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.
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):
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.
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.
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.
Fenqing is a Chinese word which literally means “angry youth”. This word has many translations in English such as cynical youth, young nationalists, hysterical youth and angry young men. I personally like to call them mob youth or ignorant angry youth. It is impossible to understand China without knowing what Fenqing is and what role they play in the society in today’s China. I will try to paint a portrait of a Fenqing in this post.
Fenqing is someone who is usually below twenty years of age, though sometimes people who are at their twenties or older can also be identified as Fenqing. Though you can find the majority of Fenqing among high school and college students, age is not the most important feature. What really matters is their outlook of China and the world.
In the early morning of June 7th, a bull escaped the slaughterhouse by jumping over a 1.8 meter high wall, after witnessing several other bulls were butchered. It ran almost 30 kilometers before it was corned in the street. The owner managed to cut the tendons on both of its hind legs, and shipped it way in a truck.
