Hard Landing in US ?

Hard landing is often associated with China in many reports. It suddenly occurs to me that whether the financial crisis in US can be classified as hard landing ? A quick search on "US hard landing" doesn't seem so.

Nanoc

I am always looking for CMS for blog and personal website. Most of choices are either too blog-oriented or resource-hungry. Nanoc is not CMS, but does offer what I need. I can use it to build a regular web site or blog. Since it only generates static HTML, it would be difficult to have user interaction such as comments or forums. I believe this problem can be overcome by using other services such as Plurk. It might be tricky to integrate these services all together, though.

Black image in Firefox 3 on FreeBSD 7

I got quite a lot of black images on Firefox 3 with FreeBSD 7. According to this article, add an "Option" under "Device" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to fix it:

Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "True"

Gnash, Firefox 3 and FreeBSD 7.1

After installing Gnash from ports, Firefox cannot find the plugin. Gnash plugin is installed under /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins, and Firefox are looking for plugins under /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins. Make a symbolic link and it works.

Portsnap

I didn't use FreeBSD for a while and just installed 7.1 release recently. There are many changes over these years. One of them is the use of Portsnap to keep ports update to date.

Banlieue 13

Just saw the last half hour of this movie on cable. The plot is quite interesting and fits into currently situation. Definitely something worth to check out.

Seminars in Hsinchu

I create a google calendar showing seminars in Hsinchu area and others. It might interest some.