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so difficult.

It seems that blogsome is banned by China.

From this morning I’ve kept refreshing the url: www.blogsome.com but only got the can’t-visit error. And in the www.newsmth.net some friends discussed about it then came to the conclusion: blogsome is banned by China, or the blogsome banned all the IP of China. The latter guess’s possibility is surely less.

I just want to find a place that could let me write freely which supports anonymous visit and comment (it’s important for convenience). And more important is I will not be afraid if the blog space will be unvisitable tomorrow.

I’m seriously considering to create a blog server by myself. Because now I have the access to the company server which has a static ip and is suitable for this.

I can’t visit blogsome again and it’s the second time…

If this continue to happen I will consider moving to some new place.

Maybe build up by myself is a good idea?

I’ve flied more than 5000 miles in the past weekend. That’s the main reason of my absence from the blog.

It was said the dormitory in the university will be taken back by Jul.10 at the latest, so I have to take a short trip immediately. Last week after compare for some time, I booked a out-and-home ticket from Hangzhou to Xi’an.

The other reason is simple: I’m a little lazy:) In fact if I want, I could finish the blog by the Treo650 when I was waiting for the plane. It was 3 or 4 years ago since I took a plane-trip last time. There’s some change from then: the forehead time is shorter, now 45min while 90min ago. But even my return plane’s time is 21:45 I still had to take the 18:00 bus to the aerodrome, because that’s the last one and after that you must get there by taxi. Thanks God I have Treo650 with me and I can read novel, play game, enjoy music… The time past by so quickly.

I cleaned up all the things in the dormitory and got 11 packages as a result. That’s really a egregious number.

When I was at home again I felt very tired and got into deep sleep soon.

I just made a full review and correction with the blogs I have written. By the help of Kingsoft Powerword (a dictionary software) and Microsoft Word. I found Word is so useful in writing English articles. It can help you to find and correct nearly every spelling and simple grammar mistakes

The third is the integrative portal sites which are still the largest websites in China. Like sina, sohu, 163.com and so on. They are very famous among the net-citizens because of the large information everyday. But in other words they are not in the same way as those famous traditional newspapers: they have no or few reporters but many editors:) It is said the most regular important thing is copy paste. In my opinion they like huge animals, awesome, but slow-action. Nowadays it’s not “large fish eats small one” but “quick fish eats slow one”. Their hugeness may be big resistance to keep developing.

What’s next? I think the next big thing will be the searching engine and the professional portal. For the portal sites like sina, because of the RSS technology’s widely using, some personal sites can import the news produced by sina and we can read it easily, without opening sina’s large page and bearing the lots of advertisements. So the pageview of these portal sites will decrease and the incoming by Ads in page will also decrease. Because of the inexhaustible information in the internet, we will depend on the searching engine much more. Without it we can’t find the useful things in the net and will be lost. Baidu is the largest Chinese searching sites now, while Google is the biggest one in the world. Which will be better in the next decade is an interesting thing. I prefer Google more:)

How about professional portal then? Where will you go if want to buy a notebook, computer market or supermarket? I guess most of us will choose the front. It’s the same to find or study something in the network. Professional sites will be much more believable. What are the examples? CSDN is the professional programmer site, taobao is the professional C2C trading site, YouXia is the professional PC game site, etc.

Some other company will be remarkable for sure. Because the large number of QQ’s user, QQ.com easily get into the top 5 sites in China. MSN.com.cn is mussy now but nobody will look down on it.

What do you think? Is there any other sites missed?

In the short “history” of China internet development, we can easily point out several gradations.

The first is the sites of ISP (Internet Service Provider). At that time the internet is not widely used as today. Most of people had just heard of it but had no actual experiences. And because of the large costs, the internet was regarded as the mystical tool of some experts. Even how to connect to the net (by modem dialing) was unknown to the public. So when an employee set up the connection for you, usually he also set the homepage of your browser (the Netscape navigator was the best one) to the ISP’s site. So for many friends include me, the first step to the cyberspace is from that site The Yin-Haiwei may be the most important one of them. It was so famous because of the sign near to the company by a road: “You are 1500m away from information highway!” But several days ago the news said the YHW was sold at a very low price.

(ps: I can’t find a valid url for IHW, but someone make this site, maybe for just remember.)

The second is the provider of some free services. The expense of surfing was not totally unacceptable but still very high. So we were so glad to find some free services, like email webspace and so on. Some sites, most of which had a numerical domain name, appeared. I still remember every newspapers and magazines had some of this news. We compared the number of free-emails with each other. We registered every free services we can find even no need indeed Free service was the best method to making site well-known. But no one could support and continue to be free for ever. How about these sites today? Some are still alive but not as famous as they were, like 163.net and 263.net. Some have disappeared with the wind, like 371.net and 188.net.

(To be continued…)

What is internet? Hmm, maybe you will tell me it’s the world-wide-web or the network which can make all of us living in a small earth-village. But I feel it’s more and more like a large closed network.

I met the internet very early, at about ten yeas ago en I’m only 16 as a freshman of middle-school. At that time computer was generally regarded as a computing device and only scientists need it. Nearly none of families had PC. I use a ancient modem to call 163 (the number of ISP, which I can’t remember clearly) at the poor speed of 9600bps (it means you can down at the speed for 1k/s most). The cost is more than 30rmb/h (it’s very very expensive at that time, about 1/10 of my father’s salary).

Even with that low speed I can still felt, the internet is free, and world-wide. If I want, I could find everything in the net. Of course google is not exist then and searching is difficult. But I could still visit any website and get any information.

From when? Our dear government noticed that the free internet may threaten the society stability. So another battle started in the cyberspace. A new occupation called cyberspace-policemen pay attention to the internet and cut off any websites they think illegal. Hehe, it likes a scene of the famous movie — the Matrix. But it’s real.

How bad? Nearly all the universities’ BBS (Bulletin Board Service) are intranet. That means only the students in the area of universities can visit their own one but can’t go to others. Maybe someone will think that’s nothing. But when smth, which is the most famous BBS in China as its academic status, was closed to the outside someday, thousands of people found no where to communicate their sights. Thanks gods, we now have the newsmth instead.

And more? Nowadays, in some cases, we can’t use Chinese to write, chat, even blog about some keywords like freedom, democracy, independence, etc. That sounds like a joke. I insist the appropriate control is needed but the too strict one is terrible. Now the control we are under is just terrible.

Not serious? About five years ago, a crazy professor suggested the government to start a plan called “China C Network” which is absolute break off from the internet and can be controlled very easily. Because you must use the true name when you post in that network. I can’t imagine what the world would be if that plan was put into practice.

What is internet? It is just a large intranet we can play with.

For the people like me, who are sitting inside big building all the day and apart from sunshine, it’s somewhat difficult to keep healthy.

When in the university, there are so many sports waiting for me. Normally I played table-tennis or badminton every 2-3 days with my roommates. Our skill level is nearly same And sometimes my classmates called me to play basketball. That’s still not all — I always had swimming myself, about 1000 to 1500 meters on time.

After came here, the only sports I have is badminton. The place is the top of building, at floor 17, a room with glass. We call this weight-reducing room. In fact the effect of weight-losing is extremely good; you even needn’t to do any exercises. Just sitting, you will feel the water inside your body is running out. Every time after I played in it, my clothes were fully wet with sweat.

Today my new PC is coming by which I will continue to write the blog in the next days. It’s a lenovo PC (called legend before) and belongs to business series. The black and silver color make it looks very professional although I’m not very satisfied with it because of its imbalanced configure: a Celeron-D 2.66G CPU(of course not the fastest but enough for me), an 80g hard disk, a DVD-ROM driver, but only has 256m ram. And because its graphic card is integrated into main board so some ram (about 16m to 64m) must be allocated to this. So the actual ram I can use is really poor. You know that my old P3 laptop has 512m and I always felt not enough and think of upgrading to 1G sometimes. Maybe after weeks I should submit an application for ram upgrade

The deliver time is ok. In fact it only cost less than 48hours. I don’t know how about dell but can it be more quickly?

The price? I don’t know the exact number but it’s not the most important thing when a company considers buying a new PC. In fact the stabilization, the after service, even the color theme may be more important.
Then, where will DIY (do it yourself) go tomorrow? I think it can only be alive in two areas. One is college just because the price. Yeah, the students are always searching and comparing over the internet and try to use the less money to make the better goods. DIY is a very easy and interesting way for them. After they leave the school and get salary, most of them will just make a call and get a produced PC, for convenience.

The other part is fans. They are always chasing after the top-level hardware and try to make some speed records (or of the world, or of self). Just for the speedup of 1 MHz, they will throw away the classic CPU-cooler and buy a water-cooldown device which is very expensive.

Students and the fans, that’s the only supporter of DIY tomorrow.