念佛不分聖凡
March 7, 2010 8:41 pm地藏菩薩聖像結緣公告
6:21 pmKsitigarbha Bodhisattva’s Statues for Free Distribution
We’re very fortunate to have 8 Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s Statues in the UK for free distribution, they are kindly cast by Taiwan néng jìng association (能淨學會). The statue is around 290 mm tall. Collect in person only (London), please contact me for more details.
台灣屏東能淨學會公告 – 此次恭鑄之地藏菩薩聖像為坐姿，聖像連同底座，高約 9.25英吋，加上手持錫杖，高度共約 11.5英吋；底座為八角形，面積約為 5.5英吋見方。法相莊嚴慈悲，敬附照片，以供參考。本館將於今年夏天再度恭鑄同一聖像一百二十尊，因此，將共有二百四十尊菩薩聖像敬供十方結緣。
Follow this link to see the original letter from Taiwan néng jìng association (能淨學會) regarding this free distribution.
Find out more about Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (地藏菩萨)
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Ubuntu 9.10
November 5, 2009 10:14 pmUbuntu 9.10 has been out for about a week now. Just got around to upgrade my desktop to Ubuntu 9.10. I skipped 9.04 on my desktop and only tried it on my laptop. Upgrading from 8.04 is very smooth and easy, I had 8.04 and XP dual boot on my desktop, used the manual partitioner to overwrote 8.04 and keeping /home and other partitions. I only had to spend around an hour to install:
- Wireless card (WPN111) using ndiswrapper-1.9. More stable than it is on 8.04 as it used to cut off
- Chromium (Linux Chrome)
- VPN
Ubuntu is getting better and better 
. Support open source! Ubuntu Cloud looks interesting too, might be useful for work.
Ubuntu 9.04
May 8, 2009 8:28 pmJust got to try out the new Ubuntu 9.04. Download the iso and burnt it to a CD, loaded it up and install it dual boot with XP on my laptop (Toshiba Tecra-S1). No problem at all, worked out of the box! If I’m installing Windows, the first thing I will need to do is to download all the security updates, then install a Anti-Virus software then find all the missing drivers. You don’t have to do any of these for Linux, no need to install any drivers (in my case), no tweaking, even WiFi works! If you don’t mind not having MS Office (which I don’t really use anymore) and not being able to play many games, you should give Ubuntu a go. It’s so simple and it’s open source too .
Sony Reader eBook – Chinese
January 30, 2009 4:49 pmThere aren’t many eBook readers to choose from in the UK that comes with e-Ink 2 display and Chinese support, and many like the Sony PRS-505 that doesn’t support Chinese ebooks. Since it’s a Linux based device like many others people have made patches to enable Chinese on this reader. Thanks to them you can add Chinese support to your eBook reader! Just google “PRS-505 中文” and you will find there are at least 3 methods out there now that will allow you to do that, some require flashing the reader and some doesn’t. I went for the one which require flashing the device since I don’t have to activate the patch everytime you reboot, but it’s safer not to have to flash the reader!
This eBook reader is quite ideal if you have a lot of ebooks ready to be put on. This works out quite well for me because all the Buddhist materials/books are for freely available online! There are many websites for Buddhist books and sutras, here is one that I often visit:
To read them on your ebook, you can either upload them to the reader as plain text or use a multi-platform software called “Calibre” to convert your (html) files into .lrf or .epub. Here is how I convert the ebooks.
- Pick a book you want to convert, e.g. 淨土十疑論
- In your browser, save page as html only
- Drag this html file into Calibre and click convert
- Upload to the ebook
Problems that I experienced:
- Automatic table of content creation in Calibre – It will created the table of content but failing to link it to the right page! But it’s good enough!
- Reader freeze on connecting USB to computer – need to reset to solve this problem, I believe it’s a problem with the Chinese interface that I’m using which is probably solved by now. But my advice is to use the original English interface!
Here are some photos of the eBook.
