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Macau is my current working location, and I DON’T get free GPRS for my Pay-as-you-go plan. I tried to put a empty value in the APN setting , it can still use the EDGE service with its own detection. And I have been riped off $50 (US$ 7) at the first day. And finally, i can stop it from request data by doing the following setting.  I would like to share this method to the people has the same situation.  

1. go to -> Settings -> General -> Network -> Cellular Data Network
2. In the APN field , enter a Dummy value , like “NOAPN”, and that’s it.  

You can restore the EDGE if you wanna use the service later on.  Hope it can help someone to save a beer.

I am so happy to get this device in hand, since i was the first-gen iphone user as well. In here, I need to provide some casual facts that i like this device.

1.  A Good 2G basic phone ( not classified as a 3G since there is no video conferencing)
2. A good email client for most of the webmail service (except Hotmail/Live Mail)
3. The best internet mobile device
4. multi-touch screen to let the user interact faster than other device
5. Chinese handwriting input 
6. GPS to locate the current position in the earth
7. Apps Store to let developer like me that to create or to get apps easily
8. A decent camera to take photos with friends

Although it is so great, there are still cons about it.

1. Camera is only 2-mega pixels
2. Auto reset / reboot itself if you try to doing too many things at the same time
3. Apps deliver conflicts with itune
4. the first-gen iphone docks doesn’t fit it in
5. EDGE can’t be turn off to save money
6. Notes doesn’t sync to my Mac in anyway
7.  The contact search bar is on the top of the contact list (not floating on top while you search contacts)
8. Hong Kong Apps store doesn’t come with all Apps that US had. ( I mean even some Free Apps is US or Europe Only Apps)
9. Wall paper inside the interface can’t be changed

Finally, I got the lovely 16GB iphone 3G white from 3 Hong Kong. I am so happy to getting this device since i lost the first generation in a taxi few months ago. I dreamed days and nights to get this phone in hand. And I really appreciate that my fiancee has queued in the lunch time and get it for me. She is the greatest. This iphone is so hard to purchase all over the world even after 2 week of its launch. Thanks for Queenie’s effort and i am play with it now. You deserve a “Big thank you”. THANK YOU!

Just seen some magazine that inspirit me to change the wp to current theme. And this time looks much better. Right? It’s almost a year that I working in Macau.com, time passes so fast. There are still so much to earn in here, as much as the web programming. I really pleased the company getting better and it will be better.
Really hope to get a MySQL cert later on this year or early next year in order to gear myself. I will make more frequently  update from now on, to let more people knowing about me.

I am so happy with QQ to go to the Aisawan. I never imagine i can have that kind of fortune. It was a great trip.There are a very luxury  hotel with nice swimming pool and a sunny beach near by as well. Not Only that, the most important is there is some one to share with you, my QQ.  We went to breakfast, lunch , swim, dinner , ping pong and movie…many many … Thank you for all that arrangement , Queenie.

Time passed so fast, I still remember the moment of Chinese New Year last year. Anyway, everything still gong smooth, I was so lucky to have all that, and I am so thankful. I hope everyone in the coming year will have their own fortune and happy moment of their own. Happy New Year, to all my families and friends  !

I haven’t update the blog since last post. There are so many things happened to me.

At work, a talented colleague has left us for his own reason, the rest of us will response for the new system implementation due on end of November.

On private, I have been Shang Hei to see a fastastic F1 race, it’s was great!…And i have a good trip with love one.

And i have joined the facebook recently, there are photos post on there.

I hope I will post more about the new system we are inplement and keep some “day to remember” here.

All in all, i am so happy at the moment. Thanks god and everyone!

It’s a long time that I haven’t write the blog since i got the plan from my boss that we will have super packed schedule til the end of the year. And I haven’t back to Hong Kong in August just for that. Sept has gonna be better. I am looking forward to October since I will to go ShangHai to watch a furious F1 racing in there.

Here we go, we are start a new page for Macau traveling legend. Macau.com new site has launched on Sunday 4:00 AM.
That was a hard-earned site launch since we worked for just 3 week to get it done from the GoMacau.com.:P It’s was a tired and excited experience to work as long as 18 non- stopping hours. I hope the site will go smoothly as the time comes….and getting better for all of us.

This post should be released on Friday night as everything in this post was happened on that night. Since some VIP come to my area, I just got time to write it 2 days later.

My Fedora finally setup on my Dell with beautiful GUI “Compiz”. Yeah, my dream comes true, although it’s not a big one. And I would like to share some steps of my installation in order to let anyone if there are problems to them.

All the steps is not in very details since it won’t be too specific to my system only.

1 . You get a Intel Dell with NVIDIA 3D card installed, mine is 7900GS 256M

2. Install the fedora 7 (mine is 7.9) for x86_64 with any package except virtualization, the main point is to ensure the kernel is original kernel , not with “Xen”, since Xen will be installed if virtualization is selected. Please install the Development tools as well. Xen is not support for the NVIDIA driver(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2.run) in this version.

3. After install the fedora, go to console (init 3), and install and compile the NVIDIA drive. Please let it install everything include OpenGL drivers and the X configure files.

4. If the Driver can’t fine the source for the kernel, please use –kernel-source-path to point out the kernel source for it, (most likely will local in /usr/src/kernels/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7-x86_64) and i hope it will be fine for you to have the driver compile and installed.

5. Reboot it and back to the fedora Xser (Xwin). And use YUM to update all the packages except Xen kernel. And use YUM again to install a Beryl-Mega-Pack for x86_64. After the installation, the Beryl, Compiz (Window managers) should be installed at this moment. Please notice that the Beryl is not working for me at all, so i prefer don’t touch it for this reason.

6. Go to the System, Look and Feel section, and turn on the Desktop Effect. And reboot the machine. After that the Fedora should has a fantastic GUI.

7. Enjoy and play with it.

This is a great start for me, and i hope i can share some more my experience in tuning it in near future.