Archive for September, 2007
September 27, 2007 7:33 pm
I’m sure most of us have heard this news already, sometimes we may wonder there are so many things that are out of our country and is there anything we can do about it? I do believe the mind is strong, with enough people with the same aim, we can make a different! Here is a quote from a Petition to support the Burmese Protesters.
緬甸在世界最殘酷的軍閥獨裁政府之ㄧ的統治下.幾十年來緬甸政府不停的對人民施壓–監禁翁山蘇姬及其他民主激進份子,剷平成千上萬的村莊,增加勞工的負擔,造成難民的產生-但是上星期二在緬甸備受尊敬的佛教僧侶與尼姑開始他們的遊行與誦經祈願.這些遊行感染到成千上萬的一般民眾及公共人物來加入且尋找到他們已失去的希望.他們現在正在面臨鎮壓-所以請團結一致的簽署這緊急的請願書來支持緬甸人民的民主運動–此請願書這整星期將會被遞交到聯合國安全理事會會員及國際性的媒體手中:
過去緬甸軍隊曾屠殺示威運動者且抹殺民主主義.世界這次一定要站再緬甸人民這一邊來讓軍閥統治者知道世界人民是不會允許暴力鎮壓.線在全球各地領導們要參加在紐約舉行的年度聯合國高峰會.不論是演講,媒體訪問,或是真實的行動,我們需要他們來向緬甸軍隊表示全球社會將會與緬甸遊行運動民眾團結一致.證明你對這和平民主運動團結一致的心且簽署這緊急的請願書來支持緬甸人民.此請願書將會在本週遞交到聯合國安全理事會會員及聯合國媒體手中:
支持遊行的民眾 - 簽署請願書
南無阿彌陀佛
世界和平，人民安乐。正法久住，法轮常转。
灾障消灭，祸患不生。法界有情，同生极乐。
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September 20, 2007 11:54 am
I’ve been searching for a daily software for work for a few weeks now, finally find something that I like. All I want is a simple daily, more like a advance notebook with features that helps me orgainse the notes better, something like the Tomboy notes would do the job nicely, a online one would be even better. But I can’t use that since I’ve to work on a Windows machine at work. I also don’t really want to setup another wordpress blog for it since it’s not going to be public and I don’t need all that functionality, just need something simple.
This morning I found the Google notebook, it’s quite amazing, and I’m very happy with it. The functions it supports is just what I need + a easy to use interface and it’s online which means I can access it anywhere given that I have connection to the internet! It even has a firefox plugin that makes it even better. It also supports sections and different notebooks, before I found this I used to use gmail draft to just drop down something, now it’s a lot easier. Thanks google for another amazing application/software.
Other Google software that I like:
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September 18, 2007 10:25 pm
蓮池大師 - 曹魯川居士 - 書信
曹魯川居士: 當今雖然是末法之時，然而眾人的根機，難道沒有利根、鈍根的差別嗎？有如釋迦世尊，為大迦葉、為憍陳如，他的說法是如此。為善財、為龍女，他的說法又是另外一種。《楞嚴經》中，二十五位聖人，各個證得圓通，而文殊菩薩所稱歎的，又是不一樣。正是所謂的昨日定，今日不定。又所謂說：我是空，而且又不是空；說：我是有，而且又不是有。這就是能夠善巧方便應機說法，而不專執一門為主。活活潑潑地，如水上葫蘆一樣，按了就轉動，限制不住它。假如像木樁釘住一點、守住一個洞窟，怎麼能夠利益人天大眾呢？我所期望的，希望尊者您，為凡夫大眾開示淨土法門，而遇到利根器的就直指最上乘的佛法，能夠圓融通達，不限制於一個立場角度。使得大鵬鳥和小麻雀，各自安適於自己的處所，這樣不是盡善盡美嗎？
蓮池大師: 其次，來信又說，應當隨著眾生的根機給予教化，為適合淨土的人說淨土，為適合華嚴的人說華嚴，此意甚妙。但是其中有兩個意義：第一、『千機並育』，千種根機的人都能夠得到教化，這乃是如來出現於世間的大事，並非敝人我所能作為的。因此曹溪六祖專弘直指人心的禪法，豈是六祖不能通達其他的教法？慧遠大師建立東林的蓮社，也不是只會接引鈍根的人。至於雲門、法眼、曹洞、溈仰、臨濟，雖然五宗同出於曹溪六祖之根原，然而其教授指導眾生的方式也稍有差別。各個門派祖師，施設不同的方便教法，本來就是這個樣子，沒有什麼好奇怪的，何況是像我這樣一個凡夫呢？如果隨便地學習古人，昨日定，今日又不定，散漫而沒有一定的師承，多變紛亂而不專一。名義上說是要利益眾生，實在是誤人子弟。何以故？『我為法王，於法自在。』只有法王才可觀察眾生根機給予不同的教化。我們自知是平民，卻要號稱國王，這就不可不謹慎小心了！
摘錄自《淨土聖賢錄易解》 (繁體) (简体) - 往生比丘第三之四
淨土聖賢錄原文
時雖末法，而斯人之機，豈無利鈍。有如釋尊為迦葉，為陳如，其說如此。為善財，為龍女，其說如彼。二十五聖，各証圓通，文殊所稱又如彼。正所謂昨日定，今日不定。又所謂說我是空，且不是空。說我是有，且不是有。此所以為善無常主，活潑潑地，如水上按葫蘆然。倘釘椿守窟，焉利人天。所願尊者，為大眾衍淨教，遇利根指上乘，圓融通達，不滯方隅。俾鵬並適，不亦盡善盡美哉。
又來諭謂宜隨機演教，為宜淨土人說淨土，宜華嚴人說華嚴，此意甚妙。然中有二義。一者，千機並育，乃如來出世事，非不肖所能。故曹溪專直指之禪，豈其不通余教。遠公擅東林之社，亦非止接鈍根。至於雲門、法眼、曹洞、溈仰、臨濟，雖五宗同出一原，而亦授受稍別。門庭施設，理自應爾，無足怪者。況不肖凡品乎。若其妄效古人，昨日定，今日不定。而漫無師承，變亂不一。名曰利人，實誤人矣。何以故，我為法王，於法自在。平民號曰國王，不可不慎也。
摘錄自《淨土聖賢錄》
Tags: 祖師, 華嚴, 蓮池大師, 淨土, 佛教
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September 7, 2007 7:01 pm
Last week, I decided to install VMware to run Linux (Ubuntu) and Vista on the computer at work. The process was quite simple, installed VMWARE Workstation, configure the Virtual Machines that I want to create, load it up and start installing. After everything installed, I put the VM images on to my USB harddisk and took them home.
Everything ran ok with the VMware player under Windows which is quite impressive. I can still remember the time when I first formatted my computer to install Linux. But running Ubuntu on Linux is not what I really want, it make more sense to have Linux has the host since that’s the OS I use at home. However when I tried to play the images with the VMware player in Ubunt, it says that the version I’m using is older than the images :(. Still haven’t sort that out… but here is a screenshots in XP (with Vista theme)
I’m also quite impress with the computer at work, not top of the range, but it’s a dual core Athlon 3600+ with 2GB RAM, it can run Ubuntu on VMware faster than my laptop running it direct. When I tried to run both Vista and Ubuntu at the same time on my laptop under XP, I think it took at least 10mins to load up Vista! Just can’t handle it. When I did the screenshot, I had the Ubuntu displayed on my Laptop screen (1024×768) and Windows on the main monitor (1280×1024). Will be the other way round when I get the VMW player working under Linux. Would recommend VMware if you want to try Linux but can’t escape from Windows :D, but I think a dual core processor + 2GB RAM is the min requirement to have it running smoothly.
– Update –
Found out that the VMware player that is installed by aptitude is version 1, that means the installation will have to be done manually. Downloaded the latest version 2.0 from the VMware website, installed it following a few steps and got the VM Vista running on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Since the problem is solved, I used the workstation to install a XP. Did a update on Ubuntu, not very clever since that upgraded the Kernel to 2.6.20-16! Restarted and VMware player wouldn’t work anymore. If you have the same problem, just uninstall it by:
sudo ./vmware-uninstall.pl
and do the recompile/installation again since the kernel has been upgraded. However it didn’t went that smoothly for me, it gave me an error when I try to uninstall vmware:
Virtual ethernet failed
In my case, I need to disable the VMware Virtual Networking Driver with the Restricted Driver Manager, restart my comp and then run the installation or the reconfiguration tool:
sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
After that everything works fine :). XP is running a lot faster on my laptop than vista.
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September 5, 2007 5:38 pm
September 4, 2007 3:09 pm
One of my joomla site (Design and Hosting) got hacked again! Usually I just fixed the configuartion file knowing that it will do the job, but also knowing that the vulnerabilities are still there. So this time I’ve decided to track down the problem, found out from the log that it was hacked by someone in Turkey using a something called R57shell! How it works on the other side seems quite simple, in this case the url used was
http://vinlai.com/index.php?mosConfig_absolute_path= —-
I won’t show the last part but it’s url to a site containing the r57shell script. And that’s it, they can view and change all all the files and directory! Anyway, in my case the problem was caused by a sef components used to rewrite the urls. Have no time to fix it now, only took out the hacked files. Will do a clean install this time since the current one is quite ‘broken’, until then, the site will be done. If you also uses Joomla, here are some guides which I found useful…
A lot of them are common sense like keeping the software up to date… can’t be lazy sometimes, will just end up spending more time fixing it after the damaged has been done!
– Update 17:10 –
Site back online! Using a different component for url rewrite this time, hopefully it won’t be hacked again soon…
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