Linux certification
Rommel Feria said about the LPI certification exam:
Sacha, we can have another one for March - no problem! Just get 14
other people to take the exam with you.
Yay! Can people wait for me? =)
Rommel Feria said about the LPI certification exam:
Sacha, we can have another one for March - no problem! Just get 14
other people to take the exam with you.
Yay! Can people wait for me? =)
Hah. Instead of ploughing ahead with my Japanese proficiency test
review now, I plan go to sleep at 11 and wake up at 6:30. Then I will
review my kanji, then go through the kanji I need for the Japanese
proficiency test. That gives me time to relax in the evenings. Very
important if I don’t want to lose my head.
It doesn’t take that much time to make kanji wordcards or look up
grammar points in my textbook, so I won’t see significant improvements
if I moved to the computer for reviewing.
Similarly, kanji study passes don’t take that much time and I absorb
things well after a few passes, so I don’t have to formally break
things up into smaller sets. Here’s how I currently do things:
- 1. Write cards for the chapter.
- 2. Do one pass of writing immediately after.
- 3. Do another pass just through the mistakes until I’m happy with them.
- 4. Do another pass through the chapter kanji.
- 5. If I made any mistakes, go back to step 3. If not, put the deck
away for a while.
I have problems remembering the readings now, though, so I should
probably go back to doing reading first.
Wow. I’m done with my homework, and it’s only 9:08! I have some time
to focus on my JLPT-specific review.
Shamelessly stolen off comp.emacs. You can see it at
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&frame=right&th=636e3d0f9a421166&seekm=87y8hn66rk.fsf%40heresy.ainola.jyu.fi#link1
- Richard Stallman (founder of Free Software Foundation) is an Emacs
user. Hint: He is the original author of Emacs, after all. 
- Yukihiro Matsumoto (creator of the Ruby programming language) is an
Emacs user. Hint: He said so in a post to ruby-talk mailing list.
Quote from http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/108051:
“I wrote ruby-mode.el; I live in Emacs; I program in Emacs; I debug in
Emacs; I read mails in Emacs; I wrote MUA for Emacs.”
- Jeremy Zawodny (author of “High Performance MySQL”) is an Emacs
user. Hint: He wrote Emacs Beginners’ Howto
(http://jeremy.zawodny.com/emacs/).
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum used elle. It is some clone of emacs. Then
he moved to emacs. He said so in his homepage.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/home/faq.html “Which editor do you use
for producing books? I used to use elle, a stripped down emacs
clone, but I finally decided to take the plunge and move up to
full emacs.”
- James Gosling, father of Java, currently CTO at Sun’s Developer
Products Group, uses Emacs. Hint: He wrote a C-based Emacs
implementation in 1981 (the code portions of which became GNU
Emacs). … Uh, no. He was one of the reasons that the GPL and
copyright assignments were invented. His code had to be removed
from Emacs and substantial portions rewritten by Stallman,
because he refused to let his stuff get distributed by the FSF.
- Jamie Zawinski, one of the main coders for Netscape Navigator
and one the founders of the Mozilla Foundation, uses Emacs. Hint:
He wrote Lucid Emacs. There’s an Emacs timeline document on his
website, http://www.jwz.org/ … So you can bet your sweet ***
that he is not using Emacs, but rather XEmacs (which is the
successor of Lucid Emacs).
- Guy Steele. Co-inventor of Scheme, author of “Common Lisp the
Language”, co-author of the Java language specification, first
person to port TeX, served on the standards commitees for C,
Fortran, Common Lisp and Scheme. And finally designer of the
original Emacs command set.
- John McCarthy. Inventor of Lisp, one of the founders of AI
research. (proof: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/facts.txt).
- SF writer Neil Stephenson uses Emacs for some of his books
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html “I use emacs, which
might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.”
- Donald Erwin Knuth (creator of TeX) is an Emacs user. Hint:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html See that
Fvwm2-config and its screenshot.
- Eric “ESR” Steven Raymond is an Emacs user. Hints: Author of “Learning
GNU Emacs”. See also this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/fvwm2/
- Larry Wall (creator of Perl) is NOT an Emacs user. Hint: His geek
code for Emacs (http://www.wall.org/~larry/ungeek.html) decodes as: “I
refuse to categorize myself on Emacs. Emacs? I don’t even know what
that is…”
- Tim O’Reilly is NOT emacs user. He uses vi:
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/1999/unix_editor.html
- W. Richard Stevens (RIP) was NOT Emacs user. He used vi. Hints:
- Paul Graham, author of several Lisp books, designer of Arc, founder
of Viaweb (which became Yahoo! Store), ironically uses vi and NOT
Emacs according to http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=117761&cid=9966507 . More proofs needed.
| 0:08:46 | Kanji 28: Copy compounds onto paper |
| 0:05:16 | Kanji 28: Practice writing, first pass … |
| 0:02:05 | Kanji 28: Practice writing, second pass … |
| 0:03:14 | Kanji 29: Combined pass |
| 0:09:18 | Kanji 26, 27: Review |
Considering that it takes only 9 minutes to copy things down on paper,
I think I’ll continue using the wordcards. They’re handy for
reviewing, too. That means I need to go to Jusco and buy more. Three
chapters of kanji fill up one word card ring, conservatively speaking.
I need six word card rings for the rest of the book, and perhaps two
for my review. I will buy 4 sets of 2 word card rings tonight.
Sacha Chua
enterprise social computing consultant, storyteller, author, geek
sacha@sachachua.com136
http://sachachua.com137
Currently: Toronto, Canada
Originally: Manila, Philippines
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