The necessity to write a namelist driver in C.

Okay, I am going to read into libi77 for more information:

"There is no C or C++ equivalent of Fortran list-directed I/O (READ (unit,*) io-list, WRITE (unit,*) io-list), or of Fortran NAMELIST I/O (READ (unit,namelist-name), WRITE (unit,namelist-name)). Avoid those Fortran features if you expect to process such files with programs written in other programming languages." - http://www.math.utah.edu/software/c-with-fortran.html

EPIC FAIL: Jackie Chan's mouth

On April 19th, 2009, Hong Kong movie legend Jackie Chan told a Chinese audience that too much political freedom can lead to chaos "like in Taiwan". He also said ethnic chinese people are "born to be managed (and controlled)". Now he is not only known to be failing to control his penis and also his mouth.

中華民國年金繳費

幹

Why is it so slow?

ppc 10.5.6, 12/15... (faster?)

Finished verify/repair permissions on disk disk0s3 Macintosh HD
real      6559.69
user      1548.44
sys         69.40

ppc 10.5.4, 6/30... (much slower)

2008-06-30 14:50:52 -0700: Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
2008-06-30 14:50:53 -0700:  Reading permissions database.
2008-06-30 14:50:53 -0700:  Reading the permissions database can take several minutes.
2008-06-30 15:40:49 -0700: Permissions differ on "private/var/log/secure.log", should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r----- .
2008-06-30 17:03:00 -0700: Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.
2008-06-30 17:05:31 -0700: Permissions repair complete
2008-06-30 17:05:31 -0700: 

ppc 10.5.3, 6/17.... (slower than previous ones!)

2008-06-17 12:05:06 -0700: Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
2008-06-17 12:05:07 -0700:  Reading permissions database.
2008-06-17 12:05:07 -0700:  Reading the permissions database can take several minutes.
2008-06-17 13:09:21 -0700: Permissions repair complete

ppc 10.5.3, 5/31/08, 12:50 PM (New one is even slower.)

2008-05-31 10:05:44 -0700: Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
2008-05-31 10:05:45 -0700:  Reading permissions database.
2008-05-31 10:05:45 -0700:  Reading the permissions database can take several minutes.
2008-05-31 10:26:53 -0700: Permissions differ on "private/var/log/secure.log", should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r----- .
2008-05-31 11:05:40 -0700: Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.
2008-05-31 11:05:47 -0700: ACL found but not expected on "Applications".
2008-05-31 11:05:47 -0700: ACL found but not expected on "Library".
2008-05-31 11:05:56 -0700: Permissions repair complete

ppc 10.5.2, 2/15/08, 5:14 PM

2008-02-15 16:23:14 -0800: Disk Utility started.
2008-02-15 16:23:23 -0800: Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
2008-02-15 16:40:00 -0800: Permissions differ on "private/var/log/secure.log", should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r----- .
2008-02-15 17:12:49 -0800: ACL found but not expected on "Library".
2008-02-15 17:12:52 -0800: Permissions differ on "usr/X11/bin/Xfake", should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are -rwxrwxr-x .
2008-02-15 17:13:33 -0800: Permissions repair complete
2008-02-15 17:13:33 -0800:

台灣北海岸海洋浩劫

From http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/bettybluelin/article?mid=6939, an oil-spill accident seriously damages Taiwan's northern coast environment.

More on the oil spill:

1. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/11/12/2003428361
2. http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_301558.html
3. http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=791682

I have been watching this

http://live.yahoo.com/wenli # a live broadcast from the college student group protesting on violation of personal traveling freedom and freedom of speech by the Taiwanese government during the visit of Chinese envoy.

There has been no violence inside the student group. Which contradicts with the report from China-owned media like TVBS-news and pro-China media like UDN-group.

Printing Shipping Labels on USPS Website with Safari

--> EPIC FAIL

Analysis: for some reason, the printing function of safari is having trouble sending data to the printer, probably in very slow speed. The reason that I say it might be slow is that I actually got the first page of the labels after I cancelled the job and waited for a while. It might also be a problem processing later pages (#2 and 3).
Solution: Use firefox.

好大一籌

From http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NATS5/4392557.shtml

和八年前陳水扁總統上任滿月時七成五的滿意度相比，馬總統執政首月的好評略遜一籌，滿意度較陳總統當時少了廿五個百分點。

好大一籌呀，聯合報

Gee

via http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080228/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush,

On one issue particularly worrisome to American consumers, there are indications that paying $4 for a gallon of gasoline is not out of the question once the summer driving season arrives. Asked about that, Bush said "That's interesting. I hadn't heard that. ... I know it's high now."

Gee... amazing/amusing.

A history file that crashes your tcsh in leopard

[localhost:~] johndoe% tcsh --version
tcsh 6.14.00 (Astron) 2005-03-25 (powerpc-apple-darwin) options wide,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,color,filec
[localhost:~] johndoe%
[localhost:~] johndoe% bash
localhost:~ johndoe$ cd
localhost:~ johndoe$ mkdir backup.tcshtest
localhost:~ johndoe$ mv .history .login* .cshrc* .tcsh* backup.tcshtest/
localhost:~ johndoe$ curl http://mjhsieh.googlepages.com/history-crash -o .history
localhost:~ johndoe$ bash -c 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8 tcsh'
Segmentation fault
localhost:~ johndoe$ bash -c 'LANG=C tcsh'
[localhost:~] johndoe%
[localhost:~] johndoe% exit
localhost:~ johndoe$ rm .history
localhost:~ johndoe$ bash -c 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8 tcsh'
[localhost:~] johndoe%
[localhost:~] johndoe% exit
localhost:~ johndoe$ mv backup.tcshtest/.??* .
localhost:~ johndoe$ exit
[localhost:~] johndoe%

Reference:
1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tcsh/+bug/86683

Fuck you dr.eye and fuck you yahoo.

Ref: 雅虎字典：「賠錢貨」譯成「a daughter(女兒)」

Bug in Excel 2007

I am guessing this bug will have a big impact psychologically.

Simply when you try to multiply 850 by 77.1 excel display the result to be 100000 !!!

In the same thread, some other people also found out these:

=5.1*12850
=10.2*6425
=20.4*3212.5
=40.8*1606.25
=77.1*850
=154.2*425
=212.5*308.4
=308.4*212.5
=425*154.2

BTW, Office 2004 (Mac OS X) doesn't have that problem.

Via ijliao

記者的品格遭受編輯的踐踏（石屹軒記者）

石屹軒記者的綜合報導下了這樣低級的標題，記者的品格遭受編輯相當的踐踏，試問，我們讀者要找石屹軒，還是不具名的編輯算這筆低級新聞的帳呢？

研究生英文文盲。

00:32 <@z4e> 每天上班都有一種想扁人的衝動
00:33 <@z4e> 剛剛有個研究生來問
00:33 <@z4e> 他的老師用SPSS無法存檔，到底是出了什麼問題呢？
00:33 <@z4e> 還送來一串錯誤訊息
00:33 <@z4e> 結果這行錯誤訊息是...
00:34 <@z4e> "The attempt to save the data file has failed because the disk is full"
00:34 <@z4e> ....這需要問嗎（翻桌）

研究社會學的沒有學術倫理

那為什麼我們要 fund 社會研究？
林文源你他媽雜碎。

當教授多幹點活，少幹點學生，謝謝。

深夜問題多

http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT7/3785965.shtml # 王育誠追緝令 移植大陸

"王育誠說，他這陣子在北京大學新聞傳播學院攻讀博士，研究台灣媒體 亂象"

----這論文未免太好寫了吧？

Linked List

via ijliao, linked list has been patented since, errrr, last year. What's next? Array?

A War on Gay Sexuality.

Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace:

"I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts."

Now that, is a war on gay people.

Genius of Wretch

Sometimes people in wretch.cc never learn not trying to exploit the bandwidth from the Taiwan education network. They keep putting the campus machines in their proxy settings... FYI, IPs of 140.113.*.* belong to national chiao tung university in Hsin Chu. (Update: after several bloggers expressing the concerns about the proxy setting, wretch.cc got rid of campus machine from the list and changed it to giganet machine.)

The day that Boston went insane.

After 8 hours investigation, a Homeland Security Coalition couldn't tell the difference between an IED and a cartoon character

(update: JoT also did a coverage, nice.)