In my previous post, I was talking about how unreliable it is to sync between Windows Mobile and Linux (Ubuntu to be precise). SynCE, OpenSync, etc, still had a lot of bugs. And believe it or not, those bugs are known for a long long time, and they never got addressed. As in my previous [...]
One of the annoying things of using Linux has been to get your personal data synced between your Linux desktop and your mobile device(s). We are past the first decade of the twenty first century, an era where everyone is carrying multiple mobile devices, and have multiple desktop computers, and Linux still does not have [...]
This page-turner mixed facts, history and fiction. You do not know when facts end and when fiction starts, and when fiction ends and facts start. Fictional extrapolation from facts became blurry. Unless you want to do extensive research like the author did to find out. As you read through the pages, historical and background events [...]
Visiting the Shanghai Universal Expo was supposed to be a fun experience. The theme Better City, Better Life was meant to be a prelude to an exhibition of human civilization, societal progress and technological achievements. There was indeed progresses, as anyone who has lived in China for the last few years can attest to. However, [...]
Ok, Java 7 is not out yet, but as a programmer, aren’t you eager to try it first hand? Here’s how to add Java 7 to your NetBeans IDE, and get a feel of what is coming up. Go the OpenJDK web site to grab the latest build of the JDK 7. If you have [...]
All Java programmers have run into, one time or another, the problem where a specific class is not behaving like it is supposed to. After banging your head on the monitor countless times, you suddenly realize that the wrong version of the class file has been loaded, and you start to track down which jar [...]
This is probably old news as this feature has been out for a quite a long time, but I’d like to say to big thank-you to the NetBeans developpers to come up with a nice, very intuitive debugger for debugging multi-threaded applications in NetBeans. Kudos for the good work. As I’ve said in a previous [...]
Financing has always been a hard problem in China, especially for small and medium businesses. It is understandable that banks are reluctant to lend to small businesses, as credit evaluation system is almost nonexistent, although governments at different levels have been trying to establish some kinds of measures and evaluation mechanisms. Businesses may need an [...]
Scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China, in Hefei, and from Tsinghua Universtiy, in Beijing, have succeeded to transport quantum information over a free space distance of 16 km, from a source at Badaling in Beijing to a destination in Huailai in Hebei province (see map below). Quantum information teleportation is not [...]