Nanjing’s metro will be officially opened soon, and it has already been opened for “sightseeing” – you can buy an expensive ticket for a one-time trip. Look at the photos below, does it look like Hong Kong’s MTR station? But I can’t find any relationship between MTRC of Hong Kong and Nanjing’s metro company. Copycat of metro station design, maybe?
Category Archives: China
“Debian” mug
This is the mug used in the Beijing “Be there or Be square” (不见不散) restaurant. Apparently, Debian has already started its World Domination sub-project secretly for quite some time, and I guess it probably started from the time when our last Debian Project Leader Martin Michlmayr visited Beijing in the last Debian mini-conf.
mozilla.org.cn… sucks
Mozilla China officially launched today, which is backed by the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) and the Sun China Engineering and Research Institute (ERI). Well, isn’t it funny to see that ISCAS’s website doesn’t render properly in Firefox 1.0?
First day of Beijing Debian mini-conf
The first day of Beijing Debian mini-conf was a success, and I’m sure tomorrow will still be great. Although we don’t have any fist fight or even the slightest flamewar as Alex Schemhl had expected, the participants are really looking for something in this conference. There are more than 10 journalists in this morning, so there are more people than we expected and the room was already full when I arrived and chairs had to be added to accomodate more people, yet some people still have to stand (Oops yes I was late anyway).
The high time is the keysigning session. It’s cool to do something that other people don’t know what you’re doing yet you’re enjoying doing it. (Just kidding :)) Although this is the Asian Debian mini-conf, there are actually people coming from all over the world, the US, Europe, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc. Great event.
Good job Roger, your planning is great and all the hard work you did was worth of it!
Got to finish signing the keys of the people I met today, my notebook has problem in booting up during the keysigning party so I have to do it now.
中日韓 Linux 聯盟 何去何從
盛傳已久的中日韓(CJK) Linux 聯盟具體工作已經正式開始。昨天我突然收到通知，公司要我去中方的工作組開會。得悉日本和韓國已經提出了初步方案，中國之前則只是隨便的提到會做有關桌面的東西。對於這些會議我從來不感興趣，因為實際效益實在太低，對於我喜歡少說話多做事的就覺得是浪費時間。
會議第一階段是自由發言，大家各自就日本和韓國的方案發表意見。第二階段各人提出方案，特別是就桌面方面的想法提出意見。由於聯盟能做的絕對不是開發工作，因為協調不容易，不同公司有自身的利益，一個跨公司的開發團隊成功的機會很底。所以目標是放在研究和調查等方面。我提出我們可以從 desktop 的 usability 著手，對於現在流行的 Linux desktop 做 usability 的研究，制定測試的方法和準則，然後分別在中日韓三國建立實驗室，得出分析報告。結果可以給 Gnome 和 KDE 做參考，希望能有正面的影響，促進 Linux desktop 在 usability 的發展。
建議得到非常正面的反應，在座成員都表示這是一個很值得去做的事情，唯獨是那個擁有國家背景的Linux distro的代表強烈反對，就他一人提出了一大堆能不能做、會不會做的問題，但就是不去想怎麼才能做，是不是應該做。雖然主席和其他幾個人極力和他 argue，但最後也是因為得不到共識而得放棄。今天我終於看到他們醜陋的面目。原來由中國政府一手扶持的這家公司就是由一群什麼都不會幹的廢物所控制。中國政府只要一天繼續直接或間接的幫助這些企業，那就像向一頭永不吃飽的獅子餵飼事物一樣，到頭來只是把納稅人的錢白白的花光。在這個不倫不類的社會主義政權下實行的資本主義制度，所帶來的就是這些社會毒瘤。
雖然他們已是臭名遠播，大家都知道他們什麼事也不會做，但究竟為什麼還是會被邀請呢？如果這家公司沒有被邀請，事情又會怎麼發展呢？