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Today, I involved in migration from MySQL 4.1 to 3.23. Yes, I mean to downgrade the software. Actually, I don’t want to downgrade but just to move from a hosting service to another one. Unfortunately, the new host is running MySQL 3.23 and the old one is running MySQL 4.1. Before to go further, the software running on top of MySQL is Joomla and its eCommerce package.

I found an interesting blog posted by Nick Lewis. He accidentally found . What does it mean? As far as I know, the background of Google’s logo in this link are taken from the default background of Windows XP. Could it be just a trap?

According to unknown client ID problem posted in forum, I think it is the time to explain how BTQueue work in more detail. This post aims to let you know how BTQueue generates its client ID to report to tracker. Since I would like to know which version and release are popular in the wild, so I embedded both version and release to the client ID. Basically, a client ID is a fixed length string at 20 characters in size. For BTQueue, it consists of 4 parts.

Google Bookmarks is not the latest service from Google. It is just a small service offering web-based bookmark for Google account. It doesn’t support sharing like social bookmark. Anyway, you can specify labels for each entry so you can search from your bookmarks. Generally, you don’t need to go to Google Bookmarks to browse or search for an entry. What you need is just to access the bookmark via browser or other program running on your desktop. On IE, the latest Google Toolbar supports this feature. Unfortunately, Firefox don’t support at all.

I have multiple accounts on some websites, e.g., admin user and a normal user. Sometimes, I would like to login the two accounts simultaneously to use admin user to configure the site and normal user to test the configuration immediately. Unfortunately, most websites rely on cookie authentication so I can login only once. The previous login session are purged autmatically. My favorite web browser is Firefox. So I need to run 2 browsers. Below are the list of browsers I tried.

Gmail has changed free e-mail services on the net. Size does matter. It started to offer 1 GB space for an account with no cost while other services only offers at most 100 MB for free. In addition, Gmail is extremely fast comparing to its competitors Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail. Since it offered 1 GB space, many innovative programmers tried to hack to use this space as a drive to upload/download/share files easily.