A Strange DVD RW Problem

December 6th, 2007 by kwong

My home workstation has a Plextor PX-708A DVD-RW drive, and it has been working perfectly until quite recently.
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MATLAB 7 under WINE

December 1st, 2007 by kwong

When I tried WINE many years ago, there were not that many large applications that could actually run smoothly without some sort of hacks.
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Network Traffic/Cyber Monday

November 26th, 2007 by kwong

It seems that the busy Cyber Monday does not bode too well for some popular online stores.
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MTU or 2701HG Gateway Issue — Update

November 22nd, 2007 by kwong

Back in May, I mentioned that I had noticed a strange problem about my Internet connection after I moved.
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CopySourceAsHtml Works Great With WordPress

November 3rd, 2007 by kwong

When I was using dasBlog as my blogging engine, copying code snippet into blog posts seemed to be almost as easy as copy and paste.
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I Was Not Alone

November 2nd, 2007 by kwong

In June and July, I wrote a couple of posts (1, 2) about my experience with AT&T, and apparently many more people have had similar experiences.
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Lousy GDI+ Error Messages

October 23rd, 2007 by kwong

I have heard many people complaining about how GDI+ handles errors.
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Apache Log Rotation on Ubuntu Server

October 3rd, 2007 by kwong

Interestingly, the log rotation utility rotatelogs which came with Apache does not work with Ubuntu 7.04 installation. At least not when the Apache is installed via apt-get.
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Setting up WordPress on Ubuntu Server

September 26th, 2007 by kwong

I switched my hosting environment from dasBlog + IIS on Windows to WordPress + LAMP on Linux a few days ago and everything seemed to have gone pretty smoothly so far.
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Hello WordPress

September 25th, 2007 by kwong

When I first started using dasBlog as my blog engine a couple years ago, my thoughts were that since it was open source and was written in .Net I could do some customization work if I wanted to.
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