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I had never personally met any people of Occupy * (e.g. Wall Street, Boston, Oakland) until today when I decided to listen to them personally to have a better understandng of these people who have been making headlines. I listened to speeches of four Occupy Boston…

Few people know the exact origin and purpose of Halloween, but many people thoroughly enjoy it anyway. The Halloween at Salem, Massachusetts is among the most popular due to its famous witch hunt history. To me, the costumes and activities at Salem Halloween are the…

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Eastern Europe is one of the few places on earth where there is still strong sense and sensibility.

Update: Orchard is apparently reaching the end of its life by July 2017 judging on zero responses to issuses raised on either Github or Codeplex. The best candidate to replace it is Umbraco. Orchard for some including me is the best CMS - high performance,…

Run GenerateXXX.bat to generate the Java classes for ab ONVIF service. Find the interested class (usually starting from *Response.java) Clean the code by using http://www.hzhang.org/cleansoapstubclass.aspx In Eclipse, create the class in its package (e.g. net.biyee.android.ONVIF.ver20.ptz)

Download the zip file of your desired version. Follow the instructions to upgrade the Umbraco web project. The way to merge two files: It takes about 20-30 minutes to go over all the files that need to be merged. The entire upgrading process takes about…

The nor'easter on October 29 brought the series of daily foliage pictures to the end. The formation of beautiful foliage requires rapid temperature drop that curtails green chlorophyll while revealing colorful accessory pigments (carotenoids and xanthophylls) without killing the leaves. It had been unseasonably warm…

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The formation of beautiful foliage requires rapid temperature drop that curtails green chlorophyll while revealing colorful accessory pigments (carotenoids and xanthophylls) without killing the leaves. It had been unseasonably warm until the first nor'easter on October 29 in Massachusetts, so this year's foliage is not…

Upgrading is usually associated with progression, so it is surprising to see regression from Tendnet wireless router TEW-631BRP to TEW-639GR. It is puzzling to see some very useful features (e.g. event log, list of connected devices for adding reserved IP) have been eliminated while unwanted…

Orchard is maturing. Upgrading software nowadays is normally a routine process, so it should be quick and smooth. Upgrading Orchard is yet to be so. It took me almost a week to straighten out all issues and have a working instance of the latest version…

I am not sure about the exact goals of Occupy Wall Street. It appears to have grievances against the financial industry. If one of their points is that the financial industry has too much power, then I second this. Except for a small portion of…

Suppose a frequently used function consumes a Silverlight enabled web service, it is put into a class library naturally to be shared by all projects. There is a nuisance in using this function - the project uses this function is also required to be configured…

AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) - a combination of CPU and GPU - is a great concept. It is the economical line of processors from AMD. For most computer users, this may be the most sensible choice. Many buy expensive CPUs, and even more expensive…

It is given these days that any computer exposed to the Internet is subject to frequent attacks. Those running servers (e.g. SQL server) are particularly attractive to attacks. Most attacks from China probably because of the following two reasons: There are usually two ways to…

Suppose many Silverlight applications need a function encapsulated by a page (e.g. Feedback.xaml), this page should be created only once, and used everywhere according to DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle. The reuse of a page is very straightforward as following: Create a User Control page…

Today is the 100th anniversary of Xinhan Revolution. Xinhai Revolution is the culmination of a long struggle by the finest Chinese from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. Sadly, the goals of this greatest revolution in China last century are yet to…

..users\xxx\AppData can take 100+ GB data. Do not change the location of any of its sub-folders. Once the location is changed, the location tab will no longer be available (this is apparently a bug). Doing so could incur irreversible damages that may take one or…