doiwl November 27th, 2007
Nowadays, a lot of people have their own blog. Especially when starting up a blog is much easier compared to setting up a personal website last time, where the writer need to have some basic knowledge on HTML.
So dear bloggers / webmasters, do you want an easy way to track the traffic to your blog?
Introducing Google Analytics!
http://www.google.com/analytics/
What can you do with Google Analytics? Use it if you want to know
- What is your daily visits, pageview, page/visit, visitor average time staring on your site, percentage of new visits?
- Where your visitor comes from (geographically)?
- How do they reach your site? By searching (then what did they search)? By referrals link (then originated from which site)?
- Their browser, connection speed, how often they visit back to your site?
- What is the best content of your site? What is the keyword to your site?
In conclusion, Google Analytics is a powerful tools suitable for all bloggers and webmasters. On Nov 19, I noticed a great spike on my daily visits, after that only I realized that that was because I was citing Malaysiakini on my blog. A single “Malaysiakini” brought in more than 40 visitors in a day, that’s something that I am quite surprised.
(Btw, you can only use Google Analytics if you are allowed to change the coding itself eg blogspot, wordpress. Windows Live Spaces, multiply cannot use this…)
Tags: Google
doiwl November 21st, 2007
21/11/2007 2.58PM
此时此刻是我安装了Windows Vista Ultimate一年整。我这么无聊去记日期？其实只要在Command Prompt里面打systeminfo 就找得到了。
咦，美国在1月30日推介Vista，马来西亚则是2月3日，那我怎样在Vista还没有launch就install好了？
盗版？不！那是绝对正版的。
Beta Tester
一切就从两三年前说起！想当年我浏览到一个征求XP SP2 beta tester的网站，注册后就开始帮忙测试啦，偶尔也会收到从Redmond寄来的包裹。后来有新的产品有幸继续被邀请，像Longhorn (now Vista), Longhorn Server (now Windows Server 2008 beta), Windows Home Server 等等。重点是不能泄露那些beta build，要遵守NDA，不然会被踢出局的。
虽然是当白老鼠，不过这白老鼠也有甜头的，呵呵！这里就帮这个微软讲点好话啦！微软虽然垄断了市场，但也有慷慨的时候……它送了每位有功劳（至少提出过一个bug）的beta tester一份Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, Retail License。
这是Retail而不是OEM license。OEM和Retail不同是：OEM的操作系统是和电脑硬件“绑死”的。如果哪一天motherboard或者CPU坏了那就可以一起和Windows讲byebye了。至于Retail则不一样，uninstall了以后可以安装在另一台新电脑、新硬件，所以价格还蛮贵的，目前市价是RM1570。
平常我们买到的是OEM，Home Premium不过RM400，Business RM500，Ultimate RM700。若不是因为赠送的版本被规定不能转售，我就可以从OEM和Retail的差价，转卖key就捞个六七百块钱了。
说了这么多，我好像忘记马来西亚盗版猖獗啊，除了公司谁理这么多呢！
嗯，如果你喜欢抢先试用还在测试改进中的软件、或者想要参与Microsoft产品的开发、想要直接和developer/programmer交流、想更了解OS背后的原理、想影响下一个Windows 7的功能，去http://connect.microsoft.com看看吧！
Tags: beta testing
doiwl November 7th, 2007
e-textbook for Security Technology subjects: TSC2211, TAC2681.
Here
doiwl October 3rd, 2007
Hmm… this is worth to be shared but I just feel lazy to type that much.
Anyway I’ve told my friend on my “discovery” and he had wrote a post on his blog.
Visit the site for more details!
Tags: Windows Vista
doiwl September 21st, 2007
Haha, if it is hard to understand, never mind. My tech-talk continues…
This is the design of yesterday e-voting system.
LOUSY & SIMPLE E-VOTING DATABASE
OK… if this is the only thing I can retrieve from the database, can you enlighten me how you show the source of this figure?
In the lousy voting system, the database only holding the latest sum of votes for each candidate, nothing can be done to trace the authenticity of this figure. There is no way to prove the summation is right and not being tampered.
The programmer should really design a better system that allows certain degree of audit. More trails in the database means the system is more error-prone, as follows:
A BETTER E-VOTING DATABASE
- “Student ID of voter” column should be unique, to ensure that a student only vote for once (no double voting).
- Why is it being MD5 hashed? This is to protect privacy of the voter.
- The rationale of timestamp, computer ID and other columns are to make it more like traditional paper balloting.
- When more trails are left behind, at least we can trace back how many people voted in a particular timeframe, or how many people cast the vote on a particular computer, to judge whether the figure is realistic or not.
- No one can change the result or insert any data easily unless he is able to fake so many timestamps without clashing on the same time on same computer.
- Recount & audit is possible.
Aisk, MMU can do it in a professional way and not a joke like yesterday! The staffs did not pay attention on all these things, is it because of the tak apa attitude? Or the decision to use such simple system is made deliberately, avoiding the possibility of audit? No matter how this incident somehow affects the reputation of MMU, when no one pay attention to design a better computer system.
doiwl February 14th, 2007
Wonderful experience using Windows Vista Ultimate!
My desktop is moving~~~
Windows Vista Ultimate在视觉享受上非常棒，现在有了会动的desktop！
doiwl January 31st, 2007
coming soon… my own review of Windows Vista & Office 2007!
doiwl January 24th, 2007
千呼万唤始出来！美国方面会在1月30日正式发布Windows Vista，而马来西亚微软将在2月3日在lowyat发布Vista！
http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/events/vistalaunch
