Two upgrades
I did two upgrades on my toys. One is ASUS O!Play 1.29N. Upgrade is just download new firmware, decompress it and put it into USB disk. Plug it in the OPlay and navigate to the setup, firmware, upgrade. One minute,...
Author: David Yin
PostTwiOAuth upgrade to v0.30
It is so fast. macminiosx announce v0.30 of PostTwiOAuth plugin of MovableType is released. It is better than the old v0.21. More features, acutally I did not use them. Say Google Analytics, etc. Here if you installed v0.21 before, you...
PostTwiOAuth upgrade to v0.21
I have installed PostTwiOAuth v0.11 almost one month ago. Now, I saw the v0.21 released. So I upgrade my installation. It is a plugin use Twitter OAuth to send notification to your Twitter timeline. The first Auth, or Basic Auth...
O!Play 1.24N release
I upgrade my O!Play from 1.21N to 1.24N O!Play HDP-R1 firmware update (For NTSC TV system user) Improve HDMI compatibility with certain Toshiba TV set. ***Please ensure the television system or standard used in your country or location before updating...
the 800th Post
It is the 800th post of this blog. I start blogging here from October 19, 2004. Wow, it is over 5 and half years. The first post here is Build album template and rebuild all albums. Right now I use...
Twitter your new post automatically
I used MT-Twitter before. It is good. When I make a new post and click publish, a new twitter post will be made automatically to announce there is a new post with the link and title. After upgrade to MovableType...
Boot error from Ubuntu USB bootable disk
The error is shown as below. Can not mount /dev/loop1 on /cow The way to solve it is. The problem was solved by choosing “Discarded on shutdown…” option when creating the USB Startup Disk.
Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04
Ubuntu Netbook Edition is designed for Netbook. Such as what I have, Acer Aspire One with 8GB only. First of all. Download the UNE from the official site. The ISO file is about 700MB. It took me 40 minutes to...
Ubuntu 10.04
Ubuntu will release its 10.04 in a week. Some new features from beta1 shown below:
Auto Time Sync is not working with RPC error
I am working on one Windows XP which is belong to my parents in law. The clock runs faster. I would like to enable the automatically synchronize with an Internet time server. The problem is it is always give me...
Windows Updates does not work
I have a Widnwos XP pc has the update problem as below: When attempting to run Windows Update the following message appears: ‘Error number: 0x8DDD0018.’ This message states that the Automatic Updates, BITS, and Event Log services must be started,...
Turn off register_globals in 1&1 linux hosting
It is shared hosting account. Some php program ask for register_globals to be turned off. The default is on. How can I turn off it? I can not touch php.ini. So go for .htaccess. Just add one into it. AddType...
Got a Gigabit Switch
I bought a D-LINK DGS-1008D 8 Port 10/100/1000 Unmanaged Gigabit Switch at NCIX online. Pick up at Burnaby store. It saves power and performance well. * Green Ethernet Technology * 16Gbps Switching Capacity * Desktop or Wall-Mount Design * Non-blocking...
Use MaxCDN to make your blog faster
If you come my Blog often, you may fell the site is loaded faster than before. Yes. You are right. I implement CDN to improve my blog performance. A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system...
Centos Temporary failure in name resolution.
I installed Centos 5.4 on a PC server. I SSH to it and try to use yum to update the system. But, always give me the error as below