My Life as Open Source

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

早前跟盟友食飯時聽聞Stephen Hawking 訪港,陳生和Gabe 不約而同說對他使用的 PowerBook 最感興趣,因為它只需要單手操控,最不可思議是陳生和Gabe 連Stephen Hawking 部PowerBook 的系統聲音是 Bruce 都知道。

delicious Library昨天下午看完三集 CSI 後沒事做,下載了美味怪獸出品的美味圖書館,因為先前看黃世澤寫用 barcode scanner 做資料庫,先醒起係喎,我部新 iMac 的內置 iSight 是可以用來做 barcode scanner,雖然美味圖書館只能向 Amazon 索取資料,換句話說對華文圖書 / CD / DVD 也不支援,要靠人手輸入資料,不過我除了中文書多過英文書之外,DVD / CD / Game 也是美版或日版多,試玩之後覺得美味圖書館實在太神奇了!所以便買了這個軟件,so far 除了 Mac OS X 之外,美味圖書館是我買過最貴的軟件,但以功能來說是十分超值!圖是我的資料庫中部份藏書。至於用 iSight 做 barcode scanner 的反應,可能有部份 CD 太舊,read 唔到,要輸入barcode number 才成功,老公有盒超任的Star Fox (1993 年 2 月 21 日發售),發現原來日本 Amazon 仲有得賣,不過沒有封面提供,新一點例如 GBA 的遊戲也找得到。我還有不少 DVD / CD / 書擱在娘家,今個星期慢慢的搬回來,慢慢的建立個人圖書館。

  1. PK_, want an avatar? Get a gravatar. Reply to this comment
    08:39 on June 6th, 2006

    個software正, 不過就係唔知點快速input, 我部mac無內置isight, 外加既可作bar code scanner嗎? 好唔想買支bar code scanner槍….

  2. Eric Chan, want an avatar? Get a gravatar. Reply to this comment
    08:40 on June 6th, 2006

    Share w/ me your catalog of books/DVDs. See if there is any that I’m interested to buy my own or just borrow from you.

    I made a libray of my own when I was in U, using DBase 4. It had been long out-dated. Now I’m more interested in using spreadsheet for housekeeping as data analysis is possible this way. So, most of my data are related to transaction history of current account, insurance premium and return, share petting, and other investment data. I guess I could only publicly sharing them when I’m reaching grave ../eric

  3. Chainsaw Riot, want an avatar? Get a gravatar. Reply to this comment
    09:05 on June 6th, 2006

    代答:外加iSight okay

    我都玩過,不過藏書以中文書為大多數,CD/DVD又cheap到買港版,故此好多都要人手入。

  4. PK_, want an avatar? Get a gravatar. Reply to this comment
    10:17 on June 6th, 2006

    謝謝.

    小弟9成英文書美國碟, 有得諗喎…

    再謝!

  5. nikita, want an avatar? Get a gravatar. Reply to this comment
    10:35 on June 6th, 2006

    PK_:你去download 試用下啦,用人手輸入UPC 都得架,好快就會search 到。

  6. PK_, want an avatar? Get a gravatar. Reply to this comment
    10:56 on June 6th, 2006

    okok. tks a lot for your recommendation!