Ben Crox on Blog

Again, the MS sphere make me more than angry. Technically I appreciate their holistic ecosystem. But they are never as ideal as they claim.

You can always recruit a team of MSCEs or so, you can feed them with decent salary / training, but can you tell them to challenge and tackle problems ?

Some always being smart enough to do so, yet the majority would recommend stupid fall backs. That is how Microsoft describes security and maturity, like a falling old man.

That is exactly how Linux is differ from Unix, edge differ from stable. You don’t need to know everything, you just need to learn a lot, to prepare for the never ending life of debugging , restructuring and patching if you DO open source. Of course, you are not to debug for bugs, not to reconstruct the old falling castle, nor to patch all the way the broken parts.

You do all these mainly for a HANDSOME base that you hacks onto, that you get all the good feelings and to be FREE to INNOVATE, to remix and to build dream life.

And then, some MSCE tell you: “Sorry man, where can I find a replaceable alternative after kicking your genius butts, like all those replaceable screw and nuts ?”

YEAH, Microsoft itself is not the business evil. It is where business evil breeds. And MSCE is nothing more then a popular brand of screw and nuts, despite the vast pipe of talents/genius got branded.

Being SO STABLE ( delivering classic BSOD ) , do your highly certified MS experts ever feel safe with their nicely dummy GUI ? Ask them !

Listen BSD/*NIX guy, if you know at any point your stuff might fall, prepare a damn nice funny Graphical Screen of Death. Twitter save themselves by the whale, we all have to LEARN.

I said google apps will doom google mail. Yes it does.

Google spamming is that easy :

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Friends just point me to read David Webb’s Post on HKIRC governance dispute, which I strongly recommend to all dot-hk domain owners, all HK bloggers / entities who had thought about owning one dot-hk domain.

In short, our government has never been efficient, never after the handover. It CANNOT BE TRUSTED to protect freedom of speech. It blocks foreigners for naive political concern. It dreams to be CCP hounds and no more.

But I just don’t know who can be trusted. Will Mr Webb take part to serve us citizens in the IT field? At least, can anyone tell me who are the best persons to direct HKIRC ? Sorry, but I have to say, the government may not be too bad a choice than other No-Names / Way-too-Busy-Big-Heads.

I have some dot-hk domains, but I’ve avoided to reg / recommend any one to reg more dot-hk s. HKDNR has reformed a little bit, yes, a little is still something. But I hate how it treats old customers. The fees, the service and the procedure set up in the old days are just VERY TERRIBLE. It hurts old birds too much, but HKDNR just keep all terms for it clumsy policy.

I don’t think entrance fee for dot-hk is high. But the service in return just does not match standards.

What else do people be aware of dot-hk sites then possibly mal-ware hosts ?

I don’t know. To me, dot-info has been a nightmare. Everytime I leave comment on blogs from other BSP, I am discouraged to set my link ref to this blog, because of dot-info ’s bad reputation. Akismet, what wordpress.com and many BSP uses, just drop all comments from people pointing to dot-info sites. I am quite sure that dot-hk would attain this state very soon, leading all owners, especially local students/teachers, bloggers to a dead alley.

Say something, Charles / Samson. I would not vote any of you. But it is your DUTY to respond, dot-hk dudes!

I hate Microsoft.

I just want to do a VERY SIMPLE udp echo test in a XP without compilers.
Guess what? ttcp.exe is AGAIN NOT FIND.

I don’t have the XP SP2 disc at my hand.

- MSDN doesn’t help
- Google doesn’t help
- PCAUSA dump me a nice 404
- Many of my bookmarked missing file providers VANISHED.

I just want a light weight compiled tool to do some udp echo tests. What the hell is searching for UDP echo server client ?
SOURCE , SOURCE , SOURCE , OUTDATED SOURCE, NON-USABLE EXEC, SERVER BUT NO CLIENT,
LINUX, LINUX, LINUX, PERL SCRIPT, CYGWIN….
DAMN!

There is one mighty echotool.exe wildly available for download.
But if you are the generous author of EchoTool, please let me tell you that your great tool comsumes 100% CPU in listener mode, HOLY!

I don’t know what happened to all those nice and safe Win32 UDP echo test executables ONCE available everywhere. They are missed in first 20 pages / top 200 results from my bunch of searches. HOLY Google, well done.

I’ve managed to ask a friend with SP2 disk to send me ttcp.exe two hours later. What a waste of time.

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To show up my anger, allow me to add a link to my visitors’ favorite Vista Telnet post.