晴朗星空下的網絡|The Network under the Bright-Bright Sky

2005年十月，因為壞火牛，在人生路不熟的Rice University, Houston，跟IBM Repair Center周旋和失去Thinkpad T40 6個星期，平日屈居Computer Lab，數以十小時嘅英語電話會話訓練，仲打爆咗個電話Plan。

October 2005, because the AC adapter went bad, I lost my laptop for 6 weeks was forced to deal with the IBM repair center with an unfamiliar language, in an unfamiliar place – Rice University, Houston. I became an usual visitor to the Computer Lab, I got the chance to practice my English telephone conversation for ten plus hours, and I managed to use up all the cellphone calling plan minutes.

當時正值那台Thinkpad T40 2年機多少少。

I was some time after the 2 years birthday of my Thinkpad T40.

今日2009年十二月，到我部Thinkpad T61p死咗啦…

Now December 2009, it happened on my Thinkpad T61p…
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MacBook跟Thinkpad都有個獨特的共通點，就是都配有Accelerometer。

以下是有關Thinkpad Active Protection System的資料:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Active_Protection_System
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-knockage.html

亦有人在MacBook上利用這個東西來做了一個切換Virtual Desktop的Software – SmackBook:
http://blog.medallia.com/2006/05/smacbook_pro.html

我在想能否可以在Windows上加以利用一下，甚至乎在Thinkpad上把Smackbook reproduce出來，所以先寫了一個Software研究一下可行性:

結論是：根本就是不成嘛，Resolution實在太低，完全不能有效分辨是向左拍還是向右拍~

有興趣的可以在此Download:
http://hellosam.net/project/ThinkKnock.exe (.NET 2.0 + Thinkpad T41 + APS installed)
http://hellosam.net/project/ThinkKnock.zip (C# Source)