I finally moved my VietCali blog from Blogger to my own hosting server and power it using Wordpress. This way I have more control on how I post my special stuff, like the QEVP. Yes, the Quick English Vietnamese Phrases is now back in VietCali.com and working properly. So far I love the Wordpress blog engine. It’s much better than using the Blogger since I have it installed on my own host server so I can pretty much customize anything I want.
One big challenge was figuring why the Vietnamese characters wasn’t displayed properly and after a long Googling session I figure out it was a mySQL database thing and able to fix. Drop me a note if you have similar issue. The short answer to the problem is you need to cofigure the database to accept data in UTF8 Unicode format, not some Swedish set up by the installing script.
I’ll try to clean up VietCali blog and put in more articles. I’m glad I finally have some free time to work on it. Thank you for coming by.
You know the first place to check for free anti-virus software is from your Internet provider. A lot of people doesn’t know this but Internet provider like mine DSL from ATT comes with free anti-virus from McAfee. It’s just that the information is not forthcoming. In my case I have to actually search around for it. If you are using DSL from ATT the free Anti-Virus software download can be found here . Click on Download and enter your account log-in info to get the software.
If your Internet provider doesn’t provide the free Anti-virus software then it’s suck. In this case you have to settle for the next best thing and it’s free version of AVG. Even this free version is hard to find if you just go to theirs portal. You need to Google for it and the current link is: http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition
In my opinion, anti-virus should be part of the OS functions. End user shouldn’t have to worry about finding and installing anti-virus on theirs own. I guess anti-virus company doesn’t like this idea much.
My wife called me one day and tell me that the store couldn’t process the credit card. Strange I though to my self, how could that be. So I call the customer service and found out someone got a hold of my card and order some stuffs on a hunting sport related website. How can some one get a hold of my credit card information? At that moment, I realize I could be a victim of some spy ware virus. Someone could tracking my computer activities for private information.
So I search high and low for a free virus scan to detect these spy ware virus, a.k.a malware. The problem I realized then, how can you trust anything download from the Web these day. A malicious website can disguise itself with legitimate looking pages and you just can’t tell.
Anyway I just got luck out when my Web host service who actually get attacked by malware and they sent me a link to this free scan. I downloaded the utility, installed it, ran it, and sure enough it found a whole bunch of malicious Trojans and other spy ware virus. So if you ever click on some suspicious link and have a gut feeling that yours computer is infected with malicious malware, please take my adivce and down load this malware scanner to make sure. If the link is broken, please do a Google search for “malwarebytes anti-malware”. The software is for free to use for scanninng. You can purchase it to get more advanced features.
Connect 5 is a popular tic-tac-toe version we play in Vietnam. The game is the same as tic-tac-toe but you have to connect 5 spots in order to win. I used to play this game with my schoolmates while waiting for class to start or sometime even during class. Back then there were no video games and computers so we kids just use our notebook and pencils to play this game and other games like find the next number, shooting the dots, or build the triangles.
I wrote this Connect5 game for Cafe75.com site. The algorithm I came up is pretty rudimentary. Give it a try and see if you can beat it.
