tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55889062826934017972024-03-13T13:01:19.102-07:00november TechBo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-83627597351612815742008-01-05T08:30:00.000-08:002008-01-05T08:37:58.758-08:00Migratedhttp://nordschleife.metaforix.netBo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-87063991241061897242007-11-03T10:36:00.000-07:002007-11-03T10:58:01.579-07:00Openbravo R2.34Managed a successful install of Openbravo on my spare hardware (Athlon 2500+ 512MB RAM 80GB HDD Ubuntu 7.10). Well, not that successful, but it wouldn't need me to install if it's so easy anyway. Will post some pics tomorrow, as my Openbravo is in a totally screwed up condition right now, due to my itchy fingers. I reckon that reinstallation is needed.Anyway, what I basically did was to follow Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-9971469798567801162007-08-25T11:20:00.000-07:002007-08-25T11:34:47.632-07:00Power to the PeopleIt seems that it's never a good idea to bully the powerless and the poor in Singapore, especially when you're not particularly politically powerful. It came to me as a no surprise that Odex lost their case against Pacific Internet, judging from the history of StreetDirectory.com. I'd like to express my greatest gratitude to district judge Ernest Lau, for upholding law and order in the confusing Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-15460846210878283162007-07-31T01:26:00.000-07:002007-07-31T01:33:12.429-07:00The Soul of the GameThis is probably the biggest surprise in the history of football. A devastated country in chaos of war, agony, and tears, has won the asian cup against all odds. It was their determination and their strength that brought their country the unprecedented glory.Long live the national heros, and may peace fall upon Iraq and her people.Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-64916616067403129752007-06-22T11:42:00.000-07:002007-06-22T11:57:43.129-07:00another lappieMind Prison: Internet Addiction Disorderhttp://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02049/Got honorable mention, we deserve every single recognition, probably more. Not whining here though. Gonna get another lappie, that worths USD750. It'll be my third lappie, plus another 2 desktops I have at home, I can easily make a circle of computers. How I wish I have 5 brains and 5 pairs of hands. But hell, I Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-24887189766533274982007-06-18T05:57:00.000-07:002007-06-18T06:00:26.463-07:00Nike+iPodjust bought a set of running gears, iPod Nano and Nike+. <2000 words worth of pictures>challenges anyone?Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-3066291688308103672007-06-10T00:50:00.000-07:002007-06-10T00:58:10.330-07:00And FinallyMy old com seems ok now, finally recovered from the damn autorun virus. Installed Ubuntu 4.10 on both my harddisks, shred everything, delete all partitions, install the "mighty" Windows XP. And that took me the whole day!Anyway, an interesting fact that I recently found out is that almost all my recent CPUs have the same clock speed, they're all 1.8GHz. From Pentium 4 1.8 to Athlon 2200+ to Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-19077273903329579682006-11-30T11:00:00.001-08:002006-11-30T11:00:52.903-08:00SpywareI, Tian Bo, declear war against all spyware and adware on 1 December 2006 3.00am.Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-14473828046691976662006-11-21T05:00:00.000-08:002006-11-21T05:17:25.596-08:00DRM is simply annoying and uselessIt's good to be back. Been busy preparing for my O levels for a long time. The most popular service for this year? iTunes of course. 99 cents for a piece of music, did I say low quality and unreliable? It's 128kbps AAC and DRM protected, which means you cannot play it on your other computer, you cannot play it on a MP3 player other than their very own iPod, you cannot burn your favorite Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-86087033026060708952006-10-24T02:58:00.000-07:002006-10-24T03:00:17.061-07:00U.S. Patent No. 7,069,308? wadda crap!!Sorry readers, I've got little time recently due to studies n problems setting up my LAMP server. Ok, this is what I found today, 7,069,308 & obviously it's crap. Friendster invented it? I doubt so.What is claimed is:1. In a computer system including a server computer and a database of registered users that stores for each registered user, a user ID of the registered user and a set of user IDs ofBo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-65817743018026389632006-10-16T01:47:00.000-07:002006-10-16T01:59:31.762-07:00All blogging tools you'll ever needAdminimizer ToolbarashnewsAvantBlogb2b2.evolutionBlogBlog NavigatorBlogAmpBlogarithmBlog (Web-Tagebuch)BlogBackBlogboxblogBuddyBlogChatBlogCounterblogdexblogdexterBlogFaceBlogFlixBloggerBotBlogHosterBlogletBlogLinkerBlogMaxBlogrollingBlogSnobblogsnowBlosxombookmarklet.pingbplogBricks Site BuilderChronicle LiteCityDeskCocoBlogcorzblogcsBlogProject DAWGdiary2002.cgidotcommentsDrupalEasy Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-49279049194969997202006-10-13T08:13:00.000-07:002006-10-13T08:35:13.788-07:00Protect yourself from uneven volumesAfter ripping your CD collection unto your computer or downloading MP3s from the net, have you encoutered uneven volumes? It's common that classical music are softer, while rock music are louder. When a track is very soft, you increase the volume of your MP3 player, but the next track is significantly louder, and you failed to revert back to the original volume. The consequences are severe, Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-81264161670841409852006-10-12T04:30:00.000-07:002006-10-12T04:44:10.564-07:0045nm+WiMAX in your laptops in 2008Though Intel will only release 4th generation Centrino "Santa Rosa" in first-half of 2007, they have already planned the features of the 5th gen, code named "Montevina", estimated to release in 2008. The new generation will adopt 45nm processors, and features WiMAX wireless technology."Penryn", the new processor, will be made with 45nm manufacturing technology, using the same architecture as the Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-82054056390321377982006-10-12T04:14:00.000-07:002006-10-12T04:48:48.542-07:00Sony's new best-ever-sound-quality MP3 playerSony Japan released their latest S range of Walkman MP3 player, NW-S700 and NW-S600. NW-S700 provides a variety of storage space of 1GB, 2GB and 4GB, 3 lines OLED screen, FM radio support, plays MP3/ATRAC/AAC/WMA formats, and direct recording to either PCM/Atrac3Plus formats. NW-S600 has identical features except FM radio support and lack of 4GB version. The new range of players is powered by Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-9645816508349901832006-10-11T07:41:00.000-07:002006-10-11T08:09:53.785-07:0013 must have Firefox extensions for web surfersI'm just a normal web surfer and blogger who use Firefox as my default browser like the majority of you (my readers). I use the following tools on a daily basis:Performancing - a full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be browsing, and take notes as well as post to Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-7581790149130295102006-10-11T07:08:00.000-07:002006-10-11T07:35:14.369-07:00Capture your screen for freeThere are plenty of software to capture your screen, but mostly for a huge fee or an ugly "UNREGISTERED VERSION" on the upper left corner. But why should we buy those when we can have better software for free? There are refined such screen capture software under the GPL license, meaning you can obtain them for free. For still capturing:[FastStone Screen Capture] The best screen capturing softwareBo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-35053618433581187402006-10-11T04:45:00.000-07:002006-10-11T05:12:44.010-07:004 Google's new Reader tipsGoogle has recently made a major update to it's Reader service to become more powerful, especially in terms of ease of use. Here some tips that you can utilize for daily use:1. Do not include Asian characters in sub-directory of OPML file that you want to import. When I tried to import OPML file exported by Bloglines which contains Chinese characters for sub-directory, Google Reader failed to Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-45364638420077854882006-10-11T04:33:00.000-07:002006-10-11T07:01:50.902-07:00Interview with Java's inventor James GoslingToday there are thousands and thousands of Java programmers, but there was a time when there was only one, James Gosling. He did the original design of the Java programming language and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. Today Gosling is vice president and Sun Fellow at Sun Microsystems Inc. where he continues to take an active role in software development, especially Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-15976942626345401442006-10-10T08:53:00.000-07:002006-10-10T09:22:04.720-07:00How should Microsoft tweak their Zune to be more competitiveAfter writing the recent entry on why Zune is not exactly a competitive competitor for the all popular iPod, I've received responses regarding the article, and they also pointed out major flaws in Zune. Today, I'll talk about steps I think that are helpful in making Zune more competitive in front of iPod:1. Support for Mac. If Microsoft says that ZuneMarket won't support Mac, then I would Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-65743878485440920152006-10-09T01:11:00.000-07:002006-10-09T01:50:30.694-07:00Zune is NOT a killerAnd will never be. Since the start of this Microsoft Zune commotion, we've heard exciting features like Wifi, connectivity with Xbox 360, H264 and many others. Of course, availability of Wifi is the most anticipated. Before we analyze the Zune, let's take a look on why the iPod reigned:The best aesthetic - everyone must agree that the iPods have the best aesthetics in the world of MP3 players, Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-35164525727428421722006-10-09T01:07:00.000-07:002006-10-09T01:10:25.718-07:00Free PC in FranceBelieve it or not, there are some people in major European countries that still lack internet access, or even computers. (Yes, we're still recovering from shock, too.) According to the French analyst firm Médiamétrie, half of the homes in France don't have a computer, and 60 percent don't have net access. In order to solve this problem, the French ISP firm Neuf Cegetel (they just bought AOL Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-22174536222454834482006-10-08T06:36:00.000-07:002006-10-08T06:43:47.226-07:00Ariel Atom - a supercar for $52000The Ariel Atom is a high performance sports car made by the Ariel Motor Company. It is unusual in the respect that the chassis is the body, and therefore lacks a roof, windows and other features commonly found on road cars. It is available with a range of engines; the top of the range being a supercharged Honda Civic Type-R K20 engine and can reach speeds rivaling those of much more expensive Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-49805147139951553572006-10-08T03:32:00.000-07:002006-10-08T03:39:10.103-07:00The largest prime numberPrime numbers are usually thought of as numbers that no other number can be exactly divided into. This isn’t quite true as prime numbers always have 2 factors, the number 1 and itself (a factor is a number that can be exactly divided into another number). Because of this rule, the number 1 is not a prime number as it has only one factor (i.e. 1).The first ten prime numbers are:2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-49208246225013990432006-10-08T01:56:00.000-07:002006-10-08T02:00:02.819-07:00Official production of F1 Japan grand prix official carHonda Motor Co., Ltd., today announced that the prototype 4-door Civic Type R, the sports version of the Honda Civic, has been selected as the official car for the 2006 F1 Japan Grand Prix, to be held at the Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture, Japan, October 6-8, 2006. A production model, currently under development, is scheduled for release in Japan in spring 2007.The 4-door Civic Type R prototypeBo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588906282693401797.post-23202693136769894402006-10-07T09:03:00.000-07:002006-10-07T09:12:42.096-07:00China made the First Synthetic SunChina's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST, internal designation HT-7U) has conducted its first successful test on September 28, 2006. The test reportedly used deuterium and tritium atoms and reached a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius for nearly three seconds, obtaining 200 kA of electric current. The EAST is an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion Bo Tianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166530432908790902noreply@blogger.com0