To be exact, I guess it is a design flaw of the File Manager under C-Panel. Blame me if I didn’t’ find the option to fine tune it, but its default setting under Hostmonster can make you accidentally delete all your files. I can’t play back exactly what happened. But it occurred a few times when I tried to move or copy files, and somehow it quickly displayed a delete confirmation window defaulting to the delete button. It also happens when I tried to change the destination of the copy/move operation. I will look into the matter when I use File Manager, but at least this web interface File Manager should at least default to the Cancel button in Delete operations.
I decided to visit my hometown – Zhangye in Gansu Province during this summer vacation. Having not visited the city for five years, I am eager to meet my relatives, see the city and most of all, eat to my heart’s content the local foods. I miss the Beef Noodles, Sauce Noodles, Rangpizi and many snacks with local flavors.
Traveling by air is always expensive, even with discounts. As a poor person like me, I have plenty of time, and a three-day trip on the train doesn’t sound too bad.
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According to Xiamen Seismological Bureau, a Richter magnitude 4.4 Earthquake shook Xiamen at 9:36, July 5, 2008. The epicenter (24°5′N-117°9′E) was between Xiamen and Longhai. Most of Xiamen area felt the temblor.
Did you feel it? I am wondering if Xiamen is vulnerable to a tsunami when a major earthquake strikes.
I stumbled upon a cool Wordpress plugin called WP Cumulus. It animates the Tag Cloud widget using Flash, and renders tags into a rotating sphere. I am a little tired after an overhaul of my blog a few days ago, so I’ll bookmark this plugin in this post and implement later. It appears to support Wordpress 2.5.
Download: Flash based tag cloud frontend
Update: I finally implemented this Flash Plugin on my site. It can’t show Tags in Chinese, and I hope it has an option to display Tags in a cube. Other than these minor complaints, it is easy to install and configure, and certainly make your site look cool.
See it in live action here:
“Who cares, I am just buying some soy sauce” said a pedestrian, when he was asked of his opinion about the leaked porn photos of Hong Kong celebrities. Perhaps because of the public attention on the widespread porn photos, the man’s response sounded very funny for netizens. Now the saying “I’m just buying some soy sauce” is attached with new meaning, suggesting a cynical attitude toward the major events happened in China. It also carries a sense of the silent protest on the part of observers – by claiming to distant oneself from the event while silently paying attention to it.
The official description at the press conference about a young girl, whose suspicious death triggered a riot last week in Wengan County, created another popular phrase among Chinese netizens — doing push-ups. You can read my post Rape or Push-up exercises to see what happened. The focused public attention on this event again contributed to the instant popularity of the phrase “doing push-ups”, suggesting some netizens’ disbelief about the official explanation that the young student drowned herself, instead of being raped and murdered.
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I am very surprised to read about the large-scale riot happened in Wengan County, Guizhou Province on June 28th. Not believing an incident like this happened again in this already troubled year of 2008, I did some googling about the news. As expected, I received the “Connection Interrupted” error prompt in my browser, reminding me of the powerful presence of the Great Fire Wall. So I fired up a VPN connection and continued my search.
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Many netizens believe the blockage of Sourceforge.net is due to the political opinion expressed by one of its projects – Notepad++ which is hosted on Sourceforge. The whole site of Sourceforge became inaccessible in the Mainland China as a result of this censorship.
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As of June 25, 2008, sourceforge.net is no longer accessible in the mainland China. I noticed this when I tried to file a bug report to my favorite task management application Task Coach. Then I realized that the headquarters of Open Source Software is blocked again.
It took me a while to figure out why this pure technical, IT related site is blocked by the Great Fire Wall (GFW):
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Tagged AnchorFree, Block, Blockage, Censorship, Freenet, GFW, Great Fire Wall, Ibypass, Sourceforge, Task Coach, VPN
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Simply run the installation with the following parameters:
/REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch
As you can see, the SafeSurf and SafeSearch features are removed using this parameters, and the Linkscanner will not be installed.
Update: The newer version of AVG 8.0 free has an option to not install link scanner if you choose ‘Custom’ when installing the program.
Foreword
My experience with then IBM owned Thinkpad T43P was horrible. It was perhaps the noisiest laptop in the world: its fan sounded like a tractor, and to make things worse, the hard drive also span with grating noises. I ended up returning the $1500 T43P, and hated Thinkpad for a long time.
Why compare DV2000T with a Thinkpad T61?
Abhorred by the noisy Thinkpad, I opted for a HP DV2000T and liked it. But I have to admit that I still secretly want a Thinkpad despite my suffering with T43P. Honestly, I miss its sturdy feel though I hate its raucousness. My sister needs on laptop for her accounting business, so I persuaded her to get a Thinkpad T61 and did a fresh reinstallation of Windows XP on it.
Now I have the chance to compare these two lappies side by side, even though T61 is a generation younger than DV2000T.
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