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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
By Steve Jobs

First time configuration on MediaWiki

Posted on:  January 9, 2012  |   Category: Computer, Website  |   No Comments

1. Enable File Upload Function:

Edit this file

LocalSettings.php

under the Mediawiki root directory, change the parameter of

$wgEnableUploads

to be true,

then you can see that a Upload File link appears under Toolbox on the sidebar.

Also, you have to change the properties of the default upload directory “image” to allow it to be read/write.

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凡人

Posted on:  November 29, 2011  |   Category: Thoughts  |   No Comments

凡人

我終究是一個凡人，一個沒有背景只有背影，略有思想卻一不小心就會成為眾矢之的的凡人……

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Long time no update on my blog

Posted on:  November 27, 2011  |   Category: Uncategorized  |   No Comments

It’s been a long time since the last time I updated my blog post. That is for some reasons, like the preparation of GRE and TOEFL and the application, my VPN was once expired and I didn’t renew it in time…

But the most important one is that, it seems that I have lost the desire of self expression, and I’m kind of, you know, totally disappointed in the society and country I live in. I have no more faith in it and I don’t believe that I can make a change. Though I can still make small changes in my own life and more or less give people around me some positive influences, I still feel that what I’m thinking and trying just make no sense, this society is too big and people’s minds are too hard to be changed or even influenced. And if I’m not careful enough, I may even become an enemy. In an environment that you’re either a friend or an enemy, discussion and different opinions are not tolerated and accepted, no need to mention “changes”.

But my time is limited, I still have a career to pursue, an American dream to realize……maybe that’s the case: I cannot change others life, no matter how much I care about them, but I do can change mine.

So, I’ve decided not to care about so many things any more. I only care about my self, my career and my future. The society forces me to be a selfish man and to some extent a “bad man”(at least I can conclude that from things I’ve been through), so that’s not my problem.

I do have a good heart, and I’m still gonna be a good man and do good things when the time and environment are right. But now, I only care about my future.

I’m not living to please anyone; I’m not a stupid man that will sacrifice  my benefits to feed you people’s endless appetite and desire; I’m not a prisoner of anything.

無關政治，只因道德

Posted on:  May 15, 2011  |   Category: Thoughts  |   No Comments

其實最初構思這篇文章是打算寫一篇長文的，但在做了草稿之后發覺可延展的話題太多，而且以我現在的心境，也已無心過多、過深的探討這些問題，因此就索性擱置了。可是，我偏偏又不舍得浪費這個主題，所以借著這篇博文，將最近的一些感悟簡潔的寫來，也算當作這一階段的總結，在這之后，我會短暫閉關一段時間。

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The real speed of your Broadband Connection & Why your hard drive capacity is always less than the alleged one?

Posted on:  March 30, 2011  |   Category: Computer  |   No Comments

I write the two issues here together because they share a similarity, which is “the conversion between the units” used in computer system. To be specific, it is a matter of how computers convert bit, Byte, KB, MB, GB, etc, to each other. Now let’s see the problems.

 

1. We often find that the connection speed of our broadband is not as fast as we think it should be, and even far less than what the service provider tells us. For example, we setup a 2M ADSL broadband at home and only find that the maximum download speed is just around 250 KB/s, far less than “2M”. So why?

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准备GRE写作的感想

Posted on:  March 5, 2011  |   Category: Language Learning, Thoughts  |   No Comments

Because my blog has been blocked in China, so this might be the last passage that written in Chinese. I know that many friends, other Chinese visitors, and GRE/TOEFL guys are unable to access my blog, but I’m sorry, this is my blog, I’m not gonna delete any of my passage/words to avoid being blocked by the fucking GFW, I’m sorry.

 

       2011年2月9日，我“自我感觉良好的”“顺利的”完成了GRE写作考试。

       其实有关GRE写作的感想和心得，网上已经有无数的前辈总结过了，我在入门阶段也是参考着他们的经验来的。但是，很不幸，我是一个懒人，因此通常来讲，传统的模板、背范文、背事例、建立固定提纲等方法对我不太有效。我曾经尝试过这些方法，但最终均以各种“看不懂”和“没坚持下来”而不了了之。可是，GRE写作部分又是一个躲不开的命题，因此我就索性随性的做了起来。当然，最终效果还不得而知，但至少从准备到实际考试的过程都很顺利。

       好了，做完铺垫，我将自己对于GRE作文一些方面的看法大概写一下，供他人及自己日候参考。

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多一个人读《1984》，自由就多一份保障——《1984》读后感（毛邓课作业）

Posted on:  December 23, 2010  |   Category: Thoughts  |   No Comments

这是毛邓课所要交的一篇“经典阅读”的读后感，老师说，最好读“红书”。没办法，我读不下去，所以就读“反动”书了。

多一个人读《1984》，自由就多一份保障

 

乔治·奥威尔（1903—1950），英国伟大的人道主义作家、新闻记者和社会评论家，著名的英语文体家，他的《1984》、苏联扎米亚京的《我们》与英国 小赫胥黎的《美丽新世界》被合称为 “反乌托邦三部曲”。 

《1984》是一部政治讽刺小说，书中描述的是对极权主义恶性发展的预言——人性遭到扼杀，自由遭到剥夺，思想受到钳制，生活极度贫乏、单调，尤其可怕的是，在这中模式中成长起来的人们，其人性已堕落到不分是非善恶的程度。

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一个Presentation

Posted on:  November 20, 2010  |   Category: Android, Computer, iPod Touch  |   No Comments

这是在“高级英语听说”的选修课上所做的Presentation，有关移动设备以及RSS订阅，喜欢的朋友可以参看。

（其间插入的有关iOS的内容因为恐涉及到原作者的版权问题，所以在我的版本中删除了，欲取得原版请到这里下载潘康華先生的PPT。）

PPT下载：Electronic-Devices

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