Rootkit revealer on SysInternals

Looks like Microsoft bought the company of one of my favorite utilitie sites, Sysinternals.com! I found this out when I came across a Slashdot story on rootkits.
The story links to a blog entry, which in turn links to a Technet article is written by the Sysinternals people and hosted on the Microsoft website.

Ego surfing

The number of hits with my name has decreased! Looks like I'll have to manually save my links, like so:

Link to a newspaper article saying I passed some test

Another page about that test

Some post talking about my hometown

Ah, I've kept my existence from fading away. ^_^

Japanese input on linux

Here's something I always forget: how to setup Japanese input on the X server in linux *ouch* Every website I visit gives a complicated list of "you can do it this way, or that, or if you type this here, you get this, etc." Well, here it is in 4 easy steps:

1. install freewnn-jserver
2. install kinput2-wnn
3. in .xsession or /etc/X11/Xsession , set XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2"
4. set LC_ALL="ja_JP.EUC-JP"

If you have trouble, google with the following keywords:
freewnn kinput2 XMODIFIERS

Enjoy!

News!

Kanji tiles has moved to googlepages.com.
The one at geocities.com no longer works because of a javascript incompatibility.

I also thought it would be nice if:

• tiles could be moved using cursor keys.
• (Sorry! I haven't tinkered with the code in a while.)
  
• the source code were available somewhere, maybe at code.google.com .
• (Again, oops! I obfuscated the page script with a program I wrote to shorten javascript files. Now I misplaced both the original tiles script, and the source code of the obfuscator. Me bad. From now on, I'll upload all my personal projects to some code hosting service.)
  

Tile puzzle

Tile Game in Kanji

In middle school, I was fed LOGO in 1990, then I picked up x86 assembler in 1991. Then I went on to C, where I lay comatose until 2002. I woke up with a Rip Van Winkle yawn, and saw curious creatures such as Javascript, Haskell and Python. "Vas arr thees kreachures?" So I picked up Javascript which ran in my browser, and put together a tile game.

Here is the tile game running on my old website:

Tile puzzle (press shuffle to change tileset)

It's a sliding tile puzzle that I wrote it in Javascript, the goal of which is to arrange the numbers from 1 to 15. The numbers are written in Chinese/Japanese. Part of the reason I wrote the game was that I developed an urge to learn Japanese :D

Tile puzzle (press shuffle to change tileset)

When you've finished solving the puzzle, the tile set changes! The tile set also changes when you give up and decide to shuffle the tiles. Tiles are shuffled in such a way that there is always a solution to the puzzle.

Tile puzzle (press shuffle to change tileset)

Tips

Counting in Chinese/Japanese (you'll need a Chinese/Japanese font to view this part):

1. 一
2. 二
3. 三
4. 四
5. 五
6. 六
7. 七
8. 八
9. 九
10. 十
11. 十一
12. 十二
13. 十三
14. 十四
15. 十五

Limitations:

Tested some time ago on Firefox 0.8, Internet Explorer 5.5 and Netscape 4.7.
The advertisements on the site sometimes mess up the Javascript. It runs better if you download it (visit the web page and click on Info, then Download). Clicking refresh could also help.

Happy playing!

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