這個真的要推薦一下，F.lux 螢幕調光程式。它的原理是根據日出日落時間，把螢幕的色溫調到符合室內光的溫度，以免晚上看著過亮的螢幕影響退黑激素分泌，打亂生理時鐘。
用了一個星期的效果是真的睡得比較好，而且不會因為晚上繼續用電腦變得越來越晚睡。對靠看電腦過生活的人來說很好用，不然這樣下去其實也是職業傷害。如果是白天的時候安裝，螢幕是不會變色的，會一直到太陽下山的時候才會注意到，而且用久之後會完全忘掉它，反而是把它關掉的時候會被螢幕刺到。
作為 Web Developer 的胡思亂想是，說不定可以把時間 vs 色溫這個概念放進 Responsive / Adaptive web design 的概念裡？這樣的話要讀一點色彩學的書了。
在 BIOS 被鎖住、沒有光碟機也無法從 USB 開機的情況下安裝 Ubuntu Linux 的方法。
技術筆記，有需要再看。
The following method is what I work out when installing Ubuntu on a computer with following constraint:
Requirement:
In short, we would like to drop two files into the boot partition, and ask GRUB to boot it. After that the partition itself can be safely wipe out since files is used only in booting process.
Steps:
Why it works?
On the security aspect, if you don’t want people tempering with your Linux box, lock BIOS, lock GRUB boot list, remove pre-installed single user boot menu entries, and attach an actual lock on the machine case. But then you are solely responsible to remember all the passwords you have set; no one can save you (without breaking anything) if you forget the password.
That’s all. Have fun with it.
While everyone is excited about the new iPhone 3G, or depressed because of the fact that it won’t be available in Taiwan for a year or so, what WWDC keynote really caught my attention was, instead, the new web service that would eventually replace .Mac – Apple MobileMe platform.
It’s funny to see how the software giants response the “access my personal (mail|calendar|todo…) anywhere” question. Microsoft’s answer to that is an Exchange Server with it’s special client, i.e. Outlook, on desktops and mobiles. It’s a very classical software company approach, which evolves building everything for every purpose. Google, instead, as a company providing web service, build their services on websites – wherever there is a device, there is a browser, services on browsers are indeed, accessible anywhere.
Apple’s approach is MobileMe. MobileMe works with native applications, from Outlook to Mail.app to iPhones – so it works like an Exchange Server. What’s more, MobileMe can be access via browsers anywhere – so it also works like Google Apps. Apple is bring the two worlds together under one platform – if you are willing to pay and get vendor lock-in-ed, it would “just work”, as Jobs puts it.
Of course, the two worlds is already merging, with or without Apple. Google Android will be available later this year, and Microsoft Exchange Servers are featuring web access a long time ago (with their dumb ActiveX object though). But no one had ever get this right from the start with completed features.
MobileMe is not officially started yet; no one knows whether it will really do what it claims. I am glad that all the companies are thinking like a web right now. It’s web! It’s about clients and servers, and accessability! We are at the turning point or history – in a decade or so, when we look back, we will never recognize how we handle our information today.