Recursion

是谁
谁把我掷入这递归
这递归 这宇宙 这我……

天上那星 是我心脏
那银河 是我脂肪
两眼左右 是那太阳

分秒挣扎 变电光蝴蝶
天崩地裂 或 海落石枯
将我生 化为这宇宙
将我命 化为这递归

谁把这递归……无我其有?
可笑!
我有多久
永远即有多久

One More Kilogram


Are you travelling a lot or planning to have a trip in China? Are you a person who concerns about the life of children in poor area? Now here is a piece of suggestion from the website http://1kg.cn:

Bring about 1kg of stationeries or toys as gifts for the children in the area you travalling to.

Shown by statistics, in some area of China, in children age from 6 to 12, there are about 10% of them have never been to schools. For children who got chances to go to school, there are about 5-6% of them left primary schools before graduate, and the reason for 75% of them is because of financial problem. Most of them are below grade 3. For children who are actually taking classes, a large portion of them are actually doing part-time study before Winter comes. For the rest of the time besides study at that time, they help their parents for the harvest. These children come back to full-time study after the harvest. 60% of them are girls. Actually, the per centage for girls to go to schools in some poor area is only about 20% to 30%

The project “One more kilogram” is not asking people for help to make these children to get rid of such situation. There are many other projects in China are doing that, such as The Project of Hope (希望工程). Instead, “One More Kilogram” are aiming at bringing happiness and knowledge to the children in poor area. Other than just “bring about 1kg of stationeries or toys as gifts for the children”, what people really want to do, is actually set up a channel of communication between these children and people who always want to share their lifes. Having done that, the children are in fact given a direction and a vision of where the “world” is and what does “love” look like.

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For more pictures, visit 1kg.cn online photo show.

做了个梦

最近老是左手食指中指一并在半空比划,要么就是零碎的记忆片段显示绝不可能发生过的现实,于是我曾晚做了个梦,梦见我是那个世界的大哥。或许应该说,梦把我给做了:

那是一个类似高校的山寨,很多非常熟悉的面孔给我打着招呼,虽然我如何也想不起他们的名字。他们似乎是我的朋友,又似乎对我有很高的崇敬。我发现这个高校也似曾相识,可我却如何也记不起这样的画面。但我如何也不慌张,似乎是我地方。

他们管我叫大哥,我也跟兄弟们打成一片。虽然我若干时日仍未记得他们姓名,却深知手足情深。我们一起爬山,我们一起涉水。一次探险,我们在山崖摇摇欲坠。我用身体当绳索,让弟兄们从肩头爬过。我终用落下时身边一颗绳草重回山脊,迎来的是豪迈的欢呼。

许久,我们迎见一群东瀛唐刀的鸟人的挑衅,冲上前去挡住一笔刷向左边手足的黑刃。我对身后喊:“还当我是大哥的就给我跑!”。青色污染了我的视野,也许是我眩晕,也许是我在那个世界的血液。我搪促地用四肢奔跑,像野兽一般──我带鸟人们去撞邪恶山!身后是疯狂的呼喊,越来越近。

到达邪恶山的时候,涨潮的湖水夹杂着山涧的毒草,喷放着浪漫的死气,如此香气迷人的死气。据弟兄们说,是之前我在这里救到迷失的玲。将死的她被我背上山寨,终回人间。

现在的我,正在违背着“再也不来邪恶山玩”的发誓和玲可爱的笑,带着鸟人们终回地狱。我模糊了,黑了;麻了,木了;笑了──该死的鸟人,跟我一起去下面旅游吧!

什么都看不到了,我仿佛真空中漂浮。我听到书页被风吹过的声音。我似乎看到一本书,一本线缝的书。上面有描红用的字格;上面有工整的楷体;上面有很多字,按照名号排比着。

我看到书页停了,其中上下两个大小不一的安静的字:王正

我伸手去抓它,书却合上了。

扉页写着三个字:生死薄

……

许久,我又有了知觉;许久,我发现我依旧存在;许久,我感觉到右手麻了;许久,我发现自己躺在一张床上;许久,我瞄了床边旅行箱上的名字:“王小虎”

Ext2/3 分区的优化

相信还有很多人的 Linux 分区还没有转到 ReiserFS,而是 Ext2/3。其实 Ext2/3 可以更加优化一下的。

首先找一张 Linux 启动盘,一般都是 rescue disc。进入 shell 以后,确认你要优化的 Ext2/3 分区没有被加载(mount),然后打:

# tune2fs -l /dev/hdX

/dev/hdX 就是你的 Ext2/3 分区盘号,比如我的电脑就是 /dev/hda2 。现在看看上面命令输出的结果有没有 ‘Filesystem features’ 一项,如果有的话,看看有没有 ‘dir_index’ 在里面,如果没有,就可以打:

# tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/hdX

这样就把 dir_index 这个功能加上了。

接着我们检查一下这个分区是否正常:

# e2fsck -D /dev/hdX

正常的话,重启就可以了。

不正常的话,恭喜,你又获得了一次重装 Linux 的机会!

Mother Earth

Today I found an interesting website when visiting one of Jianshuo Wang’s blogs. Introduced in his blog, Jianshuo visited 30N 119E, an area close to Shanghai. (Correct me if I am wrong). He blogged his trip and also showed some pictures.

The website is called the Degree Confluence Project, whose goal is to collect texts and pictures of every latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world. Said in its front page:

The project is an organized sampling of the world. There is a confluence within 49 miles (79 km) of you if you’re on the surface of Earth. We’ve discounted confluences in the oceans and some near the poles, but there are still 12,066 to be found.

It seems to be a excellent source for people who dream to travel around the world, such as me. I opened several pages of this website, including pages for Henan, Guangdong and Ontario. These are the places where I visited in most of my life.

A world map indicating completed visits can be found here (think twice before clicking on the huge maps!) As can be seen on the map, the project is still incomplete. There are many interesting places not visited yet. Hope some day in future I can do some contributions.

Happy Birthday, China!

五星红旗
《我的中国心》
词:黄霑

河山只在我梦里
祖国已多年未亲近
可是不管怎样也改变不了
我的中国心
洋装虽然穿在身
我心依然是中国心
我的祖先早已把我的一切
烙上中国印
长江 长城
黄山 黄河
在我心中重千斤
无论何时无论何地
心中一样亲
流在心里的血
澎湃着中华的声音
就算生在他乡也改变不了
我的中国心

When You Wish Upon A Star

In the news today, it is reported that Shenzhou VI, the sixth generation of China’s space shuttle, is going to be launched before October 15th. Currently there are 6 candidates waiting to be selected as Shenzhou’s pilots and the final decision might come out until 6 hours before the launching. There is going to be two pilots for the coming mission, where there was only one, Liwei Yang, last time. It is also reported that, Shenzhou VI is more advanced than its previous version, such as improvements were made on safety issues.

Yet Another Wang Y.

  最近相对李敖在清华演讲比较不那么热门的一个话题,就是准备从清华退学的王垠。在他的博客列表上,很多人留言表示对他的轻蔑,更有人语重心长、苦口婆心地劝说他留下来,毕竟清华养育了他的成就。

  每个人都有适合自己生存的地方。我中学的时候极其厌学,我的学生号在全年级每年的成绩排名都是放在倒数第二个位置。对班上那些提到什么数学竞赛物理竞赛就两眼发直的同学有种特别的厌恶。我高三的时候选择了离开学校,毕竟学校是重点,要照顾影响的。我在加拿大读高中,然后考上了全加排名十名之内的麦大本科……现在在攻读软件工程硕士学位,研究方向是离散事件系统。出国后的6年来,我独立开发过机器人上的控制软件,视频音频的传输……我狂热上了Linux(在读wangyin的那个疯子文章之前,说实话,他写的那个文章已经不能与时具进了,现在的Linux天天突飞猛进发展,至少有了LumaQQ),我从2003年开始电脑全部换Gentoo,Windows偶尔也会在别人的电脑上接触。学业方面,尽管难度比国内高中学的那些深很多,但是我没有一门不及格,跟中学时代天壤之别。我觉得这是我的进步,尽管会有人对这些进步嗤之以鼻,其中那些确实有才华的人也有这个资格,但我还是成功地让同学打死也不相信我这个曾经的高中痞子差生。

  兄弟们,姐妹们,我中学成绩排名倒数啊!那个时候Sin跟Cos都分不清有什么区别啊!到了高二我已经厌学到了不去上课的程度。从一次又一次的逃离高考模拟考试的现场来看,我已经放弃了上大学的机会。不能敢说中国教育是失败的,因为我还年轻,经不起砖头;只能说西方的宽松环境对某些叛逆性很强的学生有着非常的吸引力。

  我没王垠聪明,我都承认我在智商上是弱者了,要有人看不惯我以上的列举,再对我说三道四就是欺负人了。其实系里面的学长学友随便拉一个都比我牛B,我在这样一个学术强劲的环境里还是弱者。我当然不满足,我以后要去其它牛B的地方作弱者;然后再往上用我的自信,用我的叛逆,去更加牛B的环境做我的弱者。回过头,层层阶梯。如果宇宙是平行的,不知道另外一个年级倒数第二的“我”现在在中国会过得怎样。我很想念“他”。

  “我会变得更好,我会挂念我的满目苍夷的祖国母亲。我会回来告诉你我学到的一切,我会给你和其他儿女真正的幸福,一定的!”——王垠

  我觉得王垠无论做了什么决定,只要他觉得合适,都是对的。别人无权对他指责什么。他都保证了他以后会回来报效祖国,其实他能在另外一个适合他的地方有更高的成就,何尝不是一件美事?

  不怕后果,只怕后悔。做随波逐流的花朵,还是逆流直上的船叶?有时候做这个决定的不是你头盖里的脑髓,而是你胸骨里那个持续有力跳动着的小引擎。

Chinese Food at Mac

When I was living in Shenzhen, before I came to Canada, there was a little restaurant next to the apartment where my family lived. Its name was called Jiawang (嘉旺) Fastfood. My favorite was a combo of the Italian Noodles and California Fried-rice. I was lovin’ it. I thought that was what people in America and Europe eats.

About 6 years ago, I came to Hamilton for study. The weather here is just as good as in Shenzhen, as well as the new friends I made. I have been enjoying food here too, such as pizzas and hamburgers. I am not picky on eating. After 1 year, I came to Mac. I noticed that there are several Chinese food restaurants around the campus, such as South China on main street, and Wokery in the basement of KTH.

South China is good, I love the spareribs with soybean sauce on rice (豉汁排骨饭). The restaurant is for pick up only. To get there and come back usually costs me 20 minutes, including waiting there, which not so convenient for a unversity student who only have few minutes between bunch of classes everyday. Wokery is on campus, that’s where I frequently go to. The first day I went there, Will, my new friend from U.S., introduced me his favorite, combo of Noodles with Chicken Balls on it. It looked nice and tasted not bad.

“I didn’t know Wokery has Canadian food too”, I said to him.
“No, Wokery has only Chinese food.”
“OK. Maybe this is from some where in China I’ve never been to.”, I said, pointing to the chicken balls with my fork.
“Have you ever been to Shanghai?”
“Yes. Several years ago.”
“It’s called Shanghai Noodle.”, said Will.
“OK. “

“Have you ever heard of California Fried-rice?” After a while, I asked.
“Nope. What is that?”
“Nevermind.”