不再给Google打广告了

前些日子把以前开通又一直没怎么用的Adsense账号又用起来了。WordPress还是挺方便的,装了个Easy Adsense插件稍微配置配置就搞定了。似乎以前这个账号已经被浏览了7000多次,我的收入是0.10$每千次,算下来也就0.8$,真少啊……要靠我这个站到达10$,不知道要天荒地老了。

我也算是比较讨厌广告这个东西的了,装Firefox都要安装Adblock Plus插件并且订阅针对中国的广告的列表。这样上网清净了许多,也少了很多漂浮不定、闪闪烁烁的广告。好吧,既然我也是讨厌广告的,那么,还是不要弄广告好了,反正也不值几个钱,前段时间就算免费给Google打工了好了。

周一,恢复正常作息,每天还是要去METEN,要不然口语又要生疏了。周三,日食,期望天气大好~

解决VirtualBox 3.0安装Windows 2000失败

最近在试用VirtualBox 3.0遇到了极大的问题,Windows 2000没法顺利安装,表现为在安装的最后阶段出现虚拟机自动重启的现象。我原来以为是IOAPIC等配置的原因,结果一一试过后都不能解决问题。最后只有在Bug系统上报告这个问题了(http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4474)

今天一回来就得到了回复,很快,就一句话:

This is documented in the manual. There’s a workaround mentioned in chapter 11 iirc.

果然,我找到了原文如下:http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#id2531590

Windows 2000 installation failures

When installing Windows 2000 guests, you might run into one of the following issues:

  • Installation reboots, usually during component registration.
  • Installation fills the whole hard disk with empty log files.
  • Installation complains about a failure installing msgina.dll. These problems are all caused by a bug in the hard disk driver of Windows 2000. After issuing a hard disk request, there is a race condition in the Windows driver code which leads to corruption if the operation completes too fast, i.e. the hardware interrupt from the IDE controller arrives too soon. With physical hardware, there is a guaranteed delay in most systems so the problem is usually hidden there (however it should be possible to reproduce it on physical hardware as well). In a virtual environment, it is possible for the operation to be done immediately (especially on very fast systems with multiple CPUs) and the interrupt is signaled sooner than on a physical system. The solution is to introduce an artificial delay before delivering such interrupts. This delay can be configured for a VM using the following command:

VBoxManage setextradata VMNAME “VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/Config/IRQDelay” 1

This sets the delay to one millisecond. In case this doesn’t help, increase it to a value between 1 and 5 milliseconds. Please note that this slows down disk performance. After installation, you should be able to remove the key (or set it to 0).

Windows 2000 安装失败

当作为客户端安装Windows 2000时,你可能回遇到如下的问题:

  • 安装重启,通常发生在组件注册这个环节
  • 安装将整个磁盘用空的日志文件塞满
  • 安装时报告安装msgina.dll失败

这些问题都是由Windows 2000的硬盘驱动的一个bug造成。在一个磁盘请求以后,在Windows的驱动中会出现一种竞争状态, 这种状态将会导致崩溃如果操作完成得过于迅速,例如来自于IDE控制器的硬件终端来得太快。在物理硬件上,在大部分系统上都有有一个可以得到保证的延迟, 所以这个问题通常隐匿了起来(但是在物理硬件上也可能可以重现)。在虚拟环境中,操作系统可能会立刻完成这个请求(特别是在非常快的多CPU环境中)并且 中断信号会比物理系统上来的早。解决方案是在这种中断前加人为的延迟。这种延迟可以使用下面的命令进行配置:

VBoxManage setextradata VMNAME “VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/Config/IRQDelay” 1

这将设置1毫秒的延迟。如果这都还不能解决问题,增加这个值于1到5毫秒之间。注意这会降低磁盘性能。在安装完以后,你可以将这个键值去掉(或者设置为0)
补充:VBoxManage命令在你的VirtualBox目录下面,在运行中输入cmd然后切换到VirtualBox目录就可以操作了。

种下茉莉花

去年在逛太升南路的时候,买了三瓶茉莉清茶,送了个魔法土和茉莉花种子。那么久过去了一直放在书柜里,等在气候适合的时候种下。四月份想起过一次,后来觉得太冷了,就忘了。今天又看到了,就拿出来试一试看能不能长出茉莉花来。

按照说明说,把魔法土放在盆中,并注入适量的水。我本想用一个可乐罐子减去一半来弄得,后来发现花台里面竟然还有一个花盆的盆底座,看起来还挺合适的。把种子放到魔法土的中间,两粒,我想总有一个能发芽吧。

放好了魔法土,然后就浇水啦。魔法土果然很吸水,但膨胀的速度倒是挺慢的,要有点耐心慢慢的等他胀起来。弄了一刻钟左右总算好了,土也不胀了,估计也就这样了。在泡上满满的水,放在淋不到雨的地方。大功告成~

剩下来的时间就是等何时发芽啦,说明书上写的7-10天哟……慢慢等吧,期待发点小芽,然后就可以移栽到大一点的花盆里面去了。倒还是挺有趣的。

夏日电脑保养秘籍

今天去给叔叔修了一下电脑,其实问题挺简单的,就是CPU风扇下面灰尘过多了造成蓝屏死机问题。当然大部分时候可能就说是遭病毒了哟,或者系统坏了哟。夏天不比冬天,电脑出问题多半是过热有关。以下几个步骤供参考:

  1. 打开机箱,开机,确认各个风扇在转。否则先把风扇弄转再说。
  2. 玩直到死机
  3. 拆。拆的时候要胆大心细,注意关电脑。另外也不要怕差错,电脑都有防呆设计的。准备一个毛刷,最好是防静电的。干的牙刷也有必要,能够清楚细小地方的灰尘。当然,如果你能够找到吸尘器也更好。
  4. 摸一摸CPU风扇是不是太烫了。如果是的话,看看灰多不多,多的话先把整个电脑的灰尘弄干净。

将CPU风扇取下来的时候最好保持是热的,因为硅脂在高温下是油性的,比较好取。将散热片左右左右的摇一摇慢慢取,不要垂直取,以防把CPU一起拔下来了。冬天特别要注意。

如果实在是拔下来了,也无妨,把风扇先取下来,倒着把散热器放在热水里面,侵入一半就可以了,CPU朝上,隔一会儿就可以把CPU取下来了。然后把CPU针脚用东西弄直。

拆了CPU装回去时一定要涂硅脂。涂硅脂的方法很简单,用你的手指(挺好用的)将硅脂在CPU上抹平就好。硅脂其实挺便宜的,电脑城卖硅脂那是抢人,在电子市场几块钱可能买到一大管的“导热硅脂”。电脑城卖的硅脂无论他说的在怎么样,其实都一样,反而价格翻了几十倍甚至上百倍。注意在电子市场买的“硅脂”有两种,一种是“导热”的,一种是“绝热”的,你一定要买“导热”的,要不然CPU烧了不要怪我。

  1. 如果CPU不是问题的话,那么就检查内存。用一款内存测试软件就可以搞定。大部分Linux光盘都带有MemTest软件,可以用来进行测试。当然这可能需要你刻录一张光盘进行光盘引导。内存测试未通过的话,那就可以找一根内存换了试试。
  2. CPU内存都没啥问题,那就可能是硬盘的问题了。硬盘产生坏道了可能造成系统不能引导或者启动时间变长或者运行死机。可以听硬盘有没有嘎嘎嘎嘎的响声来判断。如果能够进入系统,可以检查系统的日志(控制面板->管理工具->事件查看器)有没有HDD失败的事件。如果硬盘坏了,还是买新的为好,旧的可以作为移动硬盘用,存点不重要的数据也可以用上个一两年的。
  3. 如果CPU内存硬盘都没有问题,多半是主板或者电源出问题了。如果用的是劣质的电源,可以考虑换个电源试试。
  4. 如果上面均无效,那就只有请专业人士上门了,对症下药,呵呵。
  5. 如果专员人士也搞不定,那就记得从楼上扔下去,肯定很华丽……

如今电脑这玩意儿也不是什么高科技东西了,我家就4个电脑了。老爸家里面一个台式机,公司用我的旧笔记本,我一个台式机,下面液晶电视后面还藏了一个旧电脑当播放器用。电脑简直就是个家用电器一般的概念了,感觉就比电视机高档一点点。平常就注意经常清理灰尘,一般电脑还是挺耐用的就是。

就不多废话了,以前台电搞优惠的4G优盘确实有点垃圾哦,复制个2G的文件要用20分钟,速度太慢了,1M/s,造孽~还是直接用高速CF+读卡器来得快。

FUEL is disappointing

I was starting to focus on the news of FUEL (a game created by CodeMasters) a few months ago, and after a long period of wait it finally released at July 1st.

Just 1 days later, CD cloned version could be downloaded from Internet. I spent nearly 2 days to get it and installed it immediately. This copy was cracked by Razor 1911, and before the game started there was a very big animation showing “Razor 1911” with a short midi music.

The game movie was just so so and the main menu seemed to be a little simple. One year ago, CodeMaster published “DiRT” and “Grid”, of which the amazing 3-D menu gave me a deep impression. In FUEL, you could found no addition graphics setting in the game, but you can set it before you start by opening “GameSetting.exe”. This was a little “old fashion” style. The crazy thing is that you must use keyboard to manipulate or to configure. I guessed programmers could only do like this to save time developing multi platform game.

Things were all right before I started the first lap. I couldn’t find any normal way to move the vehicle. Most racing game use arrow keys to move, but this game use Space key to go forward and control to go backward. It’s so hard to control the car like this using one hand.

Beside this, I got very dizzy when I finished the 3rd lap. I had to press Ctrl+F4 to end the game. My best friends told me he had the same feeling as I did. I felt I would delete the game.

FUEL seemed to be disappointing and not be worth waiting for so long time. Maybe it could be the worst game after the success of DiRT and Grid.