So I logged on to my FreeBSD box this morning .. and saw this joke (warning: geeky humor),
“Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.”
Happy Toosday Mawnin!
Archive for June, 2006
Cell division and multiplication
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006Mobile web servers
Monday, June 12th, 2006Now isn’t this a cool hack? Nokia has successfully ported the Apache httpd web server to their cell phones running the Symbian OS (Symbian is an operating system for mobile devices owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens AG, Panasonic, and Sony Ericsson). This is possible because of Symbian’s POSIX layer that provides some of the UNIX hooks needed.
And the obligatory cool pretty diagram from Nokia’s page:
Historically, web servers are huge clunky machines — loud, noisy, and live in a cold “server rooms”. Imagine now the possibilities: that the website you view, being served up in real-time from a mobile device, say a cell phone .. owned by someone running across the street to grab a bite at Subway for lunch. Imagine the web server also telling you in real time where it currently is, the location of its owner. Granted, it is ripe for abuse by stalkers, but some form of security/access control would be implemented.
Neat stuff.
China’s double standard
Monday, June 12th, 2006For a country that censors its citizens from public information, keeping them in the dark in the age of information — they shouldn’t throw tantrums when their homegrown wireless encryption standard WAPI wasn’t favored by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for wireless networks.
ISO members voted 17 to 8 against adopting WAPI as an international standard and selected IEEE’s 802.11i as the winner.
The Chinese delegation walked out from the 2-day meeting in the Czech Republic crying that it was “meaningless for the Chinese delegation to continue in the meeting” whose atmosphere was “extremely unfair”. They even went as far as to accuse the IEEE backers of “using a lot of dirty tricks”.
Gee .. if I lived in China, I would feel that being censored from information is also “extremely unfair”, and the act of preventing me from getting the information I want by building the Great Firewall of China is also a “dirty trick”. Heck, it is also “meaningless” for me to search the web in China, because of the “extremely unfair” censorship.
Winners bounce back
Sunday, June 4th, 2006How many times have you met failure and just embraced the fact that you are not worthy of success? I love this quote from Laurie Puhn. Real success happen to people who put their sweat into it. Winning the lottery is dumb luck.
Keep in mind that everybody gets burned. The difference between the winners and the losers is that winners bounce back. And that’s true in every aspect of our lives. Winners aren’t luckier. Winners are persuasive. Winners are resilient.
— Laurie Puhn, author of “Instant Persuasion”
