[LUAU] CJK in FC4
Aloha all, A couple of days ago, a group of Fedora Core users at Harvard released a set of bitmap fonts which cover complete CJK Unified Ideographics (20,902 characters at 4 pixel sizes and two weights, totalling more than 180,000 glyphs): http://wqy.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi?BitmapSong (in simplified Chinese) After installed it, my first reaction was, this is grand theft, or at least blatant plagiarism! But, hey, this is GPL. The original creator of these fonts (Mr. Firefly) actually was very relieved that someone was able to continue the torch and make the flame brighter. Lack of CJK support used to be an Achilles heel for Linux, but it may have become one of its most potent weapons. In the English version of Windows XP-Pro, you are able to input CJK fonts, but this ability is somewhat rudimentary. There are 3rd party Windows programs for inputting Chinese characters, but since software is mostly free in the Chinese-speaking commuity, no one is willing to care about their quality. In a previous thread, I briefly mentioned how drastically the process of I/O'ing Chinese fonts has improved under iiimf in FC4. Here, I will do a very simple demo regarding Japanese characters: - miyamoto musashi - みやもと むさし - ミヤモトムサシ - 宮本武蔵 The first group of characters are your keyboard input. When iiimf is running and activated, your screen will show the corresponding Hiragana characters (2nd group). Press down cursor key, they convert to Katakana (3rd group). Press space key followed by the down cursor key, a list of Kanjis will pop up for you to select (4th group). Isn't this great? If you have connections to our local CJK community, and/or are interested in promoting Linux in that community, and would like to have a sounding board, please let me know. Wayne (Don't know Japanese? McKinley has an English-centric Japanese language program. After 30 dollars and 30 hours, you may become itchy to try to sell Fedora machines in Japan.)
[LUAU] Load Average Question
Aloha, After goggling (sp?) load average I was surprised at how controversial it is. It also make we wonder about the CPU % we get from Micro$oft. Anyway.If I have a server with a normal load average of ~ 0.20 I load up an SMP kernel with an additional processor, should the load average drop to ~ 0.10 or can the load average go higher with less worry? Aloha, Matt
Re: [LUAU] Load Average Question
On Wednesday , 2005-08-10 09:01, Matt Darnell wrote: Aloha, After goggling (sp?) load average I was surprised at how Wow, you got the cool 3D-vision goggles on your system? controversial it is. It also make we wonder about the CPU % we get from Micro$oft. No Comment... it would be off topic... this being a Linux list... or... What you mean We? (100% MicroShaft free since 1993). Anyway.If I have a server with a normal load average of ~ 0.20 I load up an SMP kernel with an additional processor, should the load average drop to ~ 0.10 or can the load average go higher with less worry? Aloha, Matt One needs to carefully analyze factors in addition to load average to determine where in your system the bottlenecks lay. Load is related to the number of tasks... running plus waiting... but upon what resource are they waiting? -- All information and transactions are non negotiable and are private between the parties. All rights reserved without prejudice. Copyright 2005 Angela Kahealani http://www.kahealani.com/
Re: [LUAU] Load Average Question
On Aug 10, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Matt Darnell wrote: Aloha, After goggling (sp?) load average I was surprised at how controversial it is. It also make we wonder about the CPU % we get from Micro$oft. Anyway.If I have a server with a normal load average of ~ 0.20 I load up an SMP kernel with an additional processor, should the load average drop to ~ 0.10 or can the load average go higher with less worry? as with many things, it depends. If you're really CPU bound, then... maybe. I could, if you wanted the demo, artificially raise your load average to 300 and you'd still have a nice, crisp system. what are you trying to do?
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Re: [LUAU] Load Average Question
Aloha, After goggling (sp?) load average I was surprised at how controversial it is. It also make we wonder about the CPU % we get from Micro$oft. Anyway.If I have a server with a normal load average of ~ 0.20 I load up an SMP kernel with an additional processor, should the load average drop to ~ 0.10 or can the load average go higher with less worry? as with many things, it depends. If you're really CPU bound, then... maybe. I could, if you wanted the demo, artificially raise your load average to 300 and you'd still have a nice, crisp system. what are you trying to do? We have a server that sometimes has has a load averavge of 1.0 or a little higher. We are adding another processor to help with the load. Sometimes the server can be kind of sluggish. I think the SMP will help b/c there are lots of processes that can be divided. -Matt
