It is very interesting that there are a lot of talks about Google leaving China on the Internet now (A New Approach to China). More interesting since I just came back from China and expressed my totally dis-satisfied about the Chinese Great FireWall and Internet censorship. But I really do not think Google decided to withdraw because of my complaint LOL, not the recent cyber-attacks either. My thinking is that Google’s behavior is purely political and business oriented strategy.
As a big entity appears in Internet Cyber world, it is a very usual thing to have cyber attacks. I can say the so-called sophisticated cyber attacks to Goolge’s infrastructure (GMail, etc.) is not the first one, and not be the last one either. Then why Google screams now? why now?! It was just “enough is enough” as it indicated, or something else?
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Dear friends, wish you have a great year of 2010. Sorry I have not updated the blog for a while since I just traveled back to China at the end of 2009.
Thanks to the damn Chinese Great Firewall, I still can connect to my own blogs even I could not connect to Twitter.com, Facebook.com and other my important favorites.
I do not really feel sorry for my hometown fellowers as I did before. Even I felt pity for them to lose almost half popular web sites in the world. But you know, Chinese people is still happy in their “own” internet world. Look around the cyber cafes I ever walked in, every body especially the teenagers is HAPPY with all kind of PC Games, or online chat rooms. In China, who cares Twitter.com, Facebook.com anyway, LOL.
Furthermore, without the authenticate web 2.0 services web sites, our Chinese friends can easily have some similar copy-cat web sites running inside the Great FireWall. After all, ShanZhai (means imiation) is the most popular term in the Chinese Internet right now.
So, wish all the netizens around the world a happy new Year.
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This morning, I got a meeting pop-up prompt reminding me I have a meeting with Google’s representative. I was excited since I thought we were going to talk about Free Wi-Fi cooperation (confused with the other topic with Google before). But when I sat down and had the introduction, I realized he was a local account manager from Google and he was going to talk about Google Enterprise application with us.
Which was still cool, since we had such similar interesting discussions internally a few weeks ago anyway. Then he started to introduce 3 types of Google productions which can be sold to enterprises: Google Enterprise Search Appliance; Google Map & Earth; Google Apps.
But unfortunately we did not get much interesting on all of these offers above.
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Google Real Time search is available in most English language searches. Here is how and what you can get from this new feature.
Go to Google main site, and type any keywords you would like to search. And then on the search result page, look for the Show Options on the top of your results. When you click the Expand plus sign +, you will have an extra side bar on the left of the result page.
Now, you can click the Latest option from the list, and then you will see the Google Real Time Search in play.
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As I said in my previous post, Google has introduced its own Free Public DNS services to the general public. If you used OpenDNS.org service before (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220), you should be familiar with what Google is going to offer.
Anyway, I still suggest you change your DNS servers from your ISP’s default ones to Google, or OpenDNS in your router instead of single computers at your home.
Here is a simple how-to for you to utilize Google’s public DNS servers in your router (I am using my ISP AT&T’s Netopia Gateway as the illustrators).
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According to Ubuntu official release note, Ubuntu 9.10 has changed the input method from SCIM to iBUS.
New input method framework
Ubuntu has switched to IBus as preferred input method framework. Unlike the previously used SCIM, IBus is under active development and fixes a number of SCIM’s design limitations.
The language selector tool now gives the user the possibility to select the preferred input method framework.
That was why I got the error message “no configuration file “scim-bridge” exists.” below when I tried to switch on SCIM package based on the old instruction.
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I have never tried installing Ubuntu on the Microsoft Virtual PC before, I did successfully on VM ware though. If you don’t know what Ubuntu is, please Google it, basically it is a Linux operating system with pretty desktop features. In the Thanksgiving holiday, I used my DELL Dimension 4600i (Windows XP sp3) to explore this option which turned out a good experiment, even Microsoft officially says its Virtual PC does not support Ubuntu.
The following is what I used to install Ubuntu.
Virtual PC 2007, (get it here).
Ubuntu iso image, (get it here).
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Today I was asked to come up a solution to a simple request: a co-worker needs to show a form screen to the customer on a secondary monitor after she completed the entries on her primary monitor; after the customer verifies the form fields, my co-worker should be able to move that screen back to the primary monitor.
It sounds easier, but the problem is that the secondary monitor and the primary monitor are sitting back to back. It is impossible for the co-worker to position her cursor on the secondary monitor to drag any windows back without seeing them.
Cloning the two monitors could work, but the co-worker does not want the customer to see every steps during her work afterwards.
Continue reading ‘Use muliti Monitor app to resolve back-to-back monitors business challenges (Multimon Taskbar vs. UltraMon)’
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Just gave up my favorite Blackberry Curve 8330 and upgraded to the new Tour 9630. With excitement of having a new gadget, I had to go through some tweaks, customizations to make sure my same device use experience as the old “toy”. Here write down some useful tips and links for the future reference.
First of first, I need to backup the data from the Curve 8330. Even I have BES (Blackberry Enterprise Services) on it, I still used cable and Blackberry Desktop Manager (version 5.0.1 see the link below for the downloading) to backup all to my desktop in case the BES did not sync everything last time.
Then I need to wipe clean everything from the old one since I do not want some one else to read my funny, private or business related emails. For how-to wipe data from Curve 8330, please refer my previous post.
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Just helped a friend to upgrade her secondary DVD burner. And the installation was the easier part but made it recognize all medias was a harder one.
Since there was another Pioneer DVD burner in the machine already with Master jumper on the secondary IDE channel, I installed the new SONY one with Slaver jumper. After that, it can play any DVD disk (DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW), but could not detect any blank DVD+/-R disks. Whenever any such disks were put within it, and you click the disk driver a “error access” message was prompt. Well, stranger enough the DVD+RW disk was OK though.
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November 19, 2009 in
PHP.
Recently I tried to boost up the performance for one of my Joomla powered web site. So I enabled the System Cache plug-in through Plug-in Manager which is a separate tool from the regular Cache setting in Global Configuration. What does this cache plug-in do? In one simple sentence, this plug-in creates page-level cache files which can serve to the afterwards visitors to reduce the burden of calling database each time.
At the first few days, everything was working fine with some kind of performance gains on this Joomla site. Even at some times it caused mirror inconveniences when I was updating the contents or modules. I had to delete the cached pages to see my new changes. But I was still happy.
Till last week, some of my other web sites started to act weird. I could not upload new pictures, some of web sites threw the 500 Server error (see the below of an example):
“Error 500 – Internal server error
An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later.
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This week I have been in a training (Microsoft SQL Server 2008) the whole week. And I tweeted about this activity within I mentioned the name of my training provider – New Horizons Computer Learning Center.
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