The Wind in the Willows

以臂使指以指使棍
棍走八字形
棍打一大片但目標在最後的點

走掌的功夫看起來簡單做起來不僅是難而且累
走掌的時候有五心要注意
五心指的是兩手手心，兩腳掌心以及中心
這五心都要向內含
身形必須盡量小而銳利
胯必須收但臀部不可翹
後腿必須向後撐直
提腿時必須兩腿同時向上抽

最近常覺得對知識的飢渴
也越來越對簡單的問題感到不耐
難怪前人必須飲冰解渴
笨拙的我卻被阻於此地
前方的光亮似乎離我越來越遠
年近三十的我能倚何而立
泥上偶然留指爪
鴻飛哪復計東西
目標的遠去
使我內心莫名的焦躁起來

I used to think running cygwin under dos prompt is really suck.
The dos prompt usually have limited working area and you're not able to tune it to the correct size.
Fortunately, I came across a tool named puttyCyg, it is a tweak of original famous putty.
Using puttyCyg, you can benefit from what putty has and most important ones, running Cygwin programs.
However, there's no free lunch.
Using dos prompt as a Cygwin terminal, you can combine all dos console programs with Cygwin programs.
Running puttyCyg, some of the dos console programs die because puttyCyg is *not* a dos console, once dos program made a call through console API, it would cause these program hang.
Anyway, puttyCyg is really a useful tool if you really need to live and work on Cygwin.

I have Ubuntu installed on my laptop, and it's using Conexent sound card.
It can do playback, but I cannot have the integrated mic working.
I ran accross http://brainstorms.in/?p=172
After setting up OSS4, the mic is working now.
One thing to notice is that because the original install in based on ALSA, all players need to change its audio interface to OSS.
The last thing still needs work out is GStreamer's mixer because it kept complaining it cannot find a correct device, but I'm sure I have GStreamer's properties setup correctly.
I found that to make GStreamer work closely with OSS, GStreamer0.10-plugins-bad needs to be installed.