Blog of ZAY
I logged into my blog today thinking of keeping my WordPress up-to-date, and surprisingly, there is one comment left on my blog. Being a half-perished blog that has not been updated for years, I was naturally surprised to see someone decided to comment on my post, so I opened it up and here is what …
Here is the proof that it is not: This picture is not PSed by any means and is from the original test server from SpeedTest.net And it seems that UW has the fastest network around! I did the test again just now to make sure, and here is what I see: Thanks for those IST …
This is the third time in my less-than-a-year experience dealing with Servage.net as my host. First time it was disk failure, second time was unknown, and this time, according to the customer service representative: And that was more than 2 hours ago…. Ironically, I just saw this on Servage.net: So I guess it is either …
A friend of mine just bought a refurbished Thinkpad X41, which I am trying it out as we speak. The first impression I have on the unit is that it is really tiny with the 12 inch screen. However, as what my friend has already told me, the laptop is relatively slow and the boot …
Probably the biggest news in the IT industry is the recent takeover proposal of Microsoft to Yahoo!. Yahoo!, not surprisingly, rejected the offer from Microsoft on Monday, and it seems that they have engaged in active discussions with News Group to prevent a hostile takeover from Microsoft. It actually reminded me of a Chinese movie …
OMG, this is probably the most expensive PC that I’ve ever seen: GIGABYTE 3D Mercury GZ-FW1CA-AJS Silver Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case – Retail – $399 Custom Case Painting by Gary Berg – $1500 Asus P5N-T Deluxe Motherboard – NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI, Socket 775, ATX, Audio, PCI Express 2.0, Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB …
I watched this video 3 times, and just could not stop loving it. Truly brilliant speaker, speaking about a simple idea that often programmers missed: simple is the best!
Earlier last month, I made a purchase on Paypal (yes, I did make it), and it turned out to be that Paypal thought anyone but not me was making the transaction: As a result, my account was being disabled and I can not purchase any stuff on EBay, which is something I used to use …
With one whole night of work and thinking I almost lost all my data, I am gladly announced here that my website, www.anyizhu.com, has completed the upgrade into the latest WordPress version of 2.3.1. Several things from my upgrade experience: 1. Backup the database. I was trying to get things done first and did not …