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The Super OS – Internet

| Filed under Cloud Mobile Mobile Web Search Web

Note: this is one of discussion questions from the programme I am current learning. This is a very interesting topic, hence I think probably can post here to record my current thoughts.

In Brookshear’s book, the definition of an operating system is “software that controls the overall operation of a computer” (Brookshear, 2008, p.122).If we strictly follow this definition, we cannot simply agree on the “Super Net OS”. But from a different perspective, I will consider the internet itself as an operating system which provides the operations to data and services via the internet. The “Super OS” is the combination of internet and its infrastructure, protocols, web, server, client, and other technologies.

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Expand Short Url & Google App Engine

| Filed under Cloud Programming

1. I decided to play around with Python several months ago, but the only thing I’ve done is once creating a script to retrieve an online manual with still few understanding of python. I think I should keep trying…

2. I’m living in China within the famous GFW, and I’m using a twitter proxy site to tweet when I’m at home or using mobile phone.   So there is a problem to me, the http://bit.ly is almost the most popular short url service on twitter which is also blocked by GFW…

3. There are some short url expanding service sites, like http://longurl.org, but they were blocked sometime…

I decided to create a simple function with google app engine after dinner. So that I can continue to learn some of python and also know a little of google’s cloud stuff.

Then here you go the app: http://yatlongurl.appspot.com/ and the source code here. Really quite fun to write code with python. But it looks the app will be intermittently unavailable. And apparently, I did not use any of real functionalities of google’s app engine. Possibly I will add support to automatically retweet or delicious the useful link while expanding it .

Live Mesh + Win2008 + 80004002 Error

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The system partition of my workstation was crashed… I have to reinstall the opration system, windows server 2008 (not R2). And I got error while installing live mesh, which is 80004002. Thanks to the search engine, I solved finally. Looks the problem is caused by the windows update agent, reinstall the WUA manually, and Livemesh.exe /force. Then it works.

WUA: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949104