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    April 25

    lol

    Everyone have a look at this !!!
     
    It's god damn funny!!! lol
    Many thx to fb!

    How to get Ati+Xgl+Beryl to work stable in Ubuntu 7.04

    Been trying out many methods online but none of them work perfect.
    The open source ati driver+beryl will cause system freeze at random and only mouse can move
    The open source ati driver didn't support xgl
    The ati restricted driver coming with ubuntu didn't support Composite (ubuntu desktop effect)
    The ati restricted driver coming with ubuntu didn't support beryl that comes with ubuntu
    Xgl didn't support the beryl that comes with ubuntu

    So the following method will work
    Tested base on Thinkpad t43, with X300 graphic card, Ubuntu 7.04, Feisty Fawn

    1. Install ATI restricted driver with Synaptic

    2. Edit xorg.conf by
    sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
    Find the line with
    Driver "ati"
    or
    Driver "radeon"
    or
    Driver "vesa"
    Change the line to
    Driver "fglrx"

    3. Disable Composite ( the default desktop effect coming along with Ubuntu 7) by
    sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
    Add the following lines to anywhere out of other sections
    Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "false"
    EndSection

    4. Reboot and test with fglrxinfo in terminal, the output should be something like:
    display: :0.0 screen: 0
    OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
    OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON X300
    OpenGL version string: 2.0.6334 (8.34.8)

    5. Add beryl repos
    In System\Administration, select Software sources\Third-Party Software, click Add and type:
    deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/ feisty main
    Then download this repo key file: http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg
    In Authentication, click Import key file and select the file you just downloaded.

    6. Install Xgl and Beryl
    In Synaptic, search for xserver-xgl, beryl-ubuntu, beryl-manager, emerald-themes and do installation.

    7. Let system prefer beryl-project packages
    Alt+F2, type gksudo gedit /etc/apt/preferences and add the following content
    Package: *
    Pin: release o=lupine
    Pin-Priority: 1000

    8. Downgrade beryl-core file
    In Synaptic, reload, search for beryl-core, click "package" in menu and choose "force version"
    Choose 0.2.0-0beryl1 and install

    9. Add a Xgl login session
    Run the following in terminal to create the file:
    sudo gedit /usr/local/bin/startxgl.sh
    Paste in the following content
    #!/bin/sh
    Xgl :1 -fullscreen -ac -accel xv:pbuffer -accel glx:pbuffer &
    DISPLAY=:1
    cookie="$(xauth -i nextract - :0 | cut -d ' ' -f 9)"
    xauth -i add :1 . "$cookie"
    exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session

    10. Create xgl login session entry
    Create a new directory using:
    sudo mkdir -p /etc/X11/sessions
    Create the file with
    sudo gedit /etc/X11/sessions/xgl.desktop
    Paste in the following content

    [Desktop Entry]
    Encoding=UTF-8
    Name=Xgl
    Exec=/usr/local/bin/startxgl.sh
    Icon=
    Type=Application

    11. Reboot
    On login window, remember to change session to Xgl. After login, run beryl-manager. If
    everything is ok you may add beryl-manager to startup session and make xgl your default login
    session.


    * This guide is basically based on the following 2 guides since neither worked but when combined ok
    http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Ubuntu_Feisty_with_XGL#Adding_the_Beryl_Project_repositories
    http://lhansen.blogspot.com/2006/10/3d-desktop-beryl-and-xgl-on-ubuntu-edgy.html
    April 23

    Software

    Office 2007 is so coooool!!!
    Too much improvement is made!!!
     
    Launchy 1.25 is released !!!
    Now control panel items can be indexed!!!
     
    April 20

    Hail for Ubuntu 7.04 !!!

    Been playing with the newly released Ubuntu 7.04, Feisty Fawn for the past 2 days
    Extremely impressed by its user friendly interface and ease of software management system
    Also the wide availability of customization.
    Now I have changed the whole interface just like Mac OSX in the following aspects:
    -Boot and shut down Screen
    -Login interface
    -Window Border (The close/minimize/restore buttons are finally on the LHS !!)
    -Icons and wall paper
    -Visual effect
    -Mouse Cursor
    -Dock
    -Font
    -Menu buttons
    -Firefox Theme

    And I have to admit that the imitation effect is even better than FlyakiteOSX in Windows!
    Maybe next I will work on system sound and menu bar and most important...Chinese input

    In the customization process I've read many tutorials and tried many approaches and some of them didn't work... Anyway, special thanks to these websites:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/
    http://www.gnome-look.org/
    http://www.taimila.com/
    http://www.osxcn.com/
    http://linuxdesktop.cn/

    Well actually I haven't tried many other linux distros
    Only 3 by now, Fedora, Opensuse, Ubuntu
    And Ubuntu is the best among these 3 in user accessibility and community support
    Also I assert that it provide a far better user experience than Windows Vista in appearance and performance and many more aspects

    Those who feel tired about your every-day-the-same Windows interface should really have a try of the elegant Ubuntu
    For it provide you with a Desktop CD with which you can boot your machine and try out all the headlight features of the OS without the trouble of installation
    I mean
    What you need to do is to download the iso and burn it into a CD (only 698 MB) and use it to boot
    After trying it out I am sure you can't deny installing it and making your machine a dual boot one

    Attached is the screenshot of my current desktop
    April 18

    good news

    Just informed by the department that I got the 1 yr internship from HSBC
    No news from warden though
    Hope still can live in LSK during the next year
    Hv to defer for sure
     
    拿到汇丰的实习
    但是不知能否期间住Hall
    但愿可以
    要迟一年毕业了
    April 17

    学妹一路走好

    也请生者
    为了她
    多加保重
    April 14

    图 Pics around HK

    因为有朋友从中大来玩
    所以原206三人组一起舍命陪君子
    故有以下之照片
    Because a big brother is coming from ZSU
    the ex 206 roommates all went as fellowship
    Hence there be the following pics
     
    香港的石屎森林 The concrete & steel forest in HK
     
    宗教和当代社会 Religion & modern society
     
    柱子 Optimus Prime 
     
     林中 in the forest
     
     俗世 the world
     
    迷失  So lost
      

    继续贴维港夜景 Pics of the Vctoria Harbour

     
     
     

    小相机拍的 将就看吧

    taken with a small DC, so don't be too serious

     
    April 13

    ……

    2501终于做完了……
    什么破东西……
    2501 finally done...
    WTF...
    ---------------------------------------
    Space访问量突破20000大关
    可喜可贺~
    More than 20,000 visits to this space
    Not bad~
    ---------------------------------------
    有朋自远方来
    不亦乐乎?
    A friend coming for a place far away
    Isn't it delightful?
    April 04

    推荐一些免费软件

    1. Launchy

    FB推荐的一个小巧的程序运行工具

    直接导致我抛弃开始菜单的同时把桌面上的Objectdock也给去掉了

    Recommended by FB, this lite program launcher

    have pushed me abandon my start menu as well as the cute ObjectDock on my desktop

    http://www.launchy.net/ 

     

    2. Google谷歌拼音输入法

    传说中的谷歌拼音输入法今天终于亮相

    初初试用感觉很不错

    词库强大识别率很高 还可以通过网络同步词库

    The legendary Google Pinyin IME has finally come into light today

    i have been trying it and it turns out very good

    having a strong dictionary and high recognition accuracy

    it can even synchronize your custom dictionary through the Internet

    http://tools.google.com/pinyin/

     

    3. Tab Effect

    华丽的Firefox插件而且不占内存

    The fabulous mem-friendly addon for firefox

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4258

     

    4. GX Transcoder

    全能视频音频转换器

    a strong video and audio format converter

    http://www.germanixsoft.de

    April 02

    ......

    life sux
    it always does
    for destinations seem so far
    exhausting the remaining flame in my heart
    swords wouldn't got rot in the dust
    until the shed of the last blood
    Xerxes would laugh in hell after he was fxcked up
    illusions will all be buried in mud
    technology shall lock all the dreams where they are
    all alone I stand on the roof in the light of a star
    leaning forward and wishing it would last
    which turned out fading away into dark
    ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
    yesterdays just seem ending so fast
    since keeping silence do not need any draft
    definitely it's like the down peak in a graph
    of course things will soon return to its original path
    eliminating all the evils as motivation blast
    survive to the end and become more tough
    well... just for fun