Oversea web hostings become popular in China

October 3rd, 2007

More and more Chinese bloggers are seeking for reliable oversea web hosting services nowadays.

I believe Godaddy, Dreamhost, Site5, BlueHost, HostMoster and other well-known providers are very happy these days. the mentioned hosting service providers are well known among chinese bloggers. Some of them even have chinese support team now. How bigger the chinese market is!!!

Why do Chinese bloggers become more and more interested in oversea web hostings? You may google "Internet censorship and regulation in China" to find the answer.

Chinese bloggers prefer the hosting packages with the following specials.
1.Dedicated IP.  If a site shares the hosting server’s IP, it is in a real danger. if the server hosting another site that contains information that violate the Chinese law, the server’s IP may be  blocked by the Chinese Internet censorship system(Well-known as "the Greate Fire Wall"). as a result of the censorship technology, Chinese people will never be able to visit that server directly any more. So, a dedicated IP will keep your site safer.
2.SSH. if the package support SSH, Chinese bloggers may use these hosting account as a secret and safe proxy to visit blocked oversea web sites, like wikipedia, technorati and many other very useful sites.

I’ve been using oversea web hostings for over three years. the first provider I used is Pair.com, which is very stable but with a high fee that I can’t afford. I move my sites to DreamHost after my experience with Pair.com. Now, I’m using Godaddy as my hosting provider. The price of Godaddy is low, and the service is good. You can find many coupon code/promotion code on the Internet. Just google "Godaddy coupon code" to find more.

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[ANN]Info3G重新开放

June 14th, 2006

Info3G.net重新开放,前一阵子由于主机空间问题,再加上备案风波,Info3G关闭了一段时间,现Info3G.net已找到一稳定空间,希望可以继续提供给大家可靠、稳定的Portable News。
Info3G.net提供基于手机和PDA的新闻信息,目前已收录70多家媒体的即时信息。

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mplayer on breezy

March 16th, 2006

mplayer 编译指南

一 安装编译环境:

$ sudo apt-get install manpages-dev
$ sudo apt-get install autoconf
$ sudo apt-get install automake
$ sudo apt-get install libtool
$ sudo apt-get install flex
$ sudo apt-get install bison
$ sudo apt-get install gcc-doc
$ sudo apt-get install g++
$ sudo apt-get install x-window-system-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libpng-dev

二 建立安装目录:

$ mkdir /usr/local/bin/mplayer_install
$ cd /usr/local/bin/mplayer_install

三 下载最新的源代码:

$ wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20050412.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2

四 解压缩源代码,编译并安装:

$ tar -xjf essential-20050412.tar.bz2
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs
$ sudo cp essential-20050412/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
$ tar -xjf MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz2
$ cd MPlayer-1.0pre7try2
$ ./configure –enable-gui
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ tar -xjf Blue-1.4.tar.bz2
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default
$ sudo cp -r Blue/* /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/
$ sudo cp MPlayer-1.0pre7try2/etc/* /usr/local/etc/mplayer/

五 建立默认的配置文件:

$ vim ~/.mplayer/config

文件内容如下:

## Audio drivers
## Ubuntu uses esd by default.
## These are only mentioned for the sake of completion.

ao=esd
#ao=oss
#ao=alsa
#ao=arts

######

现在就可以使用 mplayer ime_na_file.avi -sub subtitri.srt 来播放了。

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How to use apt-get behind proxy server (Ubuntu/Debian)

March 13th, 2006

If you are a Debian-based GNU/Linux user, then you’re probably familiar
with synaptic and apt-get to install application from software
repositories. This post focussed on how to use apt-get/synaptic behind
proxy server/firewall which under normal circumstances, you’re unable to
use apt-get.

If you’re using Synaptic

Open up your Synaptic package manager (usually as root), go to
Settings-> Preference -> Network. Enter your proxy server details
like : username:password@proxyserver.net, and put the proxy server port
(usually 8080).

If you’re using command-line apt-get

Edit your /etc/bash.bashrc file as root.

Put these line at the end of your /etc/bash.bashrc file :

export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver.net:port/
export ftp_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver.netport/

You can omit the username:password, if your proxy server has no
password. That’s all for today! Happy apt-get-ing!

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test from ubuntu + firefox + performancing + mobilephone

March 2nd, 2006

it sounds great, aha.

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