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In my previous post, I’ve said that you can sneak in anything in the Shanghai metro between five and seven o’clock in the morning, before the security check points employees start working. Well, you don’t have to be an early bird to do that. You can keep your bad-ass weapon in your pocket, or carry [...]

Today, I downloaded the Magento e-commerce platform to evaluate for a project. The feature set looks good, and there seems to be a lot of people deploying it. Following the installation instructions, everything seemed simple enough. Fired up Firefox, entered the URL to login into the admin panel: http://127.0.0.1/magento/index.php/admin/ Input the right admin username and [...]

In preparation for the Shanghai Expo, security check points and scanners have been installed in all Shanghai metro stations. Every bag and luggage has to go through the scanner, slowing down the otherwise-already-jammed traffic, and making travelling by subway an annoying experience. But we feel more secure, right? Let’s say you are a terrorist and [...]

Like a lot of people who use Linux as the main desktop, but still need to sync with a mobile device, I have to maintain a Windows XP guest OS inside VirtualBox. This is especially true for people who use Windows Mobile device. For all its stability and qualities, Linux’s support for mobile devices and [...]

If you have a Linux guest OS in VirtualBox, and if you use the Export Appliance functionality to export the virtual machine, after you import it on another host, you probably find that the network interfaces in the Linux guest OS have been changed. This is because when you import your virtual machine on another [...]

A blog is a soliloquy of a lonely person sitting in front of a computing device, moaning and groaning about an imaginary illness, or writing pompous prose to satisfy a bigger-than-life vanity, or venting some dark and hazy rages, or stretching a hyperbole to infinity. Mea culpa, I fell prey to the same narcissism after [...]