上周情人节半夜在珠江三角开发的Pay4Bugs虫虫网就开业了。Pay4Bugs虫虫网结合网路用户的共同力量，迅速的帮助企业进行软件测试。企业可以自己指定每个臭虫的赏金，降低软件开发成本。一般网路使用者也可以加入虫虫网测试员的团队于家里赚钱。

A revolutionary software testing service launched a few hours ago. It features clear, up front pricing and pay for performance testing.

A new OpenID Provider has been launched for the China market.

Amazon Web Service’s new Content Data Network, Cloudfront was launched two days ago. Previously Cachefly had been the premier choice for Small and Medium size businesses looking for a content data network to speed up downloads for the users.
I was mainly interested in download speed in the Greater China region and North America.
To test [...]

I have been using Nuevasync over the last few weeks to sync contacts and calendars on Google Apps with my iPhone. It is an excellent service…very few bugs except for the occasional self-replicating contact. However when I came in to work today I found out sync was no longer working. At 11am China [...]

The version of libnss-ldapd included in Ubuntu 8.04 has many bugs that have been fixed. One rather annoying bug is a problem parsing map configuration. Please find the deb I built of 0.6.4 on 32bit Ubuntu 8.04.1 here.

I spent quite a long time googling for a way of re-creating symmetric cone nat in house without buying Cisco hardware. Hopefully someone else will find this useful. This was done on Ubuntu 8.04 beta.

eth1 = public ip
eth0 = lan ip

echo “1″ > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
/sbin/iptables –flush
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE [...]

Hongli Lai asks why some think Rails deployment is difficult. First, a disclaimer. I am not a Ruby on Rails expert. I have only used Rails for one small production project. I found both Ruby and Rails quite easy to pick up coming from a J2EE background. What can be done with such [...]

The website for FMJ cleanroom reimplementation of JMF seems to be down. Its asking for a user name and password via Basic Authentication.
I am having trouble getting a microphone
ds = javax.media.Manager.createDataSource(”javasound://”);
Exception:
Nov 7, 2007 8:06:50 AM javax.media.Manager createDataSource
WARNING: java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: javasound
java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: javasound
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:574)
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:464)
[...]

Draft 1 OAuth 1.0 spec was announced yesterday. By my count, it requires no less than 6 HTTP request/response round trips assuming the user is already logged in to the service provider.
If the user is NOT logged into the service provider and has to log in before approving or denying the consumer’s request, [...]