Beyond the Sky

I have to write down this, reminder for me to compile fluxbox from source next time in future.

ake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hkong/Dev/fluxbox_1.0rc3/fluxbox-devel/nls'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/hkong/Dev/fluxbox_1.0rc3/fluxbox-devel/src'
make[2]: Circular defaults.hh <- Makefile dependency dropped.
Making all in FbTk
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/hkong/Dev/fluxbox_1.0rc3/fluxbox-devel/src/FbTk'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hkong/Dev/fluxbox_1.0rc3/fluxbox-devel/src/FbTk'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/hkong/Dev/fluxbox_1.0rc3/fluxbox-devel/src'
make[3]: Circular defaults.hh <- Makefile dependency dropped.
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I./FbTk   -g -O2  -DSHAPE  -I/usr/include/freetype2    -c main.cc
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I./FbTk   -g -O2  -DSHAPE  -I/usr/include/freetype2    -c Slit.cc
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `defaults.', needed by `fluxbox'.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hkong/Dev/fluxbox_1.0rc3/fluxbox-devel/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hkong/Dev/fluxbox_1.0rc3/fluxbox-devel/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hkong/Dev/fluxbox_1.0rc3/fluxbox-devel'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

When getting error of defaults.hh, grep "defaults.hh" at src folder. It will leads you to the line at Makefile

# an extra dep for fluxbox
fluxbox.$(OBJEXT): defaults.hh

Some how OBJEXT is not define, thats the reason make fails.

Workaround:

export OBJEXT=o
make

I am reading freakonomic, Steven D Levitt mention about Information asymmetry!

Refers to wikipedia, Information asymmetry stand for?

Information asymmetry occurs when one party to a transaction has more or better information than the other party. (It has also been called asymmetrical information). Typically it is the seller that knows more about the product than the buyer, however, it is possible for the reverse to be true: for the buyer to know more than the seller.

Sales man knows better than consumer, what will they do while doing sales? What their boss guide them how to do sales? I have heard few techniques, bellow are the examples.

Convince them to buy? If not successful? Confuse them.

Show the facts(untruthful one) to scared them, then later explain how your solution can help to cater.

So conclusion, Salesman will make you scared by confusing you, the purpose of doing that is to convince you to buy their products.

I have play around a lots of fluxbox svn version over the weekend, and discover a bug on windows title, while display non-english characters while you login with en-UTF-8 locale.

fluxbox

Observed that the windows title, it could not recognize the font and display correctly, even I overlay it with chinese font in ~/.fluxbox/overlay. But in gtk part of space, observe the tab, it do works to display properly.

Any Chinese fluxbox user facing the same problem?
Probably not if you login as a zh locale, what if you login to en locale and need the windows title to display properly? In gnome, they do not have such problem, in fluxbox they have, who can fix it? which developer should I email to?

Remember starwars kid?
He is the first one who start video shot himself playing "lightsaber"

Nowadays, technology is so advance, you can put yourself into lightsaber virtual fight, check this three out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dykGRGzzVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUBUtZranpE
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=630

There are more, and there even have video tutorial showing how to make those "lightsaber" effects.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/400298/how_to_lightsaber_effect_video_tutorial/