Feel bad of Making Joke of this friend

Ah, just heard news about a friend's mom got cancer.

No wonder she's been busy for the past few months.

Feel bad for making jokes of her "busyness", when she didn't even defend herself.

So sorry.

Hope miracles happen so her mom can recover.

Failure Is Always an Option at Google

Saw this article at googlesystem.blogspot.com. I find it very true in the computing world, in fact, its also applicable in our lives, as we always adopt trial and error method to test-water before we actually expand and further develop things.

The concepts which I think are important are in bold.

Google is a company that has a lot of ambitious projects and it's inevitable that some of them will fail. Eric Schmidt says that failure is actually a good thing.

"We try things. Remember, we celebrate our failures. This is a company where it's absolutely okay to try something that's very hard, have it not be successful, and take the learning from that."

Google's Peter Norvig has a more detailed explanation for this attitude:

"If you're a politician, admitting you're wrong is a weakness, but if you're an engineer, you essentially want to be wrong half the time. If you do experiments and you're always right, then you aren't getting enough information out of those experiments. You want your experiment to be like the flip of a coin: You have no idea if it is going to come up heads or tails. You want to not know what the results are going to be."

In fact, Peter Norvig says that Google is a company where failure is always an option:

"I think Google was early in accepting hardware errors. Other companies have tried to say, 'Well, if you can buy big, expensive computers that are more reliable, then you'll have fewer breakdowns and you'll do better.' Google decided to buy lots of cheap computers that break down all the time, but because they're so much cheaper, you can design the system with multiple backups and ways to route around problems and so forth. We just architect the system to expect failure."

Why there are so many Google products discontinued after a few months or a few years of development? Peter Norvig thinks that's a by-product of Google's rapid development model.

"We [try] to fail faster and smaller. The average cycle for getting something done at Google is more like three months than three years. And the average team size is small, so if we have a new idea, we don't have to go through the political lobbying of saying, "Can we have 50 people to work on this?" Instead, it's more done bottom up: Two or three people get together and say, "Hey, I want to work on this." They don't need permission from the top level to get it started because it's just a couple of people; it's kind of off the books."

via googlesystem.blogspot.com

Windows 7 GodMode

Just saw this news about the Windows 7 and its GodMode.

GodMode is a feature that was revealed by CNet's Microsoft Correspondent, Ina Fried. GodMode is a folder that brings together a long list of customization settings allowing you to change all your settings from one place.

Neat huh? It's very easy to enable and very useful if you tweak things around a lot.

To enter "GodMode," one need only create a new folder and then rename the folder to the following:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

GodMode is actually a shortcut to accessing the operating system's various control settings.

怕苦

不怕苦就苦一阵子；怕苦就苦一辈子!

- Anonymous

Love this! Will use this to remind myself from time to time!

Apple Magic Mouse - Windows 7 Driver

Was searching for Apple Magic Mouse driver for Windows 7, but found that all the sites link to uneasysilence.com and apparently the links to the file somewhat broken. Without the driver, the scrolling function for the mouse will not work.

After Google-ed for a while, manage to grab the drivers here and there from the web. Thought would be great to share with everyone here. :)

Enough talking, heres the downloads:

• AppleWirelessMouse4.exe (32 bit)
• AppleWirelessMouse4.exe (64 bit)
• AppleWirelessMouse5.exe (32 bit)
• AppleWirelessMouse5.exe (64 bit)

Troubleshoot:

• If scrolling doesn't work, after installing the driver:
• Revert Bluetooth stack to Microsoft Default (Generic) Driver, in Device Manager
• Pairing key required
• The default pairing key is "0000".

Enjoy! :)