My stance on iPhone

Published 2 years, 3 months ago in Devel/Software and General. 0 Comments

I’m still not convinced, although most of my (more advanced) friends were using it. I won’t like to key in stuffs that I have to look at it to not be wrong, nor I won’t like I don’t know which keys were I pressing.

I love my Nokia E71, or my slow Sony Ericssion M600i, which I will surely know which keys I have pressed.

Apart from that, the stubborn Apple corp. culture has driven me away from any of their products (except QuickTime Pro on Windows, which I happened to pay for, as a software package from Apple).

Taiwan trip 2009

Published 2 years, 5 months ago in General and Travel. 0 Comments

Razer Mamba

Published 2 years, 8 months ago in General. 0 Comments

Bought one recently, the packaging is very nice, the finishing of the charging dock and the mouse is top notch. The shape matches very well with my hand. I like its wireless/wired dual mode capability that I don’t have to be wired when I don’t need the highest precision and lowest latency.

2009may-mamba.jpg

Beer and the economic turmoil

Published 2 years, 8 months ago in Beer. 0 Comments

Doesn’t look like there are any effect on the prices of the beers that I like, some even had a increase in price than discounts.

It is Hoegaarden, I usually buy it at HK$8.9 from a neighboring supermarket before, but it’s price has been raised to HK$13.8 recently. I had stopped buying it since then. It had been in the market for a while, don’t know how the distributor suddenly thinks it worth that much more.

Doesn’t changed much for my other favourites, e.g. Duvel, Chimay, Maisel’s Weisse.

FreeBSD 7.2

Published 2 years, 8 months ago in Devel/Software. 0 Comments

It was released even before I have time to upgrade my servers to 7.1.

FreeBSD 7.2 official announcement

Company of Heroes – Company of Patches

Published 2 years, 9 months ago in Games. 1 Comment

Bought the gold edition of COH recently, I’ll never understand why the patches system is so disgustingly clumsy. Before I can even start a single player game, I have to go through patches after patches, wasting a lot of time in downloading the huge patches. Couldn’t Relic just allow people to use the disc to play a single player game peacefully than being forced to download patches after patches for hours (on usual ADSL) ?

The worse thing happens when you install the game, patched it and then found that you need an install in addition to the key of Opposing Fronts. Installing Opposing Fronts will net you an old version of the tree and you need to apply the patches again.

It might be my first and my last PC game from Relic. I can stand with frequent patches on open sourced software, but not commercial products, especially not for games that should be for fun.

Zone Of the Gamers is closed

Published 2 years, 9 months ago in General. 44 Comments

Zone Of the Gamers is closed, as noted in a previous post in Z-O-G.ORG. Thank for your kind support all through the years. Thank you.

FreeBSD 7.1 is officially released

Published 3 years ago in Devel/Software and General. 0 Comments

I’d been waiting for it to upgrade my servers (they are still running on FreeBSD 4.x). It’s here finally. Thank you very much, team FreeBSD.

FreeBSD 7.1 official announcement

Merry X’mas

Published 3 years, 1 month ago in Life. 0 Comments

Too bad that I caught a cold today, hadn’t left home for a minute. Hopefully I’ll be better today after a good sleep and 2 pcs of panadol.

ACDSee Pro, finally unicode

Published 3 years, 4 months ago in Devel/Software. 1 Comment

It has been almost 10 years since I bought my license of ACDSee V3.0 in 1999, it doesn’t support unicode until today that I received a complimentary upgrade e-mail (for my ACDSee Pro 2.0 license) to the latest ACDSee Pro 2.5.

I have been waiting for this day and it has finally come.

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