Scott Yang's Playground

Christian File Center provides many extra modules for popular free Bible study software E-Sword, a finely developed software that runs on Windows. I downloaded ESV+footnote, NET, and CUV traditional+strong. I wonder whether it is possible to use E-Sword modules with SWORD related projects, like MacSword, so I can use the same text on my iBook.

New Apple aluminium display that comes with either 20″, 23″ or 30″. Well. Nice. But somehow I think I like the previous clear-plastic design better. Maybe it is because I like the previous G4 PowerMac case better as well, than the current chunky G5 case.

The server that hosts this website and around 20 other sites had a fault hard disk, which caused a kernel panic last Wednesday. It came back on-line on Sunday, with a new 120Gb disk, a new Gentoo rebuild, upgraded to a fast Pentium III 450Mhz box, and has been running happily so far. Here is [...]

Last night I went to city to pick up Vivian from work, as it was her last day before taking 12 months of maternity leave. We were up in the office for a while trying to clean up Vivian’s desk, with things either packed up or thrown away. By the time we left Sky Garden [...]

What if Microsoft has bundled its own release of NMap, the port/vulnerbility scanning software? Have to kill clippy first…

Being a Python programmer for the past 3 and half years, today was the first time when I tried Jython, an implementation of Python in Java, which runs inside a JVM. I am porting one part of the project in Java, and I would like to examine some values interactively instead of going through the [...]

I have heard quite a lot of good reports on how Turck MMCache for PHP can improve performance. Performance does not just matter the high traffic sites, but with sites hosted on over-saturated shared hosting, or on a wimpy box like mine, it is still a good thing to have PHP performing well, especially considering [...]

Pete Ottery from f2.com.au outlined the process of SMH redesign to be more web standard compliant. Nice stuff – from market research to actual XHTML and CSS.

一搜 or Yisou.com – Yahoo’s Chinese search engine. Two things. (1) Big portal Yahoo! is moving back to simpler interface. (2) Mainland China is a big market, and Yahoo! surely knows that! Update: URL fixed.

As the software starts to bloat, you find yourself spending more time starring at the compilation screen, waiting for GNU make to finish. That along has driven me tired, to a point where little of my weekend can be remembered. I’ll just shift the knob to “random” and see how it goes.

Apparently OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 has been released with the latest bug fixes. Quite a few fixes on MS Word docs crashing OO.o, according to release notes. Sounds like I’ll be downloading that tonight.

Compare to my previous boring auction experience in real estate, bidding on eBay has been much more dynamic. I have had my eBay account for more than 4 years, but just then was my very first experience in bidding for an item. The item we want to buy is a second hand Safe n Sound [...]

I too want to have a Sun Enterprise 450 in the boot to play MP3! Except that the boot of my Nissan Pulsar might not be big enough.

Want to read Gmail from Outlook/Thunderbird/Mutt? Pop Goes to GMail runs on your Windows desktop, fetches new messages from GMail at regular interval, and then let you read them from any email readers supporting POP3 protocol.

Musician’s Friend interviewed Joe Satriani on his musical heroes. Thanks to Thomas for the link. More exclusive interview to come.