The end of Pentium (i586) grade system

Last Sunday I finished a big maintenance task for my home server, upgrade outdated Fedora 4 to CentOS4. My original plan is upgrade to CentOS5. Poor CentOS5 is no more support i586 architecture, the minimum entry requirement becomes i686 or above. My home server is VIA C3, likely be i686 but due to missing one of important i686 instruction and bend to i586 family. If I know this earlier, definitely I never setup my server in this hardware combo. I wonder what is my next option when CentOS4 is end of life, poor Pentium family gives up by Linux community.

Manchester United closed the gap

Brilliant match, closed the gap of Arsenal.

2 hours and 1 minute

My half marathon result is 2 hours and 1 minute, ranks 895. Not bad for my first try, my next year target is less than 2 hours and within top 500.

Finished my race from Standard Chartered HK Marathon 2008

Just wake up from few hours sleep. Now my two legs are still tired, but not feel pain anymore as early time. The cream from Marathon souvenir is work, it relaxed my pain after applied little on tired parts. My race was finished at around 9 o'clock, spent nearly 2 hours finished 21km race, little bit faster than my expectation. Overall experience is excellent. I can split my experience into few parts:

1. In first 10km, it was easy job.
2. Before entering the tunnel, started to feel tired, but still good.
3. After leaving the tunnel, felt my limitation arrived.
4. Feeling frustration when saw the length sign, the number looked unchanged, always few kilometers left.
   
5. Cheer up again after entered Causeway Bay, with the cheering by citizens.
6. In last 500m, with the powerful cheering, everyone look like installed turbo.
   

Some more interest things include urgent guys random pee in side road, and cheering by female cleaners. They use their tools to make sound, 阿姐好野!!

Opera Mini 4: might be the BEST mobile browser

The video is a Opera Mini 4 demo created by me. It is about access a stock quoting website (AAStocks.com) and checks the stock price and news.

Because I used some remote display software to stream my PPC screen to Windows for capturing this video, the video appears lag but I can say it performed amazing and smooth in my P535 WM6 phone. I can't believe such a small Java application can complete a browser task. Opera Mini 4 has two excellent features drawing my attenion. First one is proxy browsing, they call this technology as "Mini Technology". It can boost your browsing speed by compressing and preprocessing the web. The idea is very simple. They have a public proxy to cache and process every web requests. For large HTML document or image, it will compress or decrease the resolution so the download data is minimized, turn out your browsing experience is improved. This feature is quite significant slow brandwidth network like GPRS. The second feature is point and zoom. Similar to Nokia S60 browser, if the page is over sized, a full screen preview is displayed and you can click any portion to zoom in or move the cursor to scroll the page. This feature is handy for device without touch screen or lazy person who hates touch screen (such as me).

Link: http://www.operamini.com/

Tuckland, my first pair of hiking shoes

Featuring Vibram sole offers high grip performance in terrible terrain. Gore-tex surface can keep water out and dry quickly. Tuckland, I only know it is coming from Spain. Before my purchase, I even didn't know anything about Tuckland. I have checked some hiking forums, look like this brand is quite famous and reliable.