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Suprise from ZJU, Bachelor of Art

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annonced by an unknow income call, i am qualified to have a Bachelor of Art degrees from ZJU, this was interesting as it was long ago that i graduate, and i didn't apply for it since then.

VMWare vmaudio sound driver 32Bit

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VMWare does only provide vmaudio sound driver for Windows XP 64bit, while it utilize 32bit driver that built-in in windows xp. there is no driver provided for windows xp 32 bit from vmware.

Adobe License problem

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this month, the new employee told me the company receives non-stop phone call from adobe China that tell him we should buy 25 acrobat pro license immediately.

2008 iPower Domain Pricing Change

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from ipower:
Due to the rising costs of domain names industry-wide, IPOWER is increasing the price of registrations and renewals from $6.50 to $6.85 per year. (This small price increase allows us to cover our own costs on domains.)

As always, you can register new domains through the IPOWER Web site, and you can renew your domains by logging into DomainCentral.
- 03/10/08 at 12:49 ET

this is small price change, but finally i have found a reason to move. authough the still cheaper compaire to godaddy whom has better service.

2008 deploy Windows Vista in a enterprise?

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so the conclusion is. we should not upgrade to vista in next 3 years, or never think about it until windows XP is dead, anyway we can install one or two client for test purpose.

Linux/Unix command environment for Windows 2000/xp/vista

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people who familiar with Linux/Unix often complain that MS windows command line shell was too weak and useless. so do i. i had been spend long time searching for a good Linux command environment for Microsoft windows. my coworker from another plant suggested me a software called Cygwin.

What Is Cygwin?
Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.

What Isn't Cygwin?
Cygwin is not a way to run native linux apps on Windows.

Cygwin is enough for most people who want to run Linux command in Windows.
you can download it from here: www.cygwin.com

Proe wildfire multi-language installation method

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Multi-lingual installation method for pro/engineer
(English only installation do not need to do this step)
Step 1: setting system environment variables (pro / e wildfires version 3.0 or later do not need this step)
1, WINDOWS 2000/NT/XP
In the "control panel" open "system" to find "environment variable" (2000 and XP different positions, but it can be found in convenient),
In the "system variables" add a new variable: LANG, enter a value: CHS.

step 2 install pro / e

how to test a fiber cable

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it sounds like a joke that we use a device cost less than 1 $ to test fiber cable. a LED(Low Emitting Diode) with 2 1.5V AAA bateries while solving fiber cable problem..
anybody knows that in information technology filed. there are 2 types of fiber cable, multi-mode fiber and single mode fiber cable.
multimode is what i we use very often as it is suit for low cost, short distance connection. usually less than 5 Kilometer.
it use LED device to send/receive the light.

pushbutton modified theme for drupal 6.x

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this theme is modified for a chinese website. pushbutton has very clean design. it is not fixe sized. large text size.
some code has modified to adjust the text display. and the color scheme also modified to act more like blue marine theme.

license: GPL
you can download it from here.<

xmlsitemap.6.x-1.x-dev for Drupal 6.x

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lot of people like me are waitting for the xmlsitemap drupal 6.x compatible version. the newest version till today still for 5.x. there is a 6.x edition but only compatible to drupal 6.0 RC. it does not support finall release of drupal 6.0 and 6.1

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