MyMainBlog

Everybody visit this blog should be notified that my main blog is http://lewcpe.exteen.com/

Anyway, I may come to post in this blog seldomly.

Wikipedia Down!

Yesterday, I opened Wikipedia to read featured article as usual. But I found it down, becuase of power.

Google purposed to donate its' bandwidth to Wiki Foundation. I wonder if they will donate a data-center inside their office for hosting wikipedia. By fully sponsor Wiki Foundation, I see many up-side for Google. For example: better image to OpenSource world, speed up to indexing Wikipedia, etc.

MSs are trying to use others product as Encarta to integrate with their search engine. Wikipedia is the solution for Google.

If Google isn't going to buy a comercial encyclopedia and use it int it's own search engine like when it bought Picasa. I think Google will download a copy of Wikipedia Database and host it by itself. This would be great for Wikipedia too. Today, Wikipedia is taking very heavy load and latency is too long for someone like me.

OpenKnowledge

One of OpenSources I ever participated to promotion is Superversion. I translated Superversion's tutorial by Chris R. Coughlin into Thai. I've passions to translate and contribute knowledges to Thais. In my opinion, knowledges are too expensive in this country, with average household income about 2000-4000$ per year. Most family that tend to send their kid to the university have to pay for tuition fee for about 400$ per year. Books in this country is very expensive too, textbook I use in the undergraduate course cost about 20-40$ thats too much for many family here.

I'm glad when there're some publishers are initiating to print (extra) low cost book in Thailand. These book usually cost not over than 20$ and translated into Thai, that give more opporturnity for more people.

I'm very interest in project like Wikipedia. I impressed with the idea of free knowledge to the world. One day, I may write a book and post to Wikibook.

Productive OpenSource

One of OpenSource's problem is there are too many projects. The end-user get confuse to determine which one should he/she give a try. I got difficaulty many times I try a new program that have very good feature but in fact, it just go out from some laboratory from an university. These programs are good in new experimental features but always come with bad interface and bugs.

I hope there would be a website that post the list of productive OpenSource program. So the users can read their reviews and give less try to find a program that satisfied them.

OPAG - Option Parser Generator

One of many good program I found is OPAG. I'm so happy when I found this one because of my homework. Many programming homework require program's options. I have to write and rewrite the option parser many time that make me pray for someone who will make a automatic generator like Lex&Yacc.

I found OPAG at freshmeat.net like others good OpenSource program. At first glance, I ignored it becuase there were many parser generator out there, and I don't think I need one more. But the full name as Option Parser Generator can induce me, so I give its a try.

OPAG use it's own script which look like Lex's script. It so easy to understand so the maker didn't give you any tutorial or manual but they give you an OPAG's script that used for OPAG itself.

Here's some part from the script: (I modified a little for better layout.)

g glibc "Use Glibc"
s struct "[=TAG]Use struct" optarg
f function-name "=IDENTIFIER Rename the function's name" reqarg
version "display version and exit" return

That's it, simple and understandable. I can use this program by reading it's own script.

But text-mode programming seems to be not enough for me. Now, I'm trying to program in graphic and try to compare between Qt3 and wxWidget. I will tell about this battle someday.

Recently, I have an idea about a project that help people to use more OpenSource software. That would be great for people like me who don't know where to start with OpenSource. Instead of pushing people to clear their PC and install Linux, we shold give the people a migration guideline that will tell where to start with OpenSource.

I call this project "Welcome to OpenSource".

It may sound fuuny but I got this idea when I'm praticing to draw with Inkscape. Immediately I draw this logo and think it would be great if this project come true.

Anybody want to join?

JEdit

The first OpenSource program (Exclude GCC) is JEdit. Before I use this editor, I tried many editor like EMacs, vim, pico and many others. Somes are too simple but some are too complex. I want an editor that maintain it's simple along with powerful feature, JEdit give me both.

This editor simply work when you run it. It has just text area to edit, so you can use it at once it run. Syntax highlight and auto-indent worked out-of-box. I impressed with many powerful feature e.g. regular-expression matching that come along with usual search dialog, something like this is missing from vim.

Until now I still use JEdit as my main editor. It run on Java virtual machine so I sure that when I move to Linux or *BSD, this editor will go alng with me.

First Step.

My first step into the OpenSource world is Putty. A small and work ssh client. I use putty by the regulation of a subject in the university that I took many years ago. I have to use text-mode editor like vim and many shell command like sed, awk, grep, and etc., It was pain more than fun. I failed one of many tests because of unusual enviorment.

Putty in my Laptop

Even I have a bad experience with that course but it introduce me to use the best compiler GCC. Before that, I learm programming from legacy compiler like Turbo Pascal or Turbo C. GCC brought me to the real joy of programming with loads of library like GSL (GNU Scientific Library), OpenGL, and more.

But stick with command-line editor wasn't my taste. So I find more flexible and easier to use editor to replace vim.

Welcome

Long time ago, I moved away from blogger because my relative has open his own blog service at Exteen.com. So I moved to write there. But now I try to publish more narrow subject to the world, so I move back here to write about Open-Source migration from my view.

OpenSource and me.
It's about six months that I slowly tried to move to OpenSource world. I found many good and bad along the way. I tried many many program in open-source along with my migration.

In the first time, I jump into the OpenSource world suddenly I decided to. I remove Windows from my laptop and install Linux TLE. (Thai Language Extension) That gave me many pain with my job stucked by many annonying problems. So I back off and retry with partially move to the world of OpenSource. I found this way is more fun and more exciting. I get new experience from new OpenSource program which run on WindowsXP and my job able to go along run with old program.

I'm Thai.
The most problem I found in the imgration is language. I'm Thai and live in Thailand. Thai language isn't widely support by OpenSource's developer. That isn't their fault but it's the main difficulty for the one decided to move like me. This problem seems to be less nowaday but need more improvement to get end-user to move along.

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ไมโครซิฟท์ลุยตลาดเพลงแล้ว

Reuters.com: "The service, known as 'SonicSelector,' was developed by British-based download service OD2 and was unveiled on Monday at a press conference in London."

ข้อเสียของไมโครซอฟท์ที่ผมไม่ค่อยชอบคือ การทำตลาดที่มักแผ่ออกไปสู่ธุรกิจรอบข้างแบบไม่สนใจว่าเคยพูดอะไรไว้อย่างไร

อย่างเรื่องนี้ก็เช่นกัน ไมโครซอฟท์เคยพูดไว้แล้วว่าจะเป็นผู้สนับสนุนเทคโนโลยีเพลงออนไลน์เพียงอย่างเดียว แต่มาบัดนี้เมื่อคู่แข่งลงมาลุยตลาดก็เปลี่ยนใจครับ

งานนี้ถ้าเอาบริการนี้รวมเข้าไปกับวินโดว์ด้วย แอปเปิ้ลคงเซไปยาว ไม่ต้องพูดถึง MusicMatch เลย

รีวิว Pokka Green Tea Jasmin

เกิดมาไม่เคยกินเครื่องดื่มลิตรละหกสิบครับ เขียนบันทึกไว้สักหน่อย
เรื่องของเรื่องไม่มีอะไรมาก มันลดราคาเหลือครึ่งเดียวที่ห้างหน้าปากซอย เลยซื้อมาลอง ชีวิตนี้คงไม่ได้กินมันอีกแล้ว

จากภาคนอก Package เหมือนกับยี่ห้ออื่นทุกประการ ไม่ต่างกันเลย แต่ไหงราคาต่างกันครึ่งเท่าหว่า..

เปิดขวดมากลิ่นมะลิออกมาก่อนเลย เตะจมูกมาก มาแนวเดียวกับชาลีวังเลย ไม่รู้ใครมาก่อนกันแต่อันนั้นก็ซื้อตอนลดราคาเหมือนกัน

รสชาติไม่ขมเหมือนชาลีวัง เท่าที่กินออกแนวไปทางยูนิฟรสดั้งเดิมซะมาก เหมือนจะเข้มกว่าหน่อยนึงแต่ไม่ชัด แต่กลิ่นหอมกว่ามาก

กำลังพยายามกลับไปกินน้ำเปล่าครับ

คนมโมยโค้ด Half-Life2 โดนจับแล้ว

Suspected 'Half-Life' code thieves arrested | CNET News.com: "Game developer Valve Software announced on Thursday that law enforcement authorities have arrested several suspects for allegedly stealing source code for the highly anticipated game 'Half-Life 2.'"

จะดีใจหรือเสียใจดี.....

Google จะยอมใช้ RSS แล้ว

CNET News.com: "Google is considering renewing support for the popular RSS"

หลังจากรบกันมานานกับเวบผีต่างๆที่พยายามจะแปลงบริการต่างๆของกูเกิลออกมาเป็น RSS เพื่อให้อ่านง่ายๆ ซึ่ง Google ก็พยายามละห้ามบริการเหล่านั้นมาตลอด ตอนนี้มีข่าวรั่วออกมาแล้วครับ ว่าทาง Google จะยอมเปิดบริการนี้เสียที

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