Did I mention how great the Squeezebox Boom sounds? Well, it sounds great. I have bought Shukar Collective’s latest album, Rromatek, on Amazon today. (Amazon MP3s can only be bought from the US; n...

Been to Hong Kong for Chinese New Year and one of the gadgets I bought there was a Logitech Squeezebox Boom (1880HK$). I had heard about the Squeezebox line before, but had never actually seen one....

老外苦学汉语十年，到中国参加汉语等级考试，试题如下： 请解释下文中每个“意思”的意思— 　　阿呆给领导送红包时，两人的对话颇有意思。 　　领导：“你这是什么意思？” 　　阿呆：“没什么意思，意思意思。” 　　领导：“你这就不够意思了。” 　　阿呆：“小意思，小意思。” 　　领导：“你这人真有意思。” 　　阿呆：“其实也没有别的意思。” 　　领导：“那我就不好意思了。” 　　阿呆：“是...

Long story short: I’ve been to the US a few weeks ago and I thought I’d pick up a new Xbox 360 250GB while I was there, seeing as those are hard to find in China. I assumed its power supply would a...

My VPS was running out of memory so I started googling to see what could be done about it. The best tip was this: SSH into the system with putty or some other ssh utility vi /etc/my.cnf at the end...

New in Windows 7: select some files in explorer and press SHIFT + RIGHT-CLICK on the selection. Lo and behold, a secret option appears: “Copy As Paths”! Similarly, SHIFT + RIGHT-CLICK on a folder ...

A reader (!) complained about not being able to get GPRS to work with China Mobile. Although I’m in no way an expert on the subject, I think I know enough to make a useful remark, or two.. The pro...

A few days ago I’ve moved to Shanghai and, since using a Beijing phone number in Shanghai is expensive, I decided to get a new phone number. I’ve decided to go with China Unicom, because their 3G s...

The default mailbox format used by postfix and dovecot is the mbox format. This basically boils down to a single file per user in /var/mail/ with all mails concatenated, one after the other. (Mail ...

Depends who you ask: mysql> select "2010-01-31" + INTERVAL 1 MONTH; +---------------------------------+ | "2010-01-31" + INTERVAL 1 MONTH | +---------------------------------+ | 2010-02-28 ...