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Japan No.1
March 24, 2009, 3:16 pm
Filed under: en, en/General

Japan won World Baseball Classic (WBC) again. What I admire about this country is also what I think as its weakness: it is incredibly good at what others created. Americans invented car, Japan became no.1 in producing it. Americans invented baseball and home to the Major League Baseball, but Japan won all WBC so far. This time, Japan even beated USA quite easily. This has given many rising powers, such as China and Korea, a hint. Japan has copied what it can copy from USA, and worked to be number one at it. If only Japan is also good at inventing like the Americans, it would have everything it wants. Perhaps this world is fairer than I tought, no single country has it all.



2GB that makes a big difference
March 22, 2009, 7:58 am
Filed under: en/General

I have been having this strange problem that decreases productivity and increases stress level: the MacBook Pro would start up with a little less than 1GB of free disk space, instead of the usual 2GB to 3GB, and then it gradually decreases as I use the MBP, and then it will quickly comes to about zero free disk space and I have to reboot.

I am not sure what did I install that causes this, but before this memory has been a problem too. So I browsed around and found out that extra RAM for MBP is not as expensive as I thought (yes, I have been ignorant). I then upgraded the MBP from 2GB of RAM to 4GB, an increase of 2GB, and voila, MBP suddenly starts with 2.7GB of free disk space! I didn’t delete files, so it seems that MBP has been paging or doing something similar that uses around 2GB of disk space from the start. Now with 4GB of RAM, it does no longer need to do that, so I don’t only have more memory available but also more free disk space.



I have the answer that Google needs
March 3, 2009, 3:12 pm
Filed under: en/General

I am honored to be the person who has the answer to what Google is asking.

gmail-no-delete

“Who needs to delete when you have over 2000 MB of storage?!”

It’s me, Google.

I have over 6500 MB currently on my Gmail, to be precise. I won’t have to delete when Google can provide at least 15GB now and add about 4GB per year, because currently I keep around a total of 15GB of mails that date back to 1995, and I add about 4GB each year. This 15GB does not include junk/spam mails and mails I received from informational mailing lists I subscribed to (I usually delete them before archiving).

I have started deleting old, unimportant mails from my Gmail mailbox as I am worried it will be full and start rejecting important mails. In fact, this is the second time I am reaching the limit. The first time was when the limit was 2GB and I quickly reached it.