The Ji Village News

Category: Technology

  • Running Windows without anti-virus software

    I’ve been frustrated with anti-virus software for a while. At a client last year, I had to fight with Symantec to get a proper ASP development environment up and running. At home, I’ve used AVG, avast, McAfee, and others. Far from the feeling of being protected from the “scary world out there”, I started to…

  • 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…

  • 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…