microsoft translator has a monthly limit of 4m characters

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Was excited to know that microsoft provide a good api of translation, and even text to speech support.

But after dig in a while, I find out that they do have a limit of 4 million characters monthly, and up to 2m daily limit. Need more than the quota, got to buy from them at a price like $10 per 10m characters.

This limitation has no problem on some small usage, but if you are a webmaster running on cheap sites and want to add the static translation support for seo, would really stuck on this. This makes the microsoft translation api useless for those webmasters.

So be careful, when you are into some stuff appears to be free.

This is where the translator: http://www.microsofttranslator.com/tools/

config static dns servers on linux

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To config dns server on linux, you need to edit this file: /etc/resolv.conf. If the file doesn’t exist, create a new. And then add the lines like mine & save:
nameserver 192.168.1.1
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

you don’t have to use “nameserver 192.168.1.1″, if you have your own server environment.

After done, you can test with ping command or host/dig command:

ping www.google.com
host www.google.com
dig www.google.com

create subversion as a windows service

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Subversion is best to be run as a windows service after installed.
We can use the sc command line tool to create it as a windows service.

Here is the command line procedure to create it:

  1. Open command line console with administrator
  2. run this command: sc create subversion binpath= "C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin\svnserve.exe --service -r D:\sourcebox" start= auto
  3. start the service with: sc start subversion

That’s it.

google analytics has a non flash version

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Glad to have it without the need to install an always updating flash plug-in, which might taken in the virus from it’s vulnerability. It’s just coincidence that I have just give up to install flash on my main computer. Because a couple of days ago, it is a virus get into my computer from one of these plug-ins: JRE, flash, etc, I am not sure which one exactly, it must be one of them. You don’t have to download and double click on the exe, those virus could get executed even when you just navigate your Firefox to it’s URL. So I made a decision to use as less plug-in as possible, and try my best to avoid JRE and flash. Also it makes system faster. In the case that you really need them, try to install them on an isolated virtual machine.
Will you keep installing those plug-ins? What do you think?

google instant search is pretty annoying

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While designed with the hope to help for user under certain circumstance. But in my traditional use case: keyboard + mouse = a traditional user, I don’t like something changes a lot suddenly while I am focusing on typing, pretty annoy. I did try to turn it off from the search configure, but I use multiple operation system & browser combination, and sometimes I do remove and reinstall browsers, the default enabled of instant search does cause me a lot of trouble. I think it’s a little bit off the track for desktop users like me.

The quality of IE 9 is not good as promised, here is way to block it

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The qualify of ie 9 is not good enough to install on the older computers, makes the performance going down badly, fortunately, Microsoft has published a tool to disable the auto delivery of ie 9 from windows auto update.

You can get the tool here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=179

It is a zip self extract package with 2 files, make sure you run the console cmd with administrator privilege, this is the command to block:

IE9_Blocker.cmd /B

firefox 10.0.2 is really slow when writing blogs in wordpress

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After sticking with version 3.6 for a while, I have follow the update dialog pop ups and update all the way to the version 10.0.2, but unfortunately, this version is really slow when typing in the text box of wordpress. So in order to keep up the good blogging experience, I downloaded an older version: 3.6.27 get the efficiency back.

Can’t believe they’ve made so many version changes in the past years but released an unreliable version like this. Wish they can get back on track soon. Please keep the quality while doing update.