Windows live messenger error code 81000490:
http://cliffveale.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/windows-live-messenger-error-code-81000490/
Skype crash before signing in:
http://heartbeat.skype.com/2011/05/problems_signing_into_skype_an.html
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Friday, May 06, 2011
What is next?
I am planning to go for a thesis option for my MS degree will help me to specialize on a topic that I really like. MS without thesis is just a bunch of these stupid classes but just more difficult to get through.
That is why going for jobs to see what I really like is a good thing - for a thesis master degree.
Having a non-thesis will not help my specific career because it is not a specialize into a topic. Well, MS non-thesis would place me higher on payscale and that is it - no gurantee that it will be faster to graduate.
I think I will do better if I do one thing and just one thing. As my friend Rajat in wsu doing MS thesis right now, he said. he said: there is no gurantee that MS non-thesis will graduate faster, because you have research credits in a thesis option.
I mean, after reading 451 (Database) and 466 (Embedded systems) exam and questions. What the hell with a BS degree, the topics are just too diverse, and I don't think I will use the new knowledge as much as the professors will expect - I won't use all of them. Yes, some of the knowledge is going to be a waste - because I want to specialize.
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For those who knows KC at WSU:
A chinese student was walking in Sloan 353 and was dragging his feet while walking.
The sound of it - is like KC is coming.
I am like, "Oh dude. please don't drag your feet while walking. I thought you are KC."
Of course I am a Chinese. But DON'T do it! You are not that old yet.
PLEASE DON'T drag your feet!!
That is why going for jobs to see what I really like is a good thing - for a thesis master degree.
Having a non-thesis will not help my specific career because it is not a specialize into a topic. Well, MS non-thesis would place me higher on payscale and that is it - no gurantee that it will be faster to graduate.
I think I will do better if I do one thing and just one thing. As my friend Rajat in wsu doing MS thesis right now, he said. he said: there is no gurantee that MS non-thesis will graduate faster, because you have research credits in a thesis option.
I mean, after reading 451 (Database) and 466 (Embedded systems) exam and questions. What the hell with a BS degree, the topics are just too diverse, and I don't think I will use the new knowledge as much as the professors will expect - I won't use all of them. Yes, some of the knowledge is going to be a waste - because I want to specialize.
-------------------
For those who knows KC at WSU:
A chinese student was walking in Sloan 353 and was dragging his feet while walking.
The sound of it - is like KC is coming.
I am like, "Oh dude. please don't drag your feet while walking. I thought you are KC."
Of course I am a Chinese. But DON'T do it! You are not that old yet.
PLEASE DON'T drag your feet!!
Monday, March 28, 2011
How to Remove minefield firefox beta 4.0 on linux with apt-get
Proven to work on kubuntu 10.10 x86
(1) Install ppa-purge to remove the repository of Firefox/Minefield beta 4.0 [1]
(2) install firefox 4.0 stable [2]
Basically, (1) is the undo of [3].
[1] http://bigbrovar.aoizora.org/index.php/2010/01/10/how-to-safely-remove-ppa-repository-from-ubuntu/
[2] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/firefox-4-ppa-for-ubuntu-10-04-and-10-10-users/
[3] http://linuxhub.net/2010/07/install-firefox-4-beta-2-in-ubuntu-using-ppa/
(1) Install ppa-purge to remove the repository of Firefox/Minefield beta 4.0 [1]
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa
(2) install firefox 4.0 stable [2]
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
Basically, (1) is the undo of [3].
[1] http://bigbrovar.aoizora.org/index.php/2010/01/10/how-to-safely-remove-ppa-repository-from-ubuntu/
[2] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/firefox-4-ppa-for-ubuntu-10-04-and-10-10-users/
[3] http://linuxhub.net/2010/07/install-firefox-4-beta-2-in-ubuntu-using-ppa/
Friday, March 25, 2011
Vegetarian Quotes (1)
Truely man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. ~Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~Albert Einstein
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. ~George Bernard Shaw
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.... ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank. ~Rabindranath Tagore
We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could. ~James Cromwell
We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?" ~k.d. lang
A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen: "Cattle dragged and choked... knocking 'em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they're stunned they come back to life, and they're up there agonizing. They're supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren't and they'll go through the skinning process alive. I've worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones. They're all the same. If people were to see this, they'd probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn't mean anything." ~Slaughterhouse 1997
Would you kill your pet dog or cat to eat it? How about an animal you're not emotionally attached to? Is the thought of slaughtering a cow or chicken or pig with your own hands too much to handle? Instead, would hiring a hit-man to do the job give you enough distance from the emotional discomfort? What animal did you put a contract out on for your supper last night? Did you at least make sure that none went to waste and to take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice? ~Anonymous.
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."- Leonardo da Vinci, artist and scientist
source: http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110320040617AAiCu6w
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~Albert Einstein
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. ~George Bernard Shaw
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.... ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank. ~Rabindranath Tagore
We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could. ~James Cromwell
We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?" ~k.d. lang
A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen: "Cattle dragged and choked... knocking 'em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they're stunned they come back to life, and they're up there agonizing. They're supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren't and they'll go through the skinning process alive. I've worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones. They're all the same. If people were to see this, they'd probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn't mean anything." ~Slaughterhouse 1997
Would you kill your pet dog or cat to eat it? How about an animal you're not emotionally attached to? Is the thought of slaughtering a cow or chicken or pig with your own hands too much to handle? Instead, would hiring a hit-man to do the job give you enough distance from the emotional discomfort? What animal did you put a contract out on for your supper last night? Did you at least make sure that none went to waste and to take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice? ~Anonymous.
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."- Leonardo da Vinci, artist and scientist
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian" Paul McCartney...he's a tosser, but its a good quote.
"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
Pythagoras, mathematician
"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"
George Bernard Shaw, playwright, Nobel Prize 1925
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
Leo Tolstoy
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
Thomas Edison
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. ~George Bernard Shaw
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?" ~k.d. lang
"I smell burning flesh, and I hope to God it's human." - Morrissey
"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
Pythagoras, mathematician
"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"
George Bernard Shaw, playwright, Nobel Prize 1925
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
Leo Tolstoy
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
Thomas Edison
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. ~George Bernard Shaw
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?" ~k.d. lang
"I smell burning flesh, and I hope to God it's human." - Morrissey
source: http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110320040617AAiCu6w
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Block full page Skype Ads that has started to appear since March 2011
Add this entry to your firewall to block new full page ads on Skype that has started to appear since March 2011.
try a few things here:
block outgoing port 80 requests from skype
block
ip address: 72.246.0.0
subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
And now I don't think anyone can block this range of ip address using hostfile...
How to edit host file in windows 7 and vista
http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-7/edit-hosts-file-in-windows-7-windows-vista/
How to edit host file in windows xp
http://kb.simplywebhosting.com/idx/0/045/article/
(I used a firewall and the firewall log and wireshark to figure this out.)
try a few things here:
block outgoing port 80 requests from skype
block
ip address: 72.246.0.0
subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
And now I don't think anyone can block this range of ip address using hostfile...
(I used a firewall and the firewall log and wireshark to figure this out.)
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Cisco NAC Agent - The Big Distraction
Cisco Clean Access has been a big distraction since it was used at my university.
Prolonged bug that has not been fixed (list):
1. Cisco NAC Agent does not recognize new versions of Antivirus or other antivirus products in market. This result in users have to buy antivirus products that are limited by Cisco. That actually restricted the users' choice of antivirus. User should have the freedom to choose their own antivirus, not Cisco. At the time of this writing, Cisco NAC Agent does not recognize Avast Antivirus 6. When I first moved in to the University, Cisco NAC Agent did not recognize Comodo Internet Security (Full Antivirus and firewall included). And that forced me to install AVG on my three computers while I have big homework and exams due.
2. Even if your antivirus is on the Cisco preferred list, you may not be able to update your antivirus signatures/database if you have temporary access at that moment - some antivirus signatures/database update servers are not on Cisco's whitelist. That means you have to install an antivirus product that is on Cisco's white-list and the antivirus update server is also need to be on Cisco's white-list. The only way to find out that you have the antivirus that is Cisco approved is to try it yourself, because the school never disclose the approved list.
3. After a logout of Cisco NAC Agent, you may not get another pop-up prompt window to enter your username/password to login for next 5 to 10 minutes. Say for example, I am using google docs and I wanted to print or save my work, a disconnection of 5 to 10 minutes is a great distraction.
Prolonged bug that has not been fixed (list):
1. Cisco NAC Agent does not recognize new versions of Antivirus or other antivirus products in market. This result in users have to buy antivirus products that are limited by Cisco. That actually restricted the users' choice of antivirus. User should have the freedom to choose their own antivirus, not Cisco. At the time of this writing, Cisco NAC Agent does not recognize Avast Antivirus 6. When I first moved in to the University, Cisco NAC Agent did not recognize Comodo Internet Security (Full Antivirus and firewall included). And that forced me to install AVG on my three computers while I have big homework and exams due.
2. Even if your antivirus is on the Cisco preferred list, you may not be able to update your antivirus signatures/database if you have temporary access at that moment - some antivirus signatures/database update servers are not on Cisco's whitelist. That means you have to install an antivirus product that is on Cisco's white-list and the antivirus update server is also need to be on Cisco's white-list. The only way to find out that you have the antivirus that is Cisco approved is to try it yourself, because the school never disclose the approved list.
3. After a logout of Cisco NAC Agent, you may not get another pop-up prompt window to enter your username/password to login for next 5 to 10 minutes. Say for example, I am using google docs and I wanted to print or save my work, a disconnection of 5 to 10 minutes is a great distraction.
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