Bye, Bell
Filed in Business, IT, Personal, October 11, 2007, 2:11 amGoodbye, Bell.
I’d canceled the Bell Internet service today. Too bad. Before today, everybody told me they had some unhappy experience with Bell, but I didn’t believe them and I defended.
Now I know: I am wrong, I am totally wrong.
When I came back from Toronto in early September, I moved to this new place. At the [...]
I Wish My Books Can Go
Filed in Design, Personal, October 10, 2007, 7:06 pmEvery time when I move, the BIGGEST problem is my books. I have lots of books and each of them is heavy. If you have 10 or more books like INTRODUCTION OF ALGORITHMS to move, I know you will or had already felt my pain. If you look at the design below, you probably will [...]
Autoboxing Makes Java Be 99% Object-Oriented
Filed in Programming, , 2:50 amI remember that back to the early age when I was first beginning to learn the Java programming language, there was a famous quote (in China): Java is a 95% object-oriented programming language..
Why was it? Because Java has primitive types built-in. I have to admit that I both love primitive types and hate them. Loving [...]
Why ShipIt?
Filed in Linux, October 9, 2007, 8:48 amUbuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) now can be pre-ordered in ShipIt. When I was filling the order form yesterday, I was wondering some questions: Are there any real needs for me to order free CDs from ShipIt? I can burn CD/DVDs myself, is this a kind of wasting resource?
In my hands, there are only 3 Ubuntu [...]
iPhone: Sexy Voice
Filed in Gadget, October 8, 2007, 2:53 amToday, I’d seen an iPhone; this is the first time I met a real one. One of my roommate’s classmate owns it. I believe he bought the iPhone from US and unlocked it in order to make it work with Rogers or whatever phone company in Canada.
I hadn’t gotten chances to touch it yet, but [...]
Circular Linked List Problem
Filed in Programming, October 7, 2007, 2:06 pmHow to determine a linked list has a cycle without marking any nodes? This is a classical interview question and one of my friend brought it to me.
When I came across the question, I thought that we might count the nodes. If the our counter goes behind the linked list’s size, we could say that [...]
Weird Hex Output
Filed in Programming, October 4, 2007, 10:59 amIn C++, to output and integer in hex, I’d been taught to do this:
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Zooomr’s uploading issue solved, sort of.
Filed in Web, October 3, 2007, 11:59 pmZooomr, like my favorite Flickr, is a photo sharing service. It’s provides unlimited storage for free; this is the point makes me give Zooomr a try.
Unfortunately, the first impression Zooomr gave me was terrible: I couldn’t upload any photos from my Ubuntu box. When I was trying to upload A SMALL (in file size) picture, [...]