Leaving only what is truly important ...

"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something...almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose." -- Steve Jobs

[1] http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

About Blogger Now

距離上次開始玩 Blogger 到現在事情還真的改變了不少，以下是針對五年前 Blogger Beta 這篇文章作補充，簡單的回顧發生的事情：

原文：

花了一點時間轉換到 Blogger Beta，因為目前 Google 還沒提供簡便的轉換法，因此我就用手動的方式將舊站裡的文章和範本轉了過來，幸好資料不多。

現在已經沒有 Blogger Beta 了，改叫 Blogger in Draft XD，新的範本系統好用多了，雖然和舊的不相容了。

Simple Note for KVM

這篇主要是用來紀錄，如何使用KVM來執行實體硬碟上的Windows作業系統。方式很簡單，先安裝好KVM，並確定kernel module有正確啟動（注意，會和VirtualBox的module衝突），並擁有寫入/dev/kvm的權限。一般來說，Ubuntu應該會幫你處理好以上細節。接著確認好硬碟裝置檔名稱後，就可以輸入以下命令來啟動：

kvm -m 1024m -soundhw ac97 -hda /dev/sda &

要注意的是，KVM不能像VirtualBox一樣使用額外的MBR來開機，因此必須啟動原本硬碟上的MBR和開機管理程式，所以啟動時要特別注意不要讓KVM執行HOST作業系統。

因為新版的VirtualBox還算順暢，且使用上較為方便，因此目前我還是以它為主。

Enable LCD of Sony VAIO VPCS116FW on Ubuntu 10.10

Because SONY has modified BIOS for the Nvdia chip in VAIO, official Nvidia drivers can't drive built-in LCD correctly on Ubuntu 10.10. To make LCD usable, one need to:

1. Use the latest Nvidia graphic driver from X updates PPA (260.19.29/270.18 is tested).

2. Modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf to add the two lines to the "Device" section:

Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0"

Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0: /proc/acpi/video/IGPU/LCD0/EDID"

With these two steps, LCD should work well. Additional external monitors can be added. Also, support of brightness control can be added. Following are my xorg.conf:

Reference:

http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/wiki/NVIDIASetup

Install Updated Nvidia Driver on Ubuntu

Since Ubuntu updates binary drivers infrqeuently, one can update them from the X Updates PPA. Just use these commands:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

$ sudo apt-get update

Then you can get stable release of X.org components, drivers from upstream. Please be aware that those packages are not supported by Ubuntu. Nextly, if you have installed the binary driver for an Nvidia card, you can just type:

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

to upgrade it. Otherwise you can use the "Additional Drivers" tool or just type:

$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

to install it. If CUDA/OpenCL headers are also needed, they can be installed by executing this command:

$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-dev

After installing all Nvidia packages, a GPGPU (OpenCL/CUDA) development environment is established successfully.

PS: You may need to manually delete some files/links from old version of drivers under the /usr/lib directory.

Reference:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

Enable DirectVobSub with WMP on WIN7

Reference to : http://www.codecguide.com/faq_subtitles.htm#item11

To make DirectShow works, you can use win7dsfiltertweaker to disable formats support of the Media Foundation Framework (E.g.: MP4). This is a workaround, actually.