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Archive for May, 2008

Why Chinese websites turned into Gray Themes recently

As China started its national mourning for three days, most websites and major portals have been presented as grey out mode.
We Chinese expressing our moods in colors, for example, to express sorrow in Black and White; to express fortunate and happy in Red. So, my blog’s major color is red, it’s a blessing color.
Some days [...]

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

China earthquake on 12th May

At 2.28 PM on May 12 A 7.8 Richter Scale earthquake pounded Wenchuan County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.

May 12 The strong earthquake in southwest China has damaged power supplies to local telecommunications facilities, which affected cell phone services.
May 12 Rain linger over much of quake-stricken southwestern Sichuan Province over three days
May 13 near 20,000 [...]

Monday, May 19th, 2008

How to boot up Mac OS X in console mode

I have a Mac Mini conputer and it is too slow to do anything, because there is only 256MB memories and the free memories is few when the Aqua running.

So, I think I can DIY it into a server, just booting up in console mode, and running the Apache, Mysql, PHP and Perl on it.
There [...]

Sunday, May 18th, 2008