After a week hiatus, GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name host, is back online in China.
According to my early report, GoDaddy.com was blocked during the Olympics to prevent Chinese nationals from registering domain names after the names of Chinese athletes who won (Gold, Silver or Bronze) in the Olympics. The Chinese government has a policy of protecting famous names from being registered and allows only the owner the right to register it as his/her domain name.
Since GoDaddy has suspend lots of Chinese human rights sites without warning last year, Isaac Mao think GoDaddy "It deserved! No tears" -- The hidden rules in China will change all the time. Just like Godaddy's case, any cases can become your nightmare whether it's an event, a people's name, or a domain name. And the worst thing you can never recover is that you lost the support from users. There's only one government one business can please today or tomorrow, but there are millions of users one can't be fooled.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
GoDaddy Blocked in China
GoDaddy, the largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar in the world, appears to blocked in Mainland China by the evil Net Nanny before the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games came to a close. A screen copy of the command "tracert www.godaddy.com" shows that the problem is a router inside China Telecom.
The current blocking may be related to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. China's sport authority has banned the issuing of Internet domain names based on the country's Olympic gold medal-winning athletes to anyone but the medalists themselves, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). The General Administration of Sport (GAS) provided the CNNIC with a full list of China's Olympic team prior to the Games opening on Aug. 8, and had registered all available domain names for athletes in Chinese characters and in Pinyin. Those who had already registered before the GAS order could not keep the the domain names any more, they were forced to give it to the medalist "as a gift".
The person that already had domain name hold up to now abandons a domain name of player of Olympic Games of China. If they donot want to abandon the domain, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) will force to retrieve the domain. But if the domain name is register outside China, such as in GoDaddy.com, the CNNIC can not retrieve that domain.
Now the currently largest Internet domain registrar in the world is blocking in China, the most likely explanation is, CNNIC do not want any Chinese hold a domain name of country's Olympic gold medal-winning athletes by blocking GoDaddy registrar. When the people in China can not visit GoDaddy and register domain outside China, so CNNIC can protect the domain names more easy.
GoDaddy has come under heavy criticism for suspending Chinese human rights sites without warning on August 17, 2007.
The current blocking may be related to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. China's sport authority has banned the issuing of Internet domain names based on the country's Olympic gold medal-winning athletes to anyone but the medalists themselves, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). The General Administration of Sport (GAS) provided the CNNIC with a full list of China's Olympic team prior to the Games opening on Aug. 8, and had registered all available domain names for athletes in Chinese characters and in Pinyin. Those who had already registered before the GAS order could not keep the the domain names any more, they were forced to give it to the medalist "as a gift".
The person that already had domain name hold up to now abandons a domain name of player of Olympic Games of China. If they donot want to abandon the domain, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) will force to retrieve the domain. But if the domain name is register outside China, such as in GoDaddy.com, the CNNIC can not retrieve that domain.
Now the currently largest Internet domain registrar in the world is blocking in China, the most likely explanation is, CNNIC do not want any Chinese hold a domain name of country's Olympic gold medal-winning athletes by blocking GoDaddy registrar. When the people in China can not visit GoDaddy and register domain outside China, so CNNIC can protect the domain names more easy.
GoDaddy has come under heavy criticism for suspending Chinese human rights sites without warning on August 17, 2007.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Top Ten Best PlayStation Games
The PlayStation was launched in Japan on December 3, 1994, North America on September 9, 1995. Sony enjoyed a very successful launch with titles of almost every genre, including Battle Arena Toshinden, Twisted Metal, Warhawk, Air Combat Philosoma, and Ridge Racer. Almost all of Sony's and Namco's launch titles went on to spawn numerous sequels. It is nearly impossible to pick the ten best PlayStation 2 games, as there are too many amazing games to choose from. The following is in no particular order and, for the sake of brevity at least, largely ignores multiformat games, the Top 10 Games on PlayStation.
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes video games, motion pictures, and other merchandise.
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid is a stealth-action video game directed by Hideo Kojima. The game was developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan.
Resident Evil
Resident Evil (known in Japan as Biohazard) is a survival horror video game series developed by Capcom.
Dino Crisis
Dino Crisis is a survival horror game developed and published by Capcom that was released for the Sony Playstation on July 1, 1999. It was produced and directed by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami.
Silent Hill
Silent Hill is a survival horror video game franchise developed and published by Konami.
Tenchu
Tenchu is the title of a popular stealth game series wherein the player assumes the role of a ninja. Tenchu is known for its stealth gameplay, and the eerie settings of feudal Japan. It was one of the first ninja games to incorporate stealth, a very crucial aspect of Ninjutsu.
Tekken
Tekken is a fighting game and is the first of the series of the same name. It was developed and published by Namco.
Gran Turismo
Gran Turismo (GT) is a hugely successful and critically acclaimed series of racing video games produced for the Sony PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3 gaming systems. All of the games are said to simulate the appearance and performance of a large selection of vehicles, nearly all of which are licensed reproductions of real-world automobiles.
Parasite Eve
Parasite Eve is a survival horror role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix). The game is a sequel to the novel Parasite Eve, written by Hideaki Sena.
Winning Eleven
Winning Eleven is a soccer/football video game series made by Konami Tokyo. It is the original Japanese version of Pro Evolution Soccer. Winning Eleven's popularity has grown over the years, and is currently one of the most popular football games world-wide.
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes video games, motion pictures, and other merchandise.
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid is a stealth-action video game directed by Hideo Kojima. The game was developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan.
Resident Evil
Resident Evil (known in Japan as Biohazard) is a survival horror video game series developed by Capcom.
Dino Crisis
Dino Crisis is a survival horror game developed and published by Capcom that was released for the Sony Playstation on July 1, 1999. It was produced and directed by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami.
Silent Hill
Silent Hill is a survival horror video game franchise developed and published by Konami.
Tenchu
Tenchu is the title of a popular stealth game series wherein the player assumes the role of a ninja. Tenchu is known for its stealth gameplay, and the eerie settings of feudal Japan. It was one of the first ninja games to incorporate stealth, a very crucial aspect of Ninjutsu.
Tekken
Tekken is a fighting game and is the first of the series of the same name. It was developed and published by Namco.
Gran Turismo
Gran Turismo (GT) is a hugely successful and critically acclaimed series of racing video games produced for the Sony PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3 gaming systems. All of the games are said to simulate the appearance and performance of a large selection of vehicles, nearly all of which are licensed reproductions of real-world automobiles.
Parasite Eve
Parasite Eve is a survival horror role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix). The game is a sequel to the novel Parasite Eve, written by Hideaki Sena.
Winning Eleven
Winning Eleven is a soccer/football video game series made by Konami Tokyo. It is the original Japanese version of Pro Evolution Soccer. Winning Eleven's popularity has grown over the years, and is currently one of the most popular football games world-wide.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Websites Unblocked in China
It seems that the Chinese Wikipedia is unblocked in China now. The unblocking of the Chinese Wikipedia in China has probably been extended to cover the whole of China. Chinese users have direct access Chinese Wikipedia from very different corners of the country.
Not only with Chinese Wikipedia, this unblocking also looks like this was part of a broader opening up - mainlanders now have access to a lot of sites. Here's a rather representative list of sites that are now available in China, which include newspaper, magazine and NGO web sites previously hard blocked.
Not only with Chinese Wikipedia, this unblocking also looks like this was part of a broader opening up - mainlanders now have access to a lot of sites. Here's a rather representative list of sites that are now available in China, which include newspaper, magazine and NGO web sites previously hard blocked.
Western media
- Chinese Reuters
- Chinese Wikipedia
- Radio Free Asia
- Voice of America
- Wall Street Journal
- Financial Times Chinese
Hong Kong media
Taiwan media
NGOs
Thursday, July 24, 2008
SourceForge Unblocked in China
After a month hiatus, SourceForge, the world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications, is again accessible from China on the eve of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Chinese authorities has never admitted to blocking access to SourceForge, the only way for people in China to reach the site was by using a proxy server based outside of the country. There has been also no official confirmation that the website has been unblocked, but China unblocked it anyway. The Chinese authorities had promised to give foreign journalists more freedom in the run-up to this summer's Olympic Games.
China censors internet content that it finds objectionable, usually political material and occasionally pornography. The SourceForge blocking may be related to the author of SourceForge's anti-China protests of Beijing Olympic Games. China programmers needs SourceForge, and SourceForge is a professional technology website without political material. Now, SourceForge has been unblocked in China, Chinese programmers should enjoy SourceForge while it's available because we may never know when it will disappear.
Chinese authorities has never admitted to blocking access to SourceForge, the only way for people in China to reach the site was by using a proxy server based outside of the country. There has been also no official confirmation that the website has been unblocked, but China unblocked it anyway. The Chinese authorities had promised to give foreign journalists more freedom in the run-up to this summer's Olympic Games.
China censors internet content that it finds objectionable, usually political material and occasionally pornography. The SourceForge blocking may be related to the author of SourceForge's anti-China protests of Beijing Olympic Games. China programmers needs SourceForge, and SourceForge is a professional technology website without political material. Now, SourceForge has been unblocked in China, Chinese programmers should enjoy SourceForge while it's available because we may never know when it will disappear.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Disable Wordpress 2.6 Post Revisions
Post Revisions Tracking is a new features of Wordpress 2.6, Which makes it a lot easier to share writing between people. Since you can save your copy, and the other person can see what you changed. Also you can revert to previous revisions of posts you've made.
But if there is only one author of WordPress blog, Post Revisions will taking too much space as every revision is a new row in wp_post table. It creates a alot of useless database-entries.
To disable Post Revisions, Add:
into wp-config.php, the wordpress 2.6 Post Revisions now disabled.
In my little opinion, there should be an option in general or writing settings to enable/disable the post revision feature.
But if there is only one author of WordPress blog, Post Revisions will taking too much space as every revision is a new row in wp_post table. It creates a alot of useless database-entries.
To disable Post Revisions, Add:
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false); into wp-config.php, the wordpress 2.6 Post Revisions now disabled.
In my little opinion, there should be an option in general or writing settings to enable/disable the post revision feature.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Top Ten Best PS2 Games
It is nearly impossible to pick the ten best PlayStation 2 games, as there are too many amazing games to choose from. I know some of your favorite PS2 games are not on this list; some of mine are missing too, but sacrifices were made in an attempt to cull the list down to 10. The best proof for just how wide the range of quality games is for the PS2 is the impossible task of trying to create a top ten. The following is in no particular order and, for the sake of brevity at least, largely ignores multiformat games.
God of War
God of War is an action-adventure game based on Greek mythology. God of War was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment's Santa Monica division.
Dynasty Warriors
Dynasty Warriors (Shin Sangokumusou) is a series of tactical action video games developed and published by Koei.
ICO
Ico is a action-adventure video game developed by Sony Computer Entertainment and released for the PlayStation 2 video game console. Ico was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes video games, motion pictures, and other merchandise.
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid is a stealth-action video game directed by Hideo Kojima. The game was developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan.
Resident Evil
Resident Evil (known in Japan as Biohazard) is a survival horror video game series developed by Capcom.
Silent Hill
Silent Hill is a survival horror video game franchise developed and published by Konami.
Tekken
Tekken is a fighting game and is the first of the series of the same name. It was developed and published by Namco.
Soul Calibur
Soulcalibur is the second game in the Soul series of fighting games developed and produced by Namco.
Burnout
Burnout, also known as Shiny Red Car (working title) is a racing game developed by Criterion Games and published by Acclaim.
God of War
God of War is an action-adventure game based on Greek mythology. God of War was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment's Santa Monica division.
Dynasty Warriors
Dynasty Warriors (Shin Sangokumusou) is a series of tactical action video games developed and published by Koei.
ICO
Ico is a action-adventure video game developed by Sony Computer Entertainment and released for the PlayStation 2 video game console. Ico was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes video games, motion pictures, and other merchandise.
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid is a stealth-action video game directed by Hideo Kojima. The game was developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan.
Resident Evil
Resident Evil (known in Japan as Biohazard) is a survival horror video game series developed by Capcom.
Silent Hill
Silent Hill is a survival horror video game franchise developed and published by Konami.
Tekken
Tekken is a fighting game and is the first of the series of the same name. It was developed and published by Namco.
Soul Calibur
Soulcalibur is the second game in the Soul series of fighting games developed and produced by Namco.
Burnout
Burnout, also known as Shiny Red Car (working title) is a racing game developed by Criterion Games and published by Acclaim.
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