一醉方休固然简单，但醉醒了又如何呢，犹记得两年前上次喝醉，晚上醒来竟得以相见。两年来的每一点一滴现在忆起都不堪回首。一切无法再重演，何况至此也已毫无意义。
想忘记这一场恍惚的梦，但醉易醒，梦难醒。很惭愧我终究也有做不到完全理智的时候，只因这是我唯一的痛处。又有人真的懂吗。
想忘记这一场恍惚的梦，但醉易醒，梦难醒。很惭愧我终究也有做不到完全理智的时候，只因这是我唯一的痛处。又有人真的懂吗。
Sunday, 22 November 2015
Friday, 20 November 2015
结束了
还是没能捱过第三年，最可怕的结局还是发生了。与伴侣之间的沟通竟可以产生如此多的矛盾冲突。或许根深蒂固的分歧早就注定会分开，只是我一直在自欺欺人，不愿臣服于现实的挑战，倾心向往童话中的幸福。
然而并不是所有努力都会有成效。理性的缺失使问题屡屡重演，当妥协无法达成，在暴戾的脾性面前，真爱是多么苍白无力。那个通情达理、深明大义的她已不复存在。一切无可挽回地走向悲哀的深渊，未能阻止我恨自己无能。
所有人都羡慕、祝福我这段美满的恋情，可惜灰飞烟灭的那一刻，历史只是成为一片朦胧的海市蜃楼。
想哭却没有眼泪。
所有人都羡慕、祝福我这段美满的恋情，可惜灰飞烟灭的那一刻，历史只是成为一片朦胧的海市蜃楼。
想哭却没有眼泪。
Monday, 17 August 2015
Mac Frustrations and Thoughts on Apple
Two months ago I was asked to install Windows on my girlfriend's MacBookAir4,1 (11-inch, Mid 2011). This is a long overdue post on what a nightmare it was.
Before going into anything, I have to say [1] it's a huge pain in the ass trying to find useful support information on Apple website. Just like their products, the website is a piece of shit. There is no way to specify the model and find all relevant resources for the model you own. All the following procedures were done by following Apple's knowledge base and other articles online thanks to Google.
The MBA comes with EFI support. At the time the latest EFI firmware was from years ago and clearly outdated. Despite the countless threads out there complaining about audio issues. I decided to try it myself anyway. As expected, [2] installing Windows 8.1 in native EFI mode resulted in no sound, for which there was absolutely no fix. (Now there is a new firmware out, a "security" update. I don't believe that it solves any real issue.)
Apart from malfunction of audio chips, [3] the display wasn't working, either. After installation was finished, the Windows desktop turned into a completely black screen upon logon. The solution is to go into safe mode, manually delete the display driver, and restart. This will only get the desktop back.
Since EFI = no sound, and BootCamp = sound on MBA, there is only one alternative I could try - BootCamp. [4] When you create an installation USB media with BootCamp, the progress bar never indicates the real progress. It's simply stuck at the same place forever. Well, not forever, until the creation completes.
What sucks about BootCamp is that it imposes a minimum partition size requirement when you create a secondary partition for Windows. [5] The free space reserve for the primary OSX partition must be at least 8GB. That's 8GB space downright wasted out of 64GB total, the stock SSD capacity. I would not accept a 12.5% drive space loss.
How about adjusting partition sizes after BootCamp installation? I installed Windows 8.1 via BootCamp following all requirements, and shrank the primary partition using GParted Live without actually moving any data. [6] But OSX couldn't even load - displaying nothing but a question mark in a folder. There are some instructions on how one can try to fix the boot problem; I didn't get it working. (Update: seems to be a widely known problem with a fix.)
When downloading OS recovery via Wi-Fi, I closed the lid to do other things. When I re-opened it, the screen stayed black. [7] Apparently the MBA froze or went into sleep and couldn't wake up. Forced shutdown and had to start over.
When reinstalling OSX, I tried making the primary partition as small as possible, in order to leave maximal space available for Windows. At 13.01 GB the installation allowed me to proceed. However, [8] after a restart it said not enough disk space, additional 60MB needed. Bet you didn't know - OSX requires different partition sizes as you go through different stages during installation; the installation fails in a later stage even though it has confirmed enough free space in an earlier stage.
What a fucking stupid piece of shit. Above numbered are the issues encountered in the entire process in the order they occurred. A total of 8 simple things went wrong when one simply wants to recover OSX, adjust partitions, or install Windows.
The series of frustrations is extremely consistent with my prior experiences with Apple products. For example, the iPod 5th generation which saw its buttons break repeatedly after numerous repairs and died all of a sudden and never turned on again thereafter.
In the last decade I fail to recognise any merit in Apple's hardware or software. It always pains me to watch a world of ignorant trend chasers constantly fall for their smartass marketing and substanceless novelty only to get the some of the shittiest products out there. To me, Apple represents the worst performance, cost-effectiveness, workmanship, customisability, design philosophy, and business practices among major manufacturers. The closed ideology has persisted throughout its lifetime and meanwhile utterly disgusted me over all these years (and I'm sure the open source, overclocking, and gaming communities).
Well, fuck the hippies that worship Apple and the root of evil and closedness.
Before going into anything, I have to say [1] it's a huge pain in the ass trying to find useful support information on Apple website. Just like their products, the website is a piece of shit. There is no way to specify the model and find all relevant resources for the model you own. All the following procedures were done by following Apple's knowledge base and other articles online thanks to Google.
The MBA comes with EFI support. At the time the latest EFI firmware was from years ago and clearly outdated. Despite the countless threads out there complaining about audio issues. I decided to try it myself anyway. As expected, [2] installing Windows 8.1 in native EFI mode resulted in no sound, for which there was absolutely no fix. (Now there is a new firmware out, a "security" update. I don't believe that it solves any real issue.)
Apart from malfunction of audio chips, [3] the display wasn't working, either. After installation was finished, the Windows desktop turned into a completely black screen upon logon. The solution is to go into safe mode, manually delete the display driver, and restart. This will only get the desktop back.
Since EFI = no sound, and BootCamp = sound on MBA, there is only one alternative I could try - BootCamp. [4] When you create an installation USB media with BootCamp, the progress bar never indicates the real progress. It's simply stuck at the same place forever. Well, not forever, until the creation completes.
What sucks about BootCamp is that it imposes a minimum partition size requirement when you create a secondary partition for Windows. [5] The free space reserve for the primary OSX partition must be at least 8GB. That's 8GB space downright wasted out of 64GB total, the stock SSD capacity. I would not accept a 12.5% drive space loss.
How about adjusting partition sizes after BootCamp installation? I installed Windows 8.1 via BootCamp following all requirements, and shrank the primary partition using GParted Live without actually moving any data. [6] But OSX couldn't even load - displaying nothing but a question mark in a folder. There are some instructions on how one can try to fix the boot problem; I didn't get it working. (Update: seems to be a widely known problem with a fix.)
When downloading OS recovery via Wi-Fi, I closed the lid to do other things. When I re-opened it, the screen stayed black. [7] Apparently the MBA froze or went into sleep and couldn't wake up. Forced shutdown and had to start over.
When reinstalling OSX, I tried making the primary partition as small as possible, in order to leave maximal space available for Windows. At 13.01 GB the installation allowed me to proceed. However, [8] after a restart it said not enough disk space, additional 60MB needed. Bet you didn't know - OSX requires different partition sizes as you go through different stages during installation; the installation fails in a later stage even though it has confirmed enough free space in an earlier stage.
What a fucking stupid piece of shit. Above numbered are the issues encountered in the entire process in the order they occurred. A total of 8 simple things went wrong when one simply wants to recover OSX, adjust partitions, or install Windows.
The series of frustrations is extremely consistent with my prior experiences with Apple products. For example, the iPod 5th generation which saw its buttons break repeatedly after numerous repairs and died all of a sudden and never turned on again thereafter.
In the last decade I fail to recognise any merit in Apple's hardware or software. It always pains me to watch a world of ignorant trend chasers constantly fall for their smartass marketing and substanceless novelty only to get the some of the shittiest products out there. To me, Apple represents the worst performance, cost-effectiveness, workmanship, customisability, design philosophy, and business practices among major manufacturers. The closed ideology has persisted throughout its lifetime and meanwhile utterly disgusted me over all these years (and I'm sure the open source, overclocking, and gaming communities).
Well, fuck the hippies that worship Apple and the root of evil and closedness.
Terrible Experience with Comcast
The "terrible experience" posts may well turn into a series...
I've had Comcast since 2011 in TN and MA except for one year. The overall experience is consistently terrible. Here are some reasons for never choosing Comcast as your ISP (or provider for any other service).
So, support your regional ISP while you can, if they provide decent service and competitive price.
I've had Comcast since 2011 in TN and MA except for one year. The overall experience is consistently terrible. Here are some reasons for never choosing Comcast as your ISP (or provider for any other service).
- 250GB/month data cap for Xfinity internet plans. For my household the data usage is around 1-3TB/month. I had to switch to business class to get rid of the data cap at my old residence back in TN. Luckily this nationwide data cap is suspended in MA.
- Switching service plan is never smooth . Xfinity and Business Class are two independent departments. Even though the service always comes through the same cable lines, I had various issues when switching from one to the other.
- Moving is never smooth, either. If you move to another state, be prepared waste days and months for them to get the billing right, as a representative is only able to deal with things within the state, and is unable to manage or transfer your old account in a different state.
- It is incredibly difficult to get the refund to which you are entitled from Comcast, especially when it involves your old account in a different state. Representatives are not helpful in locating the old account and checking final bills and balances. Any service centre you visit or rep you reach over the phone will tell you they are unable to do anything, and when they say there will be a follow-up, there won't.
- Service reliability has always been an issue, regardless of location and service class. Service can be down for all kinds of reasons, from inclement weather to construction accident to "scheduled" maintenance.
- Never any notice for downtime whatsoever. If maintenance is scheduled there is no reason not to give prior notice to customers in the affected area. If you call the support line, occasionally the automated phone menu will tell you there is an known outage. You could, of course, call customer service to request a reimbursement for the downtime, but the reimbursement amount is only $2 or $3 which is not worth your time.
- Cancelling the service? There is a 60-day prior notice policy. If you don't notify Comcast two months earlier, you have to pay for two extra months. This clause is not in the contract you signed, but in a 18-page ToS to which your contract links.
This is the point where I came to the conclusion that Comcast is total bullshit, because I never had any issue cancelling my service with any utility, phone, or internet company. Even one of the busiest logistics/moving companies in the country scheduled my service in two weeks. - When a business class contract is about to expire, Comcast renews it automatically without ever asking you. If you signed up for Xfinity online and the OK rates lured you in, the rates automatically go up usually by 40% after the first year.
So, support your regional ISP while you can, if they provide decent service and competitive price.
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Things I Expect from a Quality Feed Reader
Essential features as a feed reader:
- Instant data import from Google Reader
- Auto-discovery of feeds by webpage URL
- Compact UI, or at least an optional compact UI
- Widescreen support and dimension-adaptive display
- Inline excerpt display of arbitrary length in list view
- CSS Optimization such that highlighting any text field such as entry title for copying is easy
- Categorization of entries (manually star and label, or automatically filter incoming entries)
- Actual unread count for each folder, label, and feed
- Actual unread status for entries regardless of age
- Favicons
- Publish and fetch time of each entry
- Alphabetical sorting of list items, and drag n' drop support
- Keyboard shortcuts in agreement with the GR canonical definitions
- Search capability for feed and articles within subscriptions
- Complete subscription management (ability to easily add, delete, batch delete, label, rename, and reorder feeds and labels)
- Unchanged list and focus position when switching between display modes
- Load and search speed (server)
- Navigation performance when quickly moving through items (client)
- Auto-update of changes in fetch entries with a notice; avoid showing minimally different duplicates
- Site-wide SSL encryption
- Full cloud service with cross-platform compatibility on desktop
- API and Instapaper button (or other types of Kindle support)
- Personal and per-feed statistics
Social features:
- Share/broadcast with comments to personal public profile; feed output
- Send to friends via email
- Share via twitter etc.
- Attempt to unify internal "like" and external voting forms such as Google +1, Facebook like and Digg
- Trending topics and classified recommendations generated from social data and user labels/tags
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Saturday, 25 May 2013
Status Archive
Pierced from within
2015-11-20
Enslaved covariant
2013-08-17
Of What's to Come
2012-12-22 06:07:07
Back to path of the weakening
2011-12-10 02:31:10
奕秋
2011-10-04 13:47:29
The earth is a cold dead place.
2011-05-09 13:23:44
"愿得一人心 白首不相离"
2011-03-03 09:17:44
Chances are there's no chance at all.
2010-11-30 23:22:48
Sleepless moonbabies
2010-11-11 16:11:16
Massive conspiracy against all life
2010-09-12 03:09:51
现在的孩子 说什么好呢
2010-09-04 06:31:46
And I, should contemplate this change, to ease the pain.
2010-07-01 07:35:22
Such a lonely day, and it's mine. I'm glad i survived.
2010-06-20 12:16:30
忧长假期
2010-05-18 19:18:26
It would be unrealistic to expect the search for them to be successful.
2010-04-07 15:52:15
网评员们畅所欲言，真是“五毛加五毛——想到一块去了”
2010-03-03 05:41:14
你今天非法献花了吗？
2010-01-15 09:00:13
Second coming, retrospective haunting
2009-12-20 22:09:01
译言被封后又证实了一条真理 这年头办个网站 不被封你都不好意思
2009-12-04 19:52:15
“《蜗居》表明了三代人的关系，60后最爽，有钱有女人；70后也在房价上涨前买到房，80后没钱买房，女人也被60后抢了"
2009-12-03 14:47:19
相比起芬兰将“至少1Mb宽带连接”定义为基本人权，中国却将上网超过6小时定性为精神病
2009-11-22 04:43:11
"I am thine: save me: use me: thee will I serve, day and night, in great, in small, that I may be not virtuous, but virtue."
2009-10-12 04:53:53
All is absent, all is cracked.
2009-09-04 12:32:38
Sigh
2009-08-30 09:56:26
美国的橘子不甜 美国的订书钉不结实 美国的妞儿不耐人 哈哈哈
2009-08-28 03:38:32
“这堵高墙，起初你仇视它，反对它；然后你适应它；最后你就依附它，离不开它了，这就是制度化”
2009-08-23 22:38:47
不解风情万种
2009-07-23 16:06:12
以自己和一帮上了年纪的腐朽愚昧的小市民政见相同而为荣？
2009-07-23 12:09:44
就这么凑合着活吧 受着 待着 拖着 耗着 忍着
2009-07-09 03:10:11
七一罢网
2009-06-24 03:54:28
绝望其实是无限的美好
2009-05-11 21:38:53
Rhodes College ‘13, Memphis, Tennessee
2009-04-30 21:36:07
奥美的选拔赛 谁打？
2009-04-09 18:52:32
绝望其实是无限的美好
2008-12-15 00:38:03
Thank you for taking a moment to offer your sympathy to Shadow Gallery and Mike Baker's family at this time.
2008-12-07 16:15:48
黑箱监管集体诉讼原告指南 http://docs.google.com/View?id=dds68dz_11d9xw9dfh
2008-08-01 12:17:44
我真傻 真的
2008-07-27 00:06:50
一切早已失尽了艳色 只留下黑白
2008-05-20 01:05:44
XX + XY = ∞
2008-03-25 20:15:56
每每从异性身上感到更大威胁所在
2008-03-18 19:35:35
抽象意义上的不断肯定而具体实践上的不朽否定
2008-03-12 18:14:52
需要或者必定存在一个语境
2008-02-21 21:21:37
娇口陈赞
2008-02-15 20:40:00
Virgins are inexperienced sluts.
2008-02-05 20:43:52
不大纵使是不大 但也绝不是小啊
2007-12-31 00:26:43
Radiohead In Rainbows 2007.10.10
2007-10-13 17:11:03
原来The Cure不仅是治愈 也是制欲啊
2007-09-14 17:19:08
track3. after17
2007-08-21 20:29:53
Why call it anything?
2007-08-16 17:08:41
2015-11-20
Enslaved covariant
2013-08-17
Of What's to Come
2012-12-22 06:07:07
Back to path of the weakening
2011-12-10 02:31:10
奕秋
2011-10-04 13:47:29
The earth is a cold dead place.
2011-05-09 13:23:44
"愿得一人心 白首不相离"
2011-03-03 09:17:44
Chances are there's no chance at all.
2010-11-30 23:22:48
Sleepless moonbabies
2010-11-11 16:11:16
Massive conspiracy against all life
2010-09-12 03:09:51
现在的孩子 说什么好呢
2010-09-04 06:31:46
And I, should contemplate this change, to ease the pain.
2010-07-01 07:35:22
Such a lonely day, and it's mine. I'm glad i survived.
2010-06-20 12:16:30
忧长假期
2010-05-18 19:18:26
It would be unrealistic to expect the search for them to be successful.
2010-04-07 15:52:15
网评员们畅所欲言，真是“五毛加五毛——想到一块去了”
2010-03-03 05:41:14
你今天非法献花了吗？
2010-01-15 09:00:13
Second coming, retrospective haunting
2009-12-20 22:09:01
译言被封后又证实了一条真理 这年头办个网站 不被封你都不好意思
2009-12-04 19:52:15
“《蜗居》表明了三代人的关系，60后最爽，有钱有女人；70后也在房价上涨前买到房，80后没钱买房，女人也被60后抢了"
2009-12-03 14:47:19
相比起芬兰将“至少1Mb宽带连接”定义为基本人权，中国却将上网超过6小时定性为精神病
2009-11-22 04:43:11
"I am thine: save me: use me: thee will I serve, day and night, in great, in small, that I may be not virtuous, but virtue."
2009-10-12 04:53:53
All is absent, all is cracked.
2009-09-04 12:32:38
Sigh
2009-08-30 09:56:26
美国的橘子不甜 美国的订书钉不结实 美国的妞儿不耐人 哈哈哈
2009-08-28 03:38:32
“这堵高墙，起初你仇视它，反对它；然后你适应它；最后你就依附它，离不开它了，这就是制度化”
2009-08-23 22:38:47
不解风情万种
2009-07-23 16:06:12
以自己和一帮上了年纪的腐朽愚昧的小市民政见相同而为荣？
2009-07-23 12:09:44
就这么凑合着活吧 受着 待着 拖着 耗着 忍着
2009-07-09 03:10:11
七一罢网
2009-06-24 03:54:28
绝望其实是无限的美好
2009-05-11 21:38:53
Rhodes College ‘13, Memphis, Tennessee
2009-04-30 21:36:07
奥美的选拔赛 谁打？
2009-04-09 18:52:32
绝望其实是无限的美好
2008-12-15 00:38:03
Thank you for taking a moment to offer your sympathy to Shadow Gallery and Mike Baker's family at this time.
2008-12-07 16:15:48
黑箱监管集体诉讼原告指南 http://docs.google.com/View?id=dds68dz_11d9xw9dfh
2008-08-01 12:17:44
我真傻 真的
2008-07-27 00:06:50
一切早已失尽了艳色 只留下黑白
2008-05-20 01:05:44
XX + XY = ∞
2008-03-25 20:15:56
每每从异性身上感到更大威胁所在
2008-03-18 19:35:35
抽象意义上的不断肯定而具体实践上的不朽否定
2008-03-12 18:14:52
需要或者必定存在一个语境
2008-02-21 21:21:37
娇口陈赞
2008-02-15 20:40:00
Virgins are inexperienced sluts.
2008-02-05 20:43:52
不大纵使是不大 但也绝不是小啊
2007-12-31 00:26:43
Radiohead In Rainbows 2007.10.10
2007-10-13 17:11:03
原来The Cure不仅是治愈 也是制欲啊
2007-09-14 17:19:08
track3. after17
2007-08-21 20:29:53
Why call it anything?
2007-08-16 17:08:41
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
云淡风轻
Duan Yutong 2:32 AM (4 minutes ago) to laputajessie
I did not accompany you in the past two years; your numerous guys did. You are not my friend, ever.
Just be a bitch as you are and get lost.
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:05 PM, laputajessie wrote:
> Dear,
>
> It's great to know you, and I really want to thank you for your accompany in these years. No matter what
> have happened between us, you are always my friend.
>
> All the best,
>
> Jessica
时隔两年，毕业典礼后曾经熟悉的一个陌生女人的来信，以上作结。
I did not accompany you in the past two years; your numerous guys did. You are not my friend, ever.
Just be a bitch as you are and get lost.
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:05 PM, laputajessie wrote:
> Dear,
>
> It's great to know you, and I really want to thank you for your accompany in these years. No matter what
> have happened between us, you are always my friend.
>
> All the best,
>
> Jessica
时隔两年，毕业典礼后曾经熟悉的一个陌生女人的来信，以上作结。
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