關於漢字，原來漢字本身并不帶有讀音。因此，單看漢字，并不能推測讀音。由於西方文化的接觸和電子科技的發展，羅馬字的運用變得普遍，所以才有了拼音輸入法。然而，電腦所輸入的漢字也因此變得有限。因為電腦的漢字必須根據“字型”(Font)來決定。

另外，中文漢字又分簡體和繁體。因此漢字的編碼又因地區的不同而有分別。簡體漢字普遍有國標碼(GB)，而繁體普遍有大五碼(Big5)。為了方便同時能讀簡繁漢字，就有了統一碼(Unicode)。

其實漢字會因著時代的需求而演變和創新。因此漢字不應該是有限的。而朱邦復所創的倉頡輸入法則運用了24個羅馬字母來輸入漢字：日月金木水火土、竹（斜）戈（點）十（交）大（叉）中（縱）一（橫）弓（勾）、人心手口、尸（側）廿（並）山（仰）女（紐）田（方）卜。運用倉頡輸入法，就可以創新字。倉頡輸入法普遍是第三代。然而第五代和第三代的輸入法又有些不同。

但其實，我個人認為，在我們日常生活中，也不需要每天創造新字。并且所創的新字又不帶有標準讀音。因此，不能把漢字當作羅馬字來運用。但漢字畢竟有其微妙之處，因為一個字即可包含很多意思。

I am now back to hometown to celebrate Chinese New Year. And my home has very poor internet connection. Therefore, I upload some of the Toshiba Satellite M200 drivers for XP in cyber cafe now.

Modem driver
SM Bus
Touchpad driver
FlashMedia driver
LAN driver

I do not upload BlueTooth driver, because I don’t use it. So, I also don’t know which BlueTooth driver is suitable for Toshiba Satellite M200.

I haven’t upload Wireless LAN driver. Because the file is 50.9Mb. I still haven’t decided to upload it. Because it is too big. This is what I can do now.

I just want to inform, my place currently cannot connect internet smoothly. Therefore, it is hard for me to update the blog. And, for the visitors who request the drivers, I cannot send the drivers now… This need to wait until the ISP solve the “fiber optic” problem…

Even now, I also hard to check mail and surf net. Very disappointed.

During the mass, we will say the Creed. And, normally, there are 2 Creeds: Nicene Creed and Apostle’s Creed.

Nicene Creed is the longer form and Apostle’s Creed is shorter.

Then, have you heard about Athanasian Creed? We will not say this Creed during the mass. But, I like to read this Creed. Because the Creed says about Holy Trinity and Incarnation, very nice.

Read more: Athanasian Creed.

Again Toshiba driver.

Since the sound driver I suggested in my previous post does not work, so lastly I need to upload the driver of my laptop.

But the driver I uploaded does not content setup file. Therefore, one needs to right-click “oem1.inf” and select “install”.

I exported the driver using DriverMax (freeware). I didn’t upload the original setup folder, because it is about 83 mb. So, after exported and compressed the file, it is about 9 mb.

Because the use of Java is increasing, in websites or software, that is why I install Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Why need JRE? Because the software developed by using Java language will need the JRE, so that the software is WORA (Write Once, Run Anywhere).

Then, Microsoft also produces similar product. That is .NET Framework. .NET Framework becomes popular because of C# language.

However, what I want to say is, I just found that .NET Compact Framework is different from .NET Framework. Now, .NET Framework 3.5 is released. However, the full installation file is about 100mb. It is quite wasting time to download it. And I just found .NET Compact Framework 3.5, which is much smaller than .NET Framework. So, I thought it is a “compact version” of .NET Framework. And search the Wikipedia about .NET Compact Framework, and found that both are different things. :)

Have you ever felt that, sometimes you are wasting time? For example, you are waiting for some people, or you are on the bed and waiting falling in sleep.

I often feel that.

That is why, I looked for short prayers which I can recite whenever and wherever I am.

I forgot where I read a short prayer. It was:
“Jesus, Mary. I love you save souls.”

Besides that, there is a popular prayer: Jesus Prayer.
“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”

Previously, I installed K-Lite Mega Codec and used MediaPlayerConnectivity add-on for Firefox. But the Media Player of K-Lite Mega Codec could not connect most mp3 and wma files especially in chinese websites.

Now I tried VLC. And using VLC, it solves the problem of MediaPlayerConnectivity. That means, MediaPlayerConnectivity works well with VLC.

So, now I click the “play” button of MediaPlayerConnectivity, it will pop up VLC and play the audio streaming file. Nice.

Do you know leap year? There are 366 days in leap year. And when is leap year? Every 4 years, there is a leap year, this was what I learnt from school. And counting leap year, just divide current year by 4, right?

If so, then is 1900 a leap year? NO…

To get even closer to the actual number, every 100 years is not a leap year, but every 400 years is a leap year. Putting all of these rules together, you can see that a year is a leap year not only if it is divisible by 4 – it also has to be divisible by 400 if it is a centurial year. So 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not leap years, but 2000 was. That brings the average length of the year to 365.2425 days, which is even closer to the actual number.
(From: http://people.howstuffworks.com/time.htm/printable)

Introduction

To learn about programming, C++ is a very popular programming. However, besides the language itself, there are many things need to know.

Compiled language

C++ is a compiled language. Therefore, it is not platform independent like interpreted language such as PHP, Perl, Python and else. Because it is a compiled language, that means the developer should target the platform of the C++ program, Microsoft Windows or other? Because I am using Windows, so I will only focus on Win32.