我在上一篇文章(Microsoft Research: AURA)所提到的 Barry Schwartz 的著作 《只想買條牛仔褲：選擇的弔詭》，這其實是相當值得一讀的書，無論你是想試著治療自己的偏執，或拯救因懊悔而失去的快樂。抑或是想利用常見心理盲點多賣些產品。 😉
Category: Technology
Free your La Fonera
For some reasons, La Fonera only allow users to upload a firmware released by FON.com. The /bin/fonverify upgrade script written by Pablo Martin is using a public-key cryptography for protect the firmware images. Each firmware image has a RIPEMD-160 message digest for verification. Only the verified images will be wrote into the flash.
However, since La Fonera is OpenWRT-based, you can do anything on the device once you get login into the system. There are several ways to do so.
Hacking Lobos LB-SP110
Hacking the Lobos LB-SP110 at HumanitySpace with Ping and Thinker, 2006-11-21. Thanks psilotum for the picture.
The original design of Porta2030 is using a LCD and 4 buttons for communication. The LCD can only display 32 characters for messages, and 4 buttons for differnet porta porter status.
The porta-porter communicates with each other by using an LCD 4 click button device. Four buttons signal four humors: four fluids (blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm) , four basic elements of nature (air, earth, fire and water) and four temperaments.(sanguine, melancholic, choleric and phlegmatic). The click button signals are translated into 4 color animation on the performance interface. Urgency signals triggered by real life events inform porta-porters on her LCD terminal with alarm beeps and call for porta-porter’ responsive action.
Source: Porta2030 London
PORTA2030
Last Saturday, I went to Taipei Fine Arts Museum for PORTA2030 which is presenting by TAKE2030 at the Taipei Biennale 2006. The Taipie Biennale 2006 is from 2006/11/04 to 2007/02/25.
(If you can not read the PORTA2030 web pages, change the browser character encoding setting into UTF-16 little endian.)
Flash Player 9 for Linux
自從 Flash 7 之後，Macromedia (已被 Adobe 收購) 就一直未對 Linux 平台釋出新版 Flash Player. 去年年底 Flash Player 的產品經理 Emmy Huang 在她的 blog 提到 Adobe 正在開發 Flash 8.5 的 Linux 版本，今年年中宣佈將支援 Flash 9 版本。終於，上個月 18 號，Adobe 釋出了 Flash 9 for Linux beta. 你可於 Adobe Lab 下載 Flash Player 9 Installers for Linux.
“Remove Attachments” Plugin 0.0.1 for Evolution
The software is updated at 2010/10/05.
I use Evolution with Microsoft exchange server in office for 2 years. It’s a pretty good software which is integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring functionality, a groupware suite that all I need for office productivity.
However, when you use a email client for a long time, the e-mails will take more and more disk space. Especially, when you exchange many attachments with the other people. I have to keep the e-mails for record, but the attachments are all filed. I don’t want them to take my disk space anymore. I would like to save some space for really important project. It’s time to get rid of them. I need a plugin for remove these attachments.