Category Archives: Computing

Fix: Windows 7 Chinese characters showing up as squares

Posted on July 12, 2011 by evozong

One of the things I really like about Windows 7 is its ability to recognise and show me my Chinese stuff properly without me manually installing the Asian language pack that I had to install in Windows XP to properly … Continue reading →

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The end of the DVD / BD era

Posted on July 8, 2011 by evozong

I think DVDs and Blu-ray discs (BDs) are reaching the end of their era soon, and I will explain why. Cost (US cents per gigabyte, quoted by Amazon today) DVD (still dominant in computers) hold about 4 GB of data. … Continue reading →

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Installing Windows 7 from USB instead of DVD

Posted on July 8, 2011 by evozong

Sounds incredible? Not to most tech wizards I guess. But for the rest of you muggles, this means that you don’t need to use a DVD drive in order to install Windows 7. Instead, just plug in a USB Thumbdrive, … Continue reading →

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Java’s sleep(), suspend(), and resume()

Posted on January 15, 2011 by evozong

As we all know, the very useful Java Thread methods sleep(), suspend(), and resume() have been deprecated. Many articles online tell us to use a control variable instead, by polling the status of the variable at key points in the … Continue reading →

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http Keepalive

Posted on January 8, 2011 by evozong

I was making a client program that connects to my server online a few days ago. Then I wondered about the kind of connection I needed to make with my server. It was a problem because: I cannot run external … Continue reading →

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