My friend Zhang Liang has his first homepage posted.
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/lz33/index.htm

He wants it to be funnier than the current form, what’s impressive is his number of papers written in the last 6 years, no wonder he gets 2 phd’s from Cornell and U Arizona respectively.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Use a suitable glass could enhance the taste of your wine. From left to right:
Water –>
Brandy –>
White Wine –>
Burgundy Wine –>
Champaign –>
Vin Rouge

I don’t usually have time or have the mood to indulge myself writing multiple blogs per day.

But this one is good!

prime number algorithms

It explores several algorithms to calculate prime numbers. It uses straightforward C as the language, and walks through all sorts of potential ways to knock the best out of a commodity machine. In my case, the program is improved from 5 minutes( 300 seconds) to a matter of 20 seconds. (pentium III 800 machine with 128M mem).

It runs significantly faster on a better machine. The speed improves from 1 m 15 s to 1.8 seconds. (dual Xeon 2.8G CPU, 1.5G mem).

Fortune cookies can sometimes inspire a person. I sometimes read things like “You will live a happy and peaceful life”. The way they are written makes them almost always suitable for you if you try to find the connections.

There is one I remember as very inspiring:”Your path is arduous but will be amply rewarding.”

I’d like to share this one with all the people who have to work long hours.

Each time I tell others about my pending patent on anti-spam, they would ask me if this idea is really patentable? Sometimes I can give a good explanation, sometimes not.

So here is a link from the Lemelson-MIT program, with the content listed below:
Chapter 1: What Is Intellectual Property?
Chapter 2: What Can Be Patented?
Chapter 3: Is My Idea Patentable?
Chapter 4: How Do I Conduct a Patent Search?
Chapter 5: Is My Invention Worth Patenting?
Chapter 6: How Do I Apply for a Patent?
Chapter 7: How Do I Prove the Idea Is Mine?
Chapter 8: What Are Some Options to Commercialize My Patent?
Chapter 9: How Do I License My Invention?
Chapter 10: What Are Some Guidelines in Developing a Business Plan?
Chapter 11: How Do I Raise Capital?
Resources for Inventors

“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”
– Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

Just installed a new server DO.MIT.EDU where DO means “Digital Organization”. I don’t want to mess applications with the OS, so installed a very clean Redhat Enterprise Version 3. I also need to install Apache, Perl, MySQL, PHP, among others.

A casual search returned this website called Apache Friends, it looks amazing.

The download is 33MB, much smaller than the individual components combined.

I would rate it as extremely easy to install and get things up and running. I have not got a chance to port my stuff to it, but so far it looks not a hard job.

Finaly finished moving, took two days, but it’s worthwhile.

The apartment is on the 27th floor, facing south, overlooking boston downtown and charles river.

Just came across this banner in Athena clusters. The answer is yes.
The leaves are falling, the grass is green, continuous colors on a homogeneous green. That’s what I see as beautiful.