The Ji Village News

Author: Haidong Ji

  • Resolving nvidia card display issue on Ubuntu

    Today I purchased a HP Pavilion p6130y desktop as my main development workstation at home. I pulled the Intel X-25M SSD out of my laptop, and put it into this new box as the primary disk, and loaded Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit on it. So far, I am impressed. Things are fast and the machine is…

  • Different lingoes for bookmark lookup and why bookmark lookup can be costly

    In the past, when I read technical books, I tend to skim through them, looking for keywords and only read the part that is relevant at the moment, and move on. Sometimes I would make an attempt at finishing a whole book, but a few months or even years later, I haven’t even finished the…

  • Geeky notes: monitors, WinSplit, PrintServer, Intel SSD

    Long time no see, dear reader. Quite a few things have happened. Frankly, I feel pretty drained in the last a year or two. Lately, I’ve spent time pondering about some metaphysical questions, such as the meaning of life, identity issues, and things of that nature. Hopefully those thinking will make me a better human…

  • 2009故国行进行式

    在上海，今天早上飞厦门，带着太座和儿子，进行在厦近三天的怀旧之旅。因在福建，所以决定坐火车顺便游览武夷山。之后回山东老家。二十号左右回美前会在上海逗留几天。 一开始在上海旅馆里，小站季庄新闻倒是畅通无阻，但查Gmail时出现问题，遂荡Foxyproxy解决之，上股沟的困难也一并搞定。试着上推特，虽然我基本上是个哑巴用户，未果。不禁被政府公关和信息部门一些人士的愚蠢、闭塞、教条和不安全感深深地折服。感觉网络管制的怪异行为，定会记入史册，在让后人耻笑和感到毛骨悚然的同时，希望不会被以不同的方式重复。

  • Installing Windows 7 on Samsung N120 Netbook

    Installing software on a netbook is tricky, as there is no CD/DVD-ROM drive on it. One could buy a usb-attached CD/DVD-ROM for it. It is also possible to do it with usb thumb drive and usb disk drive. I have Western Digital’s usb disk drive, and that was what I used to install Windows 7…