Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in Debian, software engineering on Jun 18th, 2007
Last Friday my Debian desktop with the graphic card nVidia 7600 GT made an automatic update and after that the whole GUI thing did not work at all. There was always a garbage screen when the xserver started. After three days of fighting against this problem, Dirk finally figured out a solution (sorry for my [...]
Ningning’s Chinese Tutorial index page
Once Dirk’s father G�nter was going to meet a researcher group from Beijing and he asked me how to greet them in Chinese. We’ve learnt the Ni3 Hao3 in Lesson One and Ni3 Men2 Hao3 in Lesson Two. But I taught G�nter another sentence, which brought him warm applause from the [...]
Posted in computer science, hardware, news, software engineering, technology on Jun 7th, 2007
This time Microsoft Research is bringing up something marvelously cool. Their new Surface Computing concept and technology is truly world-changing and I see the future has arrived. First of all, my high respect and admiration to the computer scientists and software engineers at Microsoft Research. I was so thrilled after watching these two videos:
The first [...]
Posted in life, news, sniff and sneeze, technology on Jun 7th, 2007
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10 emerging technologies 2007 on TechnologyReview.com
Fewer subpixels, more resolution. Less power consumption, longer life time span. PenTile, A new type of LCD display.
A free 3D web browser. It looks nice. My question is that would it be fast enough where the local computation power for its 3D appearance is limited. I hope it can be [...]
Posted in algorithm, computer science, programming, software engineering on Jun 6th, 2007
I am running into an approximate string matching(aka fuzzy string matching, inexact string matching) problem on my Diplomarbeit. Dirk showed me some papers on this topic and coded a tiny c++ program for me to learn. I got the idea and coded a Java Approximate String Matching demo based on the algorithm described by [...]
Dirk and I were at the cosmetic department in Sogo, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. I was trying out some blush and eye shadow colours. Dirk looked at the prices and said: “My sister likes to buy colours from DIY home improvement hardware stores. There you can get the red colours in 10kg or 20kg buckets [...]
Posted in family on Jun 3rd, 2007
Dear mama I love you!!! I am singing this song to you. The lyrics expresses my mind very well, please do read the subtitle if you cannot understand Cantonese! Hugging you mama!
Posted in gallery, imaging, life, photography, the Netherlands, travel on Jun 3rd, 2007
On May 18th Dirk and I visited the tulip park in Keukenhof. The weather was not bad but the sky was washed out most of the time. It took us 2.5 hours to reach the park. Most tulips were already languished. We saw fields of leaves of tulips. But it was still a highly interesting [...]
Posted in drivel on Jun 3rd, 2007
I will have less and less time for playing pc games in the future. Before I totally forget how to play Civilization 4, I’d like to log down the strategies I’ve taken. The Civ 4 version I’ve been playing is 1.61. Articles in the war academy of the site civfanatics.com helped me very much. [...]
Posted in computer science, life, sniff and sneeze, software engineering on Jun 1st, 2007
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There is this entry on TheServerSide.com. Ach the long and boring talk again. He said ORM is the Vietnam of computer science. But sorry I do not think it is suitable to consider ORM as of computer science. It is more a engineering technology based upon experience and best practice. It is a tool to [...]
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Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
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