1. 买了几张贺卡，感恩节前寄给在美国的各位我知道地址的同学，还有国内的父母。感谢同学的帮助和父母的养育。国内其他朋友和老师有些地址不详的我会在接下来的一个月中问清楚，新年的时候补上我的问候。

2. 上MITBBS, 看到一则呼吁帮助国内失学儿童的帖子, 虽然自己也没什么钱，$50也有，对于我就是少了一次外出吃饭，对一个孩子，可能是莫大的帮助. 希望自己微薄的一点努力，能够改变某个孩子这一年的境况。如果每年都这样，我希望能用一点力量改变一个孩子的一生，而不是只是在百合上被丛飞和蹬三轮车的老人的精神所打动。

懂得感谢别人，帮助别人的人生很舒服，活的很高兴。

1. 买了几张贺卡，感恩节前寄给在美国的各位我知道地址的同学，还有国内的父母。感谢同学的帮助和父母的养育。国内其他朋友和老师有些地址不详的我会在接下来的一个月中问清楚，新年的时候补上我的问候。

2. 上MITBBS, 看到一则呼吁帮助国内失学儿童的帖子, 虽然自己也没什么钱，$50也有，对于我就是少了一次外出吃饭，对一个孩子，可能是莫大的帮助. 希望自己微薄的一点努力，能够改变某个孩子这一年的境况。如果每年都这样，我希望能用一点力量改变一个孩子的一生，而不是只是在百合上被丛飞和蹬三轮车的老人的精神所打动。

懂得感谢别人，帮助别人的人生很舒服，活的很高兴。

These days I am trying to collect the contact information of my classmates in north america, I’ve almost finished the work. Yesterday I just came across the “world.dem” file in the demo of GNUplot, an idea suddenly struck me: why not plot the position of all the classmates by simply changing the data file. Em, it sounds good.

It is not hard to find the corresponding longitude and latitude of some universities with powerful Google Maps. En, this is the byproduct and I am now quite proud of it. Maybe I can collect the contact information of all the classmates and title the graph as “O2 Math-er, all around the world” :)

OK, I will do this later, do not worry about that.

To my classmates: I will mail you the contact list soon. :)

[Background: GFW is the firewall build by Chinese government, which can block wikipedia, gmail, googlepages and a lot of useful websites when you want to surf on the Internet in China]

GFW is funny now. You can not access gmail, but you can access wiki.

But, GFW can not block HTTPS, so you can try this link to access gmail:

[[Background: GFW is the firewall build by Chinese government, which can block wikipedia, gmail, googlepages and a lot of useful websites when you want to surf on the Internet in China]

GFW is funny now. You can not access gmail, but you can access wiki.

But, GFW can not block HTTPS, so you can try this link to access gmail:

](https://mail.google.com/mail/)

Again, try this to access wikipedia.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/zh/wiki

GFW is funny. Come on, GFW, can you tell me a list of websites besides playboy that you usually block? You know, you are just like a kid, you even can not tell what kind of candy you want and what kind of toy you DO NOT like. You just find a toy, play it, and block it or allow it. But no one knows exactly what kind of website you like.

Oh, come on, who can tell me the G-point of GFW?

［说句少儿不宜的话：“谁都摸不到GFW的G点”。这句话不是我首创，是借用连岳先生一篇“谁都摸不到GDP的G点”, 得了，咱们英明的党做事，什么时候让咱小民摸到过G点的。要爽的同志在家自己带Tor 自己爽，f**k GFW的时候千万不要试图找G点。这个和这个都是教训呀］

Seems Sun Microsystems has finally relented under pressure to open source its Java programming language and associated software.

Today, the company will be releasing the first Java code under version 2 of the General Public License (GPLv2), which governs Linux and other open source products.

According to Sun, this move will promote Java and make it easier to bundle with Linux.

The Sun-hosted Java.net Web site will offer access to Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) software for mobile phones and Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) software for desktop applications.

Commenting on the development, Rich Green, Executive Vice President of Software, Sun, said, this is a milestone for the whole industry, and that not only are they making an influential and widely-used software platform for the Web available under open source, but that they are paving the way for a paradigm shift in how software is enhanced and developed.

While additions to software available under GPL have to also use the license, Sun is making an exception in the case of Java Standard Edition (Java SE). Meaning, programmers creating applications using Java SE will not be required to use the GPL license, and can instead opt for any other license for their applications.

Also, Sun will continue to offer commercial licenses that give other software vendors legal indemnification and official standards certification.

All in all, Sun’s move comes as a pleasant surprise, considering the company has continually resisted calls to open source Java, citing fears that such an action would cause incompatibilities among “forked” versions of the code.

[Added by me:] After SUN opened the Solaris x86 edition, now SUN make the JAVA, another weapon on its left hand open. It’s the winning of the Open Source Movement, and of course we can anticipate a more stable GCJ in the next year. Now everyone can redistribute Java with Linux and other GPLed code. We can anticipate that Python+Java will be the two most popular programming languages in the future based on the *nix platform including MacOS. I can also image that Jython and other combinations of Java+Python will flourish again. Java can never be so powerful as it is now.