Actually I've heard an interesting conspiracy theory when I did my Year 9 Chinese History back when I was in Hong Kong.
The ruling emperor at that time, whose name I forgot, was the brother of previous emperor. The ruling emperor lauched a coup using his strong military forces based near Beijing intended to defend against the northern tribes. After his coup was successful and he entered the capital, Nanjing, the then dethroned emperor went missing and rumour has it that he escaped on a boat. So the new emperor sent Zheng He off to sail in order to find the emperor's brother and ``finish the job''.
I have no idea about the historical accuracy of this story.
Does anyone know anything about the random text strings that show up in clients' search monitors? If you haven't noticed, alongside 'britnie', 'xxx', and 'quake', there are many long strings of random letters, numbers, and other characters.
They may be searches in double-byte code (for example, Japanese, Chinese encodings, or Unicode) which would look like garbage unless you have the fonts, the locale and other things set up to view those codes.
It depends on which Chinese character set you use (either traditional for Hong Kong and Taiwan or simplified for China)
For each character set there's a choice between a couple of input methods to map keystrokes from a QWERTY keyboard to the
actual Chinese characters. I normally use a method called traditional Cangjei and here's how you type the URL:
twlb vfog vfbtv.mg jmso hodqn.dvii dttb w w w.wong kar wai.(--org--)
Of course there are rules to generate the above if you know what the word looks like:-). However as you can see it's much more inconvenient that way, and anyone who thinks that the average person who doesn't know Chinese
typing would be able to reach their Chinese domain is being silly at the
least.
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Actually I've heard an interesting conspiracy theory when I did my Year 9 Chinese History back when I was in Hong Kong.
The ruling emperor at that time, whose name I forgot, was the brother of previous emperor. The ruling emperor lauched a coup using his strong military forces based near Beijing intended to defend against the northern tribes. After his coup was successful and he entered the capital, Nanjing, the then dethroned emperor went missing and rumour has it that he escaped on a boat. So the new emperor sent Zheng He off to sail in order to find the emperor's brother and ``finish the job''.
I have no idea about the historical accuracy of this story.
They may be searches in double-byte code (for example, Japanese, Chinese encodings, or Unicode) which would look like garbage unless you have the fonts, the locale and other things set up to view those codes.
Check out "Korn meets KoRN"
The guy actually has a copy of ``The New Kornshell: Command and Programming Language'' signed by KoRn members David Silveria, Fieldy and Munky.
It depends on which Chinese character set you use (either traditional for Hong Kong and Taiwan or simplified for China)
For each character set there's a choice between a couple of input methods to map keystrokes from a QWERTY keyboard to the actual Chinese characters. I normally use a method called traditional Cangjei and here's how you type the URL:
twlb vfog vfbtv .mg jmso hodqn .dvii dttb .wong kar wai .(--org--)
w w w
Of course there are rules to generate the above if you know what the word looks like :-). However as you can see it's much more inconvenient that way, and anyone who thinks that the average person who doesn't know Chinese
typing would be able to reach their Chinese domain is being silly at the
least.
wmSpaceWeather shows this kind of info on a widget.
I can't find a web page, but tarballs are available here. rpms and debs are also available from other sources.