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What is Google’s plan to Microsoft’s acquisition on Yahoo!

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on February 4, 2008 in Google Microsoft and IT News. 1 Comment

Microsoft and Yahoo!Thing will turn into more interesting in IT area if it has anything do with money.

Good: We still see innovations and competitions going on the Internet.
Bad: No matter from which side you see, we will still see one or two big guys in this search engine game.
Ugly: More finger pointing will come up and Monopoly accuses another Monopoly for the Monopoly.

Now it is Monday, and it is enough with a weekend of news about Microsoft will buy out Yahoo! for 44.6 billion dollars. Let us see what is the plan from Google. Because the whole world knows that the acquisitions is nothing but all about Microsoft trying to beat Google.

According to the blogs from ZDNet, now Google launches its “let’s annoy Microsoft” plan with two strategies: the first to help Yahoo to make Microsoft’s buyout more miserable. and the second one is to work on the regulators.

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Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per Share

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on February 1, 2008 in Google Microsoft and IT News. 1 Comment

Microsoft and Yahoo!In a recent statement issued today from Microsoft, Microsoft proposes to buy Yahoo! for nearly 44.6 billion dollars. It is like $31 a share, which is at a 62 percent premium to Yahoo’s closing price of $19.18 yesterday (1/31/2008). And the investors of Yahoo! can elect to accept cash or exchange with Microsoft’s share in the a total half of half ratio. Why should Microsoft do that? Well, it is obvious that this move is to give the software giant more market share and become a significant threat to Google.

The following is what Microsoft says about this acquisition:

Transaction valued at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock; provides 62 percent premium to current trading price for Yahoo! shareholders; combined entity to create a more competitive company, providing superior value to shareholders, better choice and innovation for customers and partners

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10 common Web design mistakes to watch out for

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on November 7, 2007 in Web Design. 2 Comments

This article is from TechRepublic and the information is based on the article "10 ways to improve the design of your commercial Web site," by Chad Perrin.

tenthings_110x85 When you start designing a Web site, your options are wide open. Yet all that potential can lead to problems that may cause your Web site to fall short of your goals. The following list of design mistakes addresses the needs of commercial Web sites, but it can easily be applied to personal and hobby sites and to professional nonprofit sites as well.

1, Failing to provide information that describes your Web site

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How to install wp-catch plugin in WordPress MU mu-plugins folder

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on November 6, 2007 in PHP. 1 Comment

I downloaded the wp-catch plugin from WordPress Extend page and need to install on my WordPress MU blog sites. I can put it in the wp-content/plugins folder but I just did not want to active it in all of my blog sites.

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Download Simplified Chinese Language Pack for WordPress MU 1.3

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on November 3, 2007 in PHP. 3 Comments

WordPress MuHere you can only download Chinese Language Pack for the multiple-user version of WordPress 1.3, if you would like to get the latest language pack for single user of WordPress MU, please Click here

Chinese Localization files for WordPress MU 1.3

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zh_CN.mo
zh_CN.po

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WordPress MU 1.3 finally here

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on November 2, 2007 in Web Design. 0 Comments

WordPress MuFrom one blog of my blogroll links, I was happy to hear that there was a newer version of WordPress MU available now. Finally MU has been upgraded nearly a month after the WordPress was upgraded to 2.3 then 2.3.1.

I downloaded the zip file from the official website of WordPress MU and compared it with WordPress MU 1.25a within WinMerge. And I found that there were a lot of files changed, including the include/kses.php. Since I did something changes on kses.php, I had to merge my changes to the newer file then go ahead to upload the new version to my blog sites.

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Website Recommened: How to watch Speed Traps

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on October 25, 2007 in Internet Adventure. 1 Comment

Speed Traps WarningDid you get too many speedy tickets? Well, of course you should driver more carefully as it should be. But if you want to get less tickets when you can maintain the most driving safety, you might check this website for the Speed Traps list.

I got this from one of my co-workers in email, who validated that it was not joke since one of the places got him a ticket already. So I decide to share here with you guys. Hope you can drive safe and caught by Speedy less. Have fun.

The URL of this website is http://www.speedtrap.org/speedtraps/stetlist.asp

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How to enable or use Javascript and Flash embed in WordPress MU

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on October 6, 2007 in PHP. 1 Comment

WordPress Mu
Whenever I enter Javascript tags like <script>...</script> in the WordPress MU posts, they will disappear. The same thing is with the <object>..</object> and other HTML tags. I understand they got stripped by some filter codes due to the consideration of web security. But I need such tags badly since I have a lot of YouTube videos need to be embedded which come with <object> tags, and some Javascript tags too (like the countdown image from Ubuntu in my previous post).

What are the solutions? I could not find any official solutions from the support forum of WordPress MU website. Someone recommends to put the Javascript text in sidebar, or download some plugins to do so. Since I need to show videos in my posts, the widget sidebar one can not be good to me. I decide to change filter code file which was not my best choice though. Continue reading ‘How to enable or use Javascript and Flash embed in WordPress MU’

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How to copy directory in Linux with cp command

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on September 26, 2007 in Operation System. 1 Comment

LinuxIt is very easy for me to forget this command option, and it always take me some time to get it right when I try to copy a directory from one of my website to another website.

And I found out it is always easier when I come into the destination directory and run the cp command.

So to be summarized, I put this command with option here to make me to REMEMBER: how to easily copy a directory from on folder to another folder in Apache/Linux server.

cp -R ~/source-directory-name .

Here ~/source-directory-name is whatever you want to copy from, and please do not forget the period . at the end which is your current directory (A.K.A, your copy-to destination directory).

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Share the experience of setting up WordPress MU

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on September 14, 2007 in PHP. 1 Comment

WordPressAs my previous post indicated, I installed WordPress MU 1.2.5 to replace my 3 individual weblogs powered by WordPress 2.2.1. Although the wordpress-mu is based all core features from wordpress, I still had some technical difficulties to get all things right as I wanted from the beginning. Finally I figured some issues out and am sharing here to hope they will be helpful for you too.

Upper Cases user name caused problems for WP-MU 1.2.5.

After the default blog installed, I registered another user name like “WebGuru” since I used it for all my old blogs. But when I tried to log into the blog with this username above and the password I received after the activation, I got an Incorrect User Name or Password error message. Continue reading ‘Share the experience of setting up WordPress MU’

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The customer service of new AT&T for Bellsouth customer

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on July 12, 2007 in Overseas life. 0 Comments

new_att_logo.jpgAfter AT&T took over Bellsouth at the beginning of this year, we can see a lot changes now. Not only the company name, sign we can see the change, so do the customer service representative we have to deal with. Today, I decided to call Bellsouth or AT&T to complain my DSL modem charge and it took me longer than I thought.

Right after the merge, I could not wait for AT&T’s $10 per month deal then I ordered at-that-time Bellsouth DSL service for $32 per month. When I was ordering, I was told I could get the DSL modem for free after mail-in-rebate if I signed up the service from the web. But after nearly half year, I did not see any rebate form showed up in my mail box but $7.5 charge for the modem showed up for my every month’s bill statement. I called the “BellSouth” a couple times, and each time the rebate specialist told me he/she would put my rewarding in the system since I was eligible for this rebate, and it would take 6-8 weeks to process. But after a few month’s waiting, what I received were two postcards saying that they could not give me the rebate because I did not purchase the Bellsouth FastAccess service. What?

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msi installer file has a security permission limitation on Windows 2003 server

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on July 10, 2007 in Windows Tips. 1 Comment

win2k3_server.jpgToday I tried to implement an AJAX enabled ASP.net web application on the Windows 2003 server. Of course, I have to install the AJAX 1.0 extension framework on the server first. So I got in the server, and copied the AJAX framework installer file (aspajaxextsetup.msi) from the network driver. But when I double clicked the .msi file, I got the following error message.

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How to download YouTube videos to your local machine

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on July 9, 2007 in Internet Adventure. 1 Comment

I like YouTube since I can share my videos with my family and friend from everywhere the world on it. And I also can watch a lot of interested videos uploaded from everywhere the world. But sometimes I just want to watch some video offline. So how can I download video from YouTube?

Well, there are a simple way and a complicated way as well.

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How to input Chinese without installing any IME software on your computer

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on July 7, 2007 in Internet Adventure. 1 Comment

chinesemainlogo.gifAnyone using English or Non-Chinese version OS has to install something on PCs to input Chinese language. Before we had Windows 2000 OS, we had to install some software like NJStar. Now with Windows 2000, XP, we can install IME from Regional and Language Options in Windows’s configuration. But it will not easy for anyone to install IME on the public computers. How can we input Chinese anywhere without installing IME software?

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