Scott Yang's Playground

There is a review of OpenOffice.org 1.1.1b, the recently released beta for the new release of OpenOffice.org, i.e. the one I was eagerly waiting for as it (supposedly) fixed a table height bug that affects conversion between SXW and DOC. The review is pretty no frills – showing each of the OOo components without talking [...]

According to Glenn, who is a webmaster at the Voice of Martyrs, that VoM has somehow being classified as “hate speech” by the web filter policy of Alabama‘s Public School system, whom Andy the Geek works for. I hope that it is just some dodgy algorithm the web filter implemented that automatically counts the proportion [...]

From the Firebird website, Release 1.5 of the Firebird database has just been released over the weekend. From the CVS log of the “WhatsNew” file, it seems the final release is the same as RC9 released a week ago. I just back up a database from Firebird 1.0.3, restore it on the new 1.5, and [...]

Yeah. I have finally moved to the new place that we bought last October. Even though the move has not yet fully completed (need to file thousands of change address form and move the junks from the garage), but Vivian and I have stayed in the new place for a few nights now. Many of [...]

I meant to post this last Friday, but was too busy to send it off. Here’s just some links and comments I’ve collected while being away from blogging…

Tonight I will be moving the good old server from my old place on Kennedy Street to my new house on Gardeners Road. I am aiming to start at 10:00 PM, and hoping to get the box moved in 2 hours. Here is my plan: ssh into the box at 10:00 PM, from my iBook [...]

Three days ago I downloaded 120Mb of NeoOffice/J 0.8 by Patrick Luby, and has been playing around it for a while. Now I decided that OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 for Mac/X11 is no longer useful for me, as Neo does pretty much the same thing plus more – without the burden of running an X server. It [...]

Last Thursday I gave GL a call with a late Happy Chinese New Year greeting, and we chatted about life and Christianity back home. GL has been back in Shandong, China for a month now, after spending 5 years in Sydney and 3 years with Mandarin Bible Fellowship. He was amongst one of the first [...]

Departed Sydney on Friday night, I spent the weekend with other FOCUS long termers, i.e. those who are too lazy to leave unichurch after finishing uni, at a nice resort near Lake Macqurie, 2 hours drive north of the Eastern suburbs. Weekend was very relaxed, except that it was a little bit too short. I [...]