Recently, I bought an interesting gadget, a Boogie Board (I bought from This Taobao Merchant). The board is designed to be the paper and pen replacement, temporarily. Quote from it’s official web site,
“The next time you reach for a piece of paper and a pen – Don’t! Grab a Boogie Board instead, the tree-friendly alternative [...]
January 21, 2010 – 11:51 am
This site has moved to a new web hosting service, WebHostingPad, which locates in the United States, offers faster, cheaper, and more reliable service.
December 21, 2009 – 12:51 pm
My Viliv X70 EX comes with Windows XP, and I would like to install Windows 7 on it because XP doesn’t have good support for touch screen devices. Good news is that the Windows 7 drivers for Viliv X70 have been officially out, however, it’s sort of tricky to install the touch screen driver because [...]
February 8, 2009 – 9:58 pm
My previous hosting service provider no longer offers VM for me, so I have moved my site back to a hosting service in China. Since packets are filtered in China, the site might not be accessable for some areas (I have no idea which areas are affected though), such areas might have problem using iLiberty+ [...]
January 8, 2009 – 3:01 pm
Recently I’m developing a server module with Python, the module will initiate thousands of connections to a Jabber server, and there’re many clients connect/disconnect to/from this module, so I’ve created a pool to hold all the connections.
To maintain such a pool, the module has to frequently construct object (when user connects) and deconstruct object (when [...]
December 12, 2008 – 9:12 am
Today I received a mail which offered an ‘opportuniy’ to make huge bucks from iPhone 3G unlock, the deal looked like this:
hi, hello, i got my version 2.0 3G 16GB black phone bought in gray market shop in malaysia fully unlock using iliberty plus. everyone was saying that 3G cannot be unlock, but i have [...]
November 17, 2008 – 1:20 pm
NOTICE: This post is written in Chinese.
谷歌和百度
一直以来用Google的次数多，用Baidu的次数少，主要是搜索的资料经常是国外的，偶尔需要中文资料时才用用Baidu。另外，Baidu的竞价排名就是个垃圾，搜索出来的结果很多都是与搜索者本意没关联的。举个例子：今天看到个新闻，说是不要轻信网上搜索到的支付宝电话，我很好奇的分别在Google和Baidu试验了一下，得到了大相径庭的结果。
先看下面的Google搜索结果：
从Google的搜索结果里面可以看出，内容与搜索者本意非常贴切，直接反映了Google搜索的客观性和准确性。
November 12, 2008 – 2:18 pm
The QNAP NAS (in my case TS-209 II) uses an embedded Linux, during the system startup, a clean runtime environment is restored, then customized configurations are copied over to the default files, this makes a more stable system. After boot, the /etc folder is on a ramdisk (/dev/ram0), thus you can’t modify it as you [...]
November 11, 2008 – 5:08 pm
This post introduces an ideal and safe method to change a TS-209 II into a TS-209 Pro II, the basic idea is to fake the hardware type during system startup, thus make a perfect hack.
There’s a utility /sbin/config_util which is used for many purposes, including get/set hardware signatures, we’ll use it to change the box [...]
November 9, 2008 – 4:00 pm
AD support is a feature available to QNAP TS-209 Pro II only. However, TS-209 II and TS-209 Pro II have exactly the same hardware specifications, the difference is in software. The two differences between a 209 II and a 209 Pro II are: support for NFS and AD (Active Directory).
I don’t know why QNAP sells [...]
