Geeky Things

All of the web developer hate IE6~ AT LEAST I HATE IE6. Fixing IE6 wired display problems take 60% of the development time~ shame on you Microsoft.
So if you hate Microsoft and it’s IE as much as I do and you can’t show a warning message to all IE 6 users “Your browser is outdated” […]

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VERY ANNOYING! I tried to share a Google Document about Creative Commons with others this Morning but I just found that no email were sent by the Google Documnet….. what the hell is going on….

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Today’s TVB news coverage on the Tibet protest, really make me feel ANNOYED. As expected, Hong Kong News Media are now being more and more conservative and pro-government, so it will call the protestor as “rebel”. That’s fine, I know and I expected it.
But after the coverage on the situation, it spent the rest of […]

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!!!! Police arrested 4 more people for the “photos”~ !!!!!
Few points really made me angry~ how dare they say these:
- The Chief Police Officer said it is illegal for anyone to own even just one of those photos. But please be specific Mr. Tang, which law are you talking about? Why don’t you charge every […]

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Just came across an article on Micro-kernel, worth reading for those who want to know a bit about the debate (and it don’t have many technical information). I agree that the micro-kernel (MINIX 3) written by the article author, is really the most easy-to-understand operating system in the world! I’ve been playing around with it, […]

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Recent legal action of RIAA towards America’s universities cause many debate. Students in Prof. Nesson’s ‘Evidence’ class of Harvard Law School even have been assigned a coursework — the drafting of a motion to quash on RIAA subpoena .
Amongst many post I found one funny analogy of when RIAA sue you for MP3 files on […]

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Recently there is a interesting coverage on how Starbucks actually helped independent / small coffee shop by opening a store next to them. They have provided a explanation saying that because Starbucks actually have no competitive advantage over small coffee shop as of  Wal-marts over local store. Meanwhile, when Starbucks start up a new store […]

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I was once introducing Lawrence Lessig’s book - Code and the other law of cyberspace in a seminar, because this book inspired me on how Internet is the perfect place for government and business to control everything…
We know the situation is getting worse slowly, but I couldn’t imagine and somehow believe that 2008 is the […]

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So excited to see this: Checkin 3457 of Internet Explorer at Branch (LONGHORN_IE8), finally passed the ACID2 test! So if no one in Microsoft screw up the work, we will finally have a real browser in Windows - IE8, and let the nightmare of IE6 and the disappointment at IE7 be history….
And BTW, where is […]

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(WARNING: MY PERSONAL MEMORY MAY MAKE YOU FEEL BORED) Just came across this old photo of my room 6 years ago…. I was using Mandrake on AMD CPU computer and Windows XP on a Dell Notebook. And… something I don’t remember already…
1. I just remembered I used a small notebook in my pocket extensively, but […]

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