意外的收到CSDN Blog编辑的邮件，建议我继续使用CSDN的Blog，并对最近CSDN Blog的改版给用户带来的不好体验进行了道歉，其实我搬家完全不是因为CSDN的改版，只是因为自由软件综合症的原因。但也许是被他的诚恳打动，也许是一种怀旧的情绪。我决定在主力经营自己的Blog同时，也保持CSDN Blog的继续更新。废话文章往自己那里贴，有点意思的文章两边贴。Live Spaces嘛，不想经营了。

鉴于对读者负责的态度，还是在VMWare中开了一下Windows看看这个页面在Windows IE中的效果。

结果发现字体难看，或者就是页面显示成为空白。前者是因为CSS有问题，我只是偷了人家一个CSS，没有加工就自己用了……后者是因为网页编码的问题，右键把编码设成UTF-8就好了，原因还不详，呵呵。

鉴定完毕，再次Ctrl+C，Ctrl+P，关机睡觉:)

最近工作一直比较紧张，但越是这样紧张的工作就越荫发了我在忙中偷闲的兴致。这几天就陷入了自由软件的“泥潭”中不可自拔。

第一次在自己的机器安装上安装Linux是在1999年8年，当时用的发行版是国产的Xteam Linux。好奇是当时安装它的唯一目的。付出的代价是硬盘一个分区的数据全毁，里面有我从93年开始刚接触电脑时写的很多BASIC程序、用 Windows画笔画的图片、WPS中输入的文档等等，一堆无用却有那么点记念意义的东东。幸好那时有个当时很流行的“个人主页”，一些新的写的东西在网 上的个人主页空间中有备份。

其后又陆陆续续装过Red Hat 5/6/7/9，Turbo Linux 4.0，蓝点1.0/2.0等等多个发行版，但从来都是玩，没有把它当成正经的东西。也只知道Linux是免费的，没有把它与“自由软件”联系起来。

2003年开始因为使用CVS开始认识“自由软件”这个广阔的世界，然后就陆续遇到到了Emacs等各种自由软件，但Windows平台还是我 日常使用的操作系统，这些自由软件我也只是使用它们的Windows版本。2004年加入GNU CTT(Chinese Translation Team)，由于这个Team不是很活跃，所以其实没有做什么事情，但自己在浏览GNU网站的时候开始慢慢建立了“自由软件”这个概念，第一次把“自由” 与“免费”这两个英文一样的词语进行了区别。

2006年参加工作，实在没有想到自己会加入一个Linux平台的产品组，但Linux却因此第一次完整的融入了我的生活。2006年10月开 始把自己本本的主要操作系统换成Linux（开使用Fedora Core 4，一周后换成FC5，FC6发布后又迅速跟进，现在用的是FC6）。

虽然日常开发是在Linux下完成，但实话说，一直也只是在用自己已经会的工具，用原始的方法去完成工作。进入2007年，工作压力稍稍有点大 却反而激发了我研究自由软件的兴趣，正所谓“工欲善其事，必先利其器”，利用非常有限的时间，我开始琢磨Linux下这些我天天在用却没有一件用好了的工 具。

第一个用来开刀的工具就是Emacs，这是一个从用它的第一天起就知道是一个无比强大的工具而却一直把它当Better Notepad来用的东东。花了两天时间，第一步是抛弃了一直在用的21.4的稳定版本，改成用从CVS中Check out源码编出来的Emacs 23，以便让我这个菜鸟可以不用怎么配置就在Emacs中处理中文。第二步是迈出了自定义Emacs的第一步，我的Emacs配置文件终于在维持了N久十 行以下代码的基础上，升到了有120行（下一个目标是要有120K的代码量，呵呵）。第三步是第一次开始在Emacs中使用插件，先是试验了emacs- wiki，刚有点上手，发现它已经被muse取代，所以就改成了用muse，本文就是在muse的环境下完成的。然后当然是少不了的emacs-w3m这 个文本浏览器啦。有了这个两个东东，就决定了本文的诞生:-)

很显然，我对这些工具的运用还是非常的初级，一步步来吧，也许从我这个新的Blog的成长过程中也就可以体会到自由软件的魅力和我对自由软件认 识的成长历程吧。现在我这个Blog除了可以自己写文件还没有任何别的功能，甚至连评论的功能也没有。我计划尽快加上，不过我这个虚拟主机还是基于 Windows的ASP的，所以只能用非自由的ASP技术来实现。计划等我的自由软件及其应用更加熟悉时换成Linux的主机:-)

最近我有关自由软件还有搞定了LaTeX的中文处理，本本在Linux下的部分驱动和工具软件，自己成功编译完成了一个LFS系统。对于熟悉Linux的人来说，这些都是很平常的事情，但对于我来说，也都算是值得自己欣喜一会儿的事情了。

又到该休息的时候了，本文到此结束。下面要做的是按下键盘上的Ctrl+C和Ctrl+P，我用Wiki格式写成的Blog文章就自动生成html文件，并通过FTP上传到主页空间中。也许Linux和自由软件的魅力就在于此……

Blog又搬一次家，新家会在fx.jiuzhe.com(感谢好友提供二级域名)，现在那里还超级简陋，没有计数器，没有评论，没有图片，没有RSS……

但我相信它会慢慢完善起来的。

这是我的Blog上的第一篇英文文章，在公司进行English Training时老师推荐了一部影片，《死亡诗社》，又名《春风化雨》，看了还有点感觉，随便写写，顺便也当写个了作业可以贴到Training的Online Forum中，一举两得啦。

It’s our English Training teacher Adam-Paul who suggested us to watch the film “Dead Poets Society”. I did hear about this film before but there was nothing special could push me to see this particular film – there are so many wonderful films I haven’t seen, why I have to choose this?

Adam said that this film is about teacher who wants to break the old rules of the school and do some creative things in his teaching. This makes me interested in this film because this recalls me about the film I saw half a year ago: “Les Choristes”. It’s also a film about school and teacher.

I started to watch this film seriously, because I knew this film is talking about some hard things. Also I didn’t pay too much hope on this film, I really didn’t want to be disappointed if the film is not as good as I thought. I found my worries was really unnecessary once the film began, and immediately I decided to write something after watching the film.

I don’t want to write down the story the film told us, since there is already too much comments for this on the Internet. I just want to write some of my feelings, may be it’s not the core of the film, but I have noticed that and I just want to write down.

The first thing I want to say is about music. When I watch the “Les Choristes”, the music of the film has impressed me a lot. Not only the “Künstlerleben Walzer” (Artist’s Life Waltz) of Jonhann Strauss II in that film is one of my favorite music pieces but also the songs from the children are very impressive. For this “Dead Poets Society”, more kinds of music elements has been arranged in the film. There are classical music like Beethoven’s Symphonies and Piano Concertos and Handel’s Water Music, as well as some pop music with different styles, Rocks, Blues, R&B etc. These different types of music make the film to behave in different rhythms and tells different feelings of the story. For emxample, when the boys are playing football, the Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 (Chorus) begins, this let me feel the strength of the music and the passions of the boys. The Blues on the party let people feel the joyfulness of the party and the unpeace environment. Also when saxophone sounds in the cave with poems read out, it’s really great.

Besides music, there are also many elements in the film can recall my memory and give me much impression.

The first one is “Discipline”. I learnt this word in the film “The Shawshank Redemption” which I have watched no less than eight times. In that film, the warden Norton said “I believe in two things. Discipline and the Bible.”, and later Red said “These walls (the symbol of ‘discipline’) are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them. After long enough, you get so you depend on them.”, and at last Andy break the discipline with the help of the Bible. These two films are telling us to break the disciplines. There are too many disciplines in our lives, the laws, the rules, the beliefs, the customs, etc. Those disciplines are limiting our actions, especially those disciplines we defined for ourselves. To break a discipline is really a hard thing, but we have to try and don’t be afraid of mistakes or failures. In this way, we can make more progresses.

The second one is “speak out your opinion”. I am always a good listener and a bad talker. Sometimes this is because I have no idea about what to say and sometimes it is just to be afraid to say my own opinion. I met a person on the Internet and become friends last year because both of us are fond of the “Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker” (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s New Year’s Concert). He is a real fan of classical music, but I always position myself as the pseudo-fan of music. When he is talking his feelings of certain music pieces, he can talk and talk, so many feelings to talk. But I have to listen, I wonder why he can say so much while I can say nothing. I always use the reason “I’m new to classical music” to give myself the explanation. Until last month, he was guiding me to listen to the Symphony 9 of Beethoven, he asked me “What is you feeling about this?” I really feel ashamed to always reply such question as “Nothing special”, so I forced myself to think about the music more and said my feelings. “Wonderful! Who said you are a pseudo-fan of classical music?”, he praised me. Suddenly, I found it’s really not a difficult thing to express oneself. What you have to do is just think more about things and try to be brave. It’s really important to speak out one’s opinion which can make the communication two-way and more effective.

Neil’s suicide was what I didn’t expected. I always prefer the Hollywood’s Happy End. I think the director arranged this was want us to feel shock of victims, a victim of the family education and oneself. Neil is alway want to be a good child in family, so he is always hesitate to say out his own opinion and finally causes the terrible thing happened.

In this film, different students with different characteristics reflects different aspects of people. I have learnt many things from them, may be it’s just difficult to express all these feeling in words. The timid Todd in the film may have the nearest characteristics with me, so when I watching the film, I really hope he can become much braver and get more passion. This is also what I want for myself, I’m encouraging him and encouraging myself.

As the title told us, there is many beautiful poems in the film. The English poet Lord Byron is mentioned in film several times, although my English name is the same as his last name, to tell the truth, I have forgotten all the poems after I finished the film. I believe I will watch this film in the future, I think I can better understand these poets at that time.

It seems that I have missed the most important person – the teacher Keating – in my article. Yes, to be a discipline-breaker is hard. I remember a debate on the Internet between Jing Xuliang from Bejing Institution of Technology and Yuan Feng these days about how to teach computer science and technology in college. Jing thinks that practice is the most important thing and Yuan thinks that theory is the foundation and must be the most important thing. To be a good teacher is difficult, you have to learn more and face different situations. Especially you want to break the tradition way of teaching, you need much courage. Keating told the students to call him “Oh, captain, my captain”, it’s a title of a poem written by Walt Whitman. I didn’t know this, and this let me remember another film about teachers, students and disciplines – The Sound of Music. In that film, the Captain Georg von Trapp changed lot and break many disciplines with the help of the governess Maria. In this film, I think, “Captain” means the one who will gives you the right direction.

Still many things to say, but I’d like to stop here. I wish you can feel the film by yourself.

The “Dead Poets Society” is a special film, it has neither exciting stories nor shocking visions, and it also doesn’t have too many moving sight. But it tastes like a cup of coffee, you feel the strength of the film and you will feel like to see it for more times.