Important Things 1999

There has been several days before I found that dropbox is prohibited.

Oh, another one! This is my current feeling.
No angry, no depression.

A long time no update.
Just recording my feeling about loss of dropbox.

Everyone is used to this situation.

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Maybe there is no service provider outside suitalbe for us. We should have our own storage service provider.
But, no one will do without income in this country.
And, we have seen so many cheats in Internet that everybody knows menoy is the goal for any free service.

In another word, we are smart men.

Can’t bear Firefox V3.5 any more, so back to V3.0.13, and update to V3.0.14.

But, still slow in its first startup.

Remove lots of plugins, only keep,

1. IE Tab

2. Zotero

3. Xmarks

4. Alexa Sparky

5. Gmail Manager

Maybe all these add-ons is why I like Firefox, and not give up to Maxthon.

Have tested Maxthon which is IE Kernel, two words to describe it “like light”.

But, I do NOT like its Adv in left-bottom status bar.

If, Mathon provide Zotero and Xmarks, and discard its Adv, ……………..  Hehe, it’s impossible. It’s more like a company.

1. Right click, select “Pick link source”
2. select which directory to be dropped in
3. Right click, drop as Junction

Source: USB disk, NTFS partition, with lots of files in directories names by date.
Target: Application root. NTFS partition, need input lot of files, but has limited free disk space.
Object: temporarily mount another directory in another NTFS partition.
Software: NTFS Junction by “Link Shell Extension“

To solve the error that .chm file can’t be shown correctly,

1. run notepad.exe

2. copy the following code, and paste
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\1.x\ItssRestrictions]
"MaxAllowedZone"=dword:00000003

3. save the file with type .reg, such as chm.reg

4. double click the .reg to input it

5. run .chm, it’s normal now.

Usually, I use VPN to update my Outlook. After succeed dial-up, the policy of company will prohibit you to visit lots of websites, such as youtube, google word, and all vicious websites he thinks. How to visit those websites and update Outlook at the same time?

This is my VPN solution:

1. Host OS: Ubuntu Linux
2. Guest OS: Microsoft Windows in VMware Workstation/Server for Linux(If you are VCP of VMware, they will send you a formal Workstation license after passing training class and VCP-310 test).
3.  CISCO VPN and Outlook software is installed in guest OS(Windows).
4. Using Linux to visit website which is prohibitted by the company’s firewall.
5. Using Windows to dial VPN, and setup VPN tunnal, Outlook will using this tunnal to receive and send email.

Since tunnel is setup by Windows, no Ubuntu, so Ubuntu can do anything without considering firewall of company. This will be helpful when you work at home.

Internet access network can be ethernet or wireless, because Windows(Virtual machine) don’t care about it, setup of physical line is job of Ubuntu.

If this article help you, I will be pleasure to hear from you.

I like Firefox, because it’s open and there are lots of addons. Firefox is a platform, not like IE6, which just is a web browser. Here is another plugin for Firefoxer.

Sothink Web Video Downloader

Download any web videos and enjoy them anytime.

* Download live videos, music, streaming media
* Download flv, swf, wmv, asf, avi, mov, rm, rmvb, etc.
* Download videos from Youtube, Google, MySpace, and so on
* Support Mozilla Firefox for Windows | Linux | Macintosh

Now and then you may want to save a funny web video from a video sharing website, but in most cases you just don’t know how. Try Sothink Web Video Downloader for Firefox, which automatically monitors Mozilla Firefox, detects live videos and prompts you to download. You don’t need to copy and paste anything — just get what you want with one click.

Sothink Web Video Downloader for Firefox works with almost all websites, and supports most live formats including flv, wmv, asf, avi, mov, rm, rmvb, etc. It brings great convenience to over 30,000 users in the world.

Key Features
Video Capture & Video Download functions

* Automatically detect Web video or Flash files for video capturing and downloading
* Capture video, download video and save video fast from Internet
* Fast speed to complete video downloading process
* Capture Flash SWF content with never-expired function of our popular freeware SWF Catcher
* Fetch video of different formats including flv, swf, wmv, asf, avi, mov, rm, rmvb
* Easy to download video from Youtube, Google, MySpace and many other video sites and blogs
* Capture videos under WINDOWS, LINUX, Mac OS X (x86), or Mac OS X (PPC):

Read more…

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.

Refer: http://www.zotero.org/

IT1999 says “I used to collect web content using myBase, please refer: myBase for Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista, until found zotero. “

Note: zotero directory can be backuped with dropbox or mozy.