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Open source software, shogi and my life outside of workplace.
Yoshiki Hayashi
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Fri, 31 Dec 2004
Cacao
Cacao is GNU GPL'ed Java VM.
Can it become an answer to an open source Java VM?
I don't know how well it fares with other VMs like ORP, JikesRVM and Kaffe" but it certainly is good to have more options available.
I'm not a big fan of conservative garbage collection but probably many people don't really care about garbage collection algorithm...
UnDotum+
UnDotum is a sans-serif Korean font included in GNU GPL'ed Un-fonts.
I've been working on adding glyph for JIS X 0208 characters so that I can use it
for browsing Japanese web sites. It is going to be incorporated into the
original distribution eventually but I went ahead to make the enhanced version
publicly available.
I thought about waiting one more day before releasing it but the last day of 2004 seems as good a day as the first day of 2005 to release something.
Wed, 08 Dec 2004
PSGML
Some time ago, PSGML stopped working for me on Apache HTTP Server documentation.
I was finally annoyed enough to find the cause of the problem. It turned out
that it was a very simple problem. Apache HTTPD docs has common.dtd as external
entity. My system also has entity named common on path
/usr/share/linuxdoc-tools/dtd/common. The default setting
prefers the one on path over the one in current directory. A litte bit of
seaching showed me that all I have to do is
(setq sgml-system-identifiers-are-preferred t). Now my life
is much better.
Google open house in Tokyo
Yesterday, Google opened up their Tokyo R&D resarch center to grad students
to show what their doing and to show that they are hiring. I think it was
one of the things they are doing to build stronger relationship with Japanese
academia. Believe it or not, they don't have the strong brand here in Japan
they have in America and Europe. It's very popular among engineering and
science people but Yahoo is much more popular to others and there are still
some competing domestic companies.
I dont't know if it was to their surprise or not but their not so large office was almost full with people. It was good to me to be able to meet some people I haven't met before. For those, I had the typical response. Because I'm a Japanese, it seems that to Americans, I look much younger than my actual age. Typically, they assume I'm still undergrad. It was almost routine while I was in El Paso to have some kind of following conversation.
"What year are you in?" "Well, uhm, I'm a Ph.D. student." "What! How old are you?"
In Japan, nobody will be surprised to hear that I'm a Ph.D. student. Well, in fact, since we don't have qualifying exam, I'm a Ph.D. candidate. I'm getting tired of being a student for such a long time but I'm still a student nonetheless.
Anyways, all in all, I had a good time meeting with people last evening.