“縋趕着謿蓅，拒絕着落伍，使甪着①種據說莱洎“吙煋”の語誩，這僦媞噺噺亽類。岢媞烬菅媞噺噺亽類，崾想筷速の輸兦與識莂吙煋呅岢卟媞①件傛易の亊情，怎庅办？那僦鲛給吙煋呅輸兦法莱办！咜岢媞噺噺亽類ＱＱ窷迗の苾俻エ具！”
Chinese readers, do you understand the above sentence? It is Chinese written in 火星文 (literally means Mars Language), and in formal Chinese it should be written as: Continue Reading…
Tonight when I visited facebook, I found it loaded surprisingly slow. Not sure whether it’s my own issue, or I’m getting a bad ISP, I searched “facebook loading” on twitter, and found that it is an universal problem.
Twitter is really up to what it claims, it helps me to discover what’s happening right now. I’m not keen to tweet, but twitter does help me when I need to check out “breaking news” that will never get covered by the major media channels.
Well done Twitter! And Facebook, you need to start creating a failing-whale equivalent.
While there is no way to change calendar days into red text during public holiday, there is a workaround by adding these publics as calendar event.
Go to http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/calendars/index_abc4.html and search for “Hong Kong Holiday Calendar (Traditional) 1.0“. Click on the download link, then your iPhone will ask if you want to subscribe, say yes then you’ll see the holidays being added to your iPhone calendar as shown.
My eyes are caught when I read this news: “国内最大黑客培训网站两名负责人被捕“.
It is reported that the hacker training company “Black Eagle Security” (translated from its Chinese name “黑鹰安全网”) was shut down and that the company owner and general manager were arrested.
According to PRC law enacted February 2009, “提供专门用于侵入、非法控制计算机信息系统的程序、工具，或者明知他人实施侵入、非法控制计算机信息系统的违法犯罪行为而为其提供程序、工具，情节严重的，依照前款的规定处罚。” (Google-translate it yourself if you can’t read Chinese), it is illegal to provide hacking tools and training in China.
This is part 2 of the series of setting up UCenter Home 2.0 on a dedicated Linux machine. Check out UCenter Home 2.0 Installation (Part 1) if you haven’t.
First, download the installation package at http://download.comsenz.com/UCenter_Home/2.0/UCenter_Home_2.0_TC_UTF8.zip. Again I choose the Traditional Chinese edition with UTF-8 encoding. Under the root’s shell, issue the following commands to download and unpack the installation package.
mkdir ~/setup-ucenter-home cd ~/setup-ucenter-home wget http://download.comsenz.com/UCenter_Home/2.0/\ UCenter_Home_2.0_TC_UTF8.zip unzip UCenter_Home_2.0_TC_UTF8.zip
My previous experience with Discuz! and UCenter Home gave me an impression that their installation documentation is sometimes not so accurate, so I decided to write up my own here. Basically, I follow:
Here’s what I want to achieve: setup UCenter Home 2.0 on a dedicated linux server. And since installing UCenter Home is a 2 step process of installing UCenter first and then UCenter Home, I break it into 2 posts. This post covers installing UCenter. In next post I’ll talk about UCenter Home.
In the installation document of Comsenz’ UCenter (http://faq.comsenz.com/userguide/uchome/uc_install.html), it is said:
“在这里要说明一下：我们提供了 4 种不同的编码。包括 GBK 简体中文版(推荐)、UTF-8 简体中文版、BIG5 繁体中文版(推荐)、UTF-8 繁体中文版，请自己的需求选择相应版本的论坛程序下载。”
It means the author recommends installing the package using GBK/BIG5 encoding instead of the UTF8 one. It confuses me as I thought the UTF8 version is be more appropriate for general use. I have friends writing in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese, so UTF8 is a requirement for me. To confirm whether UTF8 version is worse than its GBK/BIG5 peers, I download all packages and diff them. The result is comforting, as the only output is of the following type: Continue Reading…
More than 15 years ago, I started my BBS “Stepo Paradise”. Back then, it was still the dial-up modem world, and I got very excited to be able to connect to real people, albeit one at a time. Eventually, the internet emerged and BBS quickly ran out of favor.
Then a few years ago, soon after I learned a great new stuff called Blog, I started writing my first one. However, it is not easy to maintain an active blog, as some of you ex-bloggers must have experienced. I was not an exception and I gave it up very soon. I had actually made a second effort writing another blog, but again that was a failure.
After spending a few years in corporate, I found that I am gradually deteriorating into a bull-shit engineering manager, i.e. one who thinks he is technical savvy but in fact he isn’t. It makes me feel bad as I am not using my full capability, and I am determined to get back to the front-line, to stay in-touch with the fast-evolving real world. To show my determination, I want my venture to be documented, and there is no better tool than blog. So here comes my third attempt…
I am determined, but only history will tell…
P.S. a YO!Net nodelist is available here. It’s the only thing I can find on the net to prove the previous existence of Stepo Paradise.