Let's Talk about .. Google Japanese Language input

Today there's a lecture about "Google Japanese Language input(Google 日本語入力)". Actually, I don't (quite) understand what the speaker described because the whole lecture was in Japanese. So I just followed his slides and searched the internet myself.

He talked about the Google Japanese Language input. He described the algorithms inside this input.

Google Japanese Language input beta installer is here...

http://www.google.com/intl/ja

There's a program for inserting Japanese language transformation like IME that everyone is using.

Google is developing the Google Japanese Input by using automatically generate from texts on the web, which Google itself has ability to collect the data, as the method to make typing Japanese easy, especially Japanese name.

It's available for both PC(32-bit) and MAC.

They use TRIE algorithm and prefix algorithm to calculate the suggested result.

Moreover, user can send more vocabulary to Google Social dictionary to help them improve the Japanese dictionary.

Ref. Asiajin: Google Releases Google Japanese Input (Beta)

Then, I tried to download and install it..

Click the button to download. Google find the suitable version for your OS.

Agree and Install

Let's Talk about .. Abstact Algebra

There was one time my Prof., Dr.Iijima, said in our lab party. He said that Algebra is like Love because it is a binary operation. Wowwww.. it's very cool idea.

i.e., Love is like, you know, a binary operation between two persons. for example, A loves B.

Let's Talk about .. Market Reaction to ASP Adoption

I was a commentator of Maeda's presentation in my lab's seminar. He chose the Information & Management Journal's paper "Market Reaction to Application Service Provider(ASP) Adoption: An Empirical Investigation" by Bong-Keun Jeong and Antonis C. Stylianou from University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

I like this paper. It talks about the market reaction from the announcement of ASP adoption in the company samples. The way he planed his research paper was described very well. He explained the methodology in detail.

This paper makes me know that there is a quite positive effect of ASP adoption announcement.

Let's Talk about .. Resistance to Internet Banking

This week was my first time presentation in my lab. I selected the International Journal of Information Management paper "Mapping the reasons for resistance to Internet banking: A mean-end approach" by Tuire Kuisma, Tommi Laukkanen, from University of Kuopio, and Mika Hiltunen from Nordea Bank Finland.

They did research in Finland. Because eventhough Finland can be considered as one of the leading coutries in e-Banking, but some people still use ATM as the main method for payment. This issue also surprised me.

They used the method called mean-end method together with the laddering technique interview to get and analyze the data. Some of the reasons of resistance are out of my thought also. For example, lacking of barcode reader issue.

For the main idea, the resistance to the Internet banking can be consisted of Newness, Lacking of Computer/Internet/Info/Official Receipt/Barcode reader, changeable password, unclear proceeding monitor, etc.

I hope that one day Thailand will be able to adopt Internet banking as the main method for payment system, too.

Let's Talk about .. Type of Economist

I have a chance to participate the exhibition at the Bank of Thailand's library. It's about Pra Siam (Bank of Thailand's magazine). There's talk show about the Writer by Dr.Kobsak Pootrakul http://www.kobsak.com He talked about his history, how to become the writer. He said that in our world, there are 3 types of economist:-
1. Real economist is the economist who write the important economist papers or theories that many economists know that it's very good. However, it's quite difficult to understand even the economists also take time to read and understand.
2. Up-and-down economist is the economist who reports the economical situation everyday by the using the current event which occurs to be the reasons.
3. Airport economist is the economist who write the story that make people be excited about the future things.
4. Pop economist is the economist that have ability to create something to make ordinary people understand economics. For example, Paul Krugman

Let's Talk about .. MOSS2007-SharePoint Template List

I found it from http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/thread/721bec39-2d32-4bbc-9094-a021a0d06dcb

0 - GLOBAL (SetupPath=global) - "Global template"

1 - STS - "windows SharePoint Services Site", "Team Site", "Blank Site", "Document Workspace"

2 - MPS - "Basic Meeting Workspace", "Blank Meeting Workspace", "Decision Meeting Workspace", "Social Meeting Workspace", "Multipage Meeting Workspace"

3 - CENTRALADMIN - "Central Admin Site"

4 - WIKI - "Wiki Site"

7 - BDR - "Document Center"

9 - BLOG - "Blog"

20 - SPS (OBSOLETE) - "SharePoint Portal Server Site"

21 - SPSPERS - "SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space"

22 - SPSMSITE - "Personalization Site"30 - SPSTOC (OBSOLETE) - "Contents area Template"

31 - SPSTOPIC (OBSOLETE) - "Topic area template"

32 - SPSNEWS (OBSOLETE) - "News area template"

33 - SPSNHOME (SubWebOnly) - "News Home template"

34 - SPSSITES - "Site Directory area template"

36 - SPSCOMMU (OBSOLETE) - "Community area template"

38 - SPSREPORTCENTER - "Report Center Site"

39 - CMSPUBLISHING (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\PUBLISHING) - "Publishing and Team Collaboration Site"

40 - OSRV (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\OSRV) - "Shared Services Administration Site"

47 - SPSPORTAL - "Corporate Intranet Site"

50 - SRCHCEN - "Search Center"

51 - PROFILES - "Profiles"

52 - BLANKINTERNETCONTAINER - "Internet Presence Web Site"

53 - BLANKINTERNET - "Publishing Site", "Press Releases Site", "Publishing Site"

54 - SPSMSITEHOST - "My Site Host"

90 - SRCHCENTERLITE (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\SRCHCENTERLITE) - "Search Center Lite"

6221 - PWA (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\PWA) - "Project Web Access Site"

6215 - PWS (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\PWS) - "Project Workspace"

14483 - OFFILE - "Records Repository", "Records Repository"

Let's Talk about .. MOSS2007-Runtime Error without any details

Yesterday, I found a Runtime Error page instead of web site showing. A support engineer from Microsoft suggested me to modify web.config of my MOSS in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\[YOUR_PORT] as following

-in SafeMode tag, set Attribute CallStack="True"
-in customErrors, set Attribute Mode="Off"

I found that my web.config already be set like that. Then, he checked again and found that there are 2 locations of web.config since I have 2 Server: MOSS and DB which I also set both of them as Web Front End server (by installing MOSS to both of them). Thus, two web.config(s) had to be modified. Then, I could see what the error was.