Do this by adding “-private” to the shortcut in the taskbar. Right-click on the IE logo in the taskbar. Then, right-click on “Internet Explorer” and click “Properties”. In the properties dialog, ad...

(Disclaimer: I’m a Software Engineer for Microsoft China. In this blog I express my personal opinion and none of this constitutes the official nor unofficial opinion of Microsoft.) UPDATE: this is...

(Cross-posted from my Facebook profile) Smart, but disingenuous, ad served by Google. Mentions other browsers but links to the Chrome homepage. The site this ad got served on worked just fine in I...

I’ve been using unbound as my only DNS server for over a year now. It’s a recursive and caching DNS server with DNSSEC (a.o.) support. This is particularly interesting for people living in China: ...

I never found the need to study those common unix utilities like sed, awk, xargs. Even my knowledge of grep didn’t go further than blah | grep foo. Until yesterday, when I needed to accomplish a ta...

I finally got around to asking for permission to share the slides of a tech talk I did more than a year ago: Modern COM Programming in D In the slides I explain how I’ve made a projection for COM ...

I hate etc/ and everything in it, but I realize it might not be etc/’s fault. The fault might lie with Google and Bing: most of the results I get are people asking the same question on some forum. ...

Happy IPv6 day everyone! Here’s how I went about it: Triple-30 reset your router: with router on, press reset and hold; after 30 secs, pull the plug but keep reset; after 30 secs put ba...

Nice IP address they got, by the way: TCP [2002:74e2:70fd:e472::3]:3405 [2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3]:443 ESTABLISHED

I was bored so I tried pulling out the harddisk of my laptop while it was running. Windows (7) kept running and didn’t crash. Of course, I couldn’t actually open any programs, but it didn’t lock up...