The T60 has arrived for 2 weeks now and I finally able to get the Vista repartitioned to free up space to install Fedora Core.

The Vista disk shrink function sucks because it cannot deal with system files and page files that scattered around the disk.

At the end I use gpartd in ubuntu 7.04 liveCD and get the job done.

I will write more about the laptop later.

Bittorrent is really fast when the source is in demand..... ~700MB CD in 2 hours.

Going to try it out on my new Thinkpad T60 to see if I can shrink Vista on the harddisk. Some reported that gpartd can get it done.

Vista is really sucks in the sense that all the system files and page files scatter all over the place, so user often can't shrink the partition with the build-in partition shrink function (I can only squeeze 20GB out of a 60+GB partition)

Twitter是近來在 Internet上很 hit的玩意. 它像一個 blogging system (aka microblogging);又可以是 IM;有人用它當syndicaion tool; 總之玩法多多,可以發揮創意. 很多香港的 bloggers也加入行列大玩這新玩意.

我也開始看看這小鳥是甚麼東西. 作為一個 developer,當然要試試其 API有多勁. Internet己經見到很多圍繞 twitter的其他玩意,如 twittervision. 所以我也為 Nucleus 寫了個 plugin去 integrate twitter. 這個 plugin 現在己可以自動 download及 archive tweets. 遲些還可以寫上 twitter及在我 blog update時自動宣佈.至於它的 API,用了差下多一星期覺得很豊富,又很有彈性,可以用XML,RSS,JSON,Atom format.我只需 >10行 php code就可以 call個 API.

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Did I mentioned at the beginning of the year 2007 will be a year of changes?

The 1st change happened just over the weekend, I switch ISP from Bell Sympatico HSE to Teksavvy.

They have a discount rate for my company and I heard only good things about them, so I switched.

Indeed, switchover is smooth, apart from some setup issue on my part on out-going email. They even have NNTP server so I can read some local newsgroups on Thunderbird, just like the good old days.