Adrian's Dairy

新地方，新生活。但感覺上還是香港好。

網上看到如下的一個比較，甚為有趣，故且看看預言確否：

In case you want some little privacy, the first step is to dump Microsoft OS. Why? Because the US Government cannot monitor activity in the Linux OS. See the news on Slashdot.

A post on Psychology Today,

It explains why on these:

1. Men like blond bombshells (and women want to look like them)
2. Humans are naturally polygamous
3. Most women benefit from polygyny, while most men benefit from monogamy
4. Most suicide bombers are Muslim
5. Having sons reduces the likelihood of divorce
6. Beautiful people have more daughters
7. What Bill Gates and Paul McCartney have in common with criminals
8. The midlife crisis is a myth—sort of
9. It’s natural for politicians to risk everything for an affair (but only if they’re male)
10. Men sexually harass women because they are not sexist

Interesting.

這是我很久以前在網絡上看過的文章，在Gmail把email分類時找回來，很有意思，特在此重覆一遍。

When you started using Mac, you will be in a big trouble: Your iTune-manipulated music files are having the ID3 tags in UnicodeLittle. So in case you have a lot of these, how can you see them nicely in Linux?

I was using XMMS, but it no longer works for the UnicodeLittle ID3. The Beep Media Player (BMPx) is the same. Banshee is too big, so long as I am not using GNOME. Finally, I found “audacious” — it works fine.

Since some recent version of the Linux kernel, the WEP on WiFi is broken.

I upgraded my notebook to kernel 2.6.21 some months ago and until now, I need some WEP to connect to Internet. It was OK before but I found it shows the following message when I try to set the WEP key using iwconfig:

ieee80211_crypt_wep: could not allocate crypto API arc4
eth1: could not initialize WEP: load module ieee80211_crypt_wep.o

Google can’t tell you the solution, but the source code does: In the previous version of the kernel, the ieee80211_crypt module did all the so-called encryption work, but not it is doing some division of labour. The ieee80211_crypt_wep is handling the WEP part but it does no encryption, however, and it relies on the cryptographic modules to do the data manipulation in general. Because WEP is close to block cipher in structure but some-how using RC4 stream cipher for the data. So it uses the ecb block module with arc4 algorithm module. Nevertheless, the ieee80211_crypt_wep doesn’t know it has to load ecb (for unknown reason), so it don’t work.

Solution: Simply execute the following commands to load the modules before the iwconfig command,

modprobe ecb
modprobe arc4
modprobe ieee80211
modprobe ieee80211_crypt
modprobe ieee80211_crypt_wep
modprobe ipw2200     # because I am using Intel's cards
iwconfig ...

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近日在邊寫AJAX邊聽我的MP3收藏品，發現原來薛凱琪有首Si j’etais Carla（如果我是Carla），想不到這位小妹妹的發音一點也不差，望外。

歌詞和我的肉腳繙譯如下：

Si j’etais elle, je lui dirais de se blottir dans mes bras tout contre moi
如果我是她，我會叫他偎依在我的懷裏緊靠著我
Si j’etais elle, je lui dirais tout ce qu’elle ne lui dit pas
如果我是她，我會告訴他她不敢對他說的話
Tout mes rêves mes regards et les silences
我所有的夢、眼神和沉默
Mon amour si profond et la douleur de ton absence
我濃厚的愛和你不在時的疼痛 Pourquoi tu n’es pas là?
為甚麼你不在那兒？
Ton sourire à l’aube juste pour moi
你破曉時的笑容只屬於我
Pourquoi ne suis-je qu’un nom: une amie pour toi
為甚麼我只有一個名字：你的朋友？
Que dois-je faire pour que tu me regardes?
我要做甚麼才能令你看看我？
Que dois-je te dire pour que tu me parles?
我要說甚麼才能令你跟我談？
Pourquoi ne suis-je qu’un sourire et qu’une ombre
為甚麼我只能微笑、只是影子
Qu’un ange pour toi, oh oh
只是你的一位天使

Une histoire d’amour jamais ne se termine
愛情故事不會沒有結局
Tu es mon homme, mon heros, mon bel Achille
你是我的男人、我的英雄、我英俊的勇者
Je n’attendrais plus que tu m’appelles, ma vie serait la plus belle, avec toi
我不會再盼望你來呼喚我，和你一起會使我人生更璀燦
Si je pouvais, je fermerais les yeux en pensant à toi
如果可以，我願閉上眼睛去思念你
J’imaginerais tous les moments qui passent
想著所有逝去的時光
Et le courage de ne pas pleurer en ta presence
還要勇敢地不在你面前流淚
Elle t’a jeté un sort?
她向你施了法麼？
Tu t’inventes une vie qui n’est pas pour toi
其實你在幻想著不屬於你的人生
Pourquoi l’aimes-tu encore? 為什麼你還深愛著她？
Viens vivre avec moi!
來和我一起吧！
Partons ensemble le chemin nous est trace
讓我們一起離開我們的歪路
Etre au bout du monde tous deux enlaces
去到另一個可以讓我們互相擁抱的國度
Pourquoi ne suis-je qu’une illusion, qu’un mirage, lointaine image, oh oh
為什麼我只是個錯覺、幻影、遠方的形像？
Cette histoire d’amour ne sera jamais vaine
這愛情故事不會永遠是虛無的
Cette passion qui me lie vaut bien la sienne
我付出的愛終會比她的更有價值
Je n’attendrais plus que tu m’appelles, ma vie serait la plus belle, avec toi
我不會再盼望你來呼喚我，和你一起會使我人生更璀燦
Avec toi...Je serais (moi)
和你一起...我會是（我）

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