Played around with my notebook these days..

• MS Windows Vista is not that worst….except the UAC.
• CULV and 8hr battery life is SUPER,   I have never walk with the power adapter on street yet. It change how you do think – like a mobile phone,  can use it at day and charge it at night.
• Just tried the DXVA with Media Player Classic – HC and it works very well, less then 10% CPU time was consumed. But how can I RIP my own AVI with DXVA compatible encoding?
• The harddisk is even 30% larger that on my deskop PC.
• It seem that the CPU is not slower then my desktop  PC also…..
• The text are little bit small on the 11.6″ LCD, it is a problem.
• Waiting to upgrade to Windows 7
• I always forget the numlock.
• The wifi is good, not tried the 802.11-N.
• I must buy a cleaning toolkit in this month……..
• It is quite tried if you take it and walk for a whole day……..you might running out of power before it does.
• Do you know that they officially remove the 10-half-connection limit from Vista SP2?
• Some how I disabled the Hibernate feature…..I have to enabled it back later.
• It is stupid………. It does not ship with a DVD-ROM or DVD-burner, but pre-installed a PowerDVD (I guess it is for DXVA)
• It it stupid(x2) .. Acer eRecovery tool cannot produce backup DVD, because it does not have one….. seeking for a remote burn or virtual DVD-burner.
• It ship with MS Works…try it out later,  but I still have to install Word/Excel Viewer later.

See also: I’ve just bought my first notebook – Dennis 的無差別 Blog.

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It is a Asia AS1810TZ.

I choose it not because it has many great feature nor size-&-weight.

I choose it because it is the only one in my ideal size with life battery in a acceptable price.

10″ inch models are too small for me. 14″ inch models are a bit heavy for mobility.  There are not many options between 11.5″ and 13″ inches.

I’ve think about HP DV2, but it is hot and short battery from some comment I heard about it. I will eventually do programing on it so I need RAMs and dual-core, netbook is cheap but they are not my choice.

I am looking for some how long lived battery and I found Acer timeline serials. 8 hours, wow, more then a double then the others.

There are not too much options with Inter’s solo processor (SUxxxx) CPU which have ultra-low-voltage. Lower power consumption make it lower heat and longer battery.

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Nokia 5800 XM F/W 31.0.101 is here | Sense Applied.

They said it has been release there, but not here.

I checked update from PC Suite, WiFi, and nokia web site; and they give same response.

Latest available software for  Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, product code 0575408
Version: 21.0.101

How longer will I wait for the update ?

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As you read, this blog is back online now.

The post are restored, however, images and my theme have gone.

Try to search around to see if any backup layer.

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I bet that @font-face will be the most stupid mistake they make into CSS.

It will allows HTML content to be disconnected with which actual user read.
I can write “Cat” in a HTML but apply a custom made font to display “Dog” to the user. I think the SEO and page-rank cheater will like that. It is relatively hard to detect by robots compare to img/display/javascript content patching.

I believe most search engine service provided do not want to see it happen.

Ref: font-face
http://www.qodo.co.uk/blog/re-introducing-font-face-css-rules/

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最近真係忙死，係我以為係我個 Project 死先定係我被個 Project 玩死嘅時候。今日突然之間變到了一個消息，有個朋友剛剛走左。

太突然，或許說，其實這種消息任何時候來都會來得太突然。

聽說是因為中風，不會吧？他還很年青

以前他有說過身體有點小事，但我想都是不影響日常生活的小事－－至少，看起來他肯定比我高大，比我健康上一百倍就是了。

最近還聽說他將會在下年結婚‥唉~

然後，我才發現原來我個人唔係好識反應，對身邊認識嘅人永遠離去嘅反應都都好唔實在。很平靜，完全沒有激動。小時候爺爺走了，在讀書時學校發生的過的大意外，去年嘛嘛走了，也是如此。
說起來，我好像沒有反應以的看得很開。
在學校的那場意外之後還被人以為是那種接受唔到現實嘅人而特別輔導過－事實上我是太過泠靜，反應唔多似正常其他人。

或許是我不了及死亡是何物吧。
我不相信有死後世界或輪回之說。（是不相信，不昃否定）
我比較相信，生命不是個體，沒有人會是個體。一個人走了，不是去了其他地方，也不是變得虛無，而是以另一種方式，係你我的記憶之中，係生活之上，工作上，留下光和影的印記。好似家驅，哥哥，同 Michel Jackson 咁，以另一種方式生存係社會入面。

朋友，一路好走

寫到咁多，我聽日要再去同個 Project 對殺。希望唔好被個 Project 玩死。

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早幾天看到朋友 forward 過來的一個只用純 JavaScript 實作的NES Emulator (No Flash, No Applet, No SliverLight, No ActiveX, No Native Client)

以前都沒有想過 Script on Web 都可以寫到這樣的程式

今日清理 Feed 時又看到 HTML5 的 News。

突然想到如果 Google 可以成功爭取 3D engine 同一大堆表面上對建網站沒有甚麼用功能加進去會如何？

不得了，那有可能全面替代 Rich Client 的地位。有部份應用程或是 client app 的原因只是 API 支持不足(另外就是檔案存放的機密性)，只能寫個 exe 或 plugin 來實現。例如 GTalk 或其他 IM，Adobe Reader, Google Earth, MS Office Reader, 各種的 Game 和 media player。

如果是在 LAN 的話，network 的 latency 和 broadwidth 該不是個大問題。

Google Earth 整合進 Google Map 不是不可能。Web Office 也能在無 plugin 之前進行很多操作。

再過五年 IPv6 和 Internet 都該有很大的進步。Browser 和入門硬件的世代替換。那樣的話，對軟件開發者來說用甚麼都是開發和發佈的影難度的決定了。

Flash 可以說已步入未期，獨佔太久市場卻沒有甚麼大作為…..這間公司只會賣開發/editor工具和硬件 license 賺錢。

JavaFX 我完全不看好….我完全找不到 killer application….而且Oracle 未必會跟著 Sun 的路走。

Sliverlight, MS 持著 .NET 統一開發的語言環境和技術，該有作為…..問題就是潛在昇温的 non-windows platform (Linux, Chrome OS, Apple) 特別是手機和 mobile device 的性能和市場越來越大。

HTML5 的問題就是開發難度。Javascript 的奇怪和 Cross browser 的困難可不是說笑的（其實不是 Web 也有 Cross OS, Shell, Theme 和 service pack 的問題）。但如果是像 GWT 一樣利用整合簡易化的方式呢？

如果 HTML5 提供的API完全做到 Fat OS 的 80%的事，那樣用 Chrome OS 也很合理。Cloud Computing 也很付合環保的原則。

Google 的野心和目光真的很大很遠

BTW….會有一天出現 SNES, GBA, SS, PS, PSP, NDS 的 Javascript 版 emu 吧… If there is a  possibility to happen, it will happen.

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