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According to the report of DesktopLinux.com, the most widely use Linux is Ubuntu. Around 30% of people are using. I just used that for a little wide, that is not bad. But I am still a redhat guy.

During reading my exam material,what is "two-part name" in MS SQL?
After a google search, that is schema.object

I have an account in Blogger.com. There is a new function, auto-save. Very Useful!!!!!!!
No afraid to suddenly restart.

Last Fri, I went Apple showroom at Myer. I saw the new iMac. That is very metallic. so different from old iMac.

I watched Sun Vodcast. There is a project , Tango. There is highly related with my personal research interest. I am interested in linking different platforms together. Tango provides the framework by using web service for linking .Net and Java. Moreover, it has a endpoint to endpoint security and reliable service. It will save a lot of low level coding.

I am doing a research on web application framework. I found this article is quite good.

After my webhost company changed my account to a PHP5 server, my eGroupware instance has not HTTP 500 error anymore. I believe that is more suitable for it.

After I read APC about OQO Model 2, I did a google search. That is a real Vista PC. I am just wondering whether it is ok not to use solid disk. According to the specification, the battery can last for 3hours. That is ok for me.

Last week, my uncle asked whether he should build a Linux server at his home. I asked "What is the main purpose of your Linux server?" He replied,"It can make all computers in his home sharing the file." Well, he only needs a NAS( Network Attached Storage). For this sole purpose, NAS is a good choice, because the most of NAS servers are using low voltage CPU. Moreover, NAS is much easier to config than a Linux server.

I am reading a book about System Testing. It says the bugs will be duplicated across to the system and different project. I think this is because the code is re-using everywhere and sometime, we do some cut and paste. The worst case is the bug in the cut-paste code. As I remember, my thesis used a lot of cut-paste code too. I know this is not a good practice. That is better now. I am a C# programmer and learned to use component technologies. If there is in a component, it just needs to replace the DLL across projects. Yes, I know that is still a painful job.

I have not bought a PDA Phone at all.My friend asked me about this. That costs too much for me. Normally, it costs around AUD$1K. Moreover, this is not very useful for me. I am not a salesperson. I don't need to track my schedule. All I need that makes call and record my contact list.

Today, I listened a talk from TechEd 2006.
They mentioned TDD.
Well, I did a search in Wikipedia too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development

This is quite interesting ,Test-Driven Development. Writing the test cases and then only implement the codes for the cases. It sounds like a kind of hacking the code.

I have installed to two instances of egroupware.
One is on the server in web hosting company, this is using PHP 4.33.
Sometime, it will have HTTP 500 errror.
But in my PHP 5.1 server, that is complete good.

This week learning program is the networking library in C#. I aimed to write a ftp client.

I have done a google search on crypto topic.
Some examples are saying to CryptoStream(outStream,
TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider.CreateDecryptor(),CryptoStreamMode.Write) and then write chirp text into this stream. They are saying it will be decrypted. But this doesn't work for me. I used CryptoStream(inputStream,
TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider.CreateDecryptor(),CryptoStreamMode.Read) reads the chirp text and then writes into an output stream. That works!