Thanks to everyone that come to visit or even leave a comment. It’s really good to know someone is still visiting my small space.

The reason I stopped writing blog is because I’ve get involved in a really really big project, and got quite busy. The project is still not finished, but is in a good shape. I think I’ll get sometime to update this blog.

The reason I came to visit my own blog is because I was looking for an old article . And the reason I looked for that old article is because I’ve got myself a new PC. With the summer getting hotter and hotter, my old AMD3000+ machine halts several times a day. I know switching to a bigger fan might help, but, well, it is getting slow and the halting is an good excuse for a new one

So I go get myself an I5-750 machine, with 4G RAM. It’s much faster than the old one. It is so fast that a buildworld in a FreeBSD on FreeBSD virtualbox client is faster than the real 3000+ machine. I also got myself a Dell 2410 and setup a two-monitor desktop. Finally I can have two 1024×1200 window sitting side by side, it looks really nice

So much for the news. I’ll get back and update my blog because again, I found it’s a good for future work if I wrote the tips down.

Enjoy the life and live with passion.

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select address, count(address) as cnt
from mailing_list
group by address
having cnt > 1
order by cnt;

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The functions all works good after installing the driver. However the zoom button in the middle of the keyboard is… useless. I would rather use it for scroll. So I Googled around and looks I’m not alone Olivier Dagenais has posted two good articles: Hacking the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 and Hacking the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000, redux.To me, it’s quite simple: just open the C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliType Pro\commands.xml file, and search for “zoom”. Pay attention to the “app name” it is in, and change those you want from “ZoomIn” to “ScrollUp”, and from “ZoomOut” to “ScrollDown”. Then kill the “itype.exe” process, and click the “microsoft keyboard” shortcut on the desktop to restart it again.

Everything works smoothly. I didn’t notice an acceleration for the scroll though. I’m using the 6.20.148.0 driver, which is the latest as the time of writing.

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So in short, I can use the “mstsc” command to bring up windows remote desktop connection. The command itself will give the usual remote desktop connection dialog. And I can also use some command line parameters to speed this up:

This is pretty handful if you can’t access the windows start up menu as me.

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I really like this small one cause I can carry it everywhere and save me some time while I’m walking or waiting.

It support file/folder visiting of the files, and not support MP3 tag and organized with artiste, album, etc like Apple IPod. This is the reason I prefer it over the Sandisk Clip. Because most of the time I’ll use it to listen podcasts or audio books.

However there is a problem: It won’t sort the files. I just can’t find any options to sort the files in the menu system or the user user manual. Then I thought it might sort the files by their access time, or create time, so I wrote mp3 reorg , which will change the atime/ctime of all the files so the fils should appear earlier will get an earlier atime/ctime. However it turns out this little mp3 don’t obey that too, they just read the FAT table and don’t do any sort! Finially I have to wrote another one, mp3 copy, to copy the files in the order I want.

Just put them here in case anyone could find them useful. Note “create time” is a dos/windows only thing, we don’t have this on (most) Unix systems. If your mp3 use atime (access time) or ctime (changed time), you could use the “mp3reorg” script on Unix platform too, just comment out the lines with “win32″ in it. The “mp3 copy” script works cross platform, though.

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Basicly this is moving from North China to South China. It is amazing how many stuff you can find in a place that you’ve lived for 6 years. At least for me, I found some good memories, and some old plans that… well, was just planned.

After some setup days now I’m back online and back to blog. It is always interesting to start a fresh new life in a new city. I believe I’ll have more interesting things to share in the near future

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At first I found a perl script to migrate from blosxom to WordPress on DeWitt Clinton’s blog. However it didn’t work good for me as it only import half of my posts. I mean, it not only losts some posts, but also losts content of some post. Looks it couldn’t work well for PyBlosxom.

And then I found a script from the Gnome Blog. It makes an RSS feed that includes all the old posts, with full content. So it is pretty easy to import to WordPress.

One thing I found annoying besides the newline problem is that I need to convert all the <pre> tag to <code> tag, to utilize the new code highlight plugin. So I wrote this simple pyblosxom to wordpress script. It’s a one time script and dirty, but works for me Note I added a .txt postfix to the file name cause WordPress won’t allow me to upload .py files and I haven’t figure out how to chang this.

Usage:

1 . wget the full RSS output produced by the Gnome script

2. update it with my script, you may need to change the file names in the script though

3. use the “import rss” function from the WordPress manage page, and you are done.

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So I decide to blog more, rather than one or two posts a month like now. And I’m thinkging moving to another blog system.

Well I’ve been pretty happy with PyBlosxom, and I really enjoy writing my posts in Emacs, with muse. However this time I want a feature rich one. Especially with lots of themes. Cause I’m a developer, not a designer. And changing the colors and fonts etc really are not what I’m good at.

Though I’ve been avoiding PHP for a long time, it looks WordPress could change my mind. After two days hard work, I’ve now switched to WordPress. The blog URL and the category URL keeps the same. However some article URLs changed because WordPress and PyBlosxom have some different idea to replace those non-URL-safe characters.

I’ve go through all my old blogs to add tags. Another thing is to utilize the new code highlight plugin. However this is quite time consuming and I decide to leave it later. I’ll check the code of the post if someone leave a comment there. So, if you are interested in one of my post and want to see the code highlighted, leave a comment

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You must enter your name followed by something in parentheses, either
an email address or the URI of your web site. For example: If you
don’t enter it correctly then your comment won’t be accepted. (Hey,
it’s better than making you squint at a stupid little captcha image
trying to figure out the numbers and letters.)

Nice try. And we can have more ideas starting from this. Say asking the visiter to add 5+ space char at the end of his/her name. It’s easy for a human being, and will block most of the spammers away.

I’m currently using a black list. I think I’ll try some someday.

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