Another BOAB
Dying Windows - 10:12 PM 6/30/2006
My Windows installation is starting to choke badly. Some of the annoying things:
- Disk management using GUI is awfully slow. This is using any file manager.
- Closed programs remain on the process list (in other words, they’re still running.
- Programs randomly eat 99% CPU cycle. When the program is terminated forcefully, other program foolishly assumed the CPU killing job.
I’ll probably reinstall after finishing the TK2 report.
Morning breeze - 6:51 AM 6/30/2006
The cold morning chills me to the bones. Is that why I fear it so much? I have not felt it for ages so that the pain is almost like an exciting thrill.
The SRT subtitle format - 9:38 PM 6/27/2006
Making a subtitle using the SRT format is very easy. The example below is self-explanatory:
1 00:00:02.849 --> 00:00:05.348 JUMP JUMP take offしようぜ! JUMP JUMP take off shiyouze! 2 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:08.321 天使の羽を持っている tenshi no hane wo motteiru 3 00:00:08.309 --> 00:00:11.600 見上げれば 未来 miagereba mirai 4 00:00:11.750 --> 00:00:14.783 Boys & Girls! Be Ambitious!
Some things to note:
- The file should be saved using the srt extension. Saving in UTF-8 works.
- The time format MUST be HH:MM:SS.SSS. For example 00:00:1.2 won’t work (there must be 5 digits for the “seconds” part.
A fine media player that supports the SRT subtitle format is Media Player Classic. Just activate the “Load Subtitle…” menu item from the “File” menu.
IME not restricted to natural languages - 9:07 PM 6/27/2006
When I activate the Japanese IME, I can pop 私 by typing “watashi”. This works anywhere: From typing on a text editor to renaming files on Explorer. I often imagine how easy computing life would be when the use of IME is not restricted to languages.
Here are some examples:
- Typing “date” would yield the current date, for example “2006-06-27″
- Typing “time” would yield the current time, for example “21:12″
- Typing an equation would yield the result, for example “=2*3″ would yield “6″
If using an IME layer is overkill, a system wide shortcut key should be available to pop up stuffs that don’t require user input (like date and time)
