose RSS sources:
2.1 there are several places where people can discuss and save many interesting things together:such as digg(http://digg.com/rss/index.xml), populicious(http://populicio.us/newlinks.rss), reddit(http://reddit.com/.rss). After subcribing to those RSS feeds, I can obtain one rough understanding of those people are talking about mostly.
2.2 I choose google news as the main source of domestic news. I don't like baidu news search, because it just directly shows you ALL what it gets by sending you over one thousand "news" to you in no more than one hour, then what is the key points?
2.3 If you are interested in interesting new engadgets, you can subcribe to this feed: http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml
2.4 Because I want to know the development of Linux and other open source projects, I also read feeds from lwn, slashdot, linux today.
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3. After the process of subscription, most of the configuration is done.
Then, all you have to do will be: Open the tool, click the "update all" button, and the tool will collect all those you want to be informed from google, linux today, .... And then, you can just spend a little time to keep yourself updated.
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The above bunch of words is just one exercise for English, if you really want to learn more, please refer to the article:
用Freemind来选个好老公
将近100多年 前，十月革命的一声炮响，给这个世界带来了马克思主义，以至于最终有了社会主义新中国的今天。时间又过了很久，又是一声巨响，mind mapping以及freemind来到了这个世界，混沌的世界从此变得清晰，有条理，就宛如盘古开天的巨斧，给我们带来了一片青天。。。
我声嘶力竭地喊了很久，回应者却寥寥，就仿佛一个落寞的先行者。肩头重担虽有千钧，我却不能不鼓起勇气扛起来，我必须排除千辛万苦，赴汤蹈火， 把Freemind推广开来。因为我知道假如没有人同样排除万难把“火轮车”， Elec. brain推广到我们的国家，那么何来我们现在繁荣鼎盛的社会主义新局面？
轰隆隆中，历史车轮把我们带入21世纪，这个一个变革的年代，不去适应这个时代的特征，我们迟早会被淘汰。杰出的喜剧工作者周星驰先生在20世纪90年代就非常有预见性地告诉我们，“人不接受新事物，那跟咸鱼还有什么分别？！“
说到这里，我要先向Freemind的作者道歉，因为我没有办法比较正常地把这个优秀的工具推广开来，只能学那些星星们，搞点什么道道，来吸引大家的眼球。在招聘过程中，因为与Elsa的讨论获得灵感，因而我就取了个这么个哗众取宠的名称，还请大家见谅这个。
虽然说我还真对”好老公“这个东西少研究，但到这里也已经是势如骑虎，只好迎着头皮上了：
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咳，咳，好老公嘛。。。他得首先是。。。。是个男的。。。
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说真的，要是问大家怎么样的人会是一个好老公，我肯定会受到无数个答案，但是应该大体上都是什么帅啊，什么心肠好，阳光男孩啊，经济发展水平高啊等等，所以与其把所有的东西这么”混沌“（注意了！注意了！我第二次提到”混沌“了）地全部记录下来，还不如做个分类：
所以，要考察一个好老公的化，我们大致可以考察他的4个方面，分别是”形象，人品，经济水平，搭配“4个大方面，就好比”好老公“可怜地被设计成一本书，他有个目录，虽然说这个目录仅有可怜的4项，当然说这4个方面要都好那也很不容易;-)
接着，我们又可以往下面想了，“形象好”又包括什么呢？通过我们再次地冥思苦想，终于，图形变成了这个样子：
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一个下午被打断无数次，终于写不下去了，算了，看看最终结果吧：
（再次看图）
假如我们对“浪漫”这点非常看重，我们就可以特别在上面加个标记，免得自己一时忘了，而结婚后却后悔莫及。。。 :)
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这么长，该累了吧，但是后面才真正是精髓，打起精神，再坚持一下：
因此，我觉得，freemind好处是：
1. 利用树形结构，可以让看似复杂的东西条理化。所以我们不仅可以用它来考虑老公，还可以用来考虑买房子，买电视，买电脑，买。。。几乎所以东西都可以，只是我还不知道怎么来表示－－关系“网”。。
2. 通过长时间不断累计，不会因为当初某些东西 没有考虑，而最后后悔，要评估时我们只要抓住最末端的“叶”节点就可以了。
3. 可以有效记录brain storm（头脑风暴），让我们考虑东西全面！
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“兴趣”
又有人要走了，因为“没有兴趣”，“不太适合”。表面看来好像不太关我的事，但是从深处看，我又该负上什么责任呢。。。
忽然觉得，“兴趣”这个东西，似乎并不是天生就有的，就象刚生下来的我，又怎么会对计算机科学产生这么浓厚的兴趣呢？人总是在不断的学习，不断的进步，不 断地获得成就感后，才会拥有对某个事情继续研究下去的动力，也才会有信心继续研究下去，也才有所谓的“兴趣”，也才觉得自己似乎还挺”适合“。这样看来， 是不是我们太过于看重结果，而不重视过程了呢。我们只喜欢跟着”强者“一起欢欣鼓舞，分享成功的喜悦，而忘记了那些默默耕耘但却可能只是暂时不是十分”耀 眼“的人。
静静想来，很多东西都是相对而言的，每个人的发展经历都是不同的，因为某人某项基础好，所以做他所”擅长“的事情，当然就上手快！但是，他真的很“强”？ 真的就应该是我们的重点发展对象？我看并不尽然。或者我应该多一双伯乐的眼睛，可以跟大家一起成长，那就好了。。。
或者，我不该太吝惜掌声，多一点鼓舞，对每个也许已经输在起跑线上的人来说，都是非常重要的。
当然，这也同时说明，身在这个急功近利的社会，我们必须时刻做好准备来接受即将到来的挑战。并不是每个人都会有机会让你慢慢来的。。。
借用“我猜”的口号：Are you ready? GO!
思维导图(Mind Mapping)
我们先不管什么是思维导图，先看看例子：
"“使用思维导图是波音公司的质量提高项目的有效组成部分之一。这帮助我们公司节省了一千万美元。”
——MikeStanley，波音公司，美国
美 国波音公司在设计波音747飞机的时候就使用了思维导图。据波音公司的人讲，如果使用普通的方法，设计波音747这样一个大型的项目要花费6年的时间。但 是，通过使用思维导图，他们的工程师只使用了6个月的时间就完成了波音747的设计！并节省了一千万美元。思维导图的威力惊人吧？！"
——MikeStanley，波音公司，美国
美 国波音公司在设计波音747飞机的时候就使用了思维导图。据波音公司的人讲，如果使用普通的方法，设计波音747这样一个大型的项目要花费6年的时间。但 是，通过使用思维导图，他们的工程师只使用了6个月的时间就完成了波音747的设计！并节省了一千万美元。思维导图的威力惊人吧？！"
详细介绍可以参见：
在PC上常用软件有MindManager， freemind等。
后者是免费的，加上使用方便，重点推荐。
我发现，freemind这个小冬冬，严格说来应该是说思维导图，对于我们研发工作来说，除了对阅读程序有帮助之外，对于阅读常见文档也是很有帮助的哦！
其实说到底也是很简单的一个原理：把一团混沌的状态转化为一种更为清晰的结构化的状态，当然对理解和记忆都有帮助！
My thoughts about GTD on Palm
As you know, GTD means Get Things Done.
First question: Why PDA?
I believe we all have the experience of keeping telling ourselves not to forget something very important, and because of that, that thought may interrupt you greatly even every 5 miniues. It certainly leads to low efficiency, because we cannot focus on the job we were doing. So we need one reliable system which can help us not miss everything we hope to do. Here, you may said, " Oh, yeah, I've had the system, Microsoft Outlook!" I admit that Outlook is a powerful tool, but because it runs on PC, you cannot take it with you. You cannot promise to be always in front of your computer. PDA is a little one that you can put it in your pocket. If you've got one PDA, it may seems that you've also got one personal secretary who is always with you. PDA is reliable then all you shall do is to record the messages on PDA, and when you shall turn to sth., it can notify you. So you will never have to keep reminding yourself of something nervously..so that you can greatly improve your job quality and efficiency.
Second question: How can we?
There are many software devoted to helping us Get our Things Done on Palm, such as Life Balance, Datebk5, ... I choose Lift Balance and Datebk5. Datebk5 can deal well with periodical events and other assignments related to your timetable. If I shall interview somebody this evening, I will open databk5 and choose the period 18:00-- 19:00 of today, and turn on alerting. And by default, when it is 17:55, my PDA will keep beeping to remind me of that. So it is not likely that I can miss the important assignment. If you encounter something not greatly related to your timetable, you can use the other tool: Lift Balance. The main advantage of this tool is that you are offered to define several "place", which can be open or close according to the defined open and close time. That means that you don't have to pay attention to the office stuffs when you are "home" after 21:00, because it can "close" them. For example, yesterday evening, your boss phoned you that you should make a call to Bill Gates when you were in office. To deal with this event, you opened Life Balance and chose the place: "Office", entered the message and then continued with your sleeping. This morning, when you were in office, you took out your PDA and wanted to know what you should do today, then you get told by PDA that you shall make a call to Bill.
Other tools?
Yes, if you are dealing with some big projects, so Bonsai, project@hand and somthing else can help you greatly. Maybe we can discuss them in the near future.
Using freemind to obtain good understandings of your programs
Today, I'd like to introduce one excellent tool called: freemind to you...You can obtain the latest version from http://freemind.sourceforge.net. It is a Java program, so you still need to download Java run-time environment. That website also tells you the exact link to download the enviroment.
I believe it is a very good tool for me to understand the complicated computer programs, including the linux kernel.
I also had the experiences of using Visio. To be honest, you can draw very beautiful flowcharts by the tool. Because some programs are so complex, I have to draw many many text boxes to represent the functions within the entire flow. And because of the limited layer, I also had to do many works to adjust the positions of all the text boxes and all the arrows.
Freemind is not just designed to draw flowcharts, its main aim is to help you trace the status of one big projects.
Thought the branching, you can divide your big project into several smaller "projects", and then more smaller projects... Also, you can freely collapse or expand the branches to obtain more clear understandings.
Besides the above, freemind can do the adjustment job instead me when I want to add something into quantities of text boxes, which is the biggest advantage for me, so I like it...
My second PDA -- Palm Tungsten W
My first PDA is one palm125. During that days, I kept trying popular softwares I'd learnt from tompda forum. One day when I was learning English by Sugarmemo on it, my gf said, "oh, it is a wonderful thing, I'll like to get one, too." And just at that time, my mobile phone was dying, the LCD screen was turning dimmer and dimmer, I can hardly read the message on the screen when it was dark around me. So I was determined to buy one PDA with the functionarity of mobile phone, and of course it must be cheap.
During the period of searching, I began to have interest in Palm Tungsten W. something of that model:
* 320x320 resolution.
* colorful LCD screen displaying
* built-in keyboard
* mobile phone
* supports SD/MMC card
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Because I didn't have much knowledge of palm at that time, I didn't care much about the OS version of the handheld device. As we all know today, the OS version is palm 4.1.2
According to my knowledge, I thought that it must be cheaper in Taiwan. Since I would have a business trip to Taipei soon, I hoped I can get cheaper one in Taipei.
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After several days, I was in Taipei. As soon as I was free in that weekend, I sincerely ask Spencer to take me to "GuangHua Shang Chang". I kept searching everywhere, and I didn't wanna miss one possible vendor... It disappointed me much that they didn't have any in their stock because TW is an really old model!
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After I returned to hotel, I found some in taobao website, and the vendors are in Zhejiang!
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Thanks to the boom of "electronical commerce(sorry, because I can't remember the correct word)", I finally got one through taobao from one Hangzhou seller.
People told me that vodafone version doesn't have good batteries. Though it really has one big vodafone logo on it, I still like it much...
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Because my "old" mobile phone was unusable, I held palm TW tightly and presented the "old" palm to my gf. I sincerely hope that she can greatly improve her English through the palm.
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Girls always care for clothings much more than electrical stuffs. After several days, the poor palm evently couldn't escape from the destiny of lying lonely with dust on the table. &%^~!@#%^$%.
my first PDA-palm 125
一直以为PDA是有钱 人的玩具，因为都很贵。直到那天我看到了中国计算机报的那篇文章“用PDA。。。”，具体题目忘了，以至于当我要开始买的时候，想要重新参考，却怎么也找 不到原来的文章了。看完那篇文章，对那个电子书阅读很有兴趣。因为我感觉，我有很多时间都是浪费掉了，比如在漫长的旅程中。。漫长的等待中。。而对于我们 男的来说，需要承受太大的压力，计算机行业是一个需要进行不断学习的行业，为了不断获得知识，必须不断进行学习，也就是阅读。
所以，我就 开始了我寻找pda的过程。我觉得Palm应该是比较适合我，因为兼容性好，电池耐用，软件还比较多。而价钱最好是低一点，因为我对pda实在还不了解， 不希望花那么多钱买来的东西是个鸡肋，没多大用处。去徐家汇电脑城看了看，没什么收获。太贵！于是转到网上，找淘宝、易趣来获取一些卖家的信息。因为受我 买第3个MP3的影响，所以不敢买太差的，当时主要集中在PalmV、PalmIII、Palm125、Palm105上。经过详细分析以后，我选择 m125，因为首先m125的CPU是最快的－－33，可以扩展SD卡，8M的RAM。在易趣上看了看，东西是在是太少。。。个人感觉现在淘宝的东西比易 趣的多很多。。。找到一个江苏的，是拍卖，当时已经是390多块了，全新的，查看拍卖记录，发现有另一位江苏的也在不停的拍，怀疑是在恶意抬告物品价格， 于是就退缩不敢跟拍了，最后成交价为405元。等这个过了后，我却再也找不到低于这个价格的了，无奈又从淘宝另一家上以450元拍得一台全新无包装的 Palm125。
到手以后，也就是开始了菜鸟胖鸟的生活.感觉还不错，唯一不爽的就是换电池时，很容易会丢失数据。幸好我用cardbackup可以随时备份数据。
我 花了很长时间学习和试用网上菜鸟入门教程，时至今日，似乎已经开始在享受palm给我带来的各种乐趣和方便了： 我用isilo阅读专业书籍；用PMT进行个人财务管理；用tealmovie把女朋友的录像片断带在身边，以慰身在台北对她的相思之苦；jpgview 可以观看用数码相机拍下来的相片；bigclock让我早上可以准时起床；kdic和msdict可以随时查字典；handbase则可以建起个人数据 库；自带的address也保存了很多通讯录。。。
在台北的时间内，因为比较无聊，随便研究研究现在比较流行的GTD软件，打算在回到上海以后，装个life balance和bonsai试用一下，因为据说它们可以提高我们的工作效率哦。。。
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