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Computer scientists at UC San Diego and Microsoft Research have created a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers that introduces a new energy saving state called “sleep talking. “Sleep talking” may become a new approach to save large amounts of energy for personal computers. The new sleep talking state provides much of the energy savings of sleep mode and some of the network-and-Internet-connected convenience of awake mode…

It is possible to move all WordPress installation files to a unique directory while keeping blogging at the root path of the domain. For example, WordPress can be moved to http://example.com/wordpress/ while can be still accessed at http://example.com/…

WordPress show the full articles for all posts on the index page (as well as the archive pages, including category archive pages, tag archive pages, search result pages). If the articles are long, the index page may look quite messed and be difficult to browse among articles on that page (except the first one). It’s sometimes good idea to show just excerpts/summaries of articles on the index…

WordPress keeps track of a list of all historical revisions of each post, but is at a cost and are sometimes annoying. Every time changes are made to a post, even a single word is modified, a new revision is recorded. As a result, the database will become cumbersome, making it tanke more space and slowing the querying and modifications of the table. On the other hand, many people just write their own blog and do not want keep the latest version of the articles…

There are strange directories named “Chrome” under the Mozilla Firefox installation path. Wondering what chrome actually is, I finally found some information on that. Here is something about what it was originally intended for and how one can exploit it for its own applications…

In a page at the official blog, Microsoft spokesman Brandon LeBlanc also announced that the release candidate would be available before then to subscribers to a pair of services targeting developers and IT professionals. “The RC is on track for April 30 for download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Broader, public availability will begin on May 5,” LeBlanc said…

When trying to connect to a MySQL server from PHP using mysql_connect(), I got the following message and the connection failed:
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client in example.php on line xx…