Kent J. Chen's WebLog

a personal journal by an addictive geek

Daily Reading: CIO: I would never talk to my CEO about the cloud

Posted in Stuff in General on November 10th, 2009 by Kent

Daily Reading: Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Live 4.0 rumors

Posted in Information Technology on November 9th, 2009 by Kent

Daily Reading: 7 VPN services to anonymize your P2P/Torrent traffic

Posted in Information Technology, Internet on November 7th, 2009 by Kent

Quote of the day: what makes you write well

Posted in Stuff in General on November 7th, 2009 by Kent

Quote shared by CopyBlogger, about the relationship between any content creator and the people they hope to connect with:

When talented people write badly it’s generally for one of two reasons:

Either they’re blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove or they’re driven by an emotion they must express.

When talented people write well, it

Twitter finally rolls out Retweet feature

Posted in Internet on November 7th, 2009 by Kent

According to Twitter Blog:

We’ve just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy.

Yes, finally Twitter decided to roll out this long-waited feature, a…

Daily Reading: Windows 7 sales exceed Vista by 234%, plus 3 more

Posted in Information Technology on November 6th, 2009 by Kent

Will be posting more short posts like this later on to collect some of the good stuff I read online.

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Prince of Persia is now on Movie

Posted in Stuff in General on November 6th, 2009 by Kent

image Finally, it’s done. Being a long time fan of this glorious game, I have no doubt that this will be one of those movies that I am sure I won’t miss. Not sure if there will be episode II, III, or more but let’s just see how it goes this one first.

It was back to 1990 or 1991…

Twitter ditched TinyURL for bit.ly for a reason

Posted in Internet, Stuff in General on November 5th, 2009 by Kent

Twitter ditched TinyURL for bit.ly as its default URL shortening provider a few months back, which basically put TinyURL to a very difficult position to survive and throw tr.im out of the business. I had been wondering why Twitter made the change because all in all, it’s just a service that shortens the URL and redirect…

Re-visiting IIS SMTP Service and its folder structure

Posted in Information Technology on November 5th, 2009 by Kent

I had a SMTP server failure early this morning, which reminded me to review how this basic SMTP service that come with IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 works. There is a blog post up on Remote Server Support that explains quite well and clear how SMTP service in Windows 2003 works and what its folder structure looks…

Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 Released for Vista and XP

Posted in Information Technology, Tools on October 31st, 2009 by Kent

One of the areas in Windows Server 2008 R2 that has been improved quite dramatically is Remote Desktop Services, formally called Terminal Services. It’s playing a new role in Server 2008 to provide an extensible platform for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

In order to fully utilize all features existing in this new Remote Desktop Services, you will need an updated version…