People who know me well know that I do not easily entrust my data to the cloud. I find that even with the best of intentions, the risk of accidental data leakage is just to great. There has been a recent case proving that my fears are founded.
A bug in Gmail allowed students [...]
I’ve been running into a good deal of bad computer code lately. Here’s an example from an actual tutorial. I’ve renamed the variable to protect the shameless:
if (count == 0) return false;
return true;
Why not this:
return (count != 0);
There are some god-forsaken languages in which returning the evaluation of a boolean expression is not valid [...]
OOHanzi 0.7 has been released.
As usually please refer to the documentation to know how to use it.
I have not been able to work on getting OOHanzi to work on OS X so I presume it still does not work.
List of changes:
* Updated packaging dependencies for Ubuntu 9.04.
* Performance improvements in “Mark Words Present In…”.
* Added [...]
I’ve decided to ditch revelation. I’ve used it for several years to manage my passwords but development seems to have stalled. The author’s website is currently inaccessible. So it is over for me. Read on for the method I used to convert my database of passwords.
A quick and dirty note about how to export flashcards from Anki and import them in Pleco. I’m assuming some familiarity with both Anki and Pleco.
Warning: OOHanzi 0.6 does not seem to be installable on Mac OS X. I have tried this week to install it on a Mac without success. I do not know whether previous versions would work or not.
OOHanzi 0.6 has been released.
Of all the releases of OOHanzi so far this is the one which [...]
I’m reporting my impression on Open Office 3.0. It is very much meh…
I’m recording here problems with upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.
I’ve tested OOHanzi in Open Office 3 and have good news to report:
OOHanzi will work with Open Office 3 without modification.
There was a bug in Open Office 2.x which affected only people using compiz. If compiz was running, all dialog boxes which were created by the Java virtual machine running in Open Office would [...]
For instance, the texts at asianclassics.org are encoded in the TibetanMachineWeb font. This font relies on some arcane encoding to produce the proper stacks of consonants, etc. Because of this, the texts offered by that site cannot be used as-is if any kind of sensible information processing is going to be performed on [...]
