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Portable Ubuntu is not good enough

2009-04-19T21:24:00.000-07:00

Portable Ubuntu quickly is well known because ZDNet put its news in the index page this weekend. I was curious and spent a a couple of hours on it. However it dispointed me anyway. It was not stable. And the Desktop does not come up. I can not figure out why. And there is not good doc or help about it.

Not everybody likes Google

2009-04-03T21:07:00.000-07:00

Angry residents of an English village blocked the driver of a Google Street View car who was filming the neighbourhood, saying they feared he would encourage burglaries, read the full story.

Younexus Supports Legitimate Advertising-Supported Software

2009-03-05T15:29:00.000-08:00

According to Wenpoint security article, California based company younexus.com supports legitimate advertising-support software. Legitimate advertising-support software is the software shows adverts on software UI with your informed consent. As exchange, advertising-supported software usually is free of charge.

Younexus security enforcement is they ensure all software joining Younexus advertising program to comply with Younexus security policy. Younexus requires software

should not modify registry key database

should not add BHOs or toolbar to browser

should not automatically pop up window

should not start or fork process

should not collect browsing history or other personal information

Younexus solution meets the freeware community's expectation on clean and safe advertising.

In addition, Younexus provides tools and management interface for software to manage the advertising activities.

Wininet Timeout Issue and Solution

2009-03-01T17:54:00.000-08:00

The WinInet API provides access to the common Internet application-layer protocols HTTP, FTP, and Gopher. With this API you can add the ability to access Internet resources to both new and existing Windows applications. The API provides control over each step of a transaction and provides the means to read and writes files.

WinInet has a bug in setting TIMEOUT value when the client send request to initialize a connection. The bug is when you use InternetSetOption to set up timeout value, e.g. 30seconds. The timeout value does not work. The client doesn't timeout until default timeout runs up.

One solution give by Microsoft is to create second thread to watch for the connection request. The second request will kill the main connection request if it doesn't receive response from server in the timeout set. Here is the article - How To Control Connection Timeout Value by Creating Second Thread