How to fix Mom's computer [Scribbling.net]

How to fix Mom's computer [Scribbling.net]

How many time that your family ask to you repair (mostly need to restore) the home PCs that you never use? I got thousands... Sometimes, I may miss the installation of some of the component for them to use the PCs. Also, sometimes I may forget some of the security issues. To avoid this, check the stepwise guidelines on "How to fix Mom's computer". Hope following the guidelines will make the PCs more maintainable.

Wired 13.01: The BitTorrent Effect

Wired 13.01: The BitTorrent Effect

What is BitTorrent (BT)? I probably do not need to answer too much for this question, since BT is so famous in the past two years. The original idea of the BT file sharing is so great that we can retrieve the files we need in a far much faster rate, eg. one-third of the normal client-server transmission.

However, illegal traffic has been dominated in the current situation. On top of it, people are limiting their upload rate, which create a bottleneck in the whole system. The original aim of BT has been distorted. At the same time, Hong Kong government is going to accuse people of illegal traffic with BT, with the aid of various ISP.

Will it be the end of BT? Or will there be any BT2? What do you think?

CleanSoftware.org - Free software, no nasties!

CleanSoftware.org - Free software, no nasties!

How many times that you want to find some free or open source tool for your work, but you come up with thousands of matches in Google or Yahoo? How to find your target tool in a more efficient way? This page categorize some free software into categories like Mulitmedia, Office, Utility and so on. Try it out when you urgently need a tool and have no time for testing all the tool.

I found that I only use 5-6 of the tools, even though I have also heard the others before. It seems I have to try more.

David Kirkpatrick - After the IBM Deal, Where Is the " PC" Business Headed? - FORTUNE

David Kirkpatrick - After the IBM Deal, Where Is the " PC" Business Headed? - FORTUNE

Lenovo bought IBM, while portable devices like Palm, pocket PCs, iPod are getting popular. On top of it, Intel claimed that their products will be ten times faster in the future 3 years, with some other specialised processors for various device. How will our "PC" business world look like? Well, we will probably get a 25GHz desktop pc at home and several GHz pocket pc in our pockets. Let's see.

MyCatHatesYou dot com

MyCatHatesYou dot com

Well, I failed to describe what this is. Anyway, I love this. ^^

TIME Person of the Year 2004: 10 Things We Learned About Blogs

TIME Person of the Year 2004: 10 Things We Learned About Blogs

Blog is not only writing, but learning. Try to learn something about Blogs.

Chris Justus - Server Side Guy: Google Suggest Dissected...

Chris Justus - Server Side Guy: Google Suggest Dissected...

Coupon of weeks ago, Google launch Google Suggest. And several days later, we got a dissection on it in Canada.

Find anything, anywhere fast with MSN Toolbar Suite Beta

Find anything, anywhere fast with MSN Toolbar Suite Beta

Microsoft is giving its revenge to Google, by means of MSN Toolbar Suite. It's very powerful toolbar, even though it's still in beta. If you want to look for a movie demo and introduction on the toolbar, go to Channel9 Forums and check it out.

Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger

Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger

A blog from a Microsoft Geek - Scobleizer. Worth reading, especially for peple like me, young developers. You will definitely learn new things and have a new sight.

The Best Webcomics of 2004

The Best Webcomics of 2004

Here is the list of the Best Eebcomics of 2004 chosen by the Webcomics Examiner Advisory Board. It's worth to take a look of those webcomics. Personally, I suggest Reman Mythology from Amy Kim Ganter. It's in a eastern asian comic style, which I'm adopted.

Lutz Roeder's Programming.NET C# VB CLR WinFX

Lutz Roeder's Programming.NET C# VB CLR WinFX

This will be a very interesting page for dotNet developers. It includes .NET Reflector, .NET Resourcer, and some other libraries and applications. I really enjoy the .NET Reflector and especially its disassembler. haha ^^

Hong Kong PKI Forum (HKPKIF)

HKPKIF

See the current situation of PKI in Hong Kong.

Testing Education -BBST Test Questions

Testing Education -BBST Test Questions

This page contain lots of information on black box software testing. It covers areas like Domain Testing, Risk-Based Testing, Scenario Testing and so on... Have fun = =+

Visual Basic Is Evil

Visual Basic Is Evil

Years ago, software development industry is dominated with Visual Basic (VB). It supports rapid application development (RAD) software life cycle. Someone think it's good, while some others said it's Evil. What do you think? Personally, I prefer languages like C# and Java, which are more object oriented. Anyway, I have been using these 2 languages in the past 2 years. ^^

SourceForge.net: Project Info - JChemPaint

SourceForge.net: Project Info - JChemPaint

This time, something about Chemistry. This tool could be useful for chemistry teaching in organic chemistry topics.

SourceForge.net: Project Info - GanttProject

SourceForge.net: Project Info - GanttProject

Once again, an open source tool about software egineering. This tool allow you to plan projects using Gantt chart.

SourceForge.net: Project Info - Design Pattern Automation Toolkit

SourceForge.net: Project Info - Design Pattern Automation Toolkit

If you are interested in design pattern, as well as automated software engineering, try this open source tool. It is still at a very beginning stage, but a good start with a good idea.

博客园-海鸥航迹-DataSet导出CSV格式(ASP.NET,C#)

博客园-海鸥航迹-DataSet导出CSV格式(ASP.NET,C#)

This is another blog post about exporting csv file in ASP.NET and C#. However, this is not a library, instead, a tutorial reference.

The Code Project - C# class library for exporting data to CSV/Excel file - ASP.NET

The Code Project - C# class library for exporting data to CSV/Excel file - ASP.NET

Here is a C# library for exporting data from a DataTabe to CSV or Excel file with the aid of XML. Helpful in my job ^^

What OS am I?

What file extension am I?

AUP Concierge

AUP Concierge

This may interest someone like paris or has already been living in paris.

2.5 Billion Pixel Photo

http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/Delft2.htm

TNO in Holland has taken a 2.5 billion pixel photo, new world record, on the city view in Holland. After this successful shot, they are targetting next 360 Holland city view.

My Router + Bit Torrent x Several Hours = ?

Memory Low -> Hardware Reset 

Baddie.net | Baddie's Little Corner

Baddie.net | Baddie's Little Corner

For those who are familiar with me, they would know that I am a fan of Ragnarok Online (RO). Here is a important calculator page for the skill Soul Breaker of Assasin Cross. Enjoy ^^

SharpDevelop

SharpDevelop @ic#code - The Open Source Development Environment for .NET

If you are a .Net developer and do not want to use either console .NET sdk and expensive MS Visual Studio, this will be of your interest. #develop is an open source development environment for .NET platform. Try it on!

Binary Finger

If you are a geek, u must be familiar with binary number, because it is "Core Computer Science Comon Sense". Think geek, act geek. Next time when you meet some guys that you really hate, don't give them your middle finger, instead, give them a "four".

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/6a20/

Reach my blog with Google's 1st match

Posted days ago, I fail to reach my blog in Google but Yahoo. But when I was testing it again today, oh, BINGO!! Eventually, I have my blog listed in Google with 1st match.

http://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=zh-TW&q=ken+choy+blog&meta=

Are you good hacker? Or a bad hacker?

Whether you are a good hacker or a bad hacker, try to think geek, and try to wear geek.


http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hats/6345/?cpg=8

Xinyan Zhang - CoolStreaming

Xinyan Zhang - CoolStreaming

This is a cool application on media streaming. It was poped up during Euro 2004, and I enjoyed it very much. You may think it is another version of peercast or bt version for media stream. Anyway, it allow you to send or receive media broadcast in a much more efficient way. It currently provide mostly soccer tv channel, so try it if you want to stay home with the soccer matches. If you are a producer, you may contact the Xinyan Zhang to help you on your media broadcasting. Enjoy it.

http://personal.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~xyzhang2/

Journalist saved by Google search

Even though Google still can't directly reach my blog, and Google Desktop Search infringe Windows user policy, Google can really help someone in danger somewhere in the middle-east. When will the war be complete ended? And when will my blog on the Google list? XD

http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39125122,00.htm

J2ME Isometric Engine

If you are interested in game development in mobile phone with J2ME, you have better read this post. There is a group of 3 developers publishing a library for J2ME isometric game production. It helps mangement maps, characters and so on. You may think this library isn't that useful, since MIDP2.0 also provides a game API. However, this isometric engine is for MIDP1.0, which is the majority of current mobile phone Java platform. If you wait your game running not only on a small portion of mobile phone, try the J2ME Isometric Engine. ^^

http://sourceforge.net/projects/isoj2me/

Google can't reach my blog, but Yahoo does

While I was checking the publicity of my blog, I searched my blog with google. It only came with a reference of blogshare.com result of my friend's blog. The reason of this match is my friend's blog has a reference to my blog...

Then, I tried Yahoo... Oh! My blog is the 1st match. Haha

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=ken+choy+blog&csz=&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&cop=mss&tab=&toggle=1

Google Desktop Search

Google has published their new product, Google Desktop Search, yesterday. It helps you to search file within your computer just like how we search information on the web with Google.

http://desktop.google.com/

Gmail: Help Center

Gmail has added some new feature including mail notifier, contact searching, mail forwarding and drafting.

Gmail: Help Center

Concurrent Remote Desktop in WinXP SP2

While I was searching for infomation on Remote Desktop, I found some useful tricks on Concurrent Remote Desktop in WinXP SP2. It allow you to connect to a machine via remote desktop while the machine is physically occupied by another user. The previous remote desktop version simply reject the connection or kick the current user out in this scenerio.

http://forum.osnn.net/showthread.php?t=39878&page=1&pp=20

My new job

Happy to tell you that I've finally got a job, 3 months after graduation. I'm now working in a newly established IT firm developing applications for mobile devices, i.e. palm, packet pc and cell phone. This job is really a big challenge for me, because I seldom develop windows application for mobile devices like pocket pc. Hope to learn more in the job, and then share more knowledge here.

"arTung VS Andy"??

Aliens VS Predators is showing in the cinema recently. Concurrently, in the blog world, "arTung VS Andy" is very hot to me, and my friends.

These few days, I and a friend, arTung, have been making fun with his blog. How fun? The funniest task is to discuss ways to copy the design, style and formatting to his blog from another one's blog, Dr. Andy Chun's blog. Andy was the very first one introducing blogging to me in his Software Quality and Management course, and at the same time, I wrote my first ever blog for that course. You may compare arTung's blog and Andy's blog, and let guess what we have done these few days. At the current moment, I may look forward and see if some geeks reach this blog post and notice our "effort".

A Blog from my friend

I wanna introduce a blog from one of my friends to you this time. The blog is from arTung, and is about "techincal funny computer it geek google blogger blog news PDA ebay notebook girls hardware software hong kong HK toy wireless mobile IBM microsoft linux mac apple unix windows science technology university internet camera". You may visit there to look for various interesting information.

http://artung.blogspot.com

1st Post

This Blog is my second weblog, where the 1st one was written for my Software Quality Management course. I hope this blog can help me to express myself to my family, old friends, and new friends, like you. Enjoy my Blog.