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Uncategorized02 Oct 2008 07:09 pm

Every time when I start to “play” with some software, I jot down a “damngram”, such as :

abc_software: dgddddggdddD
def_software: dddD
ghi_software: gggggD
jkl_software: dddggddddgddd
mno_software: D

A small d means “damn!”, but may be still working.
Big D means “DAMN !”, lose temper, don’t bother me anymore!
A small g means “good!”, I am somehow satisfied and willing to continue.
Big G mean “GOAL!”, the task has been done!

Today, I jot 13 big D , a mountain of d and 0 g/G on wikis …. -_-

Uncategorized02 Oct 2008 05:26 pm

Thanks very much for those who make and keep updating wikimatrix. I am sure that reading the big table on wikipedia has no fun.

All the below are my own opinion, which in turn are based on my special requirement and vision.

Tiddlywiki

I am a long time fans of tiddlywiki, for personal use. In particular, I love the BSD license, love the pyTW adoption when planting to server. Best for wiki / javascript hackers.

But it is simple NON-solution for multi-user environment.

Mediawiki

English wikipedia ( in fact most non-Chinese language wikipedia ) helps me a lot.

The downside is trivial, mediawiki means to be public, for text only application. I cannot blame it, but would not use it.

TWiki

Good to have ACLs ( by default, when compared to other wiki software and their often outdated ACL plug-ins ). Use it for projects and internal collaboration.

Bad, very bad when you want to install it ….

tikiwiki CMS/Groupware

Lots of features, you cannot treat it as wiki only.

Sorry, I always give up for its all-in-one, tiny font-size, rather ugly styling.
A mess of dot-php files when extracted.

PBwiki

Can anyone tell me what’s the point ? Using PB in barcamp.org is … a nightmare full with 500 and 404 for me.

Pmwiki

Good, very good for its advanced table cell syntax. Installation is not hard as well.

Yet, still have to figure out how to build up the user accounts.

Uncategorized19 Sep 2008 04:04 pm

I make local copy of jquery + GM my default browser plug-in, even in Chrome.

Thus… I have AdBlock in Chrome now -_-.
And the very first thing to block with is the *.facebook.com/* $(”div.adcolumn”);

Yes, paranoid am I. Rather pay 1 USD / mo to FB to get rid of all ads….

Uncategorized02 Sep 2008 01:52 am

barcamp Hong Kong 2008

Thanks a lot to Dennis of BeanBox, the new RED HOT barcamp.hk website is launched !

Now, mark your calendar like me:


Ben
@ 30boxes

( the above widget might not been shown up in RSS , please visit my site )

In Short:
1. Sign up NOW , either at the wiki or facebook group
2. Know where to go, how to go. If you have any questions, please DO ask in facebook group. Please feel free to email/gtalk/msn me ( I am writing the BarCampHowTo )
3. Call your friends to go together
4. Blog/Twitter (with “#barcamphk“) before and after you go

Uncategorized28 Aug 2008 02:17 pm

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.

Uncategorized30 Jul 2008 01:58 am

mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_approved=’spam’;
Query OK, 1121292 rows affected (88.5 sec)

Other 30k comments are NOT filtered as spam , I’ve just approve 8 of them.
Other 29.992k comments where deleted by a huge bunch of SQL operation.


My bad, this old version of WP does not close comments for old post , in contrast to what I’ve expected.
SQL is always the real place to do admin….

( Why I’ve stopped to approve comments ? Imagine that after a holiday, you have some 1K comments waiting approval…
and WP show 1K of them at once in the admin page, no pagination, 99.9% spam … That was what I find after not adding new rules for spam fighting for a month.

1 year later, I have got such 30K pending and 1M filtered spam. Poor server, sorry guys….)

Uncategorized13 Jul 2008 11:25 am

http://friendfeed.com/bencrox

Bravo ~!
Dont comment on my blog.bencrox.info, comment on friendfeed instead.

Uncategorized30 Jun 2008 10:41 pm

OK , I have no spare time to manage this blogware, especially when moderating comments.

I don’t want to challenge spam fighting after not being a mail server admin for 2 years.

Two option:

1. Use third party comment system, such as … Google Friends connect ?

2. Completely move to another BSP. ( and yes, I have some activity in blogspot, and one quite active xanga )

At this moment, option 1 is not yet feasible. So I will spend a little time to explore more BSP and feed apps.

This blog ( either http://blog.bencrox.info or http://www.bencrox.info/wordpress , the same thing ) will be used to post announcements ( for hkday.net BBS , or anything that worth ) and to do experiments ( anyway, I can touch the very back end to play with). No comments.

My xanga site will still be active, Chinese only. ( I don’t like xanga, yet it keeps nice footprints. Too bad it loads Google analytics in the worst way, that sucks. )

I’ll blog in English ( errr… or else ) in other site, mainly for tech / programming stuff.

Uncategorized31 May 2008 12:51 am

Just to shout for the new date. Please refer to last post ~

Uncategorized29 Mar 2008 07:52 pm

…. 直到換系統吧。

太扯了!
08 年出的文章已經很少﹐但是在編輯中途﹐因各種原因而文本全失﹐怕且也有十萬字。

單單剛才就丟了 30 字 x 三百幾行﹐冇癮。

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