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1970年，台湾导演张曾泽为国泰摄制的《路客与刀客》在港台新马等地不仅好评如潮，更是大收旺场，他亦因此被邵氏公司延揽，成为旗下一员大将。30年后，张曾泽撰文回忆在邵氏的那三年，坦言自己并不适合在邵氏工作，许多人事都看不惯——最让他耿耿于怀的，则是张彻的权谋与霸道！
在张曾泽眼中，张彻堪称一个笑里藏刀的伪君子！他来邵氏之初，张彻亲自设宴洗尘，处处表露善意。背后却使阴招：张曾泽想拍《水浒传》“大名府”一段，邵逸夫也应允，但张彻不同意，因为他要拍“全本水浒”。张曾泽退而求其次，想改拍“一丈青”，却被张彻一句“水浒所有桥段谁都不能动”给顶回。后来张曾泽导《吉祥赌坊》，副导演午马与主演岳华又被张彻临时挖去拍《水浒传》，自然再次令张曾泽不爽。另外，张曾泽还亲眼目睹张彻在邵逸夫门外将制片和剧务一顿臭骂，他不知究竟，问过蔡澜方知：原来张大导演在“做戏”，故意骂给老板听呢……
如此种种，张曾泽得出一个结论：张彻善于投机，趁邹文怀离职自立，想取而代之。最明显的例子是，当时张彻每天下午三点必停工陪邵逸夫喝下午茶，期间提供建言，成为一人之下的权臣。按照上述推断，有此看法不足为奇，但张曾泽忘了一点，张彻与他不同，并非寻常导演。做导演之前，张彻的身份便是邵逸夫的幕僚，玩权谋更是他的老本行。张彻早年从政，先在上海做“文运会“专员，后去台湾得蒋经国提拔，成为“总政治部”专员，军衔上校，专职搞权谋斗争，以至后来养成职业病，以己度人，看谁都是权谋家（譬如李翰祥、刘家良），对张曾泽玩的这点手段，不过牛刀小试而已。
张彻为人性情与其电影一样，冲动有激情，敢开风气之先，却往往失之粗糙草率。显然，这与他的文人气质和仕途权谋相悖，正因如此，张彻尽管常以权谋眼光审时度势，且往往预测命中，可惜只是旁观者清，一旦涉及自己，则优柔难断，火气再大，亦无补于事。是以张曾泽绝对高抬了张彻，他玩权谋是真，但仅强过普通导演，小打小闹而已，放在整个大时代大事件观之，张彻绝对是“权臣不善谋己”的典范，最终还是靠实力吃饭、凭兴趣工作。所谓“权臣”，也不过是曾经有这个权力和时机——只可惜，人家没那么大的抱负和心机！
别看张彻当年在香港影坛叱咤风云、霸气十足，但要追溯其初来香港时，却是相当尴尬丧气。他因在台湾权力斗争中失势，便寄情风花雪月，与女星李湄传出绯闻，最终辞职赴港发展。李湄在香港搞独立制片，找男友张彻执导她主演的影片《野火》，谁知竟引起轩然大波！不仅有“李湄在台湾找个小白脸做导演”等等不堪言论，更发生国泰导演集体劝告李湄放弃让情郎做导演的事件。蒙受流言压力，又不见容于香港影坛，张彻只能退出，不久便与李湄分手，可谓赔了“夫人又折兵”！
还好，张彻对电影的热情并未因此稍减，强攻不成，转玩迂回战术，用何观、沈思等笔名在报纸上写影评，以独到见解引起国泰和邵氏两大电影公司的注意，争相邀请加盟负责剧本创作。张彻先入国泰一年，之后转入邵氏做编剧主任，每日都会收到邵逸夫的一张纸条，上写交办事项。当时享受这一待遇的还有邹文怀和何冠昌，他们都是邵氏公司的重臣，张彻更因经常建言（如改用配音等主张都被采纳），成为邵逸夫的幕僚。
上世纪60年代，邵逸夫居安思危，继“黄梅调”风行新马泰台之后，决意打造“武侠世纪”。张彻正好大展所长，由编剧主任改做导演，不仅成为“武侠世纪”的执行者，实验之作《虎侠歼仇》声势不俗，《独臂刀》更成为首部卖座过百万的国片！70年代，张彻锐意开拓动作片新题材，从古装到时装（《拳击》、《恶客》），从民初（《报仇》、《马永贞》）到清装（《刺马》、《少林五祖》），无不开风气之先，影坛地位自然也举足轻重。
不过，正如张彻自己所说：“每个片种虽由我开始，但发挥尽致的往往不是我！我总是扮‘为王先驱’的角色，如陈胜、吴广之于项羽、刘邦，想来也颇悲哀。《醉拳》无疑受我《洪拳与咏春》启发，成龙更由此大红至今日；武侠片有徐克，有《卧虎藏龙》；《报仇》也影响了李小龙的《精武门》；少林系列片的高潮有李连杰的《少林寺》。尤其是吴宇森，我影片中的一些元素，如枪战慢镜、男性友谊、阳刚情节，无不在他手中发扬光大，以至影响及于好莱坞……”
1967年《独臂刀》之后，张彻连续数年雄踞香港卖座导演首席，期间恰逢邹文怀脱离邵氏自立嘉禾，邵逸夫正是用人之际，张彻虽效忠邵氏，却也与邹文怀保持密切来往。他自负立场中立，并不向任何一方泄露对方消息，除非一方要他给对方传话。如此平衡，若非权谋，实难掌握。即便如此，张彻在邵氏仍不免日久生骄，耍些元老重臣的威风，更首开“监制主导创作”之风（当时还没有这一说法，但许多张彻与鲍学礼、午马合导作品，其实他只负责审剧本和审片，具体导演工作由他人担任，与80年代导演做监制职能类似），让刚刚接管大权的方逸华颇为顾忌。或因如此，李翰祥重返邵氏后，以《大军阀》东山再起，即得方逸华重用，以此制衡张彻——正所谓一山不容二虎，遂有后来张彻远走台湾组建长弓之事。
其实“李翰祥逼走张彻”之说仅是学者黄仁揣测，张彻甘愿以邵氏卫星公司名义，更需担负亏损拍戏，主要原因还在于不想继续搞厂棚流水作业，创作有较大自由，还可自主制片。《少林五祖》票房大卖后，台湾片商积极接洽张彻，愿意为长弓新片投入资金，譬如《八国联军》开拍前就被林崇丰以100万港币买走台湾版权，即便该片公映后票房不佳，仍愿意继续与张彻合资拍戏。此举立即引起邵逸夫警觉，认为这样发展下来，张彻早晚会自立门户，于是亲赴台湾要他结束长弓，重返香港，并许以五年25部片，每部片酬20万的合同。
张彻抱负成空，他又以忠臣自居，只好带着一班新旧弟子回邵氏继续厂棚作业，偶有佳作《五毒》、《残缺》、《生死斗》，惜乎仍未脱拳脚武侠旧路，票房亦难敌楚原的古龙武侠与刘家良的南派功夫。5年之后，邵氏无意续约，张彻亦感无趣，20年宾主自此结束。不过，张彻并未停止导戏，反而可以自己做老板，重回台湾自组长河。1985年，张彻步李翰祥后尘，应邀北上拍片，首部《大上海1937》票房大卖、轰动内地，第二部《过江》已没有内地资金和发行支持，与一般内地小制作无异，结果张彻最终只分得四万人民币，自然赔得一塌糊涂。
张彻后期自资或与人合资拍戏，除1989年吴宇森、李修贤、姜大卫众弟子以师傅从影40年义拍的《义胆群英》票房差强人意外，大多血本无归，几乎赔近半生积蓄。不过，人言邵逸夫小气，唯有对张彻颇念旧情，不仅专门拨片场宿舍供张彻晚年居住，且提供车辆代步，直至逝世。
张彻一生，对电影业之贡献可总结为两点，一是引领潮流，屡创动作片新风；二是培养人才，除了吴宇森、狄龙、姜大卫、郭追甚至陈勋奇这些港台知名影人外，他来内地拍戏时培养出的副导演杜玉明、摄影师马德林亦为何平成名作《双旗镇刀客》的风格确立起到关键作用！
“知己酒千斗，人情纸半张；世事如棋局，先下手为强”——这是张彻当年写给邹文怀的一幅字。张彻懂权谋，世事看得自然通透，但讲到“先下手为强”，张彻只在电影创作时做得到，现实中则经常慢半拍，尤其在功利的敏感性上。当年周旋于邵逸夫和邹文怀之间，张彻本可利用形势，为自己谋利益，他却自负保持品格；远赴台湾利用邵氏资金组建长弓时，本来是自立门户做老板的最佳机会，他却顾念宾主旧情……权臣不善谋己？或曰：权臣不屑谋己？
13:54 Click2Voice推出拨打多个国家的免费VoIP网络电话业务» 言多必得 原文作者：Vinay
原文链接：Click2Voice offers free calls to many countries
译者：sms4free
正当我们以为Talkplus的免费大餐结束的时候，我们又拿到了更多的免费电话优惠。现在有一个非常不错的产品可以让你免费的打电话去很多国家。
Click2Voice是一个非常迷你的基于VoIP的回叫服务。现在它正在推出最新的优惠–免费的拨打全球。有很多国家都可以享受到这项优惠活 动，美国，加拿大，希腊，荷兰，比利时，法国，西班牙，爱尔兰，匈牙利，瑞士，奥地利，英国，丹麦，瑞典，挪威，波兰，德国，墨西哥，阿根廷，巴西，澳大 利亚，新加坡，俄国，韩国，香港，中国，台湾以及以色列。
你不仅可以给以上的国家拨打电话也可以从这些国家拨出，不幸的是印度和巴基斯坦不在这个范围以内。
现在就让我们示范一下如何使用Click2Voice拨打免费电话吧。
2）登录Click2Voice
3）现在你就可以给上面提到的任何一个国家拨打电话了
4）选择你的国家，输入你的号码
5）选择对方的国家，再输入对方的号码
6）点击Call
7）Click2Voice会回叫你的号码然后再接通对方的电话
8）每次通话时间被限制在15分钟，但是你还可以重拨
最妙的地方就是回叫这个特点，说到底谁不喜欢用传统的电话来打免费的电话呢？大家都有这种体会耳机有一大堆线而且夹的时间长了还很痛。
所以如果你在上面提到的那些国家，试试Click2Voice。我们觉得声音的效果不错，稍微有点延迟。但是总得来说不算太坏。
另外我们也发现了一个错误，那就是在你打完电话以后系统不会刷新当前页。所以你可以输入另外的号码打给其它的地方。我们怀疑他们使用了SIP作为底层协议，或许只有Click2Voice可以确定这个。
I received my contributor copy of Garr Reynolds’s Presentation Zen book last week and proceeded to devour it over the weekend. A fuller review is coming to this space soon, because this is the book about presentations that’s needed to be written for years, and it’s just fantastic. Best of all it’s not another recipe book about “how to make slides” — this is about re-imagining how your entire presentation will work together as a persuasive and integrated show, from conception through delivery. Awesome.
Anyhow, with my inaugural Macworld talk looming on the horizon (T-minus 16 days, thanks), I’ve been inspired by Garr’s book (and the top-notch site on which it’s based) to, among other things, try revamping the approach to how slides fit in to my overall show. As I said on the Twitter, that starts with shit-canning the PowerPoint-y Keynote templates I’ve previously torn up and pasted together for stuff like Inbox Zero (here’s the slides for that one, which Garr was kind enough to feature in his book).
But, now, rather than strictly trying to reinvent the wheel, I have a quest. A quest for a crazy-simple, design-centric Keynote template that’s more about composition than gradients and 3-D bullet points. Ever heard of The Rule of Thirds?
Yeah, you probably have. Like the wikipedia article says:
The rule of thirds is a compositional rule of thumb in photography and other visual arts such as painting. The rule states that an image can be divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines. The four points formed by the intersections of these lines can be used to align features in the photograph.
Here’s a good example off that wikip page. (image by Moondigger [CC-By-SA-2.5])
And the one-third grid works. So much so that in apps like iPhoto ‘08, the Crop tool automagically adds a Rule of Thirds overlay grid to help you improve the composition of your cropped image. Go ahead, try it.
The Rule of Thirds (and the related Golden Ratio) have come up on Garr’s site before, and on page 151 of his book, he talks about how a grid like this can provide a level of light constraint that makes your layout easier and more harmonious:
Using grids to divide your slide “canvas” into thirds, for example, is an easier way to approach golden-mean proportions, and you can use the grids to align the elements that give the overall design balance, a clear flow and point of focus, and a natural overall cohesiveness and aesthetic quality that is not accidental but is by design.
And, how. So, I want this for Keynote.
I’ve begun lightly noodling with a new set of Masters that’s built around a Rule of Thirds grid (trashing the whole Center MacCentercenter approach), but before I get ahead of myself, I figure why not cast my line towards the more gifted waters of the LazyWeb first…
The Question to You
Have you tried using grids like the Rule of Thirds in your own slide decks? Got a favorite layout or inspiring grid structure that works well for a slide’s aspect ratio? Got great advice on getting out of the stock slide template look? Links to graphical examples welcomed. Winning high-five goes to folks who are willing to share the actual Keynote template they’ve used.
In August, a month after eBay launch their Craigslist competitor Kijiji in the US, we weren't impressed. "Kijiji has a hard to pronounce/spell name, an uninviting splash page, and a month later major metros like New York and San Francisco (confusingly labeled as "Bay Area") have just a handful of listings," we wrote at then. Rather, we thought Gumtree, a more straight Craigslist clone that was at the time the most popular classifieds site in Britain, would be more successful when eBay brought it stateside. At year's end, it looks like we backed the wrong horse.
eBay's multi-pronged classifieds strategy also includes Loquo and Marktplaats. But it is Kijiji that has provided most of the growth for eBay's classifieds unit, which saw year over year revenue jump by 105% in 2007.
Currently, Kijiji has about 250,000 ads on the site -- compared to Craigslist, whose users post about 30 million new ads each month, that doesn't seem like many (to be fair, the Craigslist number includes international posts). But comparing stats with Craigslist will make everything Kijiji does look trivial, and that may not be the case.
A fight between eBay and Craigslist may look like David vs. Goliath (where Goliath is confusingly playing the part of David), but as eBay spokesman Jose Malbo told the New York Times in August, eBay believes that classifieds "is a very diverse market that clearly wants more choice." And as more local ad spending moves online and out of newspapers (local newspaper ad spending was down 8% in the first half of 2007), there appears to be a growing market that eBay can take a chunk of. Unlike Craigslist, eBay's classifieds site is built with a single goal in mind: making money.
According to Nielsen, Kijiji US is getting about 1.8 million visitors -- that's still well shy of the 20 million that Craigslist gets, but significant because no other small player has yet cracked the 1 million mark (Nielsen). That includes efforts from large companies like Microsoft, whose LiveExpo service has failed to capture much market share.
eBay plans to staff up Kijiji over the next year, and launch more localized versions of the site, like the Spanish language one it already launched in Miami. "We’ve had half a person dedicated to the U.S. launch," Kijiji VP and GM Jacob Aqraou told the New York Times. "Next year, we’ll fully be up to the level of resources we should be putting against this."
A few years ago I switched from Cingular to T-Mobile because Cingular’s customer service stunk. My experience today was another proof that I made the right choice.
Late Saturday night my beloved Samsung T509 had full signal in my apartment, but I couldn’t place or receive any calls. Heading outside, I walked six blocks before my calls would go through. Some kind of cell phone black hole was centered right on my apartment. What a bummer, especially when you’re trying to order pizza without a landline.
So the next morning I went out for brunch beyond the boundary of the black hole. I called T-Mobile with a forkful of chilaquiles and expected to wait on hold. Much to my surprise, T-Mobile doesn’t make you wait. They take your number instead and call you back. Three minutes later, my phone rang. The girl on the other end was friendly, listened to my problem, apologized, and told me she’d send an engineer asap. She couldn’t promise a response before Wednesday due to New Years, so I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best.
Today my comatose phone gave a familiar chirp. T-Mobile had texted me this message:
An Engineer has reviewed your trouble ticket and a resolution has been found. Thank you for choosing T-Mobile.
After making a few calls and dancing around the room, I had to reflect on this. T-Mobile nailed this support experience from the beginning through the middle to the end.
1. I never had to stand in line
Waiting on hold sucks. T-Mobile knows it so they gave me another option and called me back.
2. The agent cared about my problem
The girl on the line was kind, attentive, and apologetic. She made me feel like it was their problem and their responsibility. Which is exactly what I want as a customer. She also promised an update by a specific date, which eased my uncertainty.
3. When the problem was fixed, I heard it from them first
I received a text message as soon as my service was restored. That little victory SMS taught me that when they have downtime in the future, I can trust they will work quickly and notify me when it’s fixed. It’s so frustrating to repeatedly pick up the phone every half hour to see if it works. Thanks to their communication, next time I can relax and wait for the good news.
Kudos to T-Mobile for the good example.
A few years ago I switched from Cingular to T-Mobile because Cingular’s customer service stunk. My experience today was another proof that I made the right choice.
Late Saturday night my beloved Samsung T509 had full signal in my apartment, but I couldn’t place or receive any calls. Heading outside, I walked six blocks before my calls would go through. Some kind of cell phone black hole was centered right on my apartment. What a bummer, especially when you’re trying to order pizza without a landline.
So the next morning I went out for brunch beyond the boundary of the black hole. I called T-Mobile with a forkful of chilaquiles and expected to wait on hold. Much to my surprise, T-Mobile doesn’t make you wait. They take your number instead and call you back. Three minutes later, my phone rang. The girl on the other end was friendly, listened to my problem, apologized, and told me she’d send an engineer asap. She couldn’t promise a response before Wednesday due to New Years, so I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best.
Today my comatose phone gave a familiar chirp. T-Mobile had texted me this message:
An Engineer has reviewed your trouble ticket and a resolution has been found. Thank you for choosing T-Mobile.
After making a few calls and dancing around the room, I had to reflect on this. T-Mobile nailed this support experience from the beginning through the middle to the end.
1. I never had to stand in line
Waiting on hold sucks. T-Mobile knows it so they gave me another option and called me back.
2. The agent cared about my problem
The girl on the line was kind, attentive, and apologetic. She made me feel like it was their problem and their responsibility. Which is exactly what I want as a customer. She also promised an update by a specific date, which eased my uncertainty.
3. When the problem was fixed, I heard it from them first
I received a text message as soon as my service was restored. That little victory SMS taught me that when they have downtime in the future, I can trust they will work quickly and notify me when it’s fixed. It’s so frustrating to repeatedly pick up the phone every half hour to see if it works. Thanks to their communication, next time I can relax and wait for the good news.
Kudos to T-Mobile for the good example.
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Top browsers:
1. Firefox: 52.55%
2. Internet Explorer: 38.53% (IE7: 50%, IE6: 49.25%)
3. Safari: 4.13%
4. Opera: 3.03%
.............
8. Netscape: 0.13%
Top operating systems:
1. Windows: 85.49% (XP: 84.85%, Vista:9.90%)
2. Mac: 9.10%
3. Linux: 4.63%
4. iPhone: 0.05%
5. FreeBSD: 0.04%
6. SunOS: 0.03%
7. SymbianOS: 0.02%
8. Playstation Portable: 0.02%
9. iPod: 0.01%
10. PalmOS: 0.01%
Top posts from this year:
1. Google Earth Flight Simulator
2. Screnshots of YouTube's new player
3. Google Pack adds StarOffice
4. Google Presently
5. Easter egg in iGoogle
Top posts linked from corp.google.com:
1. Plus Box: a new way to look at search results
2. Google Page Creator has a sitemap
3. Google Web History
4. Live Search launches a major update
5. Screenshots of Google Talk's integration with AIM
Feed subscribers: 51,344 (number for Dec. 29)
In February, Google started to report the number of subscribers and that's the explanation for the sudden growth.
Top feed readers:
1. iGoogle/Google Reader: 58%
2. Netvibes: 15%
3. Bloglines: 7%
4. BlogRovR: 4%
5. Firefox Live Bookmarks: 2%
6. Outlook 2007: 2%
7. Newsgator Online: 2%
8. My Yahoo: 1%
9. Windows RSS Platform: 1%
10. Zhuaxia: 1%
There's also a chart that has a questionable ranking system, but people find it valuable: Technorati Top 100. Google Operating System is currently at #67:
Some conclusions: unlike last year, when most of the traffic was artificially inflated by social news sites (most notably, Digg), this year search engines ranked Google Operating System much better (in some cases, inaccurately) and other sites linked to my posts without having to see them at Digg. As usually, popular things are not necessarily better and they don't necessarily reflect the truth.
Hey all,
I just went from being a resident with 0 administrative responsibility (except for patients) to being in charge of the pharmacy department of a 220 bed hospital with about 40 or so people I’m responsible for.
Basically I’m freaking out. I need advice and I’ve just bought GTD and am looking for ways to keep up before I inevitably fall behind.
Any advice, suggestions, or anecdotes would be greatly appreciated.
[Ed’s note: I “bumped” this question because I missed it first time around, and I’d love to hear what sorts of advice people have. — Merlin]
It's that time again, the end of a year - time to tote up Google's blogging activity for the last 365 days. First, a few bits of data about this particular blog:
- Number of posts this year: 300
- New product announcements: 15 (not counting our April 1 release)
- News about upgrades and additions to products: 87
- Announcing products in more languages and countries: 30
- Acquisitions: 12
- Unique visitors: 6,738,830 (for 8,655,830 visits)
- Languages: 511 (preferred language configured on computers)
- Top non-Google referrers: Yahoo, Digg, Slashdot, Fark
The posts that elicited the most reaction in terms of views and linkbacks include:
- the much-discussed "Gphone" news
- our thinking about the upcoming FCC spectrum auction
- what the OpenSocial APIs could mean
- how a black screen might not save energy
- announcing the Knol test project
- building your own Google homepage
Of course, there's more than business to write about. We celebrated National Gorilla Suit Day, deconstructed the Valentine's Day doodle, and then a snake went missing.
As for the Google family of blogs, there's been lots of growth this year: 42 new ones launched, for a total to 83 active company blogs. Increasingly, Googlers want to quickly and regularly convey product news and updates to various constituents, and blogs are a great way to do that. Among the most popular of this newest crop are the Gmail blog (nearly 1.5 million unique visitors), the Orkut blogs (in English - 3.5 million uniques; and Portuguese - 8.8 million), and Google Lat Long, with 824,000 unique visitors, which covers everything geographical. In addition, readers can now turn to new product blogs including those for Google Finance, Google News, and Mobile. Reflecting keen interest in activity outside the U.S., the YouTube blog had the greatest number of comments for its June post about the fact that YouTube is available in 9 more countries, followed by the August post announcing InVideo ads.
On the ads side: there are now 6 more non-English blogs for AdSense publishers (French, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Chinese). The AdWords team opened blogs for Brasil and the Netherlands, Japan now has its own Analytics blog, and there are now German and Chinese versions of the popular Webmaster Central. (The most popular ads-related blog is the one for Analytics, with nearly half a million unique visitors, followed by closely Inside AdSense and then Inside AdWords.)
To keep current and share their work, developers got a raft of new blogs, too, including those focused on APIs for YouTube, Checkout, Gears, Mashup, and Gadgets. Needless to say, there are now also blogs for Android and OpenSocial.
Two new country blogs, for the Czech Republic and Australia, went public, to talk about all things Google in their regions. Yet more readers congregated around the new Public Policy and Google.org blogs, as well as one dedicated to online security and malware.
Despite all this activity, and the fact that a growing number of companies also host corporate blogs, the Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki (a collaborative project begun by Wired Magazine and SocialText) indicates that even today, just 46 of the Fortune 500 companies (about 9%), have active public blogs produced by company employees that focus on the company and its products. Let's hope in 2008 that number goes up. We think such blogs can serve users, journalists, critics, investors, and fans more effectively and directly than more traditional approaches. Apparently, so do 41,395,926 people around the world - the number of visitors to all of our blogs this year.
It's that time again, the end of a year - time to tote up Google's blogging activity for the last 365 days. First, a few bits of data about this particular blog:
- Number of posts this year: 300
- New product announcements: 15 (not counting our April 1 release)
- News about upgrades and additions to products: 87
- Announcing products in more languages and countries: 30
- Acquisitions: 12
- Unique visitors: 6,738,830 (for 8,655,830 visits)
- Languages: 511 (preferred language configured on computers)
- Top non-Google referrers: Yahoo, Digg, Slashdot, Fark
The posts that elicited the most reaction in terms of views and linkbacks include:
- the much-discussed "Gphone" news
- our thinking about the upcoming FCC spectrum auction
- what the OpenSocial APIs could mean
- how a black screen might not save energy
- announcing the Knol test project
- building your own Google homepage
Of course, there's more than business to write about. We celebrated National Gorilla Suit Day, deconstructed the Valentine's Day doodle, and then a snake went missing.
As for the Google family of blogs, there's been lots of growth this year: 42 new ones launched, for a total to 83 active company blogs. Increasingly, Googlers want to quickly and regularly convey product news and updates to various constituents, and blogs are a great way to do that. Among the most popular of this newest crop are the Gmail blog (nearly 1.5 million unique visitors), the Orkut blogs (in English - 3.5 million uniques; and Portuguese - 8.8 million), and Google Lat Long, with 824,000 unique visitors, which covers everything geographical. In addition, readers can now turn to new product blogs including those for Google Finance, Google News, and Mobile. Reflecting keen interest in activity outside the U.S., the YouTube blog had the greatest number of comments for its June post about the fact that YouTube is available in 9 more countries, followed by the August post announcing InVideo ads.
On the ads side: there are now 6 more non-English blogs for AdSense publishers (French, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Chinese). The AdWords team opened blogs for Brasil and the Netherlands, Japan now has its own Analytics blog, and there are now German and Chinese versions of the popular Webmaster Central. (The most popular ads-related blog is the one for Analytics, with nearly half a million unique visitors, followed by closely Inside AdSense and then Inside AdWords.)
To keep current and share their work, developers got a raft of new blogs, too, including those focused on APIs for YouTube, Checkout, Gears, Mashup, and Gadgets. Needless to say, there are now also blogs for Android and OpenSocial.
Two new country blogs, for the Czech Republic and Australia, went public, to talk about all things Google in their regions. Yet more readers congregated around the new Public Policy and Google.org blogs, as well as one dedicated to online security and malware.
Despite all this activity, and the fact that a growing number of companies also host corporate blogs, the Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki (a collaborative project begun by Wired Magazine and SocialText) indicates that even today, just 46 of the Fortune 500 companies (about 9%), have active public blogs produced by company employees that focus on the company and its products. Let's hope in 2008 that number goes up. We think such blogs can serve users, journalists, critics, investors, and fans more effectively and directly than more traditional approaches. Apparently, so do 41,395,926 people around the world - the number of visitors to all of our blogs this year.
1) 自己的浴室。其实说的是房子。虽然非常不喜欢杭州这个城市，还是准备买房子了。住在租来的房子里总有自己不喜欢的地方，还不能轻易改动。就像软件的源代码不在自己手里一样。
2) 有台自己的主机，托管。解决 BLog 速度无比慢的老问题。
3) Blog Google Pagerank 6。 本来 07 年有希望的，可是突然绝大多数 Blog PR 值都降级了，我的虽然幸免，但没升的机会了。
4) 一台轻便的移动计算设备。如果 3G 真的在 2008 年来临的话，我希望能在一些场合扔掉那个沉重的 D620 笔记本。Nokia 的 N800 看起来不错。
这几条，有的重要，有的类似鸡毛蒜皮，其实生活就是鸡毛蒜皮的事情组成的。
前几天看了去年的 Wishlist，没有一条得到了实现。可见愿望毕竟是愿望。
--EOF--1) 自己的浴室。其实说的是房子。虽然非常不喜欢杭州这个城市，还是准备买房子了。住在租来的房子里总有自己不喜欢的地方，还不能轻易改动。就像软件的源代码不在自己手里一样。
2) 有台自己的主机，托管。解决 BLog 速度无比慢的老问题。
3) Blog Google Pagerank 6。 本来 07 年有希望的，可是突然绝大多数 Blog PR 值都降级了，我的虽然幸免，但没升的机会了。
4) 一台轻便的移动计算设备。如果 3G 真的在 2008 年来临的话，我希望能在一些场合扔掉那个沉重的 D620 笔记本。Nokia 的 N800 看起来不错。
--EOF--
向阅读我 Blog 的朋友道一声：新年快乐！
例行的一年非正式个人总结开始了。在这一年的最后一天，总要写点什么。先回顾一下 2006 年末的总结和计划吧。
- 个人发展方向尝试作一点调整 如果有机会的话，尝试一下另外一个发展方向看看。如果没有机会的话，就把现在的事情做好，明年的工作目标还是很高的。
执行情况：寻找机会，但没有机会。于是把现有的事情做的更好。基本做到了 - 锻炼身体 希望今年这个目标不再只是一个美好的愿望
执行情况：去年不幸说中了，这是个美好的愿望。今年的身体状况更糟。痛风基本上不那么死去活来了，但是十天半月的疼一次还是有的。 - 登记结婚 在我们的国家，要结个婚还必须有通过派出所这一关。从南方回到北方去完成这个工程。
执行情况：没完成。明年必须完成！ - 继续 Blog 写作 争取扩大一点影响力。增加一点 Oracle 知识的比重。
执行情况：坚持下来了。这一年，我写了大约 300 篇 Blog，相比一些半专业 Blogger ，不算多，但是对我而言，已经是天文数字了。Oracle 相关的文章比重增加不多，但是 Web 架构方面的分析多了不少。影响力方面，我相信比去年要更大了那么一点点，唉，写在水上的虚名啊。 - 学一点经济学、理财知识。 周围同事、朋友不少人都有比较丰富的金融知识，很好的学习资源。
执行结果：买了一点基金。不过没放更多的精力在上面。这一年的经济波动太大了，CPI 的疯狂不是简单学点经济学知识就能避免对自己的影响的。
08 年打算控制一下阅读量，不算每天在网上的大量阅读，我还读了大量的小说，历史小说居多，最近几个月又读起了科幻，这是个很消耗时间的事情，也非常容易带来眼部疲劳。我家今年多添了一只小猫，小黑猫，一直没有正式的名字。很想起个比“猫泽西”还拉风的名字，谁给出个主意 ?
这一年，如果要自己评价工作情况: 我觉得可以用"兢兢业业"这四个字吧，总体来看比较顺利。至于公司呢，支付宝发展顺风顺水，阿里集团更是风生水起，我有幸作为其中的一个小兵，过河卒子，奋勇向前。
好多朋友说起个人发展来都基本会说到"个人创业"，其实做好当下这份工作也是"创业"，给自己打工和被别人打工有什么区别呢?
2008 就要来了，奥运，和我不沾边，谁知道奥运过后中国的经济会怎样... 明年的一点计划：- 工作重点：交流、培训 希望能用自己的洋汀浜英语多和老外扯扯淡。培训方面倒是比较想能够把“时间管理”的课程坚持下去，有同事开玩笑说这东西是"成功学"课程，就当作是成功学课程吧，我的课程总比成功人士的七个习惯之类的要低调许多吧。
- 自己弄一台主机托管 国外的 Dreamhost 实在太慢了，每天发一则 Blog 都要遇到 多少次 HTTP 500 错误，搞得我自己都快崩溃。欢迎各界人士提供赞助！实在不行，也希望能有时间把 Blog 迁移到好一点的主机提供商那里。
锻炼身体无志之人立长志。这个还是取消吧。没准没这个计划反而能做的好一点。- 登记结婚 用时间管理的术语来说：重要且紧急。争取在奥运召开之前完成，不给北京人民添乱。
- 继续 Blog 写作 关于网站架构分析的文章还要继继续寻找，继续写。 Oracle 的文章也要写点，顺便还要维护 CNOUG.net 的影响。以便能为更多 DBA 提供一些有效的资讯。
- 丰富一点个人生活 每天缩在电脑前不是一个很好的生活方式。新选择一个爱好，比如摄影。
- 增加一点旅游计划 答应了人家要去丽江，虽然这已经成为长假"四大傻"的事情了，咱趁着没有放长假的时候去...悄悄的进村
- 可选的一条：写本书 这也算感潮流的一件事儿，量力而为吧。
一年又一年...
--EOF--A rather nice question was asked on OTN today. It's repeated here for easier reading
how to change the sga size and how the effects take place in 9i and 10g DB
An early follow up remarked on various initialisation parameters, though not in my view perhaps in an entirely clear way.
In 9i you can dynamically change db_cache_size, and shared_pool_size and large_pool_size, provided you don't use db_block_buffers (which disables the feature) and you stay below sga_max_size.
However sga_max_size is not a dynamic parameter so you would need to issue
alter system set sga_max_size=<something ridiculously big> scope=spfile
and bounce the database.On 10g you don't need to set db_cache_size etc anymore, but you need to set sga_max_size and sga_target_size
As this is a common type of question I thought a brief summary might be useful here, together with a little discussion of the history of the SGA from Oracle 7/8/8i through to 11g Release 1, if you are coming across this post in the future via a web search engine - after Oracle Database Release 12 has been made available you may find the discussion has changed again since the area of memory management in Oracle seems to be under constant evolution.
Lets start with a definition - this one is drawn straight from the 9i documentation
The System Global Area (SGA) is a shared memory region that contains data and control information for one Oracle instance. Oracle allocates the SGA when an instance starts and deallocates it when the instance shuts down. Each instance has its own SGA. Users currently connected to an Oracle server share the data in the SGA. [text ommitted]
The information stored in the SGA is divided into several types of memory structures, including the database buffers, redo log buffer, and the shared pool
The important points to note are that the SGA is instance specific, shared across users and that it includes both data and control information. Notably it includes the instances cache of database blocks (buffer cache), the shared pool (which in turn contains shared SQL parse and execution trees and so on ). Sizing the SGA appropriately therefore is a basic system wide tuning activity since the memory you allocate here will directly affect the caches available for both data and program execution information.
Oracle's instance wide configuration is largely controlled by an initialisation parameter file - either a text file or a binary server side file (from 9i) called an spfile. This file contains as the name I have chosen here rather indicates initialisation parameters and their values for the instance. Any unlisted values are either calculated from parameters that are listed or else take their default values. Oracle reads the file at initialisation and sets up the instance accordingly.
First the history. In older versions of Oracle the size of both the SGA and it's constituent parts was fixed. Sizing the SGA was a simple matter of setting the relevant initialisation parameters. These were:
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db_block_buffers - the number of data blocks that could be cached in memory by the instance
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shared_pool_size - the size of the shared pool
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large_pool_size - the size of the large pool (not in 7)
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log_buffer - the size of the redo log buffer
All of these parameters are fixed and the SGA could therefore only be changed by an instance restart.
This picture changed rather dramatically with the release of Oracle 9i, both the number and nature of the various SGA components changed significantly with this release assuming that you chose to use the new features. Firstly 9i allowed multiple block sizes within a single database, and therefore multiple database buffer caches were introduced. These were all controlled by the initialisation parameters
- db_cache_size
- db_nK_cache_size
Where the first listed parameter controlled the size of the default cache and the nK parameters controlled the size of the caches for non standard database blocks. These parameters were measured in size, rather than blocks. In addition Oracle introduced a new fixed parameter SGA_MAX_SIZE which specified the maximum amount of shared memory that Oracle could use for the SGA in the instance, making this change allowed Oracle to make (some of) the existing parameters dynamic, so you could dynamically change the composition of the SGA always providing that in total the amount of memory requested did not exceed the SGA_MAX_SIZE limit.
In Oracle 10g things progressed still further. With this release Oracle added yet another new parameter SGA_TARGET and if this was set then the meaning of the 9i parameters changed, specifically if SGA_TARGET was set then the 9i parameters specified a minimum amount of memory to use for that component. In this release the idea of Oracle deciding memory allocations was introduced, the DBA told Oracle how much memory was available for the SGA as a whole (SGA_TARGET) and then Oracle would allocate memory to the SGA components based on Oracle's assessment of the need. In this release a sensible strategy often looked like
- Set SGA_TARGET to specify how much memory is available for Oracle to manage the SGA
- Set the XXX_CACHE and XXX_POOL_SIZE parameters to ensure a minimum allocation for each component in case Oracle underallocates.
In addition I often set SGA_MAX_SIZE to ensure that I had a bit of headroom.
In Oracle 11 there has been still further movement towards taking memory management out of the hands of the DBA with the introduction of the MEMORY_TARGET and MEMORY_MAX_TARGET parameters. If these two parameters are set then Oracle can manage both the SGA and the PGA automatically reallocating components as it sees appropriate between the SGA and the available PGA for all server processes. I haven't had real production experience with 11 yet but it seems likely that a sensible strategy for 11 will look something like
- Set MEMORY_MAX_TARGET to tell Oracle how much memory there will be for it to use
- Set MEMORY_TARGET to tell Oracle how much memory to use for now for automatic memory management
- Set the XXX_CACHE and XXX_POOL_SIZE parameters to ensure a minimum allocation for each component in case Oracle underallocates.
常惋惜三国之魏延魏文长，论武艺，比五虎上将自然是稍逊一筹，关羽有过五关斩六将，温酒斩华雄，白马之围等几个重大课题，虽然多数都是在曹操那边实验室做的，可是人家回来以后也战长沙等经典项目，居蜀国的终身院士之首自然是当之无愧的，张飞虽然一卖肉出身，智商不高，搞的项目多数都是没有啥技术含量，但是不管是三英战吕布还是当阳桥头一声吼还是取西川等重大国家项目都是参与了的，再说人家是老刘的拜把兄弟，挤进工程院院士自然是没啥好说的。赵云凭着当阳长板坡杀个七进七出为拣一块废料，自然是功不可没。
黄老头，仗着推荐人牛x，再说战长沙大家都有目共睹的，位列五虎虽然有点勉强，但是水平在那儿，魏延倒没什么疑义，可是当时同为降将，孔明亲自给黄忠松绑，并奉为座上客，而扫了一眼魏延，二话没说推出去就要砍，这未免让人第一感觉就不爽，何况魏延也非贪生怕死之辈，只觉长沙太守太孙子了，才降的蜀。论功劳，魏延亲手杀了长沙太守，并救了黄忠，一起投诚，功劳自然应当在黄忠之上，不但不予赏赐，反而来个下马威，自然是不爽之极。
魏同学和黄忠马超同为降将，论武功，当然，魏不及后两者，没入五虎估计他是一点不觉得委屈。魏延同志应该说还是深得我党真传，在内心深处树下一个信念，靠，就是把那帮老头靠死翘翘了，以为地位自然就上去了，虽然每次出征打仗，诸葛老儿总是给老魏摊派一些边角料得活儿，魏同学也没多少怨言。
终于熬到五虎上将都挂得差不多了，魏同学以为熬出头了，照理说应该轮到诸葛用他了吧，靠，不成想，出岐山，打甘肃天水，居然杀出个姜维，而且诸葛亮一见，立刻下令要活的，收降之后甚是喜欢，立刻招为自己的研究生，并倾其毕生所学以授之。这还不算，就连廖化，马超的儿子马岱以及张飞的儿子张包，关羽拣来那个儿子关心这些人等都比他受到重视。靠，这哥们都还没有觉出世道的糜烂，总是盼着诸葛老头能在弥留之际觉悟，发现他这一人才。
可惜每次期盼都是以失望而告终。
魏延同志有些挂不住了，每次出战，言语中不免流露出对老诸的不服。尤其是在七擒姓孟那小子和第六次出岐山的时候，对于诸葛亮的一意孤行，难免有些微辞。老魏虽然一名武将，但是也略有文韬，对于诸葛老头的屡出岐山，他当时也认为不应该，应该向吴国那样以经济建设为中心，发展蜀国疲惫的经济，不要老搞武装斗争了，可是老诸根本没把他的话当回事儿，而且对于老魏内心的那点不爽，老诸自然是看在眼里记在了心上，嘴上不说，心比谁都黑。
终于熬到，诸葛孔明蹬腿儿了，蜀军上下哀嚎一片，老魏窃喜，自认为该他的舞台了，先是建议不撤军，死个老头算个屁啊，接着打。可是军中上下只管奔丧，谁也不屌他。老魏终于怒了，沉积了多年的怨恨和不爽，最终爆发出来了，命令手下弟兄烧毁栈道。阻住蜀军回撤入川的道路，就地操戈。以为能一展雄风，出一口怨气，顺便把老头鞭尸一顿，靠！没想到诸葛老头比他阴多了，临死之前还专门给他做了一个套。
于是，魏延同志马上狂笑三声谁敢杀我，话音未落，被马岱一刀斩于马上，身手异处！窝囊的一生终于划上了句号。
领导们常喷的一句话是，是金子在哪儿都发光，其实狗屁！魏延虽算不上什么金子，但也不失为一块好铁，可惜就活活的烂在了孔明手里。理由很简单，就是看你不爽。
悲哉！
又回到Linux，感觉字体确实比较大一些，感觉屏幕也不如Vista下面大，看来这个dpi还是挺有用的；在Linux下面一直是120dpi，这也是这个屏幕的标准值，1440x900，304mm x 190mm的尺寸，按25.4mm = 1inch来算，就是120个点一英寸。
但软件就是比较灵活，不一定都按这个点来算，完全可以数96个点就当成一英寸，也就是把英寸这个单位变小了，于是显示的东西都会变小，而屏幕就显得大了些──物理尺寸当然不会变，但以变小的英寸表示数值却可以变大。Windows从XP开始使用96dpi的缺省值，高分屏上就会显得字比较小；更早前Windows大概是用75dpi的。而X对这个问题一向是更加灵活，没有设定缺省值，全靠用户的设置，如果用户不设置，X就自己算dpi，据说是按以下的顺序：
- 如果X的启动命令上给出了-dpi xxx，那就按这个命令来；
- 如果没有命令，就看xorg.conf里的DisplaySize值来算；
- 如果没有，就试着读显示器的DDC，再来设置；
- 还没有，就用75dpi。
但在使用中，我发现现在的Xorg大概顺序上有变，显示器的DDC信息权重变大，起码可以压过xorg.conf里设置的DisplaySize。DDC给出的值就是显示器物理值，没有改变的可能。
既然想让X显示和Vista/XP的效果尽量一致，就想改变dpi到96。这同样有几个办法，一是在启动X的命令上加个-dpi参数；如果使用GDM，一时也找不到它在哪里启动X，也就算了；第二招就是改xorg.conf里面的DisplaySize，这个比较简单。
找到/etc/X11/xorg.conf中的Monitor段，加入：
DisplaySize 381 238
这里的381是宽，238是高，单位mm。这个值不是真实的显示器尺寸，而是按1440x900的分辨率和96dpi的设置算出来的，比实际的屏幕要大（真实值是304x190）。
但由于xorg 7.2以后DDC权重变大，所以还要阻止x读ddc，找到Device段，加入：
Option “NoDDC”
这样这个显示尺寸的设置就有用了。
重启X，可以用下述命令看X的分辨率：
xdpyinfo | grep resolution
另外，如果没有noDDC这个参数，X会假装把dpi设对了，在Xorg.log中可以看到，但实际上没用。
上面是X图形界面的dpi，另外字体显示还有一个dpi，也就是xft/fontconfig控制下的字体可以用和X不一样的dpi显示字体，即便在120dpi的X上也可以让字体按96dpi显示来搞出小字来。这个也有几个方法，一是在font.conf中，最好是改local.conf，加入：
<match target="pattern" >
<edit name="dpi" mode="assign" >
<double>96</double>
</edit>
</match>
另外是桌面环境也许就有设置，比如Xfce4，就在用户界面的设置中加入了字体dpi的设置，很方便。所以现在也不知道上面设置font.conf是否真的有用。第三个方法是在Xresources等资源文件中设定：
Xft.dpi: 96
第3个方法也没试过。设完之后可以用这个命令查看：
xrdb -query | grep dpi
总之软件是很软的，自由软件的灵活性更强──换个说法就是没有统一的考虑，会给用户（非Hacker用户）造成不小的困扰。这方面，Windows确实是统一设置的，应该也经过微软高薪员工的调校，所以一般地可以跟着走，比如现在XP/Vista都是96dpi缺省值，我也就全面设定为96dpi了。
Mozilla网站上这篇文章很全面。
崔健与刘翔——八竿子打不着的两个人，也只有耐克能把他们拉到一起。这就是跨国资本主义的能耐，它能跨越时空，把中国两个不同时代的象征符号并置于一起，打响一声发令枪，商业、政治、体育和文化四大金刚似乎齐声喊出同一个时代口号——“我飞得更高了”，这是“大国崛起”的抒情，当然也是奥林匹克的梦想。
估计刘翔都未必知道这“广告歌”是崔健的。《飞了》一直是我所认为的崔健最为奇特、无论是音乐还是歌词都最为晦涩的作品。耐克看中并且“断章取义”的，其实仅仅是《飞了》中的一句“我飞得更高了，更高了”，全然不管前面还有一句“我孤独地飞了”、最后还有一句更吓人的——“我飞不起来了。”
耐克按理应该用一首摇滚大路货作体育High曲，汪峰堪比汪国真的《飞得更高》似乎更合适：“我要的一片天空更蔚蓝/我知道我要的那种幸福就在更高的天空/我要飞得更高……”如此阳光如此励志的歌不选，为何偏要选那么首晦涩、灰暗的歌？是因为崔健名气大吗？但论流行度，如今《飞得更高》肯定比《飞了》更流行。
关键在于，《飞了》独一无二令人肝颤的节奏与刘翔的跨栏疾步才相匹配。再说《飞了》虽然邪异，但崔健对中国传统打击乐和戏曲味的偏好仍然给这首歌打上明显的本土烙印，这更符合耐克这个广告要强调的中国本土色彩。崔健的歌并非不能用于体育，《假行僧》与竞走是天作之合，而《超越那一天》即使不能用作香港回归纪念主题曲，至少也可以用作香港举办的东亚运动会会歌吧——当然这只是我的信口一说。
在商业影像帝国，音乐和歌词往往沦为附庸的小卒。崔健早期尚与张元合作拍过一些MTV，但后来他对MTV持抵触批判态度再也不拍，他拍的最后一个恰恰是《飞了》，崔健的创意和张元的拍摄都令人击节：崔健和乐队在楼下出演《飞了》，楼上却是一群男女在跳乡村绸子舞，摇滚和绸子舞同在一个空间，节奏奇特合一。观众是同一帮老头老太。可惜这个MTV从未在中国内地电视上放过，可惜在广告歌和彩铃的时代，内涵复杂丰富的《飞了》在电视上终于只割剩为一句口号，虎落平阳，惟遗一条尾巴。
这只不过再一次证明无孔不入的商业对于反文化的强势利用，这在欧美早已见怪不怪，最典型的例子是约翰·列侬表达人类大同梦想的《Imagine》也被商家买来配广告。“飞”这个字眼容易有所争议，摇滚史上不乏有因为fly、high这类字眼而被指有宣扬毒品之嫌从而遭禁的歌曲，但崔健此歌并无此意，开头第一句已经表达得很明白：“我根本用不着那些玩意儿。”
和汪峰“我要的幸福就在更高的天空”的虚无缥缈相比，崔健的坚韧一下峥嵘毕露——“我想要的东西它不在空中，它肯定不在别处就在这儿。”在1994年推出的第三张专辑开篇，崔健就以《飞了》表现出一种新的时代感受力：那就是失重、飘浮的无力感，到后来，这种感觉被崔健在第四张专辑中命名为“无能的力量”。这是面对90年代社会在商业离心力作用下开始分崩离析的某种搅拌肺腑的反应，有趣的是在这张专辑的最后一曲《彼岸》，崔健还是添了个光明的尾巴来了一个大团圆结局，他又像英雄一样登高一呼召唤万众云集：“这里是世界，中国的某地，我们共同高唱着一首歌曲……”后来，亿万民众的确又不断“共同高唱着一首歌曲”，那就是因假唱而屡遭崔健抨击的《同一首歌》。那个商业世界已经成熟到人人言必称“创意”，于是《飞了》也不免沦为一个广告“创意”。镶金的鸟笼正在将八大山人的怪鸟养成时代的宠物。时代变了，如小河的民谣专辑名字所云：飞得高的鸟不落在跑不快的牛背上。只是你究竟是鸟还是牛？看完这个耐克广告，我们除了直奔耐克专卖店，是否还有心情重听一遍《飞了》？我曾经私下为这首歌起了个萨特的名字——“厌恶及其他”：
我根本用不着那些玩艺儿，我的感觉已经晕了，浑身没劲儿，这周围有一股人肉的味儿，它只能让人琢磨人之间的事儿，这晕的感觉是朦朦胧胧的，不知不觉身体变得轻飘飘的，我是不是与我不同啊，像这灰色中的红点儿，人们的眼神都像是烟雾，它们四周乱转但不让人在乎，我分不清楚方向也看不清楚路，我开始怀疑我自己是不是糊涂，我周围还有一股着火的味道，在无奈和愤怒之间含糊地烧着，我突然一脚踩空身体发飘，我孤独地飞了，我好像变成一个英雄的鸟儿，在太阳和烟雾之间不停地飞着，我张开了嘴巴扯开了嗓门儿，发出了从来没有发出过的音儿，这声音太刺激把人们吓着了，他们一个个地站起来大声地叫着，这到底是怎么回事儿，我也呆了，我飞得更高了，那天晚上我偷着飞回来摸着黑儿，这周围还和以前一样散发着味儿，我想要的东西它不在空中，它肯定不在别处就在这儿，几天后人们终于发现了我，周围所有人都看起来不对劲儿，突然间那火把空气点着了，我飞不起来了。
00:33 mysipswitch免费高级SIP转接服务» 言多必得 原文作者：Vinay
原文链接：mysipswitch Free Premier SIP Forwarding Service
译者：sms4free
VOIP Guide几天前发表了关于SIP电话转接的贴子。在这个SIP教程在很多网站上都被提到。但是，我们使用的是Voxalot/Gtalk2voip作为 我们首选的SIP电话转接服务。Gtalk2VOIP现在还是很好用但是Voxalot要付费使用喽（从七月十六号起）。
如果你已经用了Voxalot很长时间而且喜欢它的特色但是又没有准备付钱买他们的服务。那么我们可以提供一个好的解决办法。
Voxalot确实是一个方便简单使用Voip平台（叫它平台是因为他们事实上不是任何VOIP的提供者）。Voxalot允许你用一条 ATA/VOIP电话线来使用很多的VOIP服务，这是非常棒的特性，当你有不同的VOIP号码，在Voxalot上注册所有的VOIP号码，你就可以从 一条电话线接听所有这些号码。
通过不同的ISPs来拨电话也是一个非常好的特点，它可以安排通过你所设置的最便宜的服务商拨出。
今天我们要来讨论一个可替代Voxalo服务的另一选择，这个服务是免费的而且几乎有你对SIP提供者要求的所有的选择。我们讲的是mysipswitch。这个sip交换机被高级sip服务的供应商（在爱尔兰）所经营，名字叫Blueface
象名字所说的，这是一个sip交换机，它允许在一个硬件注册上多个SIP。注册是相当简单又直接的。你甚至不需要通过邮件去确认任何随后的链接就可以完成。
让我们看看我们该怎么做。
1）在mysipswitch上注册
2）你可以在这里注册你的SIP服务，新建你自己的拨号计划，安排你的电话通过不同的SIP服务拨出。
想要了解细节请参考SIP Call Forwarding Tutorial
3）使用你的SIP硬件，你的SIP的详细说明如下：
User name : your user name
Password : your password
SIP proxy server: sip.mysipswitch.com
提示：当你注册了你的SIP服务，请加上sip:your mysipsiwtch user name@213.200.94.182到联络表，以得到来电。
他们不允许配置codecs，但是当我们试了注册他们的SIP，通话质量很出色，所以你不需要担心哪种codec会用来传播你的声音。Mysipswitch也有实时的通话时间显示，他们通过他们的GUI平台允许电话等待，转接，等等。
网页回叫特性是肯定没有的，希望他们以后能加上它。
这是一个出色的Voxalot的替代品，同时也很容易使用。
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