Archive for October, 2006


Minor update to the Phonetica Latinae site

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

I did a minor to the Phonetica Latinae . Before, the IPA symbols were displayed by as a square in the pages. I did a bit experiment to find out the reason, it seems that 6 has a wrong interpretation( or inconsistent with Firefox or Opera) of font family lists. For example, font-family: Verdana, "Arial MS", the Arial Unicode MS font is for displaying IPA symbols, in other standard browsers, if they can’t find a character in the first font Verdana, they’ll fall into the second font. However, it seems that IE omits the second font even IPA symbols are not included in the first font.

I think it’s a long known issue, which is one of many of IE’s bugs. Just knew that the final version of IE 7 will be released later this month, so… I think this shouldn’t be a big any more.

Then, there’s another problem in IE 6 sp2, which seems to be more problematic. I used flash objects to load mp3 sound clips, and obviously it takes IE too long to render that it simply stops responding when there are too many (>50 on my computer) flash objects on the same page. Can this be due to the new added “Click-to-activate” feature of activex objects in IE? That is, a user needs to click on an ActiveX object(eg. flash) before interacting with it. My solution now is simply turn off the online-playing function on IE if there are more than 40 sound clips in a page, and before I figure out, the users may need to use Firefox or Opera to view the site for best experiences.

Update: Thanks to Leendert’s comment, I’ve added the ability of ajusting font-size in the page, try it out…

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Ohhhh, Carious teeth in my mouth!

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Today I felt one of my teeth a bit sour, when I looked into the mirror with my mouth open. Mamma mia, there’s a big fat disgusting black hole in my last tooth on the lower jaw. Ohhhhhhh, I never knew it exsits, now I need to see the dentist… Ho paura…

Yesterday, my good friend Chen Zhiwei , who is majored in German at the University of Foreign languages of Guangdong, came to visit me. Later, he brought me to this place called DAAD, which provides consultation services on further studies in Germany. Ohhh, he spoke good German with this German lady, and they laughed, ajajaja , and I understand nothing… Anyway, prrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Oh, my teeth… I go to bush them now…

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Ed ero contentissimo, la canzone che mi piace molto

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

Mi piace molto questa nuova canzone di Tiziano Ferro che si chiama “Ed ero contentissimo”. E’ una canzone malinconica e un po’ intensa, che lo stile di Tiziano.

Ho provato a tradurre questa lirica in inglese

Ed ero contentissimo

Ora che sarai un po’ sola
Tra il lavoro e le lenzuola
Presto dimmi tu come farai ?
Ora che tutto va a caso
Ora non sono pi un peso
Dimmi quali scuse inventerai ?

Now you’ll be a little lonely
between the work and the bed sheets
Tell me in short
how will you do it?
Now everything goes haphazardly
Now I’m no longer a burden
Tell me what excuses you’ll think up?

Inventerai che non hai tempo
Inventerai che tutto spento
Inventerai che ora ti ami un po’ di pi
Inventerai che ora sei forte
E chiuderai tutte le porte
Ridendo troverai una scusa
Una in pi..

You’ll pretent that you don’t have time
You’ll pretent that everything is faded
You’ll pretent that now you love yourself a bit more
You’ll pretent that now you’re strong
And you’ll close all the doors
You’ll find another excuse with smile,
and one more…

Ed ero contentissimo in ritardo sotto casa ed io che ti aspettavo
Stringimi la mano e poi partiamo
In fondo eri contentissima quando guardando Amsterdam non ti importava
della pioggia che cadeva
solo una candela era bellissima
e il ricordo del ricordo che ci suggeriva
che comunque tardi o prima ti dir
che ero contentissimo
ma non te l’ho mai detto che chiedevo
Dio ancora
Ancora
Ancora

And I was very happy to wait at home and expecting for you
You hold my hand and then we leave…
At bottom you were very happy when visiting Amsterdam, you didn’t care
of the falling rain…
only one candel was the most beautiful
and the memory of memory that suggested
that though sooner or later I’ll tell you
that I was very happy
But I’ve never told you I begged to God again again again…

Qualche cosa ti consola
Con gli amici il tempo vola
Ma qualcosa che non torna c’
C’ che ho freddo e non mi copro
C’ che tanto prima o dopo
Convincendoti ci crederai

Something comforts you
With friends the time passes fast
But there’s something ain’t right
That I’m cold and not covering myself
That sooner or later by convincing yourself you’ll believe it

Ci crederai che fa pi caldo
Da quando non mi hai ormai pi accanto
E forse meglio
perch sorridi un po’ di po’ di pi
un po’ di pi

You’ll believe that it’s hotter
when I’m no longer nearby now
And maybe it’s better
because you’ll smile a bit more
a bit more

Ed ero contentissimo in ritardo sotto casa ed io che ti aspettavo
Stringimi la mano e poi partiamo
In fondo eri contentissima quando guardando Amsterdam non ti importava
della pioggia che cadeva
solo una candela era bellissima
e il ricordo del ricordo che ci suggeriva
che comunque tardi o prima ti dir
che ero contentissimo
ma non te l’ho mai detto che chiedevo
Dio ancora
Ancora
Ancora
Ancora

And I was very happy to wait at home and expecting for you
You hold my hand and then we leave…
At bottom you were very happy when visiting Amsterdam, you didn’t care
of the falling rain…
only one candel was the most beautiful
and the memory of memory that suggested
that though sooner or later I’ll tell you
that I was very happy
But I’ve never told you I begged to God again again again…

E il mio ricordo ti verr a trovare quando starai troppo male
Quando invece starai bene rester a guardare
Perch ci che ho sempre chiesto al cielo
E’ che questa vita ti donasse gioia e amore vero
E in fondo

And my memory will come to find you when you don’t stay well
Instead, When you are well I’ll stay to watch
Because what I’ve been begging to heaven
is that this life should’ve given you joy and true love
finally

Ed ero contentissimo in ritardo sotto casa ed io che ti aspettavo
Stringimi la mano e poi partiamo
In fondo eri contentissima quando guardando Amsterdam non ti importava
della pioggia che cadeva
solo una candela era bellissima
e il ricordo del ricordo che ci suggeriva
che comunque tardi o prima ti dir
che ero contentissimo
ma non te l’ho mai detto che chiedevo
Dio ancora
Ancora
Ancora

And I was very happy to wait at home and expecting for you
You hold my hand and then we leave…
At bottom you were very happy when visiting Amsterdam, you didn’t care
of the falling rain…
only one candel was the most beautiful
and the memory of memory that suggested
that though sooner or later I’ll tell you
that I was very happy
But I’ve never told you I begged to God again again again…

Ed ero contentissimo ma non te l’ ho mai detto
E dentro urlavo
Dio ancora
Ancora
Ancora

And I was very happy but I’ve never told you
and within my cry to God
again again and again.

A Manual Update hta for McAfee VirusScan

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Don’t know why the automatic of VirusScan can’t work in LAN, so I wrote this small to automatically unzip the definition pack and copy them to the VirusScan folder, then change the registry a bit to let VirusScan use the updated definition.

Anyway, it has not been carefully tested, so, think of it as an experiment. Note that during update, VirusScan will be stopped, and it’ll be started after updating.

How to use:

  • Download the definition file avvdat-####.zip, where #### is replaced by a 4-digit number, indicating the version.
  • Copy this file to the same folder that holds the update .
  • Run the exe, it will automatically compare the currently installed definition version and the new update pack. If it’s a newer pack, the program will let you install.

McAfee VirusScan AVVDat Manual Update Tool

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