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This weekend, I tried to install CentOs 6.3 in VirtualBox VM 4.1.20. I didn’t find any problem with installation until the first reboot on which the system told me: FATAL: INT18: BOOT FAILURE I tried many times to re-install this...
It is the second day of school. I was thinking about to prepare the keys for my daughters. Today, I went to Victory Trophies Store. It is close to my house. I talked to the lady in the store. She...
Dealextreme has good deal of some small items. I ordered leather case for Kindle Touch from Dealextreme. The items were shipped from Hong Kong. It took about two weeks to arrive my home by air mail. The price is good....
Reading the newspaper, 24hours. There are small paragraph about Education unrest at Hong Kong. Thousands of protesters surrounded Hong Kong’s government headquarters on Monday over a plan to introduce a pro-China school curriculum that they describe as an attempt to...
When I am a kid, my grandma makes shoes for us, my brothers and me. The Chinese traditional black shoes for all-seasons, and the one for winter. She passed away more than ten years. I missed her. Her house and...
More and more workers use social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. At the same time, more and more HRs make the decision based on the social media activity of a job candidate. Let us see a figure. 34% There...
Packt Open Source Awards always give the best choice for Open Source software. Blender is the winner of 2011 Open Source Multimedia Software. Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite. The steps to do it is model...
Mozilla released Firefox 15.0 few days ago. It is a big update from Firefox 14 to 15. Let us have a look at the new features. New Features Silent, background updates Support for SPDY networking protocol v3 WebGL enhancements, including...
I run VirtualBox on my desktop for testing purpose. Sometimes for fun. As Oracle releases VirtualBox 4.1.20 one week ago. I received the update notice when I double clicked the icon. Here is the change lists. VirtualBox 4.1.20 (released 2012-08-20)...
I do a database backup very ofter with mysqldump command. Just found an error come when I run the command, mysqldump as below. mysqldump: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ to database ‘information_schema’ when using LOCK TABLES I...
It is time to upgrade the forum powered by phpBB. New maintenance version 3.0.11 released. I have a small forum just upgraded from 3.0.10 to 3.0.11. It is easy to use Automatic Update Package. There are tons of bugs and...
During past few days, I did some modification on my blog here to accomodate the social media changes. First, I removed Digg button code from templates. Not just because of the traffic from Digg is very limited, but the Digg...
The experts have loads of advise on how to make your passwords stronger. Most of it is bunk. To Manage your Online Passwords, you can choose one of the best ways below or mix them. 1) Write them down Just...
I used Acer Aspire One very often these days. Just feel the fan is too noisy. I think it is time to clean it now. But, it is not a PC. It is a Netbook. Very compact. How to disassemble...
When computer, or PC, was used for months, the system will need to be tuneup. Just like a new car, after few month driving, it have to be sent to dealer garage to get a adjustment. AVG PC Tuneup 2011...