Blog issues

Intruders: Jessica Szeto (and anoyminous), Helen Duzhou (Alani)

Helen's horrible blog:

Her blog encourages superstition and the demons.
Our rebucking is not strong enough, causing a defeat in the comments wars.

If Helen comes back, we shall attack her comments fiercly with counter-attacks.

Helen, we hereby declare war on you for your hideous blog, using the best and most effiecient ways possible.
"See who is worse!!!" SEAT.

(WE'LL GET YOUR PASSWORD!!)

THE VANDALS IN THE MIDEST:

The vandal who knows who he/SHE is - we'll "google bomb" you till the internet knows that YOU ARE A VANDALISER. THERE"S no such thing as righteous or wrong. Understand. Vandalism level on this: DEEP PURPLE


Thank You to the Physics guy:

Yeah!!! I'm an administrator!!!!!!

Leadership skills (real)

These are some really bad points made by our classmates, which makes people look like followers:

- "kind" (but never to Microsoft and patents!!), by Samuel Poon and Helen (An admin.)
Why bad?? A: Because if you're too kind to people, they make use of it. However, people like Queen Elizabeth had made up a great recipe on how to get your noble followers to agree with you- give them some oppression, and when you've added too much to them, use inspiring speeches to calm them down.

- "mean"(to everyone), by Alasdair (not to insult you!)
Why bad?? A: Because over-meaness would stir up anger. In the case of Qin Shi Huandi, his son was rather useless. Forged his dad's will!! And within 3 years, China collasped.

the three Rules:

- "People do not resist change itself, but they resist BEING changed"
- "If you can't change the people, change the neutral people to get to your side."
- to be finished (I can't remember the rest!!!)

General Meeting Place

Rules:

- No Samuels to ruin the Fun!
- If you're about to leave, please give us a notice
- Anomynous comments: If you feel you don't want to be known, you're allowed. But please leave your blogs if you're a blogger.

Summer Plans

Samuel, remember our Summer server plan? Well, here might be a good scheme-

1. we take a course on Linux programming and controls and how to put together computer hardware
2. then, we take yet another course on networks and servers
3. As we're doing so, also try and practice what we've learnt at home-breaking up the computer and build it again.
4. Get a good modem and internet service going. (As fast as possible)
5. Then, we will get a good second hand Intel Pentium 4 / M / Xeon 2 / Italium processor and install Fredora Core / Debian / Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 / Windows Server 2003.
6. Also, update the USB drive into USB 2.0.
7. Get a good hand on it, add an extra fan for extra cooling to prevent excess heat from overheating things. Can also get some good hardware kits (heat sinks...) and extra memory devices.
8. Start building site and uploading onto the server.

Problems:

Where does the money / founding come from???

Where do we get assistance from?

How do we convince our parents that this will work and not ruin computers?

How do we earn the trust from our parents to let us get a good budget. We'll need to do the research and be good kids right now!!!

Also, if we want to get Fedora Core or any other kind of distro (e.g. Debian), we would need to burn the disks. Samuel's CD burner is currently down. Plus, Fedora Core 4 (stable) is now released with a better anaconda installer.

How long does this project last? about 1 week, or 2 weeks

Remember we wanted to upgrade the Window 95 computer? Here are some stuff we can buy (if we get the money.

Updates, 26-6-2005:

Link for course: http://www.systematic.com.hk/course/course_chong.jsp

School Issues-ICT, Website and school/class Affairs

Blog Blocked By Firewall!! - 14-6-2005

I can confirm that the firewall at South Island School is blocking blogger. This kind of suppressment is only rivaled in China (in China, foreign/local blogs and google are restriced; same in SIS). More recently, we discovered that the SINA, myinternet filtering system is doing the filtering for all ESF schools. DSL is the answer. Here's the EVIL document that makes us bow down to our Head of ICT, "King" VP. The suppressed students like us, holding restricted accounts, have little freedom. Without the particular freedom of exploration, the freedom of knowledge, it will restrict the freedom of creativity, the freedom of understanding ... ... On the long term, it will severely handicap us from using certain fields which require freedom.

My Firefox Banner

I made a Firefox banner and pasted it in C56, an now its gone. Someone who doesn't know about firefox or an IE fan tore it down.

This is such a destructive place!!

School Website

The school website for finding the links to Focus Week activities for Middle section does **not** work with Firefox (and K-meleon, or Gecko based browsers). The school website already isn't W3C compatitable (tested with Amaya browser by W3C, poor results). Does not even support W3C? Useless and Outdated!

Its' the leading/only website standard in the Universe!

13/6/2005- Debate

By Eugenewong

Helen and Martin are going to be used for courtesy target practice tommorrow. Yes, our questions and counters are pretty/ far too straight-forward. Also, we don't know which side we're doing the supporting saying that space is a waste of money, or the counter.

Should we go and kill our own cowards, Helen and Martin, or should we help them do fire-support (shoot at opposition)?????

Well, they won (with my support). No use grumbling now.

To be finished...

Psychology, Biology and relationships of people

Studies have shown that people can be influenced by the peers. In a study concerning about closing a door, people generally wouldn't close the door, but hardly anyone closes the door if more than two people goes through at the same time.

Identity is very important as well. In a social group, a personal image for others is especially important, as it is a prevention of social disgrace. The defense of the personal image can be quite vicious.

Cryonics is also a good example of Psychology. When a human brain is restored to its normal state after being frozened, will all the memory be gone. Will the person know itself? Or if it was Einstein, will he know how to continue his great works of physics? Or will he be a lamb-brained person? ( LINK HERE, If interested in getting frozened - www.cl.org )

After a whole lunch-time researching on social psychology, we (Samuel + Eugene) managed to figure out that aggression is based on two main factors: 1) whether the person is sadistic or not, 2) whether the person has suffered any emotional unhappiness (i.e. grief). Aggression is one of the defense mechanisms, and closely linked with denial, which is the refusal of believing something has happened.

Denial could be catergrised into interpersonal and intrapersonal. Interpersonal denial would be deny to other people that it something didn't happen; something that the individual feels too stressed to believe in. Intrapersonal denial is within the own self; the struggle between thought and reality, what happened and what didn't ... a bit like PTSD. A person denying would find it more logical, but needs treatment of somekind (either by someone else or by conquering it themself).

Our further plans of investigation would be to

• Interview victim
  
• Ask witnesses
  
• Further observations
• More creativity needed to design fair psychological experiments.
• read more (think more)
  
• link it with bussiness studies and robotics
  
  To be finished
  
  
  PLEASE PUT COMMENTS ON IT, OR WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW, AND WE'LL HAVE DISCUSSIONS!!!!