To better learn Japanese, I recently changed all my software packages, including FireFox, to Japanese ones. (It’s quite easy on Mac OS X thanks to the excellent international support)
One thing annoying me is that the bundled Google and Wikipedia search became Japanese versions. And FireFox won’t allow you to add english Google back via the Mozzilla add-on center as it is “built-in”.
So here’s the fix
1. Download a English (US) version of FireFox, open the English FireFox.app package (Control-Click -> “Show Package Contents”), navigate to “Contents/MacOS/searchplugins“.
2. Open your localized version of FireFox.app, navigate to the same directory.
3. Copy any search engines you want from the English version to the localized version.
4. Now because you have two search engines named “Google” now, open the localized version of your search engine file (google-jp.xml, for example), and rename it.
5. Now for the final touch, change the location bar search back to Google.com. type “about:config” in the location bar, in the following screen change the value in “keyword.URL” from google.co.jp to google.com.
Now everything’s back to normal, and as a bonus, you now have some local search engines you’ve never heard of before, lol.
Just a simple test out of boredom.
All browsers were launched with a blank page and then navigated to Google home page. At this point, Chrome consumes the least memory of the three.
However, when opened up more tabs (Google, Yahoo and MSN), Chrome actually takes up more memory.
Google Chrome uses multi-processes instead of multi-threads for its tabs in order to prevent events such as a tab crashes whole browser (which is also the behavior of IE 8), which would be the most likely explanation for the test result.
When I tried to rename a file and use a different extension. This dialog would pop up like 9 of 10 times.
Godaddy is making a sale of .info domains, only $ .99 for the first year ! So I grabbed one. Now the domain softboysxp.info and blog.softboysxp.info is up and running, gonna update other subdomains and email accounts later.
Apparently some audio can’t be turned up to F11.
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Finally the exams over. So I went to Mong Kok and bough a external HDD, 500G with FireWire 800 interface.
Hooked it up with my Mac easily, it is already pre-partitioned and has utilities available on disk. So I did a little benchmarking with XBench. The result was satisfactory, reading operations with proper block size is as fast as those on the internal HDD.
Mac HDD:
Results 66.90
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C7010)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model iMac8,1
Drive Type WDC WD3200AAJS-40VWA1
Disk Test 66.90
Sequential 96.08
Uncached Write 114.83 70.50 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 111.76 63.23 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 63.28 18.52 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 122.35 61.49 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 51.31
Uncached Write 20.46 2.17 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 114.09 36.52 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 79.85 0.57 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 128.33 23.81 MB/sec [256K blocks]
External HDD:
Results 41.29
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C7010)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model iMac8,1
Drive Type LaCie d2 quadra
Disk Test 41.29
Sequential 72.25
Uncached Write 81.06 49.77 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 88.00 49.79 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 42.36 12.40 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 124.12 62.38 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 28.91
Uncached Write 8.97 0.95 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 116.26 37.22 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 90.91 0.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 137.85 25.58 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Just bought a Mac, like it much.
Yup that’s right I’m back on the blogging field, XD.
Actually I know the chance ppl actually reading this blog is one of a billion. But everyone loves publishing, such is the human nature.
Plus this site gives me a place to host my various pics, video clips, files, etc. for my posts on forums. No need to find a public file hosting any more ! 5G Storage / 250G bandwidth is more than enough for me. So far I’m very satisfied with my hosting provider.
P.S. Good to see you again, WordPress, xD.
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