出生人口男女性別比

早上吃早餐的時候，看到一家人來吃，帶這兩個小孩，很巧的是剛好是兩個小男生，
不禁讓我想起，我似乎常常說現在朋友生的小孩「好像」男生比較多一些。
回頭看看內政部公佈的出生人口資料，很巧的剛好有性別，
順手就用SAS看了一下1970～2006年的台灣出生嬰兒的男女性別比的變化了。

下圖
綠色的線為每年性別比的連線，
而藍色的線則為用Loess平滑估計後所得到的平滑曲線。
我想這個圖不太需要說明了，現在玩線上遊戲的人都喜歡說「有圖為證」！

WinDirStat(分析硬碟中檔案大小)

現在硬碟越來越大，裡面放的東西越來越，但當有一天發現硬碟只剩下5GB的時候，就會開始想，奇怪硬碟裡面放了哪些東西？
當然可以手動一個一個打開資料夾然後排序檔案大小，這個還真的很麻煩。推薦這個軟體WinDirStat，他可以自動的幫你搜尋整個或是部分硬碟或資料夾，然後依照檔案大小來排序，你就知道那個肥大的檔案佔了你個空間了。使用簡單方便！！ 強烈推薦！！

WinDirStat官方網頁：http://windirstat.info/

韓森氏病（Hansen's Disease）---痲瘋病

最近很好奇「樂生療養院」，問了一位醫師朋友，他也不清楚何謂「痲瘋病」，用Google查了一下，原來這真的是一種「奇怪」的疾病，所謂奇怪就是很少見，機轉不明的疾病，在流病角度來看，其實奇怪的疾病多得事，題外話了。原來痲瘋病是結核分枝桿菌的痲瘋分枝桿菌所引起的一種疾病【A】，目前傳染途徑似乎還很不清楚，我覺得下面連結的這篇文章寫的不錯，有興趣的可以去讀讀看了。

【A】跨越石碳酸的鴻溝──認識痲瘋病醫療

音效卡

我想這是很多剛剛碰電腦的新新人類都忘記的「零件」吧，我也好久沒有「數位音效」這一塊領域了，大約從買這一塊我目前用的音效卡後，再也沒有接觸了.........
但沒想到Creativ 這家笨公司的最新產品(好像也不新了)，竟有不少的問題，這個問題似乎可大可小，但對於花錢買音效卡的人，可是大事阿！！一個麻煩的問題。

Sound Blaster X-Fi 的雜音問題探討

整理出一個重點：『沒有做到這些改善，如何說服使用者停止使用 onboard 的 Realtek 音效而購買 Creative 的產品呢？除非有改善，否則如果有人問作者對 X-Fi 的感想，作者的回答很簡單：垃圾，它不值得你花錢。』

The Rule of Defining Dummy Variables

1. If an inercept is used in the regression equation, proper difinition of the k-1 dummy variables automatically indexes an k categories.
2. If k dummy variables are used to describe a nominal variable with k categories in a model containing an intercept, all the coefficients in the model cannot be uniquely estimated because collinearity is present(Why??).

新年快樂

阿1/2號了...
忘了在這裡寫上重要的話！！
還是祝大家「新年快樂」

好東西又來了Firefox 2.0!!

好久沒更新這了，

FF2.0已經於數個禮拜前釋出了，有興趣的可以去下面的網頁看看喔。

http://moztw.org/

順便推廣一下

火狐月的活動 ^^

[轉貼]Windows Live Messenger 動手自行刪除廣告橫幅

原文於此連結
千呼萬喚，眾所矚目的情況下，新版的 >Windows Live Messenger（即 MSN Messenger 8）終於上場了！ 在不到 48 小時之內，版本也由 8.0.0787 昇級到 8.0.0792！我想這又創了一次記錄了。不知，Microsoft 是故意，還是有意！這改版使用原先推出的 mess.be 等推出的刪除廣告橫幅的工具，無法使用！

大家應該很清楚，我是最反對，廣告商平白無故地佔據我電腦螢幕有限的空間的！這下當然得想法子，把 Windows Live Messenger 上的廣告橫幅砍掉！

剛好有網友分享另一方法，就一併分享給大家。

首先請下載「Resource Hacker」，這軟體目前是 3.4.0.79 (2004-10-13的版本) 。 沒想到這工具，當年就已經製作的非常完善方便了，而且還是免費的哦！

【刪除主畫面廣告橫幅】

1. 先複製備份 c:\Program Files\MSN Messenger 目錄下的 msgsres.dll
2. 以 Resource Hacker 開啟 c:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msgsres.dll
3. 展開 4004 →923 →1033
4. 搜尋 Constrainer layoutpos=top 字串
5. 將 layoutpos=top 改為 layoutpos=none，如此就完成啦

【刪除對話視窗下的文字廣告列】

1. 以 Resource Hacker 開啟 msgsres.dll
2. 展開 4004 →920 →1033
3. 搜尋 element id=atom(adbannercont) layout=filllayout()
4. 將上頭這整組字串修改為 element layoutpos=none

建議操作前，請先將 msgsres.dll 複製一份，儲存在不同的地方，備份。如果修改後，出現問題時，我們還可以將原來的 msgsres.dll 複製回來還原貼上。

試試看，自己動作做，樂趣多，也較有成就感！分享給大家。

新音樂

把BLOG換一首新的音樂了，

這是MOZRT的經典名做費加洛的婚禮中間一小段，

主要描述女主人要寫一封信給她的老公，而女僕代為執筆。

而這段歌劇就是描述，女主人述說她想寫的內容，而女僕和他的對話。

我不知道有沒有記錯，一首曾經在「刺激1995」中出現過。

因為我自己不喜歡以「人聲」當背景音樂，先給大家欣賞幾天吧，我在換掉。

Cano, Wang help Yankees end slide

以下的內容，當作留下一個紀念吧。

原文章來自MLB，原始文章

Cano, Wang help Yankees end slide

Starter goes 7 1/3 innings to win duel with Tribe's Byrd

By Mark Feinsand / MLB.com

NEW YORK -- Chien-Ming Wang and Robinson Cano helped the Yankees break out of their funk last season, energizing the ballclub with superb rookie seasons.

The pair was back at it on Tuesday.

Wang pitched 7 1/3 shutout innings, while Cano provided the only run of the game with a sixth-inning home run, as the Yankees defeated the Indians, 1-0, to snap their four-game losing streak.

The win, combined with Boston's late walk-off loss to the Twins, put the Yankees back into a tie with the Red Sox for first place in the American League East.

"We've made our mark here," said manager Joe Torre. "For an organization that really didn't rely on the farm system, these two kids have really made a difference from last year to this year."

Entering Tuesday's game, New York and Cleveland had each scored 359 runs, tops in the Majors. But Wang and Paul Byrd made the two lineups look like a bunch of slap hitters, holding the teams to a combined 11 hits, eight of which were singles.

"Pitching can control the hitting when you have two pitchers who do what they did tonight," Torre said.

Staring at the four-game losing streak, the Yankees sent Wang to the mound in search of a solid performance. Wang, who never seems fazed regardless of the circumstances, said he felt no additional pressure when he took the ball Tuesday.

"I don't think about that," Wang said. "I try to stay the same; just pitch."

"He just goes out there and just goes about his business," Jorge Posada said. I don't think he gets caught up in what's going on."

The Yankees had chances in each of the first three innings, leaving six men on base, including three in scoring position. Alex Rodriguez (0-for-4, three strikeouts) and Cano each had two chances in those innings, but Byrd retired them both times.

A-Rod was booed each time he came to the plate, as well as each time he recorded an out. Rodriguez, who won Player of the Month honors in May, is mired in a 4-for-32 (.125) slump in June with no extra-base hits and just one RBI.

"He's booing himself, too," Torre said. "He's fighting it right now, and I don't have an answer for him other than to pat him on the rear end. He's going to have to fight his way out of it; there's no place else to go. I trust it will happen; whether it's tomorrow or the next day, I don't know that."

"That's what happens to everyone, man," Derek Jeter said. "That's all you can say. We won the game. That's all we were trying to do."

Wang didn't give the Indians nearly as many opportunities, allowing three singles through the first five innings. Wang recorded eight ground-ball outs and three popups in that span, striking out three. Only Travis Hafner hit a fly ball to the outfield in the first five frames.

"[Wang's] a lot of fun, because you can call any pitch and you know where it's going to be," said Posada. "When he's like that and he's got his arm angle up, it's a lot of fun to see."

"He has a great sinker, a heavy ball," said Aaron Boone, who had two of Cleveland's five hits. "That was about the best sinker we've seen this year. He was tough, no doubt about it."

Cleveland had its first real scoring chance in the sixth, as Grady Sizemore led off with a double off the wall in center field. Casey Blake flew out to Kevin Thompson in right field, as Thompson made a great catch. The Yankees intentionally walked Hafner, then Wang got Victor Martinez to ground into a 4-6-3 double play, ending the inning.

"Posada told me not to throw it in the middle," Wang said. "[He wanted me to] stay outside."

"Every time we get a guy on base, we're looking for that double play," Cano said. "We have to be ready, because we get a lot of ground balls."

Cano rewarded Wang in the bottom of the inning, blasting a one-out solo home run to right field, snapping the scoreless tie. It was Cano's fourth homer of the season.

"When you have a guy like Wang pitching that kind of game, you want to come out and get him some runs," Cano said. "I was looking for a strike and he made a mistake."

"I tried to locate it down and away and make a good pitch and not overthrow it," Byrd said. "But I hung it. He did what he should have with that hanging curveball."

Wang pitched into the eighth, getting one out before Torre lifted him for Mike Myers, who retired Sizemore. Kyle Farnsworth got the final out of the inning, handing the one-run lead over to Mariano Rivera, who retired three straight Indians after Andy Phillips' error to start the ninth put the tying run on base.

"Huge," Rivera said. "We needed this one. Big."

"Momentum shifts so often during the season," Torre said. "A loss during the season isn't like it is in the postseason, but I still hate going home after losing. I hate waking up in the morning after losing. You're looking forward now instead of at what you did a few days ago."