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Thursday, January 29, 2004

A further debrief on the horse racing event

Talk to the ``sponser'' of this horse racing event. A good thing that the sponsor didn't look down on Horse H. The only way out for Horse H is to train harder, compete more in these kinda events... blah blah. He still believe sooner or later, Horse H can win the game in another horse racing event, he still doesn't know when and where, how far, how long and how to win.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2004

A story on horse racing

In a horse racing, different horses go on its own speed and direction, using its own tactic. Before the start of the game, no one knows finishing point of the race, nor they can see the finishing time, they just go in front. In the end, they only see the finishing, if only they reach the end; and there's only one winner.

When the race first started, Horse F has been leading the race for the first 700 metres. There's actually a reason why Horce F can lead in the first 700metres. He used a tactic that take advantage that he's leading, that keeps himself in the first position; when someone tried to overtake Horse F, horse F does a side-kick, and the one over-taking would fall onto the ground, injured. In the first 700 metres, a few horses fell, they couldn't continue and they had to quit the game.

At the 800 metre point, another horse H tried to overtake horse F. Knowing it might also fall and get injuredm his reasonale is, since it's already 800 metres in the race, you either over-take Horse F and win the game or get kicked on to the ground. So horse H tried very hard to overtake. Since horse F is still in the leading position, he did another side-tick to Horse H. Horse H suffered a sprained legs and could only walk slowly, watching Horse F leading still, preparing himself lose the game.

At the 900 metres point, as everyone thinks Horse F wins the game, Horse F suddenly suffered from a bad muscle cramp. Horse F quitted the game. But at this thime, Horse H is already too far behind to see what was happening. He just thought to himself, thinking that Horse H would win the game, although unwillingly. So after the Horse F quitted the game, there's actually Horse W, who's racing at the outer ring. Although he's not fast, he go at constant speed and never get injured. In the end, it's left with only Horse W in the race that's healthy and fit enough to complete the game. While, horse H is still walking at it's own speed, didn't know what was happening to Horse F and Horse W.

Finally, the horse could see the finishing point, located at the 1000 metre point from the starting points. Horse W happilly and gracefully wins the game. At that tiime, Horse H is still walking at its own speed, to the finishing point. At this time, Horse H then learnt that the game is going to finished, he found himself too injured to catch up with each other, no mentioning to lead in the game. Of course, House H didn't even know the existence of Horse W, racing on the outer ring. The sad thing is, Horse H finds himself in another competition, with not know finishing point and distance. Horse H still needs to complete its own race, while the the ending point is not necessarily at the 1000 metre point.


Evaluation (debrief): is Horse H stupid enough to do such a thing when Horse F would have got a muscle cramp just only 100 metres from the point Horse H tried to over-take Horse F (of course, no one can predict that)?

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Sunday, January 25, 2004

A new home (of course, nothing is never permenent...)

Since I moved this to a new ftp, I haven't been publishing. Firstly, I spent the CNY with my parents. When I returned on the 5th day on the CNY, I received the ever-expecting-and-I-knew-it-comes-sooner-and-later phone call. 15th Day on the second Month of Year Two-Thousand-and-Four is a bit early for me. But I still have to face it.

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Monday, January 19, 2004

Urgent

This blog is going to move to a new home! I forgot the existence of this blog and I terminated my a/c. This a/c will be gone soon.

Problem:
the blog doesn't publish to the ftp a/c that I created.

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posted by HonL at 1/19/2004 11:28:18 PM << Home

Saturday, January 17, 2004

After using KDE for a day, I couldn't stand for the "tight" integration and I switched to Gnome. After 2 weeks, I can't take it again. Now I'm back to my old friend, Window Maker.

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posted by HonL at 1/17/2004 11:02:08 PM << Home

Thursday, January 15, 2004

Do things in Linux way...

I finally understand how come most of the movies I downloades can fit nicely into 700mb. Those linux guru just use a single command line to encode, making sure that the bit rate of the movie can fit nicely in a CD. Cool!
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posted by HonL at 1/15/2004 01:21:33 AM << Home

Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Surprise... and Surprise!!!

I play around with my mandrake 9.2 today. Surprisingly, Azureus, the java bittorrent client, is not *that* slow, and it has so many details that I can control. Second, Java client can handle chinese seemlessly. Thirdly, my usb memory chip with mp3 player can be used as easily as windoze!

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posted by HonL at 1/13/2004 07:05:26 PM << Home

Linux Desktop Revisited

After my PC was down for nearly 2 months, I finially gave up the idea of repairing the power unit. Instead, I got a new casing, and reused every part of the PC. Now, I'm running a Mandrake 9.2!!!

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posted by HonL at 1/13/2004 02:49:51 AM << Home

Friday, January 09, 2004

A Lazy Pig...

After yesterday meeting, my professor seemed to sound that I just have to "write", although he did give more difficult problems, but he mentioned the words "writing thesis" to me.

Today I woke up at 9:20am, an SMS came in and I rushed down to compus by 2pm, the latest so far.

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posted by HonL at 1/9/2004 02:49:28 PM << Home

Tuesday, January 06, 2004

First day in year 2004

Today is my first day that I go back to univ in year 2004. I remember that I bought the "Who Moved My Cheese?" calendar. I started to read today and the past few days's stories. Quite interesting.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

-- Carol Burnet, comedian, actor, and singer

It's more fun when you choose to change, rather than have it imposed on you.

-- SJ

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posted by HonL at 1/6/2004 07:57:58 PM << Home