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A Patch For WordPress

After I posted last article, I found it’s not validated and the HTML Validator showed me where the error is. I traced the source code of WordPress, made a little modification, and then solved the problem. That’s not the point. The point is, I decided to report the bug to the development team. I went on the official web site, simply searched the forum and the tickets system to make sure that no one had reported this, registered an account (although it’s not necessary… XD), filled the ticket form, and then submitted it.

I don’t know if this patch will be received or not, and the problem is not critical, but for me, it’s worthy to write it down. I’ve used WordPress for such a long time, and this is the first time I do something for it. ^^a

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Free Calls With VoipStunt

Several weeks ago, I read an article introducing VoipStunt, which can make phone calls without charge, but just the regular landlines. It’s lucky that Taiwan is in their list. So I registered an ID and tried to phone home. That’s really free, and the connection quality was acceptable. So, since then, when I needed to call any regular landline, I always used it.

But there’s a little weakness. I can feel a little delay, about 0.5-1 second. If the call is short and not very important, this can be ignored. On the contrary, I’ll choose Skype as the first priority.

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Portable Firefox

I’ve heard Portable Firefox for a while, but it’s not necessary for me to use it, because I have a laptop. But this time I went back home without my laptop (I purposely didn’t take it home, because I thought I should spend more time reading books rather than the internet, and there’s a computer at home for me to do some simple things.), I found that I was restricted without Firefox. I couldn’t get accustomed to the suck IE. So, I downloaded Portable Firefox and set it up with all the extensions I use on my desktop. It worked well except it always tried to download a strange file which I didn’t know what it’s for. And the forum seemed not to mention the problem. Anyway, although I don’t install it on my USB drive, it’s still very useful for me. ^_^

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Back To Taipei For Fancy

The day before yesterday, I tried to upgrade the OS on Fancy remotely, and ordered to reboot at 4:00 A.M.. I thought it’ll be ok because I’d done that several times before. But when Kilo told me that she couldn’t connect to Fancy, I found what I scared most happened.

I wondered what the problem was and asked Cyanine to check for me on the next day. The problem was still existed even after trying to solve the problem on the phone, Cyanine told me the messages on the console and I ordered him to execute some commands. After all, I decided to go back to the school as quickly as I could, so I took the bus this afternoon.

When I arrived at the office, the power of the machine was on. I don’t know why. I remembered that I asked Cyanine to turn it off on the phone. Anyway, I tried some commands to check the internet connection. Mysteriously, the connection was well. Why would I need to come back for it?! What’s the problem? I even didn’t do anything, and why it’s broken in the morning?

But if I didn’t want to upgrade it remotely, there would be no problem at all. One way or another, I still have things to do here, and maybe I can get my laptop back from Kilo and take it home this time.

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北上圓夢計劃

這次是第三次在假日時回系辦處理圓夢的機器，而且還是最嚴重的一次，(所謂嚴重是指回程里程數的多寡… ^^a)，不過完全是自找的，怨誰呢？ Keep Reading

Activate Link Splicer Service

Since before, when I browse the articles in the bloglines, I saw many bloggers’ feeds have a summary post of their del.icio.us links, but when I followed into their blog site, I couldn’t find any post of that. Nevertheless, I found their feeds were all supplied by FeedBurner.

Just now, I went on the FeedBurner site and tried to find if there’s any option I can activate the feature. That is the Link Splicer. The only thing I have to do is providing my del.icio.us ID. After activating it, I can successfully see the links I collect today in the feed.

My del.icio.us daily collection is almost Chinese news and informations, that seems not very suitable with this mainly English articles site, but maybe that will be a little useful for me to review the links I collect everyday.

If you want to subscribe the del.icio.us-links-containing version, here it is. Of course, the original feed url will also be available.

系辦圓夢開機

跨年日早早上床睡了，新年的第一天也還蠻早起床的，不過打開電腦又發現圓夢掛了，有沒有搞錯啊！那有人過年在停電的，不過有了上次偷溜進去的經驗，這次倒是一點也不擔心，反正出去走走也不錯。 Keep Reading

Upgrade To WordPress 2.0

I upgraded this site to WordPress 2.0. It didn’t took me more than 20 minutes. (In fact, it could be done in less than 5 minutes. I was too cautious. >_< )

The most important feature of WP 2.0 is the WYSIWYG editor. Some people said that it’s not easy to use, but it seems I got used of it very quickly, and I thought it is an important improvement for those who don’t understand HTML syntax very much.

There is no obvious difference in the layout, and it’s lucky that all the plugins I use still work after the upgrade. Hope there’s really nothing wrong, otherwise, I’ll get crazy fixing them in the Final-Exam-Period Exploration. :p

2005.12.28 UPDATE: I disabled the WYSIWYG editor because it’ll break the TachnoTag plugin. @_@

My First Translation For OSS

Last week, I changed my Gmail Notifier, a firefox extension, to Gmail Manager, which can manage several gmail accounts at the same time. I love the feature. But, the extension is too new that it doesn’t have a Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) locale files, but it has a Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) locale files and firefox will use zh-CN, which is similar to zh-TW.

I don’t like this to happen, so I just spent about 1 hour making the new locale files and sent the patch to the author. This is the first time I translate the locale files for an open-source software. Hope he will receive this and applies to the new release of Gmail Manager quickly. :p