Save your time, the conclusion is: Do not use Sogou Pinyin IME.

https://shurufa.sogou.com/

Here is the problem I found last month.

The blue circle with the mouse arrow is always there.  When I boot the PC, it is normal. After a while, I opened a browser or ran some programs, and the circle came.

I tried to check every spot in my Windows installation. Such as system drivers, antivirus programs, open Firefox, or Chrome. But the same results.

I knew something is running behind the screen. It is the reason for the blue circle.

I did not think about Sougo pinyin. I used it for many years, since Google Pinyin is gone.

Until I saw some news on Google News.

Vulnerability in Tencent’s Sogou Chinese Keyboard Can Leak Text Input in Real-Time
Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type
So, I uninstalled the Sogou Pinyin IME. I re-enabled the Microsoft Pinyin.

The blue circle disappeared immediately. Now, it has been almost one month. I believe that the Sogou Pinyin did something behind me. I don’t like it. I know nobody likes this kind of thing. I have to post it and let everyone know it.

The post Problem of Sogou Pinyin IME appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

Composer is A Dependency Manager for PHP.

Just a few minutes ago, I did a self-update of the installation of Composer.

C:\Users\david>composer -V
Composer version 1.8.0 2018-12-03 10:31:16

C:\Users\david>composer self-update
Updating to version 1.10.8 (stable channel).
Downloading (100%)
Use composer self-update --rollback to return to version 1.8.0

C:\Users\david>composer -V
Composer version 1.10.8 2020-06-24 21:23:30

C:\Users\david>

The composer verser was 1.8.0. After the self-update, it is 1.10.8 now.

Download Link: https://getcomposer.org/download/

The post Update composer itself appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

This post is an online archive of the page (http://www.michaelbrumm.com/spfwindowsdns/)

How to Add an SPF Record in Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 DNS

Step 1: Select and open the domain in which you wish to add the SPF record. Right-click in the record list and select “Other New Records…” from the menu.

Step 2: Select the Text (TXT) record type and click the “Create Record…” button.

Step 3: Type the SPF record data in the “Text” textbox. Click the OK button.

Step 4: If you are done adding new records, click the “Done” button. Note the new SPF TXT record

The post How to Add an SPF Record in Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 DNS appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

Actually it is made by a Chinese online software company.

I has ten Key features.

1. Resize/Move partitions without data loss, like extending NTFS system partition without reboot to maximize PC performance.
2. Convert FAT to NTFS file system
3. Partition Recovery Wizard allows to recover deleted or lost partitions from unallocated space.
4. Convert MBR to GPT disk and convert GPT to MBR disk without data loss.
5. Support up to 8TB  GPT disk.
6. Saftely merge two adjacent partitions into a bigger one without data loss.
7. Copy entire hard disk to another  without Windows reinstallation.
8. Convert primary partition to logical partition and vice versa
9. Wipe disk or wipe partition to permanently wipe sensitive data on disk.
10. Support all hardware RAID, removable storage device, hard disk, GPT disk and FAT/NTFS/EXT2/EXT3 file system.

I make the features I like to bolder.

Here is the simply steps of installation.

Goto above official web site to download the installation file.

The installation file name is epm.exe, about 28MB.

Then double click to run it.

During the installation, it may ask a few recommendation software, including PC Mechanic, EaseUS Todo Backup Free, etc.

If you don’t like them, you can uncheck the check mark or choose Custom installation. Then it will only install the Partition software.

On the very first screen of installation, it show you the difference of Free edition and Pro edition.

If you are interested in these additional features, you can try Pro edition.

I just wondering why EaseUS Partition Master Free Edition need to add a startup item, EaseUS EOM tray and EaseUS EPM Tray Agent,  into the system. I hate these unnecessary startup program. So I disabled it.

Here is the main screen of the program, when I run the program first time.

I tried some operation on my USB disk, which is NTFS file system format.

Such as Resize partition / Delete partition / Wipe partition / Create  partition.  No issue found.

If you need a free Partition software, I would like to recommend it.

The post Partition Master Free – Modify your Partition for Free appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

There are 26 important updates on my Windows 7.

More details of Microsoft update of 2013 Oct.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-oct

The post Windows Update 2013-10 appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

yum groupinstall basic-desktop desktop-platform x11 fonts

And the “long name” version:

yum groupinstall "Desktop" "Desktop Platform" "X Window System" "Fonts"

Just put here for my own reference or if you come here for it.
One more thing. To start Windows from text mode. Enter

startx

to start it.

The post How to add windows to a CentOS 6.3 server appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008 x86 (KB2656368)
Download size: 1.8 MB , less than 1 minute
A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this update, you may have to restart your system.
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 x86 (KB2656370)
Download size: 5.5 MB , 1 minute
A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this update, you may have to restart your system.
Security Update for Windows XP (KB2707511)
Typical download size: 691 KB , 1 minute
A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated local attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this update, you may have to restart your system.
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP (KB2699988)
Download size: 10.2 MB , 2 minutes
Security issues have been identified that could allow an attacker to compromise a system that is running Microsoft Internet Explorer and gain control over it. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008 x86 (KB2686827)
Download size: 4.3 MB , less than 1 minute
A security issue has been identified that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this update, you may have to restart your system.
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP x86 (KB2686828)
Download size: 6.2 MB , 1 minute
A security issue has been identified that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this update, you may have to restart your system.
Security Update for Windows XP (KB2709162)
Typical download size: 482 KB , less than 1 minute
A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated local attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this update, you may have to restart your system.

The post Windows Updates 2012-06 appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

Recently, Microsoft published a security bulletin and recommended fix for a critical vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Protocol (CVE-2012-0002), which has the potential to impact all versions of Windows from XP through the most recent developer preview. This vulnerability allows for remote code execution by an unauthenticated attacker. More information is currently available at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-020.
Microsoft has issued a statement confirming that CVE-2012-0002 was privately reported. This problem has been given an Exploitability Index of 1, indicating that exploit code is likely. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc998259 for more details.
At this time, we are highly recommending that all clients who may be impacted by this issue:
1. IMMEDIATELY apply the provided patch.
2. Enable Network Level Authentication – This will require any potential exploits to first successfully authenticate to the server before an RDP session is established.
NOTE: This RDP solution is just one of many security patches released by Microsoft this week.
Regards,
BURSTNET®

It is very important to keep your server update.
If you have a XP at home, in office, or Windows Server at data center, always setup your installation auto-update.

The post Notice from Burst.Net for Windows Server appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

The post Keep Windows Updated appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

The post Perfect links of MSDN resource appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

Wan to know more details of this updates, check it here.

The post Microsoft Sep 2010 Updates appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

0) Stop the McAfee on-access scanning, or just turn off McAfee.
1) Stop the Automatic Updates service;
2) Delete C:\WINNT\SoftwareDistribution folder;
3) Execute Microsoft Update (C:\WINNT\system32\rundll32.exe C:\WINNT\system32\muweb.dll,LaunchMUSite).
After that, the Microsoft Windows Update find 25 updates need to be installed in my Windows 2000. About 20 updates are critical issues.

The post Update error: 0xC80001FE on Windows 2000 sp4 appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

For myself, I am very interested in Linux VPS hosting. I played Linux for many years.
Compare with Windows VPS, Linux system use less memory and disk space. The price is also lower. VPS Standard cost $35.95/month, if you pay it biyearly.
Monthly payment will 11% higher.
Let’s look at it closer.
20GB storage, 1000GB bandwidth, 2 IP address, are same as the Windows VPS I mentioned above.
Memory is 256MB, guaranteed. It is a little bit low, but it is ok for start. When you need more memory, you can upgrade it to VPS Pro or VPS 2000.
I like SSH. It can let me do anything on the Linux. Even reboot it.
Actually, they provide SSH2, more secure.
In a word, get your own VPS based on your needs and budget.

The post VPS of Canadian Web Hosting appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

<!--
window.opener = null;
setTimeout('window.close();', 10000);
-->

To disable alert popup box.
window.opener = null;
Close window in ten seconds.
setTimeout(‘window.close();’, 10000);
This Javascript script do the job correctly.

The post How to close current window without alert pop-up appeared first on David Yin's Blog.

3) Can I rollback to Windows?
It is also very important for me.
I will do some research later.

The post Install Ubuntu from USB disk appeared first on David Yin's Blog.