i was searching for some offline editors which can save data to online. only one candidate is zoho writer(do you know any other?) zoho uses google gears offline library. it doesn’t detect the browser’s state. so you have to change the state manually. and if you fail to change(i.e. you chage the state to online when disconnected), the browser goes blank. no menu for just synchronizing data that’s just what i want. UI is very clumsy, no way to hide buttons i may never use. I don’t want to see those unpleasant white borders.

but anyway it’s cool! i decide to move from google docs. now i can write some articles anywhere any time.

i used kitty as my default terminal in vista environment. but kitty doesn’t support transparency mode in vista, and putty itself doesn’t support japanese or korean.. i was very surprised, there’s a patch for japanese character and multi-byte characters. why putty doesn’t adopt it?

i delete kitty and install the patched version of putty. now japanese character is displayed well.

putty’s way of ssh auth is somewhat absurd. they use their own format of key and to generate ppk(putty private key), we have to get a private key of ssh2, not public key. why do we need private key when we just want to connect the server? is it ok? i don’t know at all..

h2 is a cool java sql db. it’s quick and handy. but not stable as other (non-java) db solutions.

sometimes “Unique index or primary key violation” is occured. probably inserting data in multiple threads cause this (though i set single thread mode). it’s critical, you have to fix this manually, not automatically.

in h2’s official site, this procedure is not well explained. org.h2.tools.Recover and org.h2.tools.RunScript will fix this problem.

1. org.h2.tools.Recover will generate *.sql backup file.
2. delete broken db
3. run org.h2.tools.RunScript. you will face some sql error.
4. comment the parts in *.sql. delete db and run RunScript again and again.

if you have a critical data, you have to be careful to fix sql file.

i’m testing h2 database’s memory usage.. it costs too much memory when indexing tables.. i have to choose between search performace and memory usage.. good luck to me~

because firefox is too slow and heavy, i decided to use safari yesterday. i changed my default browser in my iMac and set some bookmarks. it worked great and looked very clean and neat. i may miss some functionality of firefox, like foxytunes. but it’s ok by now. it’s fast and that’s just what i’ve wanted for so long time.

and also i installed safari 3 public beta in my vista. but it’s not so good as Mac version. i found some bugs in encoding and felt some awkwardness in look-and-feel. and though it’s very fast, not so much fast as i expect compared to IE(when opening just few tabs).

I may wait till beta is over. but i don’t likely to use safari in my vista machine.. (i love my maxthon so much!)

when using my ubuntu gutsy gibbon 64bit server, firefox is stopped in every five minutes. although ubuntu and compiz have great features, it was very inconvenient and intolerable to me(i can’t wait a sec for loading). so i installed vista x64, and it works just fine as i think.

i planed to make a complete development network with my FTTH line and one PC and one laptop. at first i installed vmware workstation, and install gutsy gibbon, and set linux server, both PC and laptop. i installed svn server to my pc’s ubuntu, and make a mirror site to my laptop’s ubuntu. music is essential in development so i set to share folders and mp3s in itunes. and almost done, but some remains yet.

sometimes i really want to connect my pc, because my laptop is not so fast and lack of HDD space. but in FTTH environment, it’s not an easy thing.. so i googled and found LogMeIn.com it’s very easy to install and use, doesn’t consume much resources. works well with vista (though it doesn’t work perfectly in my vista x64)  and it’s free till 2020! too cool!

maybe i have to buy an access point to complete my development network.. but i will wait till i get some from others ^_^;