Thursday, February 26, 2009

Install video card for CQ50 laptop

It's nvidia 8200M. And I finally got nvidia driver 180.22 working on it. It's not perfect but at least the definition is 1280*960. I actually tested 178.xx before, and found it also work.
The most important is to clean all the former nvidia files out of your system before you start to install new driver. It can be done by searching "nvidia" in the Synaptic Package Manager and get rid of them. The new nvidia package can not remove old version or related stuffs.
Details are in here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490

Or you can search "install nvidia linux" online.

Install wireless for pressario CQ50 in Ubuntu

After struggling for a whole day, I finally found the right package for my Atheros wireless card.
It's very simple, watch this post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5535562&postcount=3
Or you can search "compat wireless ath9k" online.
You can also type

echo 'ath9k' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

to let your wireless auto-start when boot.

I tried to compile several drivers by myself but all failed to work, until I found the link above. So don't waste your time to compile yourself, just use the script in the link.
Good luck.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

How about making an info-all-in-one website

The layout can be simple as google search, which only includes a search box. It can also contain multiple tabs right above the search box, which represent different source website. The tabs structures as a tree. Following is an example:

Search
Text Search | deals search | flight search
google | yahoo | baidu nextag | slickdeals priceline | ...

Translation
Chi->Eng
dict.cn | youdao |...

Jobs
monster | dice |...

Sorry that it doesn't support complicate html syntax here, so I only show it in text.
Actually a child-tab will only appear when its father-tab is selected. So the layout can be very neat.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

How to expand domestic demand in China?

As we all know, expanding domestic demand is the first priority of Chinese government to stimulate economy. However, the pressure from housing, medical care as well as education are the largest obstacles which impede Chinese people from unfilling their pockets. The fear of losing money always brings the desire of making fast money. So what is the largest demand in China now? Not clothes, not food, not house, but money.
Money is commodity, for sure. If people don't want to buy clothes, food, etc., give them the chance to buy money. Make the illusion that he can buy more money with less cash. The clever Chinese government is doing that currently. Based on my estimation, they will boost another big bull market and let its value doubled. In that way, an illusion that there is a place where less cash can exchange for more cash will be created. It has been created again and again in the past and never failed. Then, government sell in the peak and raise thousands of billions.
The next step is to use that money to bail out companies, which were struggling on their decreasing export to abroad, but now can sell their productions to the government. Then, the government can sell those productions to its people for free or in large discount. In that way, the government acts as an intermediary agent, who successfully help the manufactures to sell out their goods.
Great, domestic demand is expanded at last!