Chinese computing ()
Why Chinese Computing?
Language affect the way people think. To simulate the process of how people think in computer, we need to be able to represent the way peopl think in that partical lanugae.
fundamental Chinsee computing issue
Being one is great. How about more?
Standard of internaltionalization and locale
If you have an apple, I have an apple, each one still have one apple after we exchange
However, if you have a book, I have another book, we both can read two book after we echange them.
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- Virtual forum
- Taiwan aera (Republic of China)
Needs the ability to read traditional Chinese for article on them.
Roadmap
Techniques are to improve our life, not just to use to repress people's freedom.
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Open source movement:we can have a better paradigm for software ecology
- Linux: a realization of the open source in the operating system level
- lots of information on line, you can search it using whatever your favorate browser.
- some example such as linux.com
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OpenOffice An office suite and the format free us from M$ office, no matter which OS we use.
- I have witten up a brief introduction about all useful information of openoffice in here
- Slashdot, the most famous forum for open source movement, intelligent perpoery and more...
- Slat.org
- Chinese Computing and intelligece processing
Solution based on big-5 and UTF-8 unicode
Traditional way of meeting
Use the best power of WWW
- Before we start..
- You can use any computer you want,but the best choice to do this is using a Linux machine.
For most people not familar with it, I recommend Mandrake Linux, which you can choose to download by yourself, or buy its commercial package if you need extra commercial support.
- Publish your thoughts on WWW
- Writing HTML
- Any editor will make it, the most used basic syntax is here
- The detail HTML 40.1 stadard
- you can also use the free HTML editors in Openoffice or Nescape, Mozilla,...
- Avoid using editor Front Page by Microsoft, because they on porposely make it imcompitable to the standard, so people not use MS IE may not able to read it.
- let your article readable for everyone: get C3 HTML certified
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- Mail and Mailing list
- Server side consideration
- Favoraite principle: avoid spam, no need to moderate all the time.
- Mailing list serive software
- Postfix (Mailing serive software, it plays well with Mailman, additionally for its anti-spam features)
- Client side consideration (only if you ever join a bad mailing list)
- use filter to filer out junk mail
- mozilla has build in filter
- Collective Writing
Resource
- Genral:
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- Standrad/UI integration
&p glibc/Gnome/OOo/mozilla/,... locale translation,
- font, server and AP integration
- &p freefont2,
- ?C$uBN's $$$e patch
- distro. $$$e$d4)
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postgresql,..
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- css3 vertical style,
- blog
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linux PDA
OpenOffice.org
Further contact: Send email to kcting@bayou.uh.edu