Livejournal has been inaccessible for two days. Traceroute shows that the route is broken at 202.112.61.214--so it is, again, likely due to sabotage. How ironic it is, that exactly the same thing that had sent me here from MSN nearly a year ago is now forcing me to leave this lovely place ( Read more... )

Is Your Son a Computer Hacker

Apart from the excessive number of links, some of which pointing to inappropriate places, this article is a priceless piece of gem.

When I got the network problems fixed, I told mom that she could surf the Internet on her laptop. "Just be careful. Don't go to strange websites or download strange software ( Read more... )

Information theory is, in my opinion, basically the study of Euclidean spaces with a huge dimensionality, particularly problems like sphere covering and sphere packing. Many things are easier when the dimensionality approaches infinity, but unfortunately such a space is quite hard to visualize and usually impossible to deal with directly using a ( Read more... )

This surely looks crazy! I don't get it.


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Due to a glitch in the MSN passport service, I saw my MSN (or Windows Live) profile page for the first time in years.

And it said:

Birth date: November 14, 1970 Happy Birthday!

I don't know what I was thinking when I set the birth date to that date. Even though it is a nice day to be born in, I would not like to be 36 years old today!

http://loveruby.11915.com/bbs/index.php

It is a bit disconcerting to see a site vaporize into thin air just due to the expiration of a domain...

If only I have found www.chinaquest.com two days earlier, my poor mom would not have gotten off the subway and found herself off target by more than 3km. This site is able to convert street addresses to map locations, and more importantly, to help figure out what bus to take among the 1000+ lines in Shanghai ( Read more... )

The EDAS website used for paper submission to various IEEE conferences has been inaccessible here for quite a few days--unless I use anonymouse. Could it be true that this site is now behind the Great Firewall, too?

Update: a labmate noted that EDAS actually has a mirror site (http://www.edas.info ( Read more... )

The spam filter of one of my mailboxes seems to be functioning erratically. I still receive about 10 spam emails a day, but meaningful and even important emails are often getting rejected. As the filtering is done on the server and the mails regarded as spam are simply rejected, I didn't even know about the problem until, for quite a few times, ( Read more... )