对啦，Google也要征稿了。Google中国的一位公关部门的官员在Google的官方blog上写道：
除了我们向用户交流想法，我们也很希望听到大家对互联网、搜索或 Google 的感受和想法。我们在这里邀请大家向我们投稿，我们将根据文章的内容和质量选择发表。
对于Google，这确实不多见。不过这种活动的形式可真是已经泛滥了。在本地报纸上经常能读到这类与用户交流想法、希望听到大家对某某、某某或某某的感受和想法的活动，不过你能读到的大多是对活动组织方的名吹暗捧，有的甚至是以枪稿的形式出现的（唉，这个新闻界！）。如今，你可以看看Google的公关部门是否也逃不出这个规律。
从Google的这个帖子里还发现了两件有趣的事。第一件是：“谷歌”竟然被放在了括号里，这也太委屈这中文名字了。（那黑板报的logo就更不用说了。）第二件是，这个不长的贴子里出现了两次笑脸符号，这太多了。我觉得，这似乎表明了作者的语言表达能力不强——作为一名公关人员，应该具备一个这种符号都不用，也能写出让人感到亲切的文字来。
Just get boring about bird-watch? All right, you could have a test drive of this: a real-time satellite tracking website (http://www.n2yo.com/). Phil Plait, who runs the Bad Astronomy website, described this fun stuff on his blog.
Although n2yo.com is not the first real-time sat-tracking website (I remember in Windows 98 era, there’s a desktop application which enables you to track Mir), it seems to be the first one who incorporated Google Maps. A couple of sats can be tracked, including ISS, Hubble, GPS sats, etc. The default tracking map of n2yo.com is ISS.
Phil says you can actually see some of these satellites with your unaided eye. Some people would be surprised to hear this. But this is true. And for those Chinese who witnessed China’s first satellite, Dongfanghong I (East is red mk I), many of them had seen the satellite without any telescope (Chinese engineers used special design to enhance the satellite’s albedo). Chinese newspaper even published timetable, telling people the best time to watch Dongfanghong I.
This might be a hard day for Shanghai Jiaotong University: Chen Jin, dean of school of microelectronics in SJTU, was fired for his fabrication of chips.
For months, a scandal has been circulating in China, that Chen Jian, Dean of School of Microelectronics, Shanhai Jiaotong University, fabricated several digital signal processors (DSPs). Chen alleged that these chips were developed by their team at SJTU, and he named them Hanxin (Chinese chips) as they’re "China’s own DSPs".
It is confirmed today by SJTU that Chen was lying with his DSPs. Although SJTU’s announcement was a bit vague, it seems that none of Chen’s DSPs is as original as they alleged. And most important, Chen was cheating. He used remarked chips (probably from Freescale) since his team was unable to develop such sort of chips.
What I’m interested in are: will Chen face criminal investigation. And how much funds have been wasted?
在Vmware上用了一下Fedora core，觉得还不错。于是想在机器上真正安装一套。结果总是卡在安装初始化的过程中，最后一行信息是ACPI: Subsystem revision…
重新下载了一次，问题依旧。后来还测试了红旗Linux 5.0，结果一样。真是捧不起的Linux啊。